Deadline: 6 December 2023
Submit applications to host IndabaX events in your country, anywhere across Africa
The IndabaX programme started as an experiment in strengthening the machine learning community beyond the annual Deep Learning Indaba, to allow more people to contribute to the conversation on artificial intelligence and machine learning. They join hands across the beautiful continent.
A Deep Learning IndabaX is a locally-organised Indaba (i.e gathering) that helps ensure that knowledge and capacity in machine learning is spread more widely.
Proposing an IndabaX
An IndabaX is a local gathering that helps develop knowledge and capacity in machine learning and artificial intelligence in individual countries across Africa. The IndabaX is one of the major programmes of the Deep Learning Indaba.
They encourage you to organise an IndabaX in your country. They leave the details of what exactly happens at an IndabaX to those who take on the role of organising one. The event can be organised at any time of the year.
The Deep Learning Indaba will support as many of these meetings as it can. The support can include anything from: use of Baobab, the dedicated portal for event and attendee management, financial grants to 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.
Your IndabaX could be:
- A one to three-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.
Criteria
- Your plans to ensure diversity and inclusion in participants and speakers.
- Be mindful of the need for greater diversity in organisers, speakers and participants; one of the Indaba’s core principles.
- In particular, comment on the ways that you will increase the participation of women. They encourage every IndabaX to work towards having at least 35% female participation.
- You will be asked to adopt the Indaba’s code of conduct for your event, and take the responsibility that all participants work together to create a safe and inclusive learning and networking community.
- Details of your organising team.
- Any type of team can apply, although they recommend multiple organisers.
- You can apply from anywhere in the continent.
- Your IndabaX must be held at a local university.
For more information, visit Deep Learning Indaba.
