Schedule
The Deep Learning Indaba is an intense week of lectures, practicals, mentoring and events. These are designed to equip participants with knowledge of the state of the art in machine learning and also to build networks and community spirit.
Note that the schedule presented here is provisional and may change in the coming weeks.
Sunday, 9 September
9:00am – 6:00pm
Arrivals in Stellenbosch and Check-in
9:00am – 2:00pm
Registration
2:00PM – 4:00PM
Practical: Machine Learning Basics
By Stephan Gouws, Avishkar Bhoopchand and Ulrich Paquet, Google and DeepMind
4:30PM – 6:30PM
Mathematics for Machine Learning
7:00PM – LATE
Opening Event
Monday, 10 September – Fundamentals and Convolutional Models
7:30am - 8:30am
Registration and Morning Coffee
8:30am - 9:30am
Indaba Opening and Welcome Keynote
By Nando de Freitas, DeepMind
9:30am - 10:30am
Deep Learning Fundamentals 1
By Moustafa Cisse, Facebook AI Research
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Deep Learning Fundamentals 2
By Moustafa Cisse, Facebook AI Research
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch and Poster Session
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Practical: Deep Feed-Forward Models
By Stephan Gouws, Avishkar Bhoopchand and Ulrich Paquet, Google and DeepMind
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Break
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Convolutional Models
By Naila Murray, Naver Labs
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Free Time
7:00pm - LATE
Evening Networking Event
Tuesday, 11 September – Recurrent Models
8:30am - 10:30am
Practical: Convolutional Models
By Stephan Gouws, Avishkar Bhoopchand and Ulrich Paquet, Google and DeepMind
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Probabalistic Thinking
By Yabebal Fantaye, AIMS South Africa
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch and Poster Session
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Recurrent Neural Networks
By Kyunghyun Cho, New York University
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Break
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Practical: Recurrent Models
By Stephan Gouws, Avishkar Bhoopchand and Ulrick Paquet, Google, DeepMind
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Free Time
7:00pm - LATE
Evening Event + Topical Session: “How to write a great research paper”
Wednesday, 12 September – Generative Models and Reinforcement Learning
8:30am - 10:30am
Generative Models
By Asja Fischer, University of Bochum
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Tutorial and Kambule and Maathai awards session
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch and Poster Session
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Reinforcement Learning
By Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Break
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Practical: Reinforcement Learning
By Stephan Gouws, Avishkar Bhoopchand and Ulrick Paquet, Google, DeepMind
6:30pm - LATE
Mentorship sessions, hosted by our sponsors and AlphaGo movie screening
Thursday, 13 September – Parallel Tracks
8:30am - 10:30am
Non-Recurrent Sequence Models
Computer Vision
By Daniela Massiceti, University of Oxford
AI for Africa
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Skills Session (Joint)
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch and Poster Session
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Generative Models II
Natural Language Processing
By Herman Kamper, University of Stellenbosch
Life of an Machine Learning Startup
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Break
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Reinforcement Learning II
Deploying Machine Learning in Production Environments
AI Ethics and Policy
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Transfer to evening venue
7:00pm - LATE
Closing Event
Friday, 14 September – Closing
8:30am - 10:30am
Tensorflow and Real-life Machine Learning
By Jeff Dean, Google
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00pm
Strategic Panel
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Closing Keynote, Poster Prizes, Farewell
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm -
Optional wine tasting in and around Stellenbosch
Apply Now!
Applications are OPEN and close on the 30th of April. Attendance is FREE for students. APPLY NOW as spaces are limited!