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📣 New co-working space in Addis
Ambar Workspace
✅ High-speed internet
✅ Both shared and private desks
✅ Meeting room
✅ 24/7 access
Their current price is 400 ETB/day for shared desks.
📍Summit 72, In front of Noc Gas Station, GetAs Building, 2nd floor.
It is an ideal working space if you live around Summit, CMC, Ayat, Goro, and Bole Arabsa.
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Ambar Workspace
✅ High-speed internet
✅ Both shared and private desks
✅ Meeting room
✅ 24/7 access
Their current price is 400 ETB/day for shared desks.
📍Summit 72, In front of Noc Gas Station, GetAs Building, 2nd floor.
It is an ideal working space if you live around Summit, CMC, Ayat, Goro, and Bole Arabsa.
@GDGAddis
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🚨Get 10% OFF your monthly desk!
Kaza Works:
✅Desks & Private Offices
✅Open 24/7
✅Meeting Rooms
✅Quiet Rooms & Phone Booths
✅Reliable WiFi & Electricity
✅Parking
🎁 First day is FREE! Come check us out.
📍Rediet Building, 5th Floor, Kazanchis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Click for location
✉️ info@kazaworks.com
📞 +251 998909025
Call us to book a tour or get a price quote!
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Kaza Works:
✅Desks & Private Offices
✅Open 24/7
✅Meeting Rooms
✅Quiet Rooms & Phone Booths
✅Reliable WiFi & Electricity
✅Parking
🎁 First day is FREE! Come check us out.
📍Rediet Building, 5th Floor, Kazanchis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Click for location
✉️ info@kazaworks.com
📞 +251 998909025
Call us to book a tour or get a price quote!
Tiktok / Website
@GDGAddis
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Natnael Getenew is a 24-year-old developer from Addis Ababa, and his AI project just made the finals of the largest AI competition in history.
Ivy is an AI tutor that works completely offline for Ethiopian students with zero internet access. It runs on cheap phones and teaches in Amharic.
Out of 10,000+ projects submitted worldwide to AWS AIdeas 2025, Ivy made the top 50. Teams from Silicon Valley, London, Bangalore - backed by full engineering teams - and here he is, one dev from Addis.
The winner is decided by community support.
He needs 20 seconds from you:
👉 https://builder.aws.com/content/3CQJ9SY2gNvSZKWd3tEq8ny7kSr/aideas-finalist-ivy-the-worlds-first-offline-capable-proactive-ai-tutoring-agent
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Ivy is an AI tutor that works completely offline for Ethiopian students with zero internet access. It runs on cheap phones and teaches in Amharic.
Out of 10,000+ projects submitted worldwide to AWS AIdeas 2025, Ivy made the top 50. Teams from Silicon Valley, London, Bangalore - backed by full engineering teams - and here he is, one dev from Addis.
The winner is decided by community support.
He needs 20 seconds from you:
👉 https://builder.aws.com/content/3CQJ9SY2gNvSZKWd3tEq8ny7kSr/aideas-finalist-ivy-the-worlds-first-offline-capable-proactive-ai-tutoring-agent
Sign in with Google, hit Like. That's it.
@GDGAddis
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Natnael Getenew is a 24-year-old developer from Addis Ababa, and his AI project just made the finals of the largest AI competition in history. Ivy is an AI tutor that works completely offline for Ethiopian students with zero internet access. It runs on cheap…
We are delighted to announce that Ivy has officially won the Global Innovation Award in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Challenge 🔥. We would love thank the GDG Addis community for your invaluable votes and support this young, talented developer; Natnael Getenew.
https://builder.aws.com/content/3D5gTWIjP2zvKncBZBCs849xRqn/aws-10000-aideas-competition-meet-the-winners
@GDGAddis
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AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition: Meet the Winners | AWS Builder Center
Meet the winners of the 10,000 AIdeas Competition! Fair warning, you're about to get inspired.
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🚀 Build with AI Addis 2026 is here!
Join GDG Addis for an interactive virtual workshop series focused on modern AI development using Google AI technologies, led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
This two-part hands-on session will explore Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK through live demonstrations, guided workflows, and practical development sessions.
