Accepted Workshops & Short Sessions

We are excited to announce this year’s accepted workshops and sessions. At the Deep learning Indaba, workshops are a way for the community to contribute to the program. They offer a snapshot of what our community is thinking about, what challenges researchers are facing, and where African AI is heading next. While some proposals build on critical conversations that have been growing for years, others introduce entirely new ideas that reflect how quickly our field is evolving. Every theme emerges directly from researchers, students, practitioners, entrepreneurs, educators, and community organizers across the continent.

This year, we received 67 workshop and session proposals. After a highly competitive review process, 22 have been selected for the Deep Learning Indaba 2026 program.

The program features a diverse range of formats including call-for-papers sessions, interactive exhibitions, podcasts, and deep-dive panel discussions and community indaba-style conversations, all organized around key themes shaping Sovereign African AI:

 

Navigating the intellectual property frontier of African AINavigating the intellectual property frontier of African AI

Beyond Benchmarks: Scaling Multi-Turn Participatory AI Evaluations in Health and Education

Reflecting on Online Polarization and Weaponization of Social Media in Africa: The Prospect of AI for 

 

 

Data, Culture, and Community: An Interactive Exhibition of the AfricaNLP Playbook and Annotation Tool

 

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4th TrustAI Workshop at the Deep Learning Indaba: How Trustworthy Are LLM-as-Judges? Implications for the African Continent

 

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An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape

Building Africa's Digital Future: DIGITAfrica AI/ML and Connectivity Blueprints for a Pan-African Research Infrastructure in Digital Sciences

How Do We Know AI Works? Lessons from Real Evaluations

 

 

Whose intelligence? Building Agentic AI in Africa without frontier-model dependency

 

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Building Africa's Human Data Infrastructure

 

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From Prototype to Impact: Scaling Responsible Climate AI from Africa

4th Workshop on Robotics & Automation in Africa

Data Science for Health in Africa

 

 

GeoAI for a Climate-Resilient Africa

 

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Building Red-Teaming Capacity for AI Safety Evaluation in African Contexts: A Hands-On Protocol Workshop

 

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AI Engineering in Africa — A Deep-Dive Discussion

The NeuroAI Workshop at the Deep Learning Indaba 2026

Sovereign Supply Chains: Frontier AI for Resilient African Logistics

 

 

AI on Digital Public Infrastructure: Building Inclusive and Impact-Driven Public Intelligence Systems in Emerging Economies

 

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Quantum Machine Learning For Africa (QML4Africa)

Cultivating Sovereign African NLP

 

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Wamoja.Africa: Building a pan-African community lowering barriers to entry for participation in collective intelligence and cooperative / democratic AI — through art, research and practice