A dynamic AI landscape is emerging throughout Africa, poised to have a transformative impact. In Africa alone, over 2,400 companies are reportedly involved in AI.
According to Statista, the generative AI market in Africa is expected to expand from $0.89 billion in 2024 to $8.75 billion by 2028. More than 30 AI communities, from developing regions such as Sudan and Mali to well-established centers like South Africa and Tunisia, are leading this movement.
Therefore, universities critically need to support this growth by providing AI-focused software engineering skills and specializations, to develop and sustain the next generation of AI-software infrastructure.
As part of supporting this cause, It is our pleasure to call for the initiation of the 2025 IEEE CIS Summer School on Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering. The main goal of the summer school is to provide senior undergraduate students, M.Sc. or PhD students and other potential audience with hands-on knowledge and expert views on the future development at the intersection between AI and software engineering.
Topics include how to design AI-enabled software systems, their evolution and debugging. The Talks will be given by Plenary Speakers that are active researchers in North American and international institutes. Lecturers will be given by local researchers from both Academia and Industry, to bring both perspectives for the students. The first edition of the summer school will be located in Tunisia, co-sponsored by the LARODEC Laboratory and the Institute of Data Engineering, Analytics, and Science at the University of Michigan-Flint.