Programme

Our programme consists of 6 days with 12 advanced tutorial sessions, 6 practical sessions, and events each day.

  • All tutorials take place in Wits Science Stadium Auditorium 2 (WSS2)
  • All practicals take place in Wits Science Stadium Labs (Labs 4, 5, 6).
  • The poster sessions take place in the Science Stadium foyer.

Sunday, 10 September

Welcome Day and Background

09:00 - 18:00 Arrivals in Johannesburg and check-in
15:30 - 16:30 Registration
16:30 - 18:30 Mathematics for Deep Learning
Marc Deisenroth
18:30 - Opening Event: Katy's Palace, 6 Desmond Street, Kramerville, Sandton. Busses there and back.

Monday, 11 September

​Fundamentals of Machine Learning

07:30 - 08:30 Registration and morning coffee
08:30 - 09:00 Indaba Opening
Adam Habib
09:00 - 10:30 Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Nyalleng Moorosi and Willie Brink
10:30 - 11:00 Group Photo and Break
11:00 - 12:30 Practical Session 1
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Fundamentals of Deep Learning
Yann Dauphin
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Practical Session 2
18:30 - 19:00 Free time
19:00 - Poster and Exhibition Session 1

Tuesday, 12 September

​Convolutional and Recurrent Networks

08:30 - 10:30 Convolutional Neural Networks
Nando de Freitas
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Practical Session 3
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Recurrent Neural Networks
Stephan Gouws and Richard Klein
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Practical Session 4
18:30 - 19:00 Free time
19:00 - Poster and Exhibition Session 2

Wednesday, 13 September

Unsupervised Learning and Generative Models

08:30 - 10:30 Probabilistic Reasoning
Konstantina Palla
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Unsupervised Learning
Alta de Waal
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Deep Generative Models
Ulrich Paquet
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Practical Session 5
18:30 - Free evening - attendees on their own

Thursday, 14 September

Reinforcement Learning, Agents and Applications

08:30 - 10:30 Reinforcement Learning
Vukosi Marivate and Benjamin Rosman
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Advanced Reinforcement Learning
George Konidaris
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Practical Session 6
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare
Danielle Belgrave
18:30 - 19:00 Walk to evening venue
19:00 - Closing Event: RetroRabbit, Braamfontein. Busses/Walk there and back.

Friday, 15 September

The Future

08:30 - 10:30 Closing Keynote
Anima Anandkumar
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 13:00 Panel on African Machine Learning
Bubacarr Bah (AIMS), Michelle Gervais (Standard Bank), Fulufhelo Nelwamondo (CSIR), Imraan Patel (DST)
13:00 - Final Words