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Strengthening African Machine Learning. 🌍 #Masakhane #SautiYetu #Masirouna #Yɛbɛtumi #XamXamlé #Urunana
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📢 We are coming to Senegal 🇸🇳! 📢. We are excited to announce that the Deep Leaning Indaba 2024 will be held in Dakar, Senegal at @MahtarMbow from the 1st to the 7th of September. Applications launch 🚀 is just around the corner ! Don't miss it 🔔. #DLI2024.#Indaba2024
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We're excited to announce our fundraising campaign for the Deep Learning Indaba in Africa! 🇬🇭🇬🇭. Help us empower the next generation of machine learning experts by donating and spreading the word - tag 5 friends who you think could spare a small donation.
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We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba in 2022 will take place this August 🎉🌍 The gathering of Africa's machine learning community will take place in the great city of Tunis. Applications are now open - see our blog and apply by 8 April
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Today we launch the Indaba Mentorship Programme 🚀🚀 which will connect the African ML community with mentors to further their skills in writing research papers, applying for jobs, turning research ideas into experiments & more. Visit to learn more! 😁.
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We are excited to announce @AndrewYNg (@deeplearningai_) as a #DLIndaba2019 speaker! Andrew is a co-founder of @Google Brain, former VP of @Baidu_Inc & a leading teacher of ML. Although he cannot attend in person, he will be joining us via video call on Wed night! #SautiYetu🤩
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🇬🇭📣🇬🇭📣🇬🇭📣.Applications for the next DLI are now open! .We encourage applications from all members of the African machine learning community, in all career stages, whether you are in industry or academia. Apply by 6th March 2023: Tag your friends ‼️
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We are proud to announce the 2019 #IndabaX events will take place in 26 countries across our continent! 🌍 They build leadership and strength in Machine Learning across our African continent. Please support their efforts 🎈 #webuildtogether
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🪘Applications are OPEN 🪘. We are excited to open the applications for the annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community: Deep Learning Indaba ! 💫. Apply before the 21st of March 2024, 23:59:59 UTC 🗓️. Link to apply 👉 #DLI2024
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🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭It's a new day at the Indaba! We have a jam-packed programme and so many opportunities to learn together. Today, we are excited to welcome Ayokor Korsah who will be giving our first keynote.
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Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼. We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at @Uni_Rwanda. 🌍✨. As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing
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Excited to launch two initiatives today 🎉: The #IndabaGrandChallenge and the IndabaX-AID4D Innovation grants. We hope researchers, students will drive forward projects and research that take on opportunities across our continent 🌍. See. Thread 👇🏾
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🪘First speaker announcement🪘. We are thrilled to reveal our first Keynote speaker at #DLI2024, Samy Bengio, senior director of AI and Machine Learning research at @Apple . Welcome on board Samy and see you in Dakar 🇸🇳!. #DLI2024.#Indaba2024.#XamXamlé
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Final drum roll please…. 🪘🪘🪘. The Deep Learning Indaba 2023 will be hosted in ***Accra, Ghana! 🇬🇭***. Did you guess correctly? Let us know in the comments! . Stay tuned in the New Year for more updates - including awards, applications and many more exciting plans!
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We have over 30 countries present at this years Indaba but clearly Nigeria is the most represented (speculating). Also present is #BurkinaFaso . Tag us in with your selfie and country you are representing. __ @ankahira
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The winner of the Maathai Impact Award is Olubayo Adekanmbi, founder of Data Science Nigeria, for the scale & impact of his work in training African data scientists in ML/AI, and his goal of fostering Nigerian talent in the AI knowledge revolution @DataScienceNIG @bayoadekanmbi
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🪘Applications are OPEN 🪘.We are excited to open the applications for the annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community: Deep Learning Indaba 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda !.Apply before February 23rd 2025, 23:59:59 UTC👉#DLI2025.#Indaba2025
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Application to join in the Deep Learning Indaba 2019, in Nairobi Kenya are open. See our blog for an overview, and the website for details of the schedule, speakers, and everything else we have planned. #DLIndaba2019 #AfricanAI 🌍🇰🇪
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We’re bringing together over 600 of the continent’s brightest minds this September in Senegal, for Africa's largest AI gathering, to engage in cutting-edge AI research, collaborative workshops and inspiring keynotes. 📰 Read the full press release here:
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The Indaba is happy to make it to North Africa, after having been to Southern and East Africa before. For many of us, our journey in Tunisia 🇹🇳 starts with this view. We’ll keep this thread for a photo record throughout the week. 📸 #DLIndaba2022 #masirouna
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Today we are proud to announce the 2018 Deep Learning IndabaX events! Happening over 2 weeks, in 12 countries across Africa; aims to include more people in the conversation around AI and ML. Read more on our blog; and in English, French and KiSwahili.
