UmojaHack Africa 2023, organized by Zindi, a network for data scientists, was a two-day event that brought together over 1000 students from 345 universities in 36 countries to create machine learning models for climate change. The event was supported by several companies, including Mara, DeepMind, Kaggle, MPOWER Finance, African Energy Chamber, and InstaDeep. Challenges were centered on predicting carbon emissions on the African continent using machine learning, modeling cryptocurrencies, and solving Rubik's Cubes using reinforcement learning. Winners were awarded around $10,000 worth of cash and online learning licenses. Zindi has grown its network of participating universities to around 350 higher education institutions, academies, technical colleges, and bootcamps across the continent. The event's speakers included DeepMind Senior Research Engineer Avishkar Boopchand, who emphasized the importance of producing African answers to African problems. Zindi was founded in 2018 to make data science and artificial intelligence talents available to businesses on the African continent.

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