I’m honoured to be one of the ACM FAccT Programme Chairs this year, alongside the amazing Jenn Wortman Vaughan Sina Fazelpour Talia Gillis 🤩 and we’ve been hard at work already. The CFP is coming soon, but the key dates everyone are now set. Happy paper planning 🚀

Chairpersons during the 2nd day of the 2nd Science,Technology and Innovations symposium. Dr. Ocen Gilbert Gilibrays ,Dr. George Kwesiga & Dr. Irene Nandutu #STISYMPOSIUM #WealthCreationInAgriculture

note to the African AI community

🌍Exciting news! The 2025 TReND-CaMinA Course will be held in Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲 from July 7th–23rd. Dive into computational neuroscience and machine learning with us! 📅 Applications open: December 15th 🔗More info: trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/ Stay tuned & spread the word! 🧠✨

Are you joining us online for the #AIinHealthAfrica conference? We're live! Join the discussion using this YouTube link. youtube.com/live/AvGPWrXUc…

The AI in Health Africa Conference brings together diverse stakeholders passionate about leveraging AI to address healthcare challenges. #AIinHealthAfrica

Congratulations to our postgraduate, Irene Nandutu, part of the NI and UCT's Artificial Intelligence Research Unit on winning the 2024 Fondation L'Oréal-UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #ForWomenInScience French Young Talents Award. Read more about #WomenInScience: tinyurl.com/mrh2xpmx #FWIS2024

Role models are crucial when it comes to encouraging girls to embrace scientific careers. We organized an intergenerational meeting between the 2024 Young Talents from Sub-Saharan Africa and more than 100 high-school students from CEG Gbegamey in Benin 👇 #FWIS2024

🪘Call for workshops proposals🪘 We're looking for proposals to be presented during the DLI annual event in Rwanda this August. Workshops serve as focused forums to discuss emerging research, share novel ideas, and encourage active engagement across the African AI community. We

I am honored to be featured in UniversityWorldNews ! 🚀 Excited to share my journey and current work that uses machine learning to support early childhood brain development. Big thanks to Fondation L'Oréal - UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #ForWomenInScience for the recognition! universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

📢 Call for workshop proposals! Deep Learning Indaba 2025 is accepting proposals for workshops on AI research, applications & ethics in Africa! Topics of interest include AI for African languages, trustworthy AI, generative models and more! Submit by 24th Feb🔗buff.ly/416ae7K

Still unsure about how to apply for our 2025 annual event? 🤔✨ Join us for a live Q&A session where we'll walk you through the application process and answer all your questions! 📅 Monday, February 17, 2025 ⏰ 6:30 PM GMT+1 📍 Online via Zoom platform 🎟️Registration link:

February marks the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year, UCT Research spotlights four researchers honoured by Fondation L'Oréal-UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 in the Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Awards for tackling Africa’s grand challenges: bit.ly/4gJ6lu0.

📢We're inviting Master's and early-stage PhD students based in or from Africa, working in AI/ML or related fields, to apply as Mentored Reviewers for the Indaba 2025 research track! Apply now before April 20, 2025 ! 👉bit.ly/mentored-revie… #DLI2025 #Indaba2025 #Urunana

📢 Attention to all Scientists! Register for the I’m a Scientist online event and engage in live chats with students as they test your scientific knowledge, ask tough questions, and vote for their favourite scientist! 🔗: imascientist.or.ke/scientists-app… Deadline : April 30th, 2025

🔬 How's AI transforming biology? 📡 FM4Bio Seminar Series—exploring how foundation models simulate, predict & program life (DNA → cells). 🧬 Join top AI + bio researchers. 👉 x.genbio.ai/x-seminar

The opportunity gap in AI is more striking than ever. We talk way too much about those receiving $100M or whatever for their jobs, but not enough those asking for <$1k to present their work. For 3rd year in a row, ML Collective is raising funds to support Deep Learning Indaba attendees.

🌍 We are thrilled to announce the theme for #IndabaXUganda2025: “Building a Responsible AI Ecosystem for Sustainable Innovation.” This theme reflects our commitment to shaping AI that is ethical, inclusive, and impactful for Uganda. #IndabaXUG2025 #AI #DeepLearning