See where members take Guild Code Community into the room: conferences, meetups and gatherings where we share knowledge and make new connections.
Photos and short stories from conferences, meetups and community gatherings where members represent Guild Code Community.
Sharing research
Ivy Wahome represented Guild Code Community at Data Science Africa 2026 on the Makerere University campus in Uganda. She presented research on automatic speech recognition for Kalenjin, adapting Wav2Vec2-XLS-R and KenLM for low-resource African languages. The trip is part of how our mentors bring community learning into research spaces across the continent.
Ivy Wahome
2026 · Makerere University, Uganda
On the air
Guild Code Community was represented at Radio France Internationale Nairobi. Founder Kevin Obote sat down with RFI for a Kiswahili conversation on AI in Africa and what builders on the continent are shipping today. RFI reaches listeners worldwide and Africa accounts for roughly 60% of its audience.
Kevin Obote
2026 · Nairobi, Kenya
From community to stage
Kevin Obote delivered a workshop on Predictive and Generative AI at UbuCon 2026 at USIU. He first brought the same session to Guild Code Community members through the repo and a group call, then took the stage at the conference. Community builders across project teams joined to learn together and carry that work back into their projects.
Kevin Obote
2026 · USIU, Kenya
IndabaX Uganda 2026
Danson Githuka represented Guild Code Community at IndabaX Uganda in Kampala. While there he worked on AINA (Agricultural Intelligence for Native Africa), a 24-hour agricultural detection project that acts as a native-speaking digital agronomist for African farmers. It targets crop pathogen detection so growers can spot disease early and respond before losses spread.
Danson Githuka
2026 · Kampala, Uganda
Campus hackfest
Guild Code Community has been active in sponsoring and offering guidance at Machakos University Hackfest. Over three days the event creates a collaborative environment where academic talent and industry insight turn ideas into deployable prototypes. Teams spark creativity, strengthen critical industries, reimagine infrastructure and accelerate sustainable innovation. Kevin Obote has been representing the community throughout.
Kevin Obote
2025 · Machakos University, Kenya
Community challenge
Guild Code Community took First Runner up in the Community Challenge at Deep Learning Indaba 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. The Indaba is the yearly gathering of Africa's machine learning community, and the award put work started by our builders in front of researchers from across the continent.
2025 · Kigali, Rwanda
Sharing research
Kevin Obote represented Guild Code Community at Data Science Africa 2025, hosted by the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in June 2025. A year later the community returned to Data Science Africa, with Ivy Wahome presenting research at the 2026 edition at Makerere.
Kevin Obote
2025 · University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Hackathon win
Guild Code took first place at the CubeSat Hackathon 2025, a space technology hackathon focused on low-earth orbit satellite innovation. It is one of the hackathons where community builders test what they learn against hard, unfamiliar problems.
2025 · Nairobi, Kenya
Pitch win
Guild Code won Best Pitch at Build with AI 2025, run by Google Developer Groups. The pitch showed SwahiliCodeMaster, an AI study app that teaches programming in Kiswahili, with personal learning suggestions, a glossary and a built-in code editor.
Kevin Obote
2025
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