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Deep Learning Indaba Impact Report 2025
Our mission to Strengthen African AI, for Africans, by Africans remains as necessary and as valued as ever. This impact report sets out how the Deep Learning Indaba continues to deliver on that mission, and the change we are enabling across Africa’s AI ecosystem. As…
2026, the year we shine
Vukosi Marivate is a Professor of Computer Science and the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa🇿🇦. Vukosi leads the African Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AfriDSAI). Additionally, he co-founded both the…
Building Africa’s AI Future Together
Tejumade Afonja is a PhD Researcher at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany, where her work explores trustworthy AI, generative models, and synthetic tabular data. She is the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba General Chair and previously chaired the…
When Community Leads: Rwanda to Host the 2025 Annual Deep Learning Indaba
Pierrette Mahoro Mastel currently works at GIZ as a Digital Health Advisor, prior to that she was at CMU-Africa where she did her Masters in IT with a major in Machine Learning. Mastel is the IndabaX Rwanda lead and one of the 2025 General Chairs for the Indaba to be…
Press Release DLI 2025
Deep Learning Indaba 2025: Africa’s biggest AI Community Gathers 1000 participants in Kigali, Rwanda to Shape the Future KIGALI, RWANDA –July 14th, 2025– The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), Africa’s premier machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) event, proudly…
Under the Jasmine Tree
تحت الياسمينة This month’s newsletter was written by two community members. Amal Nammouchi, originally from Tunisia 🇹🇳, is a co-founder of AfriClimate AI, a Pan-African non-profit using AI to tackle climate challenges across Africa. She is a PhD candidate affiliated…