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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...

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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What the Indaba Means to Me

I was first introduced to the Deep Learning Indaba in 2018. At the start of this year, I had quite literally packed my bags and left a career in Physiotherapy to start from scratch in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to this, I’d been working as a clinical...

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To our Success

This has been an interesting year, with the rest of the world starting to wake up to the power and potential of AI. Fortunately, the African AI community has been waking up for the last few years, in time to make sure that Africa has a seat at this very important...

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To the Future

Before the rest of this intro I want us all to thank all the organisers, volunteers and participants of the 2023 Deep Learning Indaba in Ghana. You made it the experience that it was.  Now, on to some thoughts post the Indaba to inspire the next year. It is time...

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Letters from the community to the community

The Indaba community inspired me and reopened my eyes, seeing people to look up to from all over Africa succeeding in industry and academia made me realise that all hardships can be harnessed, that I can myself be part of the African and Global AI advancement....

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YƐbƐtumi

I arrive at the venue a few hours early to check the setup and prepare for registration. It’s almost eerily quiet, just the occasional light hum of activity around as volunteers, suppliers and sponsors make last minute adjustments. The calm before the storm. All those...

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