What if your next lab partner was an AI agent? 🌍🧬 Join The AI Lab Partner: Agents for Biological Discovery with Natasha Latysheva (Google DeepMind). See how agents plan, reason, and speed up discovery. 15:00–17:30, Lagos. See you there! #DLI2026

How do we build AI that is fair, trustworthy, and truly made for Africa? ⚖️🌍 Find out in Responsible and Sovereign AI: Fair, Trustworthy, and Context-Aware ML for Africa. Fairness, interpretability, and context-aware design. 15:00–17:30, Lagos. Head to the room! #DLI2026

The world around us is a network: social graphs, molecules, transport systems. 🌍🕸️ Come learn to model it in Graph Neural Networks: Foundations and Applications for Real-World Networks. Foundations to hands-on practice. 15:00–17:30, Lagos. See you there! #DLI2026

Time to break through the "Colab Ceiling"! 🌍💻 Join Beyond the Notebook: Mastering Cloud GPU Infrastructure for Scalable African AI. Live $5 credit on an African-hosted GPU, VMs, cost optimisation, and DevOps for sovereign AI. 15:00–17:30, Lagos. Head to the room now! #DLI2026

Next up in our Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 "Sovereign assets: Navigating the intellectual property frontier of African AI"

🔥 Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🔥 Next up in our workshop spotlight series for the Deep Learning Indaba 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria! This one brings AI down to the ground, literally: Sovereign Supply Chains: Frontier AI for Resilient African Logistics.

Next up in our Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 "Building Africa's Human Data Infrastructure: Capacity Building for Community-Led Dataset Creation and Sustainable AI Pipelines"

Next up in our Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 "Building Red-Teaming Capacity for AI Safety Evaluation in African Contexts: A Hands-On Protocol Workshop"

Next up in our Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 "Quantum Machine Learning for Africa (QML4Africa)" Featuring Dr. Stephanie Müller, Yousra Farhani, Dr. Nouhaila Innan, Ndivhuwo Nyase, Jibril Abdullahi and Dalia Yousif Ali.

Next up in our Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 "Whose Intelligence? Building Agentic AI in Africa without Frontier Model Dependency"

Workshop Spotlight Series | #DLI2026 🧵 First up: the 4th TrustAI Workshop, "How Trustworthy Are LLMs-as-Judges? Implications for the African Continent"

🌟 Deep Learning Indaba Awards 2026 🌟 Celebrating excellence in African AI: Congratulations to all winners & runners-up! 👇 #DLI2026

The #DLI2026 theme is officially here: Ìmọ̀ Wa 🌾 Our Shared Knowledge 🌾 "Ìmọ̀ Wa" is Yoruba for "our knowledge", and that is exactly what this year is about. The wisdom in our languages, our histories, our communities and the work we build together 💛

🔥🪘 The Deep Learning Indaba 2026 is just ONE month away! We can’t wait to welcome 1,000+ AI researchers and practitioners to Lagos to connect, collaborate and amplify African innovation. Can't make it to Lagos? Virtual Indaba registrations are still open! 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual...

Who defines AI, and whose interests does it serve? Dr Margaret Mitchell takes on that question at #DLI2026 in Lagos this August. Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face and creator of Model Cards, asking who AI is really built for and who gets left out.

Community Showcase: Mauritanian Women in Machine Learning 🇲🇷✨ Empowering women and driving AI innovation! MWiML is building an inclusive tech ecosystem in Mauritania through bootcamps, mentorship, and impactful research in NLP and computer vision.

Next on our #DLI2026 stage in Lagos: Prof. Karim Lekadir, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the lead author of FUTURE-AI and coordinator of AFRICAI-RI, on building healthcare AI people can trust. Welcome on board, Prof. Lekadir!

Next on our #DLI2026 keynote stage in Lagos: Prof. Vukosi Marivate! "What Do Our Benchmarks Actually Measure? Evaluation Challenges for African Language AI" Recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe, one of South Africa's highest national awards. Rethinking how we measure progress in African language AI.

Community Showcase: WiMLDS Yaoundé 🇨🇲✨ Empowering women and girls in AI across Cameroon! Since 2020, the Yaoundé chapter has been making data science and AI accessible through technical workshops, hackathons, and dedicated mentorship. Secure your pass here 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual...

We're delighted to welcome Dr Catherine Nakalembe as a keynote speaker at #DLI2026 in Lagos, Nigeria! Her talk: "Translational GeoAI Science is An African Imperative." Join us 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual... #Indaba2026

🪘 The 2025 Impact Report is here! 🪘 Our last Indaba’s theme: Urunana ("Hand in Hand") — beautifully reflected our mission: shaping the future of AI on the continent through solidarity, cooperation, and shared responsibility. Dive into the full report 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2026/05...

Community Showcase: AI Eswatini 🇸🇿 600+ beneficiaries in one year. SATNAC Grand Innovation Prize. Y20 contributions. Proof that the future of African AI is being built everywhere. Watch the showcase, then join #DLI2026

A reminder that the Virtual Indaba 2026 is open for registration 🌍 Talks, workshops, and a front-row seat to African AI, wherever you are. 🎟 Virtual:https://deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual-indaba-2026/ 🇳🇬 In-person Ticket Lottery: deeplearningindaba.com/2026/applica...

FCalling AI communities from across Africa 🌍 For #DLI2026 in Lagos, we want to hear from countries often underrepresented in the global AI conversation. 🇨🇫 🇹🇩 🇩🇯 🇪🇷 🇸🇿 🇬🇦 🇬🇼 🇱🇾 🇸🇹 🇸🇨 🇸🇱 🇸🇸 🇱🇸 🇲🇺 🇨🇻 Apply or share by 29 May (AoE). Link in the comment section.

⏳ The clock is ticking! There are only 5 days left to submit your nominations for the 2026 Deep Learning Indaba Awards. We are looking for the innovators, researchers, and leaders who are shaping the future of AI and excellence across Africa. Nominate or Apply Here: deeplearningindaba.com/awards/

🌍 Thrilled to welcome Dr David Adelani, Assistant Professor at McGill University, as an invited speaker at this year’s Deep Learning Indaba in Lagos, Nigeria! 📅 Mon, Aug 3rd | 12pm GMT+1 Registrations for the Virtual Indaba are still open! deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual...

The Deep Learning Indaba continues to offer the opportunity to join our annual event fully online. For those unable to attend in Lagos, Nigeria, the Virtual Indaba 2026 offers a dedicated pathway to participate from anywhere. Further details and registration: deeplearningindaba.com/2026/virtual...

🪘 Awards season is back! 🪘 The awards recognise excellence amongst Africans each year in all areas related to African flourishing, innovation and AI. Check our website to apply/nominate and to get more details about the eligibility criteria: deeplearningindaba.com/awards/

The Call for Communities Deadline is EXTENDED! To give more grassroots AI communities the chance to share their journeys, we are extending the deadline for the Community Spotlight. New Deadline: 30 April 2026 Register your community & submit your video 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#DLI2026 Update: Registration Ticket Lottery Now Open! This is a paid attendance route. We charge registration fees to cover the operational costs of hosting an Indaba. Please note that applications for financial aid are now officially closed. Full Details 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/applica...