Santiago Hincapie Potes
Speaker at AMLD Africa 2024
Santiago Hincapie Potes is a Research Engineer at Google Research team in Accra. Santiago’s current work focuses on using AI for weather forecasting in low-resource regions. Prior to Google, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer in various startups in America.
At AMLD Africa
United States International University Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Weather technologies without borders: Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap
Africa faces a critical weather data gap, hindering effective responses to extreme events. This talk explores how Google Research Africa is using machine learning techniques to close this gap. We’ll discuss new tools for forecasting precipitation in Africa and assessing damage, helping to reduce the human cost of climate-driven disasters like floods.