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🪘Samy Bengio, senior director of AI and ML research at @Apple, will be joining us for our second keynote. Don’t miss his talk on Tuesday, 3rd of September at 9 am ! .Livestream link will be shared soon ! . #DLI2024 #Indaba2024 #XamXamlé
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AI Research Posters session 2 at #Indaba2023: Abdulquddus on segmenting brain Tumor images for sub Saharan Africa. 🤩Submitted to MICCAI and onto the next thing 📷 #DLI2023 #AfricaResearchShowcase
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The community is gathered in Accra for the first day of the Deep Learning Indaba 2023! The day starts off with practicals in English and French and the opening talk by Kevin Murphy (@sirbayes). #DLI_2023 #Yɛbɛtumi #Indaba2023
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Hi everyone 💃🏽💃🏽 it's Tejumade Afonja from the Applications team 🥳🥳 Today, I'm taking over 😎😎🥰🥰🥰. My job today is to make you laugh 😂🤣. Stay tuned 😉. #Indaba2023 #DLI_2023 #Yɛbɛtumi. - @AISaturdayLagos
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🪘🪘🪘We’re delighted to thank our sponsor partnerships for the Deep Learning Indaba 2023. Sponsorship of the Indaba is invaluable, providing us the opportunity to host the event, waive fees for all students and support the travel and accommodation of hundreds of attendees.
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We are happy to announce that nominations for the 2019 Kambule and Maathai awards are now open 🤩 These awards recognise African excellence in research and applications of machine Learning and AI across our continent 🌍 Blog post with details:.
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The #Indaba2023 kicks-off with a keynote from @sirbayes 🤩. 4 pillars:.- Predictions 📈.- Decisions 🤔.- Analysis 🌟.- Synthesis 🌈. #Yɛbɛtumi./ @alienelf
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🪘🪘🪘DEEP LEARNING INDABA APPLICATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT🪘🪘🪘.Notifications about applications to attend the 2023 DLI in Accra, Ghana will start going out from 11 May 2023. The rollout of notifications will take approx. 2 weeks, until 25 May 2023.
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🪘🪘🪘 We are thrilled to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 Short Papers are now publicly available on OpenReview! We have 81 Papers! This publication marks the culmination of hard work and dedication from all the authors and reviewers involved. We are incredibly.
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⚠️ Last call!. We are extending the deadline for 1 more week ! 🔥.Applications will be accepted until the 28th of March 23:59:59 UTC 👉 #DLI2024.#Indaba2024
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The deadline to apply for the Deep Learning Indaba 2022 has been extended to April 14, 2022! Apply Now (! . The long-awaited African AI reunion is happening in the beautiful city of Tunis, Tunisia 🤩🤩🥳🥳. 🗓️ 21-26 August. It promises to be exciting!!!.
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That's a wrap for day 1 of DLI 2024! 🔥.It was great to see the community finally gathering in Dakar ! .Ready for day 2 ? 🌟.#DLI2024.#Indaba2024.#XamXamlé
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And, just like that another Indaba has come to an end. However, before we say goodbye, it’s first time to celebrate the amazing successes of our community members. Thank you to the sponsors for the wonderful prizes as well. #DLI2023 #Indaba2023 #YɛBɛTUMI
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The excitement is mounting at Indaba HQ as we prepare for the 5th Deep Learning Indaba, hosting 800 of Africa’s top AI talent! Just 30 days to go 🎉 Will you be joining us in Accra? What are you most looking forward to?
