Events

Community events calendar and international AI / NLP opportunities in Africa — updated weekly, with sponsored & grant-funded events highlighted.

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International Events updated weekly

With Sponsorship or Travel Grants

Deep Learning Indaba 2026
Sponsored

Africa (location TBC)

Date TBC

Africa's largest deep learning conference, bringing together machine learning researchers and practitioners from across the continent. Travel scholarships available for African researchers.

Travel scholarships available for African researchers and students.
IndabaX Africa 2026
Sponsored

Multiple African countries

Date TBC

IndabaX events are community-organised deep learning workshops held across African countries, affiliated with the Deep Learning Indaba. Many editions offer local attendance grants.

Local attendance grants available at many IndabaX editions.
Data Science Africa 2026
Sponsored

Africa (location TBC)

Date TBC

Annual summer school and workshop series focused on machine learning and data science for African development contexts. Financial support available for participants from low-income backgrounds.

Financial support available for participants from low-income countries.
AfricaNLP Workshop @ ACL 2026
Sponsored

Vienna, Austria

Date TBC

The AfricaNLP workshop, co-located with major ACL conferences, focuses on NLP research for African languages. D&I travel grants are available through the ACL Diversity & Inclusion committee.

ACL D&I travel grants available — apply via the ACL D&I committee.
Masakhane Research Collaboration Calls
Sponsored

Virtual / Africa

Date TBC

Masakhane periodically opens collaboration calls for African language NLP research. Funded participation and compute resources available for accepted participants.

Funded participation and compute grants for accepted researchers.
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