Africa's inter-university machine learning hackathon

19-20 March 2022

30 COUNTRIES, 200 UNIVERSITIES, 2000 STUDENTS. AFRICA'S BIGGEST INTER-UNIVERSITY HACKATHON WILL BE EVEN BIGGER IN 2022.

2022 SPEAKERS

Bayo (Olubayo) Adekanmbi

Founder & Lead Consultant, Data Science Nigeria

SRI SATISH AMBATI

CEO, H2O.ai

YACINE BARRO BOURGAULT

ATO (Africa Transformation Office) Skilling Lead, Microsoft

Karim Beguir

CEO, InstaDeep

Moustapha Cisse

Research Scientist & Head of Google AI Center, Accra

GAVIN COPE

Head: Advanced Analytics and Insights, Absa Retail & Business Bank

SHAUN DIPPNALL

CEO, EXPLORE Data Science Academy

MACIEJ KALISZKA

Head of Analytics (Corporate and Investment Banking, Pan-Africa), Absa Retail & Business Bank

Kate Kallot

Director, Head of Global Developer Relations & Emerging Areas, NVIDIA

Celina Lee

Co-Founder & CEO, Zindi

CIIRA MAINA

Organising Committee member Data Science Africa

Sam Masikini

Ambassador, Zindi & Software Developer, Computer Systems Engineer & Data Scientist

Chris Perry

Product Lead, Google Colab

Alexander Tsado

Executive Director, Alliance AI

Idriss Tondji

Machine Intelligence graduate student at AMMI, Past UmojaHack Africa Winner

DAN ZIGMOND

Tech Leader, Author & Zen Teacher

"Solving Africa's problems through data science. How beautiful. #UmojaHackAfrica"
- Andiswa Mkhonto @andiswa_mkhonto

FOR STUDENTS

UmojaHack Africa 2022 is for you! Sign up on your own or in a team to be part of the greatest student-focused data science competition in Africa, whether you’re an enthusiastic newbie or a master of many competitions. You can participate from anywhere in Africa and be a part of this life-changing two-day hackathon.

FOR UNIVERSITIES

Don’t miss being a part of Africa’s largest and most exciting data science event! If you’re a lecturer, academic, administrator or student club leader, get in touch with us to find out more about officially joining more than 200 other African institutions, and even hosting a physical event on your campus.

FOR SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Support the next generation of tech and AI leaders in Africa with one of our tailored sponsorship packages! By being a part of this landmark event, your company will gain valuable recognition and unprecedented direct access to 2000 African university students, plus the broader university and Zindi communities.