About
The Indaba𝕏 2021 will be held in the form of a Roadshow. The roadshow takes place from 3 September - 26 November and offers a series of events, each of which is hosted by a different team of local organisers and/or institutions. The local teams design the content of the event in close collaboration with the main IndabaX organising committee. The events can take the form of a lab showcase, hackathon, industry panel, student talks, ML pub quiz, or any other engaging, fun and informative activity. An equally important second pillar is the growth of a decentralised IndabaX South Africa community forum, where everyone can sign up and interact with each other. The space is a safe peer-to-peer platform for aspiring and seasoned South African machine learning enthusiasts to exchange knowledge, search for help, recruit talent and build an inclusive culture around data and ML. The forum will be moderated by experienced machine learning volunteers, who will staff dedicated office hours once a week for the duration of the road show. In these office hours, forum members can post questions (from “What do I need to study to become a machine learning expert?” to “How do I train a RNN in PyTorch?“ and “Where can I find a supervisor for a PhD investigating generalisation bounds in a PAC learning framework?”), and the experts will try to offer support - which may sometimes just be to forward the question to the right colleague.
The third pillar of the IndabaX 2021 Roadshow is a competition in which participants can win monetary or material prizes. The competition will have different categories in which candidates can submit their past ML and data-based research projects. It will conclude at the end of the second month, and participants can actively use the forum for help with their submissions. The finale of the Roadshow will announce the winners, and thereby conclude the event.
Schedule
CapeAI - How to turn a Machine Learning Use Case into a Successful Startup
Date: 3/9/2021
Time: 14h00-16h00
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AI Expo Africa 2021 ONLINE - 7th September - 6th October - Virtual Business / Innovation Expo & Conference
Date: 07/09/2021 - 06/10/2021
Time: 24/7
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Masakhane and SisonkeBiotik - Grassroots AI: The unreasonable effectiveness of collaborative research
Date: 10/9/2021
Time: 15h00 - 17h00
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Rail Lab - Tuts, a Talk and AGI !!
Date: 17/9/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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Daniel Voigt Godoy - Fundamentals of PyTorch: Building a Model Step-by-Step
Date: 1/10/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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Spatial Edge - Tutorial on Notebook workflows for reproducible data science.
Date: 8/10/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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AI Night with DataProphet
Date: 15/10/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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ByteFuse - Search and optimisations with llamas
Date: 22/10/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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InstaDeep - Playing StarCraft and saving the world using multi-agent reinforcement learning!
Date: 29/10/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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DataSchool Stellenbosch University - Career Day: opportunities for students, graduates and those wanting to change career
Date: 5/11/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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AI UPtake: Panel discussion on collaborative research
Date: 12/11/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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LifeQ - From sensors to health data analysis
Date: 19/11/2021
Time: 14h00 - 16h00
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Roadshow highlights, awards and what’s next
Date: 26/11/2021
Time: 16h00 - 17h00
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