6 April
2018

Cape Town
South Africa

250+
Attendees

27
Speakers

Speakers

Ntombikayise Banda

University of Cambridge

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Obins Choudhary

Barclays Africa Group Limited

Artificial Intelligence at Scale

Dr. Alta De Waal

The University of Pretoria

Establishing semantic similarity between short text

Dr. Herman Kamper

The University of Stellenbosch

Deep Learning for (More Than) Speech Recognition

Dr. Inger Fabris Rotelli

The University of Pretoria

What you need to know about Bayesian statistics

Saliegh Salaam

Old Mutual

Adapting to changing markets

Dr. Jacques Ludik

Founder of MIIA, CEO of Cortex Logic

Deep Learning Foundations, Architectures & Applications

Dr. Janto Dreijer

Ambrite ZA

AI Ethics

Dr. Thuso Simon

Zoona

Extracting ID numbers from African Identity cards using Deep Learning

Dr. Willie Brink

The University of Stellenbosch

Intro to machine (and deep) learning, with a focus on probability and uncertainty

Emeritus Prof. Linda Haines

The University of Cape Town

Neural Networks in the Nineties

Emmanuel Dufourq

The University of Cape Town

Facial Expression Recognition and Convolutional Neural Networks

Ismail Akhalwaya

IBM

Quantum Machine Learning

Philip Sterne

Data Scientist at Stochastic Consulting

Advice for Deep Learning Students

Prof. Amit Mishra

The University of Cape Town

From Neuron to Brain

Prof. Bruce Bassett

The University of Cape Town

AI challenges arising from the SKA

Prof. Sugnet Lubbe

The University of Stellenbosch

Visualising a Deep Learning black box

Prof. Tim Gebbie

The University of Cape Town

Better Explanations or Better Decisions in Financial Markets?

Ritesh Ajoodha

The University of the Witwatersrand

Bayesian Networks

Adriaan Rowan

NumberBoost

The Blessing and Curse of High Dimensionality

Alex Conway

NumberBoost

10 Real World Problems Solved with Deep Learning (with code examples)

Benjamin De Charmoy

Cortex Logic

Applications of deep reinforcement learning from competitive self-play

Benji Meltzer

CTO at Aerobotics

Deep Learning in the Agriculture Space.

Chris Currin

The University of Cape Town

Artificial Assistants: How can I help you?

Robin Davies

Principa

Mend the Gap Between Your Data and Your People

Shaun Irwin

Stone Three Mining

Deep Learning Applications in the Mining Industry

Stuart Reid

Chief Engineer & Partner at NMRQL

Deep Learning in Complex Dynamical Systems

Full-day events with awesome speakers and 3 parallel streams of lectures for you to choose from!

Slot Time

Foundations / Applications Stream

NLP / Vision Stream

Theory / Bayesian / Other Stream

08:00 - 08:30

Registration - PD Hahn Foyer

Pick up your name badge

08:30 - 09:30

Keynote and introduction to event - PD Hahn Lecture Room 1

Deep Learning Foundations, Architectures & Applications

Dr. Jacques Ludik

09:30 - 10:30

Intro To Machine (And Deep) Learning, With A Focus On Probability And Uncertainty

Dr. Willie Brink

Deep Learning for (More Than) Speech Recognition

Dr. Herman Kamper

Artificial Intelligence at Scale

Obins Choudhary

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee and Snack Break

11:00 - 12:00

10 Real World Problems Solved With Deep Learning (With Code Examples)

Alex Conway

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Ntombikayise Banda

Bayesian Networks

Ritesh Ajoodha

12:00 - 13:00

AI challenges arising from the SKA

Prof. Bruce Bassett

Extracting ID numbers from African Identity cards using Deep Learning

Dr. Thuso Simon

Deep Learning in Complex Dynamical Systems

Stuart Reid

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch and Networking

14:00 - 15:00

Quantum Machine Learning

Ismail Akhalwaya

Establishing semantic similarity between short text using deep learning

Dr. Alta De Waal

What you need to know about Bayesian statistics

Dr. Inger Fabris Rotelli

15:00 - 15:45

From Neuron to Brain

Prof. Amit Mishra

Artificial Assistants: How can I help you?

Chris Currin

Better Explanations or Better Decisions in Financial Markets?

Prof. Tim Gebbie

15:45 - 16:30

The Blessing and Curse of High Dimensionality

Adriaan Rowan

Facial Expression Recognition and Convolutional Neural Networks

Emmanuel Dufourq

AI Ethics

Dr. Janto Dreijer

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:00

Lightning Talks - PD Hahn Lecture Room 1

Saliegh Salaam

Emeritus Prof. Linda Haines

Philip Sterne

Prof. Sugnet Lubbe

Benjamin De Charmoy

Benji Meltzer

Robin Davies

Shaun Irwin

18:00 - 19:00

Panel Discussion - PD Hahn Lecture Room 1

A conversation on ways to strengthen African machine learning, and how knowledge and capacity in machine learning can be spread more widely.

Dr. Alta De Waal

Ismail Akhalwaya

Dr. Jacques Ludik

Dr. Herman Kamper

Prof. Amit Mishra

Prof. Sugnet Lubbe

19:00 - TBC

After Party! (at UCT)

A chance to cut lose after a long day and socialize with everyone that was at the event!

Event Sponsors

Venue

PD Hahn Building
PD Hahn Lecture Rooms 1, 2 & 4
University of Cape Town

Contact number:

021 650 9111

Directions:

Who Are We?

We are individuals from four different institutions that have a passion for machine learning and sharing knowledge:

What is Our Goal?

We want to facilitate the learning of others and give them opportunities.

  • Learn from African researchers and pioneers
  • Opportunity for one-on-one time with experts
  • Learn the basics or advanced topics of machine learning

Want to Contact Us?

Please send us an email at indabax.wc@gmail.com

The Team That Put This All Together!

Lydia De Lange

Elan Van Biljon

Arnu Pretorius

Buri Gershom

Christopher Currin

Cornel Verburgh

Kayode Olaleye

Alex Conway

Musa Salmamza

Philip Goosen

Samuel Ofosu Mensah