Indaba 2019

The Deep Learning Indaba is the annual gathering of the African machine learning community, a week that in 2019 will continue to be the world’s largest teaching event on the state of the art in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This year’s Indaba meets at Kenyatta University, in Nairobi,  Kenya from 25-30 August. Attendees will meet their peers from across our continent and beyond, be taught by world-leading experts in the field, learn how to implement their theoretical knowledge as solutions in code, ask advice about careers and research, debate the implications of new technologies on our continent’s future, and strengthen the African machine learning community. Application details here.

Hhere are some of the exciting speakers  and the tentative programme, which this year includes many more parallel sessions across a wider set of topics, a research day, and hackathon track, along with the usual mentorship sessions, and Indaba celebrations.

Applications to participate in the 2019 Indaba are now open. We encourage everyone interested in machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence (and other related areas of statistical sciences and engineering) to apply, and to encourage others they know to apply as well. This year, the Indaba hopes to welcome 700 people.

Help in Applying

The application form is simple, but is meant to serve several purposes:

• The form has 7 questions that ask you to write a short paragraph. These questions help us build a better understanding of an applicant’s interests and experience. We receive many more applications than we have space for, and thus we strive to accept the people that will benefit and add in unique ways to the Indaba.
• Applying can be difficult, and it is often unclear what type of answers to give; so we have some examples and a guide to applying online. We want to get a real sense of interests and the hopes and aspirations that people have for machine learning.
• Each of us, throughout our careers, will be regularly asked to complete forms and answer questions like these. We hope that by filling in this form, people will also use this as a process in learning to make the strongest case for themselves and of the work they do.

Who can Apply and Funding

Anyone interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence should apply.

• Apply if you are a student, from industry, at a startup, work in policy or government, are a lecturer, postdoc, or research scientist.
• We also offer travel awards for students and academics at African institutions. These travel awards are limited in number, and therefore highly competitive.
• Most students will not need to pay any registration fees, and a fee for other types of attendees.
• The decisions about who will be accepted to attend the Indaba is separate from the decision about who gets travel funding. We also encourage everyone to search for alternative sources of funding.

Application close on the 12th April 2019.

Read more about the eligibility criteria, notes on background material, and the application guide.

Here is an alternative Application Guide

To contact us about supporting the Indaba or other questions, get in touch with us at info@deeplearningindaba.com.