Saturday, August 22nd, the Deep Learning Indaba, whose mission is to strengthen Machine Learning and AI in Africa, hosted a social event with the aim of getting the community back together for an afternoon. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the event took place online, a factor which didn’t stop more than 100 people from tuning… Read more »
Over the last few months, several volunteers at InstaDeep, including the two Co-Founders Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, have been working closely with the Deep Learning Indaba Steering Committee to develop the incredibly ambitious Indaba Grand Challenge! The initiative kicked-off on the 30th June and aims for nothing less than finding a cure for Leishmaniasis,… Read more »
IEEE Melecon 2020 took place from 16-18 June and amongst the participants were InstaDeep’s very own Zohra Slim who was invited to take part in a panel featuring ‘Successful Startups’. The international forum focuses on presenting design methodologies, techniques, and experimental results in emerging electro-technologies that aim to provide resources and services to foster entrepreneurial… Read more »
April 2020 saw InstaDeep proudly participate in ICLR for the first time with no less than three research papers! Following a successful virtual conference, the content has been made publicly available for everyone to enjoy. The papers were part of the workshop ‘AfricaNLP: Unlocking Local Languages’ aiming to ‘put Africa on the NLP map’ which… Read more »
The six-day conference, referred to as the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancements of deep learning, is filled with invited talks and workshops, as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. 2020 is our first year contributing to ICLR and we are excited to present on the topic of NLP. AfricaNLP… Read more »
Mena Digital Days, a Google Developer Group initiative out of Dubai, kicked off on Sunday 22 March and will be running workshops and live talks every Sunday to Thursday until July 2020 on their YouTube channel. Covering technology, leadership, as well as various programs, week one focuses on ‘ML for Everyone’ and not less than… Read more »
Uncertain times call for new ways of thinking and innovative ways to interact. With this in mind, Zindi – the leading African online competition platform, came up with the idea of remotely connecting students across the African continent to crowd-solve challenges in health, education, environmental conservation, and business through the day-long UmojaHack Africa competition. InstaDeep… Read more »
AlphaNPI, the joint InstaDeep-Google DeepMind research published June 2019, was last Autumn awarded a spotlight talk at the conference, being one of the top 2.4% of submitted presentations. This meant it was selected to be presented on the main stage in front of an impressive crowd, a humbling achievement testament to InstaDeep’s capabilities, and it… Read more »
We are still on a high following the incredible vibe that pulsated throughout AI Hack Tunisia 2019 – Africa and the Middle East’s largest AI hackathon to date – hosted from 20-22nd September. Throughout the three days, participants from more than 20 different countries competed in an individual and a team challenge hosted on our… Read more »
London-based PhD student and AI R&D Engineer at InstaDeep, Valentin Courgeau, travelled to South Africa to compete in the annual ACQuFRR Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC) end of June. And boy was it worth the trip, as Valentin and his team climbed to the top! A new standard for interest-rates The team led by Valentin,… Read more »
