This is the official programme of the 2018 Deep Learning Indaba.
You can find videos and slides in our resources about these sessions.
| 09:00 - 18:00 | Arrivals in Stellenbosch and check-in |
| 11:00 - 14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Practical: Machine Learning Basics Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Mathematics for Machine Learning |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Transfer to Evening Welcome Event |
| 19:00 - | Evening Welcome Event |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Registration and Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Indaba Opening and Welcome Keynote Nando de Freitas, DeepMind |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Deep Learning Fundamentals 1 Moustapha Cisse, Google |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Deep Learning Fundamentals 2 Moustapha Cisse, Google |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Practical 1: Deep Feedforward Models Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Convolutional Models Naila Murray, Naver Labs |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Women in Machine Learning |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Practical 2: Convolutional Networks Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Probabilistic Thinking Yabebal Fantaye, AIMS South Africa |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Recurrent Neural Networks Kyunghyun Cho, New York University |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Practical 3: Recurrent Models Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Topical session: "How to write a great research paper" |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Generative Models Asja Fischer, University of Bochum |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Kambule and Maathai Awards session |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Reinforcement Learning Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Practical 4: Reinforcement Learning Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:00 - | Mentorship Evening Events (x2) |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Non-Recurrent Sequence Models Kyunghyun Cho and others |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Frontiers of Computer Vision Daniela Massiceti, University of Oxford; Sara Hooker, Google Brain, Saumya Jetley, University of Oxford |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: AI for Africa Sumir Panji, Linet Kwamboka, David Sengeh, Jon Lenchner, Moustapha Cisse |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Democratizing Machine Learning on the African Continent |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Success Stories of Reinforcement Learning David Silver, DeepMind |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Generative Models and Healthcare Konstantina Palla, Microsoft Research; Shakir Mohamed, DeepMind |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Natural Language Processing Herman Kamper, University of Stellenbosch; Sebastian Ruder, AYLIEN |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Life of a Machine Learning Startup Andrea Böhmert, Knife Capital; Karim Beguir, InstaDeep; Blaise Thomson, Apple |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Transfer to Evening Event |
| 19:00 - | Evening Farewell Event |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Reinforcement Learning II Talk: Benjamin Rosman, CSIR. Panel: David Silver, DeepMind; Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Machine Learning in Production Stuart Reid, NMRQL Research; Amine Kerkerni, InstaDeep; Omoju Miller, GitHub |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: AI Ethics and Policy Facilitators: Vukosi Marivate; Muthoni Wanyoike Speakers: Timnit Gebru; Mmaki Jantjies; Osonde Osoba; Linet Kwamboka |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | TensorFlow and Real Life Machine Learning Jeff Dean, Google |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Closing, Poster Prizes, Farewell |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
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