Microsoft Research Lab – Africa, Nairobi
Watch Our Grand Seminar 2026:
Language & Voice AI for Africa: From Data to Deployment and Impact
Hosted on Thursday 30th April 2026, this seminar explored how language and voice AI systems can be built and scaled for African contexts—from community-driven data collection and multilingual foundation models to robust deployment and real-world applications across sectors such as agriculture, health, and public services.
Past seminars
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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages
February 2026 Seminar
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GeoMind: A Multi-Agent Framework for Geospatial Decision Support
January 2026 Seminar
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Anaximander: Interactive Orchestration and Evaluation of Geospatial Foundation Models
December 2025 Seminar
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Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding
July 2025 Seminar
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AI for Africa's Future: Innovation, Equity, and Impact
April 2025 Grand Seminar
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A Fever Dream of Machine Learning Framework Composability
December 2024 Seminar
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Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content
May 2024 Seminar
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AI For All: Embracing Equity for All
April 2024 Seminar
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Wildlife Conflict Resolution: Boma & Cattle Detection in the Masai Mara using AI
September 2023 Seminar
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MEGA: Multi-lingual Evaluation of Generative AI
June 2023 Seminar
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Large Language Models and Low Resource Languages
April 2023 Seminar
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Behind the label: Glimpses of data labelling labours for AI
February 2023 Seminar
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Fighting the Global Social Media Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content
January 2023 Seminar
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Detecting and mitigating bias in voice activated technologies
May 2022 Seminar
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Overview of AI Research at the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab
March 2022 Seminar
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Social Media and Elections in Africa: A blessing or a curse?
February 2022 Seminar
