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2026, the year we shine

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

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...
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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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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