The abantu are the people, in our case those people who drive forward the mission of strengthening African machine learning. These are our organisers and advisory board members.
Organising Committee
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Shakir Mohamed
Research Scientist, DeepMind, London
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Ulrich Paquet
Research Scientist, DeepMind, London
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Vukosi Marivate
Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria; CSIR; and Deep Learning Indaba
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Benjamin Rosman
Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Nyalleng Moorosi
Researcher at Google AI, Ghana
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Stephan Gouws
Research Scientist, Google, Brain Team, London
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Willie Brink
Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Richard Klein
Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Avishkar Bhoopchand
Research Engineer, DeepMind
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Kathleen Siminyu
Data Scientist Africa's Talking; Co-organiser, Nairobi Machine Learning and Data Science
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Herman Kamper
Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Daniela Massiceti
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
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Karim Beguir
Co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, Google Developer Machine Learning Expert
Advisory Board
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Bitange Ndemo
Former Kenyan Permanent Secretary; Assoc. Professor Univ. of Nairobi; Board Director Safaricom
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Bonolo Mathibela
Research Scientist, IBM Research South Africa
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Bubacarr Bah
Research Chair, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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Danielle Belgrave
Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Research Fellow Imperial College London
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George Konidaris
Assistant Professor, Brown University
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Joy Buolamwini
Algorithmic Justice League and MIT Media Lab
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Nando De Freitas
Principal Scientist and Team Lead, DeepMind; and Deep Learning Indaba advisory board member
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Rachel Thomas
Co-founder fast.ai; and University of San Francisco
Get in Touch
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- Many questions will also be answered on our frequently asked questions (FAQ) page.
- For other enquiries, please send an email to dl-indaba@googlegroups.com