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2026, the year we shine

by siobhan | 17 December 2025 | Sauti Yetu | 0 Comments

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

by siobhan | 5 November 2025 | Sauti Yetu | 0 Comments

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

by siobhan | 8 August 2025 | Sauti Yetu | 0 Comments

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...

Call for IndabaX Organizers

Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, IndabaX

We hope you’ll nominate yourself to join the IndabaX steering committee, which is the leadership team that oversees the IndabaX programme. We are seeking 4-5 new members to join the IndabaX leadership. Nominations due by 31 October 2021. To nominate simply send an...

IndabaX 2021: 24 AI Communities Across Africa

May 26, 2021 | Uncategorized

The 2021 IndabaX meetings will take place in 24 countries across our African continent, happening throughout this year. We are proud to enable these communities and future leaders. Even during this ongoing period of global pandemic, African machine learning is strong...

Recipients of the 2020 IndabaX-AI4D Innovation Grants

Sep 2, 2020 | Grants, IndabaX

In executing our mission to Strengthen African Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, this year, instead of hosting our usual activities (the annual Indaba, IndabaX, or the Maathai and Kambule awards), we are experimenting with several new programs, one of...

The 2020 Indaba and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 22, 2020 | Annual Indaba, Mission

The coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, and its effects are being felt across our continent, with 16 people already having died from Covid-19 in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and Sudan. The Indaba leadership has been tracking the development of the...

#SautiYetu: Raising Our Voice in Artificial Intelligence

Aug 4, 2019 | Annual Indaba

This year we say Sauti Yetu/Our Voice. Our voice can be strong; our voice can create change; we have many different voices that must be heard. We hope that you will use the Indaba as part of your voice.