Deep Learning Indaba𝕏
March- May 2019
March- May 2019
Applications to host an IndabaX in 2019 are closed, and the countries have been announced.
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We introduce the Indaba𝕏: a way to experiment with the ways in which we can strengthen our Machine Learning community, and to allow more people to contribute to the conversation. A Deep Learning Indaba𝕏 is a locally-organised, one-day Indaba that helps spread knowledge and builds capacity in machine learning. |
Key Dates for #DLIndabaX2019
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In 2018, we supported 13 IndabaX events that were run locally in different countries across Africa, growing our community by over 1,000 attendees.
If you attended the Deep Learning Indaba in 2017 or 2018, and think your local community would benefit from such an event, we encourage you to organise an IndabaX at your institution. We leave details of what exactly happens at an IndabaX to those who take on the role of organising one. All we ask is that you organise your IndabaX in the period of March - May 2019. The Deep Learning Indaba will support as many of these meetings as we can. Our support can include anything from grants to financially support your event, help in planning and speaker invitations, publicity through the website, or in any other ways that local organisers think would be useful. An IndabaX can be small or big. Be as creative as possible. |
Map of countries and attendee numbers for the IndabaX2018 gatherings.
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Your IndabaX could be:
Requirements
We do require that all IndabaX events partner with a local university. We are also aiming to support one event per country, and so please try reach out to anyone in your local community who could strengthen your event.
This is your way to help build your local machine learning community towards strengthening African machine learning, in the spirit of our 2018 theme of Masakhane: we build together!
To make this possible, we ask interested groups to complete our online application form describing your meeting.
Send us your proposals by 15 December 2018. Successful local IndabaX organisers will be notified by 31 January 2019, and will receive funding as soon as possible thereafter. Send any questions to indabax@deeplearningindaba.com.
- A one day meeting to stream leading online lectures, group learning around a specific set of topics, code teaching, research-replication sessions, or poster sessions;
- A structured series of tutorial lectures by invited speakers from the country, continent, or abroad on a focussed topic;
- A one-day workshop that brings people together to discuss their latest research with short talks and a panel discussion, bringing together groups across your university;
- A hackathon around a specific dataset or important challenge.
- Or a mixture of the above and other formats you think would work.
Requirements
We do require that all IndabaX events partner with a local university. We are also aiming to support one event per country, and so please try reach out to anyone in your local community who could strengthen your event.
This is your way to help build your local machine learning community towards strengthening African machine learning, in the spirit of our 2018 theme of Masakhane: we build together!
To make this possible, we ask interested groups to complete our online application form describing your meeting.
Send us your proposals by 15 December 2018. Successful local IndabaX organisers will be notified by 31 January 2019, and will receive funding as soon as possible thereafter. Send any questions to indabax@deeplearningindaba.com.
