I did mention local presence. We have many attendees, speakers at #ICLR2023 that represent @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP @dsa_org @black_in_ai and beyond. Let's all learn from each other and keep building the momentum.

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Our lab @DSFSI_Research will also be part of this week through a number of presentations at workshops and helping out with running the conference.

Thank you to all organisers, volunteers and local coordinators who have made this week possible. 4/n

For those interested in the startup + AI space, please also talk to our @LelapaAI colleagues.

CEO - Pelonomi Moiloa - @tamati_biskit and
COO - Jade Abbott @alienelf

Who are around #ICLR2023

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I attending the "Oral 1 Track 4: Social Aspects of Machine Learning" - Really liked the papers "Quantifying Memorization Across Neural Language Models" and "Human-Guided Fair Classification for Natural Language Processing"

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It's great to experience #ICLR sessions, the posters & sponsor booths. What a great time for AI on the African continent. Enjoying meeting new people and having others come up to introduce themselves. COVID had robbed us of in person, but so many virtual collaborations.

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Our second #ICLR2023 keynote speaker is Girmaw Abebe Tadesse @girmawAT talking on "Understanding Systematic Deviations in Data for Trustworthy AI"

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It's Day 2 of #ICLR2023. Our third keynote of the conference is Masashi Sugiyama. His talk titled "Importance-Weighting Approach to Distribution Shift Adaptation"

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The second keynote for Day 2 of #ICLR2023 was by Elaine Nsoesie @ensoesie with a title "Data A̵I̵ , History and Equity"

Very active discussion afterwards and engaging points.
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Welcome to day 3 of #ICLR2023. We have our 5th Keynote speaker

Dilek Hakkani-Tur - "Dialogue Research in the Era of LLMs"

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What to also look forward to in the next part of the #ICLR2023 week, the great workshops. First highlight.

IndabaX Rwanda (@DeepRwanda) is Thursday 4 May. Come join the local @DeepIndaba community gathering. I give a keynote.

Website https://indabaxrwanda.github.io/

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On Friday 5 May, the @MasakhaneNLP community and friends bring you the AfricaNLP 2023 Workshop @ #ICLR2023

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2023/home
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Also on Friday 5 May, join the "Practical ML for Developing Countries Workshop @ #ICLR2023
Learning under limited/low resource scenarios"

Website: https://pml4dc.github.io/iclr2023/
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As I said earlier, @DSFSI_Research is here at the #ICLR2023 conference. Read about our contributions at the conference

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The lab is at the #ICLR2023conference in Kigali. The first time a major AI conference is held on the African continent. A major historical moment.

Read more about our contributions: DSFSI @ ICLR 2023 - KIGALI, RWANDA: 1-5 MAY 2023
https://dsfsi.github.io/blog/dsfsi-iclr2023/
https://twitter.com/DSFSI_Research/status/1653661329046093825

Happening now at #ICLR2023

Town Hall: LLMs in the ICLR Writing Process?

Just gave a keynote on AI + Policy on the African continent at IndabaX Rwanda colocated with #ICLR2023

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“What got you here, wont get you there” @vukosi

#indabaxrwanda #ICLR2023
https://twitter.com/IndabaXRwanda/status/1654019978280984577

We also had Kathleen Siminyu @siminyu_kat - "NLP for African Languages"

IndabaXRwanda #ICLR2023 is going deep into policy, regulation and protecting people as part of our AI Research. We are also very proud to have Kathleen as a new member @DSFSI_Research at @UPTuks 23/n

I encourage you to support the next big event on the African AI Calendar, the 2023 Deep Learning Indaba (@DeepIndaba ) which will be held in Accra, Ghana in September. Please donate/support the Travel Scholarships - https://www.gofundme.com/f/be-part-of-african-ai-travel-scholarships

Ytube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTB1roBo94Q
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Join Jade Abbott (@alienelf), our Lelapa AI @LelapaAI co-founder at the Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries workshop today.

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TODAY! If you are at #ICLR2023 go check out these Lacuna Fund grantees present.

AfricaNLP - @asmelashteka, @Shmuhammadd

Machine Learning for Remote Sensing - @j_nabende

Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries - @RKiire, @alienelf, @asmelashteka
https://twitter.com/LacunaFund/status/1654365313566400512

Our poster at the AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023. Rozina Myoya, from our lab @DSFSI_Research , will be at the poster session.

#AfricanNLP
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Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023

#AfricanMachineLearning
#AfricanNLP