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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...

GeoAI for a Sustainable Future in Africa

6th September, 2024 Dakar, Senegal The GeoAI for a Sustainable Future in Africa workshop was organised by the GeoAI-Africa community in a collaborative spirit among representatives from diverse organisations such as Microsoft AI for Good Lab, Google Research, and IBM...

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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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