Welcome to the Tutorials & Skills 2026 repository. This is the home for all tutorial notebooks and skills-session materials for Indaba 2026.
The repo is organised into two top-level folders:
| Folder | What goes here |
|---|---|
practicals/ |
Hands-on tutorial notebooks. One folder per tutorial. |
skills/ |
Skills-session materials. One folder per session. |
Each session leader owns a single folder under one of these directories and puts all of their material inside it. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the exact folder convention and the contribution workflow.
Times and rooms are provisional and may change — the official programme is the source of truth.
| 💥 Tutorial | 🧑🏫 Session leaders | 📂 Folder |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Agentic AI: Building Conversational Agents with Persistent Memory | David Agbolade | intro-to-agentic-ai |
| The Math Behind Neural Networks | Pelumi Victor, Catherine Essuman | math-behind-neural-networks |
| Building Faster Transformers with Triton: A Hands-On Introduction to GPU Kernel Programming | Ayomide Odumakinde, Katherine Oluwadarasimi Olowookere, Adeniyi Mayokun | faster-transformers-with-triton |
| Understanding Model Alignment: Concepts and Practical Steps | Michael Mollel, Winnie Mangeni, Innocent Charles | understanding-model-alignment |
| 🛠 Skills session | 🧑🏫 Session leaders | 📂 Folder |
|---|---|---|
| Doing ML Research from the Margins | Steven Kolawole | ml-research-from-the-margins |
| Adversarial Thinking in AI Systems: Understanding and Mitigating Real-World Model Failures | Manar Hamed | adversarial-thinking-in-ai-systems |
| Building On-Device AI Applications | Jesse-Paul Osemeke | on-device-ai-applications |
| Mastering the Scientific Narrative: A Practical Guide to Reading and Writing High-Impact AI Research Papers | Castro Gbêmêmali | scientific-narrative-reading-writing |
| 💥 Tutorial | 🧑🏫 Session leaders | 📂 Folder |
|---|---|---|
| The AI Lab Partner: Agents for Biological Discovery | Natasha Latysheva, Sebastian Bodenstein, Kyle Taylor, Adam Kosiorek | ai-lab-partner-agents-for-biology |
| Graph Neural Networks: Foundations and Applications for Real-World Networks | Nataram Odumo, Nwandu Christian, Godbless James | graph-neural-networks |
| Responsible and Sovereign AI: Fair, Trustworthy, and Context-Aware Machine Learning for Africa | Blessing Ogbuokiri | responsible-and-sovereign-ai |
| Beyond the Notebook: Mastering Cloud GPU Infrastructure for Scalable African AI | Chisom Chinwuba, Sheriff Issaka, Opemipo Durodola | cloud-gpu-infrastructure |
Licensed under Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.