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Aminata Zerbo-Sabané

After obtaining her Baccalaureate in Scientific Series (Bac E) in 2000 at the Lycée Technique d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Mrs. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE continued her studies at the Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique (Burkina Faso) where she obtained her Diploma in Computer Engineering / Programmer Analyst Option in 2003, then the Diploma in Computer Design Engineering in 2006. After a brief professional stopover, Mrs. ZERBO/SABANE returned to training after obtaining an enrollment at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Canada, from where she obtained a PhD in Computer Engineering in 2015. Having become a Doctor-Engineer in Computer Science, Mrs. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE is back in Faso where she has joined Joseph Ki-ZERBO University since 2017 as as a Professor-Researcher in Computer Science. Since then, Doctor ZERBO/SABANE has been strongly involved in the training and supervision of students. She is co-initiator and deputy coordinator of the university digital incubator Incub@UO which supports the maturation of students’ startup projects.

Doctor ZERBO/SABANE has a rich professional career having held various positions of responsibility in both public administration and the private sector. Indeed, she was Head of Security at ZAIN (now Orange Burkina), responsible for the design, implementation and monitoring of IT security policies and procedures, raising employee awareness of IT security from June 2008 to July 2009, then Programmer Analyst at SONABEL from January to April 2008, and IT manager at the Diplomatic and International Relations Institute (IDRI) from 2006 to 2007. Doctor ZERBO/SABANE was from January 2016 to October 2017, Head of Training and Projects at the AvePLUS Training and Incubation Center.
Within the public administration, she was from 2018 to 2021, Technical Secretary, responsible for coordinating the work of experts in charge of strategic analyses and studies on digital technology at the Ministry in charge of Digital Transition. Since 2020, she has been Head of the “Ecosystem and Digital Transformation” budget program, responsible for monitoring and coordinating national-scale projects on the digital transition, and since April 2021, Director General of the National Agency for the Promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ANPTIC). In this capacity, Ms. ZERBO/SABANE has played a central role in the coordination of major structuring projects in the sector, including the e-Burkina project, the ICT Development Support Project (PADTIC) and the single identification project for regional integration and inclusion in West Africa (WURI).

Ms. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE is also involved in professional and scientific associations. She is a member of IEEE Burkina (International Learned Society for Research in Electronic and Computer Systems) and RECIF (Network of Computer Science Teachers and Researchers of Burkina Faso).
Expert in the maturation of digital innovation projects and digital transformation (strategic analyses and studies), Ms. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE is a sure value in digital technology in Africa and around the world.

Dr. Wendkuuni Moïse CONVOLBO

Dr. Wendkuuni Moïse CONVOLBO, PhD, inventor, scientist and innovator focusing on Cloud, geo-distributed data centers, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

He is currently Data Senior Manager at Parfums Christian Dior (LVMH). He is driven by the mission to empower society, through Cloud technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Big Data is a tremendous opportunity to improve people’s lives. This is why Dr. CONVOLBO is interested in digital transformation. Recently, he has been working on machine learning inspired by the human brain and its applications, in order to use data to maximize customer satisfaction and improve data-driven decisions. He has successfully patented “BangreNaaba” and “PathFinder” both in predictive analytics. Finally, Dr. CONVOLBO is Burkinabé by birth, African by heart and a citizen of the world by his way of life. He has received recognition at the state level with the National Order of Merit. Dr. CONVOLBO received a PhD from National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) in computer science.

Wendinso ZOUNGRANA

Wendinso ZOUNGRANA is a contract PhD student and second-year lecturer at the François Rabelais Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Tours, working under the supervision of Professor Pierre-Yves Monjal, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair.

Her thesis focuses on the Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union, its Member States and Japan. Passionate about international cooperation, she regularly presents her work at conferences and seminars, thus fostering interest in Euro-Asian relations. She recently joined the office of the Peace Research Institute in the Sahel, where she actively contributes to promoting stability and solidarity in this region.