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

Dr. Tafadzwa Munzwa

Dr. Tafadzwa Munzwa

Dawa Health

Co-founder & CEO

Irene Nandutu, PhD

Irene Nandutu, PhD

Busitema University

Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Studies

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Programme

Workshop Day

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Workshop Introduction

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Tutorial

MAI Lab

Lightweight Brain Tumor Segmentation on Low-Resource Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide with 3D U-Net, using the BraTS-Africa 2024 dataset and built to run on limited compute.

Phase 1 (online session) recording: watch on YouTube

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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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Fireside Chat

Dr. Tafadzwa Munzwa

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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

Ditiro Rampate

Sisonke Biotik

General Chair

Marvellous Ajala

Marvellous Ajala

Magami Open Sciences | Sisonke Biotik

Funding Chair

Imane Hamzaoui

Imane Hamzaoui

Mila Quebec / UniversitΓ© de MontrΓ©al

Publicity Chair

Comfort Adesina

Comfort Adesina

Sisonke Biotik

Ideathon Chair

Aondona Moses Iorumbur

Aondona Moses Iorumbur

MAI Lab

Programs Chair

Eman Ehab Nasef

Eman Ehab Nasef

Nile University

Communications Chair

Kareem Waly

Kareem Waly

University of Ottawa

Technical Chair

Ifeoluwa Oladeji

Ifeoluwa Oladeji

MAI Lab

Programs Committee

Seipone Talama Sebina

Seipone Talama Sebina

Gaborone AI Hub/ SisonkeBiotik

Ideathon Committee

Daphne Machangara

Daphne Machangara

SisonkeBiotik

Ideathon Committee

Sean Thawe

Sean Thawe

SisonkeBiotik

Programs Committee

Community