Bataxal from an AI Enthusiast 

by | Jun 26, 2024 | Sauti Yetu

2019 was my first attendance at the Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) following the organisation of the first IndabaX event in Senegal that same year. I was so excited to be going to the Nairobi airport, full of enthusiasm at the idea of meeting enthusiasts and experts in...

Finding Our “Why” in the Indaba Community

by | Apr 21, 2024 | Sauti Yetu

My name is Aya Salama. Since 2019, I’ve had the privilege of being involved with the Indaba community, starting when I first applied to host an IndabaX in Egypt. Throughout the years, I’ve contributed to various committees including the IndabaX Steering...

From Consumers to Creators of Machine Learning

by | Mar 18, 2024 | Sauti Yetu

Becoming creators of machine learning  We have heard calls for us, the African Machine Learning (ML) community, to move beyond being consumers of the latest ML techniques (such as 1 and 2). Whether we are solving African problems or core theoretical challenges,...

What the Indaba Means to Me

by | Jan 24, 2024 | Sauti Yetu

I was first introduced to the Deep Learning Indaba in 2018. At the start of this year, I had quite literally packed my bags and left a career in Physiotherapy to start from scratch in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to this, I’d been working as a clinical...

To our Success

by | Jan 20, 2024 | Sauti Yetu

This has been an interesting year, with the rest of the world starting to wake up to the power and potential of AI. Fortunately, the African AI community has been waking up for the last few years, in time to make sure that Africa has a seat at this very important...