A Half Day Workshop at Deep Learning Indaba

Following previously successful workshops (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), the Data Science For Health in Africa (DS4Health) workshop will be returning this year to Deep Learning Indaba happening at Lagos, Nigeria on 6th August, 2026 as a half day workshop. As healthcare experiences significant transformations due to advancements in data analytics and deep learning, this workshop seeks to bridge the gap and empower stakeholders in Africa's healthcare ecosystem by bringing together researchers, practitioners, and healthcare professionals to explore how deep learning can enhance healthcare outcomes across the continent.

Our goals for the workshop are to:

  • Celebrate/spotlight data science research in health from African researchers.
  • Bring together researchers and communities working on Digital Health related problems across Africa through data science.
  • Promoting collaboration across traditional and emerging research efforts in data science for health in Africa.
  • Establish sustainable partnerships between healthcare practitioners and data scientists.

2026
August 6th

Lagos, Nigeria

100+
Attendees

5+
Speakers

Speakers

Coming soon

We are finalizing the speaker lineup and will share the details shortly.

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Programme

Workshop Day

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Workshop Introduction

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Keynote

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Tutorial

MAI Lab

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Ideathon Presentation

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Coffee Break

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Lightning Talks

Top three submissions

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Design Dash

Participants will engage in a design thinking problem-solution prototyping of understanding and offering solutions to prominent challenges around them, offering participants the opportunity for direct interaction and focused engagement.

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Workshop Wrap-up

Lightning Talk presentation

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Organizing committee

Ditiro Rampate

Sisonke Biotik

GENERAL chair

Marvellous Ajala

Magami Open Sciences | Sisonke Biotik

Funding Chair

Imane Hamzaoui

New York University Abu Dhabi

Publicity Chair

Ifeoluwa Oladeji

MAI Lab

Programs Committee

Seipone Talama Sebina

Gaborone AI Hub/ SisonkeBiotik

Ideathon committee

Comfort Adesina

Sisonke Biotik

Ideathon Chair

Eman Ehab Nasef

Eman Ehab Nasef

Nile University

Communications Chair

Aondona Moses Iorumbur

MAI Lab

Programs Chair

Kareem Waly

Kareem Waly

University of Ottawa

Technical Committee

Community