Events

All of our online events are open to anyone. Find out what is on via the newsletter or the community Discord.

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What the community runs

As run since 2021 — ask on the Discord what is on right now.

Community meet
A social meet as a space for new members, high level project updates, general Q&A and new project pitches and brainstorming
Can AI solve it?
A fun, fast paced community brainstorming activity where we try to solve problems in healthcare with AI
Project meets
Most projects have regular meets
Reading groups
A regular academic reading group / journal club — ask on the community Discord, or start your own
Seminars
Online academic seminars — equitable AI, open source AI, federated learning, synthetic data and more
Workshops
To run a SisonkeBiotik workshop, get in touch with the community leadership

Workshops

Africa Machine Learning and Health — celebrating ML research for health from researchers in Africa.

  1. 3 December 2024

    Sisonke Biotik Workshop at Science Forum SA 2024

    CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa

    Keynote talks, panel discussions, and a hands-on design dash activity on AI and data science for healthcare challenges across the continent.

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  2. 15 December 2022

    Africa Machine Learning and Health Workshop — IndabaX South Africa 2022

    Deep Learning IndabaX, Pretoria, South Africa

    The workshop aims to celebrate / spotlight machine learning research for health in Africa. It was held on the final day of the IndabaX, open for IndabaX attendees as well as outside participants from healthcare backgrounds — with an Ideathon: teams of 2–4 pitching AI solutions to any problem in health, for at least R10 000 + mentorship in prizes.

    Programme

    15 December 2022 (in-person) 10:30 – 14:30 (UTC+2)

    • Workshop intro10 min
    • Semantic-based Document Label Verification in Biomedical Text Processing — Joan Byamugisha30 min
    • Lunch60 min
    • Federated learning for healthcare — Archie Arakkal30 min
    • Ideathon: best 3 pitches + prize giving60 min

    Organising team: Chris Fourie, Abraham Owodunni, Amel Laidi, Idris Muniru, Alexandra Smith, Daphne Machangara, Laing Lourens

    Partners: Wits Healthcare Innovation · South African Medical Students Association

  3. 25–26 August 2022

    Africa Machine Learning and Health Workshop — Deep Learning Indaba 2022

    Deep Learning Indaba, Tunis, Tunisia

    A hybrid workshop with day 1 hosted at the Deep Learning Indaba in Tunisia and attended by both Indaba attendees as well as online participants, and day 2 being an online only event.

    Programme

    Day 1 — 25 August 2022 (online and in-person) 14:00 – 18:30 (UTC+1)

    • Workshop day 1 intro20 min
    • Community keynote — Bonaventure Dossou, Chris Emezue, Houcemeddine Turki and Abraham Owodunni40 min
    • Lightning talks60 min
    • Break30 min
    • Semi-unconference70 min
    • Invited keynote — Tinashe Mutsvangwa50 min
    • Workshop socialafter hours

    Day 2 — 26 August 2022 (online only) 14:00 – 17:30 (UTC+1)

    • Workshop day 2 intro10 min
    • Online keynote — Darlington Akogo45 min
    • Tutorial 1: Building with DeepChain (InstaDeep) — Oliver Bent60 min
    • Break30 min
    • Tutorial 2: PySyft (privacy-preserving AI) for healthcare — Archana (Archie) Arakkal45 min

    Organising team: Chris Fourie, Houcemeddine Turki, Archana (Archie) Arakkal, Abraham Owodunni, Dylan Geldenhuys