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Deep Learning Indaba 2026

The Deep Learning Indaba 2026 is Africa’s flagship gathering for the machine learning and AI community. This year’s theme, 'Sovereign Intelligence. African Scale', centers on empowering Africa to build, steward, and guide its own AI systems and scientific direction. The event brings together students, industry practitioners, faculty, and entrepreneurs for a…

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1Speakers
23Sponsors
13On the bill · sessions
23Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Deep, in alphabetical order.
Pelumi Victor
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Adaption LabsNiger
Agency FundLimpopo
AghcloudBenue
AISCA AfricaBenue
Amini AIBenue
Askya Investment PartnersBenue
Cassava AINile
CohereLimpopo
DAIR InstituteNiger
Datawise AfricaBenue
Digital UmugandaBenue
Equalyz AIBenue
Google DeepMindMawenzi
Google ResearchMawenzi
IDRCMawenzi
Isazi.aiBenue
Ishango.aiBenue
MicrosoftZambezi
MilaNiger
Schmidt SciencesZambezi
UK International DevelopmentMawenzi
Ventures PlatformBenue
WellcomeMawenzi
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Agenda

Selected from 13 sessions on the bill.
  • 06:30–09:00

    Breakfast

    Uncategorized
  • 08:00–18:00

    Registration

    Uncategorized
  • 11:00–12:00

    First-time Attendees Story Telling Mentorship Session

    Panel
  • 12:00–13:30

    Lunch

    Uncategorized
  • 13:30–16:00

    Building Faster Transformers with Triton: A Hands-On Introduction to GPU Kernel Programming

    Tutorials
  • 13:30–16:00

    Introduction to Agentic AI: Building Conversational Agents with Persistent Memory

    Tutorials
  • 13:30–16:00

    The Math Behind Neural Networks - Pelumi Victor

    Tutorials
  • 13:30–16:00

    Understanding Model Alignment: Concepts and Practical Steps

    Tutorials
  • 16:30–18:00

    Adversarial Thinking in AI Systems: Understanding and Mitigating Real-World Model Failures

    Skills Session
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 23 companies, parsed from the program.

23 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
23Sponsoringsponsor only
0Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles1100%

Of 1 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Adaption LabsSp·N
  2. 02Agency FundSp·L
  3. 03AghcloudSp·B
  4. 04AISCA AfricaSp·B
  5. 05Amini AISp·B
  6. 06Askya Investment PartnersSp·B
  7. 07Cassava AISp·N
  8. 08CohereSp·L
  9. 09DAIR InstituteSp·N
  10. 10Datawise AfricaSp·B
  11. 11Digital UmugandaSp·B
  12. 12Equalyz AISp·B
  13. 13Google DeepMindSp·M
  14. 14Google ResearchSp·M
Sponsors by tier
benue10
43% of 23
limpopo2
9% of 23
mawenzi5
22% of 23
niger3
13% of 23
nile1
4% of 23
zambezi2
9% of 23
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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