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2026 Awards Announcement
This year, the Deep Learning Indaba Awards attracted over 50 nominations. Over the last few months, the Awards Committee alongside a dedicated team of external reviewers drawn from academia, research, and industry, worked hard reviewing all nominations. We thank…
Deep Learning Indaba workshops 2026
We are excited to announce this year’s accepted workshops and sessions. At the Deep learning Indaba, workshops are a way for the community to contribute to the program. They offer a snapshot of what our community is thinking about, what challenges researchers are…
The Tensions of Pursuing African Excellence in Innovation
Victoria Natsai Chasi is a South African and Zimbabwean Master of Public Administration graduate from Cornell University, with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Social Sciences both from the University of Cape Town. As a tech founder with a background in the United…
Deep Learning Indaba Impact Report 2025
Our mission to Strengthen African AI, for Africans, by Africans remains as necessary and as valued as ever. This impact report sets out how the Deep Learning Indaba continues to deliver on that mission, and the change we are enabling across Africa’s AI ecosystem. As…
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…