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This morning we celebrate the winner of the 2019 Maathai Impact Award winner, @bayoadekanmbi 🏆🤩 He tells us about @DataScienceNIG and building a high-impact AI community in Nigeria. #SautiYetu #DLIndaba2019
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#SautiYetu -Our Voice, is our theme for the 2019 Indaba 🇰🇪🌍 We raise our voice, to be more confident, to take more ownership, and to work for the responsible AI that helps us build the next age of pan-African prosperity. Read our blog:
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We are so excited to be joined at #Indaba2023 by all the amazing communities working together across the continent to further strengthen the African AI community. If you'd like to join in the fun, please see here for more information:
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We are actively seeking sponsors for the 2019 Deep Learning Indaba - this year in Nairobi 🇰🇪 If you, your organisation, or anyone you know can support the Indaba and make an investment in the next generation of African AI talent, please get in touch 🌍
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Given the seriousness and uncertainty with the coronvirus pandemic, have decided, with sadness, to cancel all in-person Indaba events for the rest of the year; but will be developing other ways of meeting/learning🌍. New website too; details on the blog .
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And, just like that another Deep Learning Indaba has come, blown us all away and gone. Not for long though - we'll be in touch. Let's keep in touch through Sauti Yetu | Our Voice - sign up here: Safe travels to the amazing community! :D.
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Mentee applications are now open for any active member of the African AI community! 🌍 Visit to find out more and apply for a session with one of our mentors 🎉.
Today we launch the Indaba Mentorship Programme 🚀🚀 which will connect the African ML community with mentors to further their skills in writing research papers, applying for jobs, turning research ideas into experiments & more. Visit to learn more! 😁.
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We are seeking prospective IndabaX 2024 Organisers from the following countries: Botswana, Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Comoros, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Niger, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia,
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Microsoft Will Spend $100 Million on African Development Center. Sites in Nairobi and Lagos will recruit engineers for cloud, AI 🌍.
$100 million investment. 500 engineers. get in! @DeepIndaba.
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Applications to participate in the 2018 Indaba close in a few weeks. Encourage as many as you know to apply at We can't wait to learn from the inspirational speakers we have lined up. More details on this soon .
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Dave Silver tells us his principles of Deep RL. 1. Evaluation drives progress. #DLIndaba2018
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#DLIndaba2019 keynote: Dr Ciira wa Maina is a leader in the African ML community, senior lecturer at @DeKUTkenya & the force behind Data Science Africa. We are excited to hear his talk "Seeking Research Impact at the Grassroots - The Role of AI" on Indaba Wednesday! #SautiYetu
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Call for IndabaX 2020 now online 🎉🌍. Last year we had 27 countries across our continent host their own local Indaba. #IndabaX2020 send your proposal by 10 March 2020.
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We would like to thank our application reviewers for their outstanding contributions throughout the review phase of the Deep Learning Indaba applications and for their commitment ensuring a fair and inclusive selection process.🫶⭐.This year, we received over 2700 applications
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Today, the Deep Learning Indaba is the largest gathering and community of AI/ML practitioners, researchers and students in Africa. 1/n.
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Applications are is now open for Fully-funded PhD positions in data science at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences @AIMS_Next 🎉🌍. . Application deadline: June 1.Start date: October 2021 Please share widely. 🥳.
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Our African AI community has grown tremendously and their voice lifts us all #SautiYetu. Our annual reflection video, see if you can spot yourself alongside 👀 @ulrichpaquet @siminyu_kat @adjiboussodieng @tejuafonja @avishkar58 @allanochola @kbeguir 🤩🌍
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Today we are proud to announce the outcomes of the 2019 Indaba Awards programme. The nominees & winners are an inspiring group who have shown dedication & excellence in the work they have done & in strengthening African ML. We congratulate all! Report here
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Day 3 is starting with a Keynote talk by Samy Bengio ! .Join the livestream now 👉#DLI2024 #Indaba2024 #XamXamlé
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We are proud to announce this year’s theme: Yɛbɛtumi, an Akan (Twi) phrase from Ghana. In true Indaba spirit, this means “We Can” and we can’t wait to see all that you can do. Keep an eye out on the website - applications open soon.
