Artificial Intelligence Gambia Network

Location

University of The Gambia,Peace Building, Kanifing

Date & Time

08h30 - 17h00, December 11 - 13, 2025

Speakers

12 Tech Icons and Professionals

Participants

70 People

MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE

We introduce the IndabaX: a way to experiment with the ways in which we can strengthen our Machine Learning community, and to allow more people to contribute to the conversation. A Deep Learning IndabaX is a locally-organised,typically a three-day Indaba that helps spread knowledge and builds capacity in machine learning.

Why Join

IndabaX aims to build a sustainable pan-African community of AI expertise,
create local leadership in AI in every country across the continent,
and recognise excellence in research and application of AI technologies.

Get Inspired

A three-day workshop that brings people together to discuss latest development with short talks and a panel discussion, across your institution, in Datascience/AI

Training

A structured series of lectures and tutorials by invited speakers from the country, continent, and abroad on specialized topics

Fresh Tech Insights

Participants range from undergraduate students, research students, lecturers and academic, industry professionals and startups.

Meet Our Speakers

Speakers whose focus are on data science, with plans to develop a vibrant research group on data science in The Gambia.

Dr. Dina Machuve

DevData Analytics

Cofounder & CTO, DevData Analytics, Tanzania

Dr. Mbemba Hydara

Univerisity of The Gambia

Dean, Faculty of I.C.T

Dr. Ernest Mwebaze

Sunbird AI

Strategy Lead, Sunbird AI, Uganda;

Prof. Moustapha Cisse

Google AI Center

Research Scientist in AI

Honourable Ousman Bah

Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy

Minister

Dr. Sheriffo Ceesay

Huawei Technologies Research

Senior Research Engineer

Dr. Marco Barletta

Huawei Edinburgh Research Center

Senior Research Engineer

Mr. Amory Hoste

Huawei Edinburgh Research Center

Senior Research Engineer

Dr. Ismaël KONÉ

Medical Research Council Gambia at LSHTM

Data Science Postdoctoral Researcher in Epidemics

Mr. Jeremiah Ayock Ishaya

African institute for Mathematical Science

PhD Students in Data Science

Dr. Bubacarr Bah

Medical Research Council Unit Gambia at LSHTM

Head of Data Science

Schedule - Day 1

Opening ceremony and plenary talks

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Time	Speaker	Activity
10:30 am - 10:40 am	Dean of ICT	Welcome Remark from Dean of ICT
10:40 am - 11:10am	Dr. Dina Machuve	Cofounder & CTO, DevData Analytics, Tanzania
11:10 am - 11:30am	-	Coffee & Snacks Break
11:30 am - 12:00 am	Dr. Ernest Mwebaze	Dr. Ernest Mwebaze, Strategy Lead, Sunbird AI, Uganda
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm		Poster session presentation
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Prof. Moustapha Cisse	Research Scientist in AI
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Mr. Ousman Bah	Minister, Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	-	Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	-	Launch Gambia AI Network (GAIN)
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Dr. Bubacarr Bah	Introduction to Deep Learning and Data Science

Schedule - Day 2

Practical/Lab sessions for IndabaX alumni and senior university students

Time	Speaker	Topic
9:00am - 11:00am	Fred Sangol Uche / Jeremiah Ayock Ishaya	Building Computer vision models
11:00am - 11:20am	-	Coffee & Snacks Break
11:20am - 1:20pm	Ismael Kone	Natural Language Processing (NLP) / LLMs
1:20am - 1:40pm	-	Lunch Break
1:40pm - 3:40pm	Sherrifo Ceesay	Distributed Data Processing

Schedule - Day 3

Demos

Time	Invited Schools
10am - 12pm	First session of demos
12pm - 12:20pm	Coffee & Snacks Break
12:20pm - 2:00pm	Second session of demos

Our Sponsors

Proud to be involved with the following institutions, we thank them for helping to be part of this initiative.

ORGANISERS