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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...

Finding Our “Why” in the Indaba Community

My name is Aya Salama. Since 2019, I've had the privilege of being involved with the Indaba community, starting when I first applied to host an IndabaX in Egypt. Throughout the years, I've contributed to various committees including the IndabaX Steering Committee,...

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Call for Workshop Proposals DLI 2024

The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) is the annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community with the mission to strengthen African AI. This year, it will be taking place in Dakar, Senegal, from the 1st to the 7th of September 2024 at Amadou Mahtar Mbow...

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From Consumers to Creators of Machine Learning

Becoming creators of machine learning  We have heard calls for us, the African Machine Learning (ML) community, to move beyond being consumers of the latest ML techniques (such as 1 and 2). Whether we are solving African problems or core theoretical challenges,...

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A message from the 2024 General Chairs

2024 General Chairs: Emily Muller, Daouda Tandiang Djiba and Elizabeth Benson In 2024, we will be gathering in Dakar, Senegal for the sixth annual Deep Learning Indaba. While there will be many announcements to follow with more information about the event and the...

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