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InstaDeep Hosts Biggest-Ever AI Hack

During the last week of August, the Rades Omnisports Arena in Tunis was filled with the sound of 1000+ competitors, plus several hundred mentors, volunteers and support staff for an intense three-day AI Hack Tunisia, the largest event of its type ever held in the MEA region. The hard work was accompanied by impromptu and… Read more »

Africa’s AI community gathers in Tunis for Deep Learning Indaba

Empowering African AI talent at in-person event for the first time post-covid InstaDeep played a key role as co-organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba, Africa’s biggest AI and machine learning workshop and conference this summer. Around 400 researchers, scientists, developers, academics and startup founders from across Africa attended the event at Sup’Com, the Higher School… Read more »

DeepChain Team reinforce presence in Boston at Drug Discovery Summit

The DeepChain team recently attended the Drug Discovery in AI Summit in Boston, MA, to exhibit their powerful protein design platform.  The event attracted a strong mix of bio and pharma professionals, all keen on learning how innovative solutions like DeepChain could help them improve and accelerate their drug discovery process. The team were led… Read more »

InstaDeep and Imperial College present three joint papers on Quality-Diversity at GECCO

Each year, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) gathers the leading global experts in the domain of genetic and evolutionary computing. This year, InstaDeep’s research team presented two main conference papers and one workshop paper at the event, which took place in Boston, MA between 9-13 July. The three works result from a close… Read more »

InstaDeep CEO stresses AI is critical for Africa on panel with Ghana’s President; named inaugural Disrupters Club member

InstaDeep’s Co-Founder and CEO Karim Beguir joined Ghana’s president, Nigeria’s vice-president, the IFC’s managing director and other high-ranking officials onstage at the 2022 Africa CEO Forum, to deliver his message that AI is a critical technology for Africa’s development and economic sovereignty in the 21st century. The annual forum took place in Abidjan – in-person,… Read more »

InstaDeep partner up with Novation City for AI Garage acceleration program 

As part of InstaDeep’s ongoing involvement in the Tunisian AI ecosystem to empower emerging talent, the company is pleased to confirm it has joined the Novation City Acceleration Program “AI Garage“, co-designed in partnership with EY Tunisia. AI Garage is a 9-month tailored accelerator programme designed to support individuals and start-ups in building the new… Read more »

Karim Beguir honoured as “Entrepreneur of The Year” at the Financing Investment and Trade in Africa 2022 conference

InstaDeep was one of many prominent African companies and speakers that attended the fifth international FITA 2022 (Financing Investment and Trade in Africa) conference held in Tunis this week, which focused on Africa’s growing influence in the world economy. InstaDeep Co-Founder and CEO Karim Beguir was delighted to receive the Entrepreneur of the Year award… Read more »

InstaDeep opens first US office, joining Kendall Square’s dynamic AI, Life Sciences and University ecosystem to drive new innovation

BOSTON (MAY 19, 2022) – InstaDeep, a leader in advanced AI decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, announced Thursday it has opened its first US office in the heart of the dynamic Cambridge, MA, life sciences, university research and innovation hub. The new R&D base for InstaDeep will allow the AI company to work with… Read more »

InstaDeep, Imperial College London and Sorbonne joint research accepted for ICLR 2022 workshop

InstaDeep proudly announces that a co-authored research paper on Diversity Policy Gradient for Sample Efficient Quality-Diversity Optimization has been accepted by ICLR and will be presented at a workshop during the week-long event.  This latest acceptance – on the tenth anniversary of ICLR – continues InstaDeep’s track record of producing high quality research in collaboration… Read more »

Zohra Slim speaks at future women leaders event

InstaDeep’s Co-Founder and CWO, Zohra Slim, was recently invited to participate in the “Equity in Information Age Leadership” (EIAL) conference, organised by the social enterprise Global Share.  Zohra was asked to speak in the “Women Entrepreneurs in STEAM in MENA” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) session, to an audience of around 1000 women from… Read more »