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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...
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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Bataxal from an AI Enthusiast 

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...

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I will be a hummingbird

One of the most important awards at Deep Learning Indaba is the Maathai Impact Award. This award, rightfully honours Prof. Wangari Maathai, and encourages and recognises work by African innovators that shows impactful application of Machine Learning and Artificial...

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The Missing Continent

The Missing Continent

The missing continent is a known phrase in the Indaba community. It is one of the phrases that sparked the Indaba movement. Those who have attended Deep Learning Indaba are familiar with the initial email thread that went between the founders of Deep Learning Indaba,...

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