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Affinity Workshop

Kaggle@ICLR 2023: ML Solutions in Africa

Julia Elliott · Walter Reade · Ray Harvey · Phil Culliton

MH3

Abstract:

Kaggle will be hosting its first workshop at The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR in Kigali, Rwanda on May 4, 2023. This workshop will be centered around using machine learning to help address societal challenges in Africa, and is uniquely aimed at early-to-mid career data scientists and ML researchers. It will also feature a live hackathon hosted in partnership with Zindi.

- Learn from talks by data scientists and researchers doing impactful ML work on prevalent issues in Africa.
- Participate in a live competition (in-person only). Top-ranked finishers in the competition will earn prizes!
- Connect with other early-to-mid-career data scientists and network with advanced ML researchers.
- Meet the Kaggle & Zindi teams: Julia Elliott (Kaggle COO), Walter Reade (Kaggle Competitions Data Scientist), and Amy Bray (Zindi Africa Data Scientist) will be facilitating the workshop in partnership with Zindi and hosting the competition.

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