Programme

We have an intense schedule 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.

Please note that the program is subject to change as we finalize the schedule

• Sunday, 01 September

  Registration & event opening

• • • 12:00 - 18:00

    • • Registration desk open

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:00

    • • Practicals TBD

      • Practicals TBD

      • Practicals TBD

    • 12:00 - 13:30

    • • Mentorship sign up required

        Dining room

      • Lunch

        Dining room

    • 13:30 - 15:30

    • • Practicals Introduction to machine learning in Jax

      • Practicals Probabilistic programming

      • Practicals Graph neural networks

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 13:30 - 15:30

    • • Practicals Reinforcement learning

      • Practicals LLMs

      • Practicals TBD

      • Practicals TBD

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Mentoring: Mentorship Session

        Campus

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Opening party

• Monday, 02 September

  Indaba day 1

• • • 07:00 - 08:30

    • • Breakfast

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      • Mentorship

    • 08:30 - 09:00

    • • Opening Remarks - French interpretation available

    • 09:00 - 10:00

    • • Keynote: Keynote Talk - French Interpretation Available

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:30

    • • Practicals Foundations of large language models

      • Practicals Diffusion models

      • Practicals RL: from zero to 2048

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining room

      • Mentorship Sign up required

        Dining Room

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • Tutorial TBD

      • Tutorial TBD

      • Tutorial TBD

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:00 - 18:00

    • • Sponsorship sessions

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event

        Networking Event

      • Dinner

        Dinner Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Tuesday, 03 September

  Day 2

• • • 08:00 - 09:00

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 11:00 - 11:12

    • • DLI Award Ceremony - French Interpretation Available

    • 09:00 - 10:00

    • • Keynote: Keynote Talk - French Interpretation Available

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:30

    • • AI for Biology

      • Low-resource LLMs

      • Responsible AI

      • Federated learning

      • Recommender systems

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining Room

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • Keynote: Keynote Talk - French Interpretation Available

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:00 - 17:00

    • • Tutorial TBD

      • Tutorial TBD

      • Tutorial TBD

    • 16:00 - 18:00

    • • Sponsorship Sessions

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event

        Networking event

      • Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Wednesday, 04 September

  Indaba Day 3

• • • 07:00 - 08:30

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:30 - 10:00

    • • IndabaX Oral Presentations - French Interpretation Available

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:30

    • • Poster Session I (IndabaX and African Datasets)

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining room

    • 14:00 - 16:00

    • • Poster Session II (Publications)

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 18:30

    • • Affiliation Session

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event

        Networking Event

      • Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Thursday, 05 September

  Indaba, Day 4

• • • 07:00 - 08:30

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:30 - 09:30

    • • Keynote: Keynote Talk French Interpretation Available

    • 09:30 - 10:00

    • • Group Photo

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:30

    • • Poster Session III (All)

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining Room

    • 14:00 - 16:00

    • • African Datasets/Start-Ups

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 18:30

    • • Community Session

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event

        Cutural Event

      • Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Friday, 06 September

  Indaba, Day 5

• • • 07:00 - 08:00

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 10:30

    • • Practicals The NeuroAI Workshop

      • Practicals 2nd Robot Learning for Africa Workshop

      • Practicals 3rd Weakly Supervised Computer Vision workshop

      • Practicals Uniting for a Climate-Resilient Africa: Fostering Climate Data and Knowledge Exchange

      • Practicals Empowering African Voices in AI

      • Practicals Data Science for Health in Africa workshop

    • 10:30 - 11:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:00 - 12:30

    • • The NeuroAI Workshop

      • 2nd Robot Learning for Africa Workshop

      • 3rd Weakly Supervised Computer Vision workshop

      • Uniting for a Climate-Resilient Africa: Fostering Climate Data and Knowledge Exchange

      • Empowering African Voices in AI

      • Data Science for Health in Africa workshop

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • The NeuroAI Workshop

      • 2nd Robot Learning for Africa Workshop

      • 3rd Weakly Supervised Computer Vision workshop

      • Uniting for a Climate-Resilient Africa: Fostering Climate Data and Knowledge Exchange

      • Empowering African Voices in AI

      • Data Science for Health in Africa workshop

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:00 - 17:30

    • • The NeuroAI Workshop

      • 2nd Robot Learning for Africa Workshop

         

         

         

      • 3rd Weakly Supervised Computer Vision workshop

         

         

      • Uniting for a Climate-Resilient Africa: Fostering Climate Data and Knowledge Exchange

         

      • Empowering African Voices in AI

      • Data Science for Health in Africa workshop

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Mentoring Evening Event

        Networking Event

      • Mentoring Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event

        Networking Event

      • Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Saturday, 07 September

  Indaba, Day 6

• • • 07:00 - 08:00

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 10:30

    • • Empowering Africa's AI future through High Performance and Cloud Computing

      • GeoAI for a Sustainable Future in Africa

      • Envisioning Humans in a Safe, AI Future

      • AI regulation in Africa : rationale, considerations and way forward

    • 10:30 - 11:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:00 - 12:30

    • • Empowering Africa's AI future through High Performance and Cloud Computing

      • GeoAI for a Sustainable Future in Africa

      • Envisioning Humans in a Safe, AI Future

      • AI regulation in Africa : rationale, considerations and way forward

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining Room

    • 14:00 - 15:00

    • • TBD

    • 15:00 - 16:00

    • • Keynote: Keynote Talk - French Interpretation Available

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 18:30

    • • Closing Remarks

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Closing Party