Tanzania IndabaX 2022 was organized by Tanzania AI Lab in collaboration (co-hosted) with the Nelson Mandela Institution of Science and Technology, AI for Development Lab at the University of Dodoma and dLAB at the University of Dar es Salaam. The event organized a hackathon hosted at Zindi Africa, the largest professional network for data scientists in Africa. The challenge was for an African telecommunications company that provides customers with airtime and mobile data bundles. The challenge aimed to develop a machine learning model to predict the likelihood of each customer “churning,” i.e. becoming inactive and not making any transactions for 90 days. The challenge attracted more than 50 participants.

YEESI Lab was presented by several members. Six members placed in the top 20 of the challenge. Mr Dickson Massawe placed first in the challenge. Mr Massawe, a member of YEESI Lab, also works as a manager of the Electronics and Precision Agriculture Lab (EPAL), which hosts YEESI Lab at the Department of Agricultural Engineering. YEESI Lab PI, Dr Fue is the PI of EPAL that runs seven other extramural funded projects and two international consultancies. Mr. Massawe is a 4^th Year Agricultural Engineering Student at SUA. Mr Massawe was introduced to Machine Learning and Vision technologies by YEESI Lab Online courseware, in which he has proved that Problem based Learning (PBL) approaches may groom very effective experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture.

For more information, visit: https://zindi.africa/competitions/indabax-tanzania-2022/leaderboard

On 10th of December, 2022, The Tanzania IndabaX 2022 will conclude. If you are looking to attend physically or virtually, let us know at info@yeesi.org