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AI Expo Africa

InstaDeep showcased at AI Expo Africa 2021

InstaDeep is pleased to reaffirm its support for AI Expo Africa for the third consecutive year, as Silver sponsors of the event.  The continent-wide, virtual Expo is taking place on 7-9 September, and is the largest business-focused AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) trade event in the region. Over 5,000 delegates… Read more »

InstaDeep confirms Gold sponsorship of Biologics UK conference

InstaDeep is delighted to announce it is a Gold sponsor of the 2021 Biologics UK conference happening in London on 6-8 September 2021.  The event, billed as “Europe’s Premier Meeting for Biologics R&D”, is dedicated to protein and antibody engineering and development strategies, advancing bispecifics to the clinic and therapeutic use, bioanalysis, and vaccine development.  … Read more »

ISMB/ECCB 2021

DeepChain Platform and DeepChain Apps presented at ISMB/ECCB 2021

InstaDeep’s Nicolás Lopez Carranza and Marcin J. Skwark recently presented the DeepChain protein design platform at the highly prestigious ISMB/ECCP 2021 conference.  Speaking to a large virtual audience of expert bioinformaticians and computational biologists, Nicolás (DeepChain Lead) and Marcin (Bioinformatics Lead) explained how DeepChain helps life science researchers design and optimize protein-protein interactions, and how… Read more »

InstaDeep CEO to participate in Africa Day 2021 to discuss AI’s possibilities on the continent

Tuesday 25th May marks the 58th anniversary of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity, which first took place in 1963. In celebration of Africa Day, The Africa I Know (TAIK) is hosting a half-day webinar devoted to reflections of the progress that Africa and Africans have made, as well as focusing on solutions to the challenges still faced by the continent.

InstaDeep takes to the NVIDIA GTC stage with four contributions this spring

The first NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) of 2021 starts on Monday 12th April. InstaDeep will present cutting-edge developments in protein design and conversational AI for underrepresented language highlighting how GPUs, specifically the new DGX A100, accelerate InstaDeep’s R&D efforts.  Known for highlighting the advanced technologies transforming today’s industries, GTC 21 kicks off with a… Read more »

Molecular Biology hackathon launched by InstaDeep to predict protein function

Saturday 17th October saw the InstaDeep Kinase Classification Challenge by UmojaHack Africa unfold with 252 participants, representing 15 universities and engineering schools in Tunisia, working hard to solve a novel problem in biology using Machine Learning. Specifically, the hackathon participants were challenged to determine the structure, behaviour and interaction of enzymes and molecules to predict… Read more »

InstaDeeper to present on Neural Machine Translation at GDG DevFest Lagos

Language research has made huge strides in recent years, but most of this work has been done on majorly high-resource languages. As new technologies emerge and the digital divide between high-resource and low-resourced languages deepens, it impacts the extent to which users can access information and communicate with these technologies.  On 17th October, we will… Read more »

AI Expo Africa: InstaDeep’s CEO on The Future of AI in Africa

InstaDeep’s CEO and Co-Founder Karim Beguir talked to AI TV’s Dr Nick Bradshaw during AI Expo Africa. Together they discussed the state of African AI innovation in deep tech and also the exciting things in the pipeline for InstaDeep. Hear for yourself in the video above! (The interview is also available on YouTube)

InstaDeep to hold three talks during NVIDIA’s GTC conference

With the huge success of NVIDIA’s first virtual GTC conference in March earlier this year, following the outbreak of Covid19 which made the traditional in-person format impossible, the company recently announced a second virtual conference will take place from 5-9th October.  As a Service Delivery Partner to NVIDIA, InstaDeep is thrilled to announce we are… Read more »

InstaDeep’s Co-Founder gives keynote at AI Expo Africa: Why African start-ups can compete in Deep Tech Innovation

This year’s AI Expo Africa, the largest business-focused AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Data Science trade event in Africa focused on Deep Tech Innovation in Africa. As the co-founder of one of Africa’s leading AI startups, Karim Beguir was a natural choice for the innovation keynote talk. He debated how the continent can compete… Read more »