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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...

A Preview of IndabaX Events in 2023!

The IndabaX-nometer is rising higher! This post is about celebrating the IndabaX events which are taking place in African countries in 2023! Entering its 5th year, the annual local Deep Learning Indaba events called IndabaX, are growing stronger. This year, in 2023, a...

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Ideathon @ DLI 2022

Ideathon @ DLI 2022

The Indaba is a learning opportunity, but also an opportunity to connect different actors in the continent around Machine Learning and related topics. This proposal took shape after hearing about the successful experiences from a sister summer school in a different...

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Masirouna: African AI Deciding its Destiny

Masirouna: African AI Deciding its Destiny

#masirouna #indaba2022 مصيرنا In a few weeks, the African AI community will gather again for the 2022 Deep Learning Indaba. We’ve come a long way since the very first Indaba in 2017. At that first Indaba we dreamt of a community of people–all curious, innovative and...

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