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We hope to create a new Directory of Africans in Machine Learning so together, and knowing who we are, we can Build African Machine Learning. On the continent or abroad, and working in ML or any related computational science, consider adding your name.
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Strengthening African Machine Learning. Sharing our vision for the Indaba.
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🪘Theme announcement 🪘.We are proudly announcing the theme for #DLI2025—.🤝Urunana – Hand in Hand for AI in Africa🤝. "Urunana", is a word that embodies the spirit of solidarity, cooperation, and shared responsibility. In many African traditions, “Urunana” (holding hands
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We begin the session on Foundations of Deep Learning by @Moustapha_6C. Our learning and building continues 🌍
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We continue to strengthen the programme for this year's Indaba. The opening day begins with a refresher course on Mathematics for Machine Learning, and we are proud to have a set of 5 fantastic speakers in parallel session to give everyone the best foundations possible.
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The Deep Learning Indaba 2024 is only 2 months away 🔥🪘. We are looking forward to meeting a community of 600+ passionate researchers and practitioners in Dakar to foster collaboration and AI innovation across the African continent. 🚀. All notifications have been sent out, make
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We are proud to announce the 2023 Deep Learning Indaba Award winners. These awards recognise excellence amongst Africans in all areas related to African flourishing, innovation and AI. You can read more about the winners here:
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🪘Theme announcement 🪘. We are proudly announcing the theme for Deep Learning Indaba 2024:."Xam Xamlé"✨.The term is Wolof and means 'To gain knowledge and share it'. It is inspired by the lives and work of renowned Senegalese novelist and historian Mariama Bâ and Cheikh Anta
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AI Research Posters at #Indaba2023: Ariane presenting work on discovering climatic conditions to.Improve crop yields, specifically looking at tomato crops in Benin🇧🇯. Work under review at PLoS One 🤞🏽.#DLI2023 #AfricaResearchShowcase
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Attention African AI researchers! Are you planning to write a research paper, proposal or create a presentation or poster? Have it reviewed by an experienced researcher in our global network of mentors in a one-to-one video call! Visit to learn more.
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We are excited to host a series of evening events throughout the Indaba week. On Monday there will be African Women in AI evening sponsored by @Microsoft/@MSFTResearchCam. Come along to hear from a panel of inspiring women. Sign-up at the Microsoft booth! #IndabaWiAI
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Thanks to our sponsors we can fund 100 students to attend the Deep Learning Indaba!. However, there are still MANY more who will miss the opportunity due to lack of travel funds. Please support them and help strengthen African AI by donating at
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We are so excited to announce the #IndabaX2021 hosts. Congratulations to all the organisers 🎉 African AI continues to thrive 🌍. See our latest blog for details and see the website for details of how to get involved in an #IndabaX close to you.
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AI in Africa: Teaching a bot to read my mum's texts
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Today we release our report on the outcomes of the 2018 IndabaX events that took place in 13 countries across our continent, and the ways of creating African leadership in AI; we celebrate the effort of these new groups 🌍🎉 Read the blog post and report:
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#DLIndaba2019 keynote: Prof. Ruha Benjamin is an associate prof at @PrincetonAAS, author, founder of JUST DATA Lab & organiser of @blacktofuture. She be speaking about innovation, imagination & inequality in the 21st century as our 1st keynote on Indada Tuesday! @ruha9 #SautiYetu
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As #NIPS2017 draws to a close, it’s amazing to see so many of our Indaba attendees at the conference! What a great outcome; they show the true strength of African machine learning. Join our community through this list:
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🪘🪘🪘.We are really excited for the range of workshops coming up NEXT WEEK! Thank you to all the WS organisers for their hard work!. Which one are you looking forward to the most? Let us know! #DLI2023_workshops.🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
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Today we open applications for the 2018 Deep Learning Indaba, a gathering of the African AI community. We hope to receive many applications from across the continent, and beyond. Read our blog in English and Swahili for more:
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The #DLIndaba2018 is only a few weeks away! As we count down to the day we'll be sharing some of what to expect. This year, we have an incredible line-up of speakers. You can see the full list of speakers at
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We are hard at work on the final stages of selecting people to attend the #DLIndaba2019 and making sure our systems are ready to capture registrations. We will start sending out notifications in the next few days, thank you for your patience!.
