Programme

We have an intense schedule planned for the 7 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 finalise the schedule

• Sunday, 01 September

  Day 1: Registration and event opening

• • • 07:00 - 08:00

    • • Breakfast

    • 08:00 - 18:00

    • • Registration desk open

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:00

    • • Practicals Trustworthy ML - French Available

        Awa Dieng

      • Practicals Introducing the Open Source AI Definition - French Available

        Rahmat Akintola

    • 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

    • 16:00 - 17:00

    • • Practicals Practical AI Solution Development for Real-World Challenges: Insights from African Use Cases - French Available

        Girmaw Abebe

      • Practicals RLHF for LLMs - French Available

        Avishkar Bhoopchand

      • Practicals Low-resource NLP - French Available

        Martha Yifiru Tachbelie

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Mentorship session

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Opening Party

• Monday, 02 September

  Day 2

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

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      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 09:00

    • • Opening Remarks - French interpretation available

    • 09:00 - 10:00

    • • Keynote: Causethical ML: from theory to practice - French Interpretation Available

        Isabel Valera

    • 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

      • Practicals Responsible AI

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

        Dining room

      • Mentorship Sign up required

        Dining Room

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • Paradoxes in Data-Centric Machine Learning

        Luis Oala

      • Snake venom analysis and sequencing using Large Language Models - French Available

        Nicolas Lopez

      • Computer vision

        Marwa Mahmoud

      • Augmenting LLMs using RAG

        Flora Tasse

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:00 - 17:00

    • • Hackathons Launch

    • 17:00 - 18:00

    • • Sponsor session: InstaDeep

      • Sponsor session: Mila

      • Sponsor session: LAfricamobile

      • Sponsor session: Nvidia

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening Event [Grad School Applications]

        Networking Event

      • Dinner

        Dinner Room

        Dinner until 19:30

      • Sponsor Evening Event 1 - InstaDeep [sign-up required]

• Tuesday, 03 September

  Day 3

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 09:00

    • • DLI Award Ceremony - French Interpretation Available

    • 09:00 - 10:00

    • • Keynote: Learning to Reason is Hard - French Interpretation Available

        Samy Bengio

    • 10:00 - 10:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 10:30 - 12:30

    • • Practicals AI for Biology

      • Practicals Low-resource LLMs

      • Practicals Federated learning

      • Practicals Recommender systems

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

      • Mentorship [sign-up required]

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • Other ML and space astronomy

        Marcel Atemkeng

      • Other Weather Forecasting in Africa

        Jason Hickey, Mohamed Elfatih, William Ogallo

      • Other Intro to LLMs

        Khalil Mrini

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:00 - 18:00

    • • Sponsorship Sessions

      • Community Session

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Evening event – WIML Social Event [sign-up required]

        Networking event

      • Dinner

        Dining Room

        Dinner until 19:30

• Wednesday, 04 September

  Day 4

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 08:30

    • • DLI Award Ceremony - French Available

    • 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

      • Mentorship Sign up required

    • 14:00 - 16:00

    • • Poster Session II (Publications)

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 17:30

    • • Keynote: Limitations of LLMs

        Caglar Gulcehre

    • 17:30 - 18:30

    • • Ideathon Presentation

    • 18:30 - 20:00

    • • Evening event [Publications, Research Paper Writing and Idea Selection]

        Networking Event

      • Dinner (Until 19:30)

        Dining Room

      • Sponsor Evening Event 2 : GDM + Google Research

      • Sponsor Evening Event 3 : Meta

• Thursday, 05 September

  Day 5

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

      • Mentorship

    • 08:00 - 08:30

    • • DLI Award Ceremony

    • 08:30 - 09:30

    • • Keynote: Shortcuts causing bias in medical imaging - French Interpretation Available

        Judy Gichoya

    • 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

      • Mentorship Sign up required

    • 14:00 - 16:00

    • • African Datasets/Start-Ups

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 18:30

    • • Faculty Session

      • Mentorship [Ideathon]

    • 18:30 - 21:00

    • • Dinner [Cultural Evening]

• Friday, 06 September

  Day 6

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

    • 08:00 - 10:30

    • • 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

      • Voices of Africa: Building the infrastructure for African NLP

      • 2nd IJCAI AI for Good symposium in Africa

    • 10:30 - 11:00

    • • Coffee Break

    • 11:00 - 12:30

    • • All workshops continue

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • Lunch

    • 14:00 - 15:30

    • • All workshops continue

    • 15:30 - 16:00

    • • Coffee break

    • 16:00 - 17:30

    • • All workshops continue

    • 17:00 - 18:30

    • • Mentorship Session

    • 18:30 - 19:30

    • • Dinner

    • 19:30 - 21:00

    • • Evening Event – Startups and Entrepreneurship Networking Event

• Saturday, 07 September

  Day 7

• • • 07:00 - 07:45

    • • Breakfast

    • 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

    • 12:30 - 14:00

    • • 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

    • 14:00 - 14:30

    • • DLI Award Ceremony

    • 14:30 - 16:00

    • • Keynote: Panel Keynote Talk [Scale and Responsible AI Development in Africa]

        Lead by: Girmaw Abebe

    • 16:00 - 16:30

    • • Coffee Break

    • 16:30 - 18:30

    • • Closing Remarks

    • 18:30 - 22:00

    • • Closing Party