Our News & Updates
Introducing Sauti Yetu: Letters to the Community
In 2023, we launched the Deep Learning Indaba’s newsletter Sauti Yetu | Our Voice. Each newsletter features progress updates from the organising committee, some recommendations for reading material and important dates for your diary. Notably, each newsletter also...
Announcing the Deep Learning Indaba Award Winners
Kambule Doctoral Award The Kambule Doctoral Award, held in honour of one of South Africa’s greatest mathematician and teacher, Dr Thamsanqu W. Kambule, recognises excellence in research and writing by doctoral candidates at African universities, in any area of...
The Ideathon: Back to the First EditionÂ
The Deep Learning Indaba is approaching very fast, and we are very excited to launch our second edition of the Ideathon!Each year brings new experiences to the Indaba. One of last year’s adventures was a new competition aiming at fostering innovation and building...
Call for Kambule Doctoral & Alele-Williams Masters Nomination Reviewers
Deep Learning Indaba 2023 What are the Kambule and Alele-Williams Awards? The Thamsanqa Kambule and Grace Alele-Williams Awards recognise and encourage excellence in research and writing by doctoral and master’s candidates, respectively, at African universities, in...
Call for Maathai Impact Nomination Reviewers
Deep Learning Indaba 2023 What is the Maathai Impact Award? The Wangari Maathai Impact Award encourages and recognises work by African innovators that shows impactful application (including but not limited to technical, societal, environmental, and economic) of...
ML-Readiness
By Amelia Taylor Machine Learning (ML) is the talk of the tech-town. It is a tool everyone can use and it holds many promises: from being able to reveal hidden information in large data to being able to predict the “future” based on past data and sophisticated...