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Hear straight from our past attendees on their Indaba experience ! 🙌🔥. Apply now for DLI 2024 and be part of our growing community ! We can't wait to see you among us ! 💫. 👉 #DLI2024.#Indaba2024
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The Indaba is 3 days away: we reached this point with the support of many sponsors, all committed to Strengthening African Machine Learning.
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🪘First keynote speaker announcement🪘. We are thrilled to reveal our first Keynote speaker at #DLI2025, @sanmikoyejo , president of @black_in_ai, co-founder of @VirtueAI_co and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at @Stanford University. Koyejo leads the
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We reflect on an energising week gone by celebrating the contribution of the African Women In Machine Learning. @WiMLworkshop #DLIndaba17
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We encourage students, academics, industry professionals and anyone with a passion for machine learning to apply to attend #DLIndaba2019! There just 3 days left - don't miss out on the African AI event of the year!
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"AGI Utopia. For whom?" is the question @timnitGebru raises during her highly anticipated #Indaba2023 keynote. - "The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence" 😠.- AI hides the millions of people who are making the models work 🤯.- Highlights annotator malpractice.
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Apply before 12 April to attend the Deep Learning Indaba 2019, 25-31 August, in Nairobi Kenya. This year promises to be even bigger and better than the last! Alternative link for those who can't access our main site:
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We welcome all the African Women in Machine Learning at the Deep Learning Indaba. #IndabaWiML #DLIndaba2018
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#DLIndaba2019 keynote: Prof. Finale Doshi-Velez, an assistant prof at @Harvard, explores how to turn data into actionable knowledge to accelerate impact in healthcare & other domains. We are excited for her talk "RL for Optimizing Healthcare Decisions" on Indaba Friday #SautiYetu
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Are you a member of the African ML community looking for help with writing a research paper, applying for a job or turning your research idea into an experiment? Apply for a mentorship session with our global network of mentors! Visit for more info!.
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We met or first group of people of the Indaba t his afternoon. So great to meet @kbeguir and team @instadeepai. If you are at the Indaba you Def want to find them and ask them about their work in Tunis, Nigeria, Kenya. #DLIndaba2018 #AfricanInnovation
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A full house at the AI in Healthcare workshop today! 🤩 Really great to see the growth and focus on this topic. Our favourite @ensoesie is busy keynoting and dishing out all her experiences working in this space 💓🌍👏. #Indaba2023.- @alienelf
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🪘DLI 2024 Workshops Announcement🪘.We are proud to present the list of our full-day workshops ! This year's line-up of workshops is a reflection of our amazing AI African community and it is closely aligned with the mission of the Deep Learning Indaba. Explore the different
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Joining us for another video call is Fei-Fei Li, prof of computer science at @Standford & co-director of @StanfordHAI. Fei-Fei has driven the computer vision field with the creation of ImageNet & many other great research advances. We are excited for her talk on Thursday night!
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Very proud to have one of our leadership @ulrichpaquet sharing the work of the Indaba in this piece. At the closing: "AI is booming in Africa," @ulrichpaquet says, "but it’s booming from the grassroots." 🌍 #masakhane #webuildtogether #DLIndaba2029.
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Day 2 of DLI 2024 was packed with action! We had an amazing first keynote, hands-on practicals and tutorials, and the launch of our 2 hackathons. Thank you to all our amazing speakers ! 👏. Check out our recap video to relive the highlights!. #DLI2024.#Indaba2024.#XamXamlé
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A great pleasure to welcome Cynthia @PythonKhaleesi 🇿🇲 to the #DLIndaba2018 . We are looking forward to learning from her about the mathematics of machine learning tomorrow!
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We miss our community's energy! So save the date and spread the word 📢 Our 1st #IndabaSocial is happening! Join everyone on 🚨 Saturday, 22 Aug [1 pm Accra, Dakar (UTC) | 2pm Abuja, Kinshasa, Yaounde | 3pm Johannesburg, Lilongwe | 4pm Nairobi, Kigali] 🚨 Join details in thread👇🏾
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