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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...

The Three Phases

There’s a principle in the hindu traditions called the 3 gunas. These are three phases which we are thought to enter on periodic cycles across varying timespans. I’ll start with my interpretation of sattwa. This guna (or force) represents inspiration and creativity....

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The drum beat that calls us to Dakar

The drum beats as we count the days until we reunite in Dakar, Senegal for the 6th Deep Learning Indaba. A gathering of minds and spirits that will take us one step further along our journey – a journey of inclusion, of community, and of AI researchers and...

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THE 2024 DEEP LEARNING INDABA AWARD RECIPIENTS

THE 2024 DEEP LEARNING INDABA AWARD RECIPIENTS

For the past few months, our Awards team has worked hard reviewing all applications and nominations. We thank everyone who applied or was nominated. It is inspiring and uplifting to see homegrown research done by African researchers excel. This year, we have Awards in...

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PRESS RELEASE – DLI 2024

PRESS RELEASE – DLI 2024

Deep Learning Indaba 2024: Africa's biggest AI Community Gathers in Dakar, Senegal Deep Learning Indaba 2023, Accra, Ghana Dakar, Senegal (August, 2024) – The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), Africa's premier machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) event, returns...

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