Provisional Programme

We have an intense programme planned for the 6 days of the Deep Learning Indaba, featuring a two day Africa Research Symposium, two days of deep-dive workshops and plenty of opportunities to network and benefit from mentorship. Here is a provisional list of topics that the programme will cover:

• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Reinforcement Learning
• Trustworthy AI
• AI Safety/Alignment
• MLops
• Data Engineering
• AI for Science – e.g. biology. 

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• Sunday, 03 September

  Arrival and Registration

• • • 14:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Practicals: Practicals (4 in parallel)

        TBD

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Parallel Tutorials (6 Parallel)

        TBD

    • 19:00 - 21:00

    • • Parallel Opening Party

        TBD

• Monday, 04 September

  Tutorials and Practicals

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 09:30

    • • Parallel Opening Remarks & Welcome

    • 09:30 - 11:00

    • • Parallel Keynote 1

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Refresher: Tutorials (6 in parallel)

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch Break

    • 14:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Practicals: Practicals (4 in parallel)

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • - 18:30

    • • Parallel Keynote 2

    • 19:00 - 20:30

    • • Dinner / Social

• Tuesday, 05 September

  Africa Research Day

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 10:00

    • • Parallel IndabaX Oral Presentations

    • 10:00 - 11:00

    • • Parallel Poster Session

      • Parallel Hackathon 1 Introduction

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Poster Session Continued

      • Parallel Industry Demos

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch Break

    • 14:30 - 15:30

    • • Parallel IndabaX Oral Presentations

    • 15:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Poster Session

      • Parallel Hackathon 2 Introduction

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • - 18:30

    • • Parallel Poster Session Continued

      • Parallel Industry Demos

    • 19:00 - 20:30

    • • Dinner / Social

• Wednesday, 06 September

  Africa Research Day

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 09:30

    • • Parallel Alele-Williams Master's Award

    • 09:30 - 11:00

    • • Parallel Keynote 3

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Peer-Reviewed Oral Presentations

      • Parallel TBD

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch

    • 14:30 - 15:30

    • • Parallel Peer-Reviewed Oral Presentations

      • Parallel TBD

    • 15:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Poster Session (IndabaX + Peer Reviewed)

      • Parallel TBD

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Parallel Poster Session (IndabaX + Peer Reviewed)

      • Parallel Industry Demos

    • 19:00 - 20:30

    • • Dinner / Social

• Thursday, 07 September

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 11:00

    • • Parallel TBD

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Tutorials [6 in parallel]

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch

    • 14:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Practicals: (4 in parallel)

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Parallel TBD

    • 19:00 - 20:30

    • • Dinner / Social

• Friday, 08 September

  Workshops

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 09:30

    • • Parallel Kambule Doctoral Award

    • 09:30 - 11:00

    • • Parallel Keynote 4

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Workshops (6 in parallel)

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch

    • 14:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Workshops (6 in parallel)

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Parallel Tutorials (6 in parallel)

    • 19:00 - 20:30

    • • Dinner / Social

• Saturday, 09 September

  Workshops

• • • 06:30 - 07:30

    • • Wellness Hour

    • 09:00 - 09:30

    • • Parallel Maathai Impact Award

    • 09:30 - 11:00

    • • Parallel Keynote 5

    • 11:00 - 11:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:30 - 13:00

    • • Parallel Workshops (6 in parallel)

    • 13:00 - 14:30

    • • Lunch

    • 14:30 - 16:30

    • • Parallel Workshops (6 in parallel)

    • 16:30 - 17:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Parallel Closing Ceremony

    • 19:00 - 21:00

    • • Closing Party