From building smarter AI workflows to exploring agentic development and deployment practices, participants will get practical exposure to some of Google’s latest AI tools and technologies.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP now, save your spot 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/ and share with a friend who wants to learn and build with AI.
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #Gemini #ADK #GoogleCloud #PromptEngineering #AIAgents
Join GDG Addis for an interactive virtual workshop series focused on modern AI development using Google AI technologies, led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
This two-part hands-on session will explore Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK through live demonstrations, guided workflows, and practical development sessions.
From building smarter AI workflows to exploring agentic development and deployment practices, participants will get practical exposure to some of Google’s latest AI tools and technologies.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP now, save your spot 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/ and share with a friend who wants to learn and build with AI.
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #Gemini #ADK #GoogleCloud #PromptEngineering #AIAgents
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Build with AI Addis 2026 is coming! 🚀
A great opportunity to explore modern AI workflows, Gemini CLI, and AI Agent Development with ADK through hands-on virtual sessions led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #GoogleCloud
A great opportunity to explore modern AI workflows, Gemini CLI, and AI Agent Development with ADK through hands-on virtual sessions led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #GoogleCloud
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🚀 Meet Our Featured Speaker for Build with AI Addis 2026!
We’re excited to feature Saheed Adewumi, a Google Developer Expert (GDE Cloud), Software Engineer, and Cloud Engineer passionate about building innovative solutions and empowering developer communities.
Saheed will be leading hands-on virtual sessions on Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK as part of Build with AI Addis 2026.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #GoogleCloud #AI #Gemini #ADK
We’re excited to feature Saheed Adewumi, a Google Developer Expert (GDE Cloud), Software Engineer, and Cloud Engineer passionate about building innovative solutions and empowering developer communities.
Saheed will be leading hands-on virtual sessions on Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK as part of Build with AI Addis 2026.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #GoogleCloud #AI #Gemini #ADK
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🚀 BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026 — Second & Final Session is Today!
GDG Addis is excited to welcome you back for the closing session of BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026, happening today evening at 6:00 PM.
After an amazing first session on Prompt Engineering and building a SaaS website with Gemini CLI, we’re ready to continue the journey with more hands-on AI learning.
Today’s session will cover:
🔹 Antigravity
🔹 ADK — AI Agent Development Kit
🔹 AI Agent Workflows
🔹 Hands-on Codelabs
Participants who joined the first session also received GCP credits to keep building and experimenting with Google Cloud.
Join us this evening as we close BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026 with more learning, building, and community energy.
See you at 6:00 PM! 💡🤖
#BuildWithAI #BuildWithAIAddis2026 #GDGAddis #GoogleDeveloperGroups #Gemini #GoogleCloud #GCP #AI #AIAgents #AddisAbaba #TechCommunity
GDG Addis is excited to welcome you back for the closing session of BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026, happening today evening at 6:00 PM.
After an amazing first session on Prompt Engineering and building a SaaS website with Gemini CLI, we’re ready to continue the journey with more hands-on AI learning.
Today’s session will cover:
🔹 Antigravity
🔹 ADK — AI Agent Development Kit
🔹 AI Agent Workflows
🔹 Hands-on Codelabs
Participants who joined the first session also received GCP credits to keep building and experimenting with Google Cloud.
Join us this evening as we close BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026 with more learning, building, and community energy.
See you at 6:00 PM! 💡🤖
#BuildWithAI #BuildWithAIAddis2026 #GDGAddis #GoogleDeveloperGroups #Gemini #GoogleCloud #GCP #AI #AIAgents #AddisAbaba #TechCommunity
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ML / OCR Engineer Paid Internship
We are looking for an ML/OCR engineering intern to help digitize printed Amharic and Ge’ez book pages into structured data.
You will work on OCR, computer vision, and human-in-the-loop annotation systems for low-resource scripts. This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable experimenting with models, evaluating results, and improving a real pipeline over time.
What you’ll do:
* Build and fine-tune OCR models for printed Amharic and Ge’ez textImprove text detection, recognition, and page layout analysis
* Train object detection and classification models for document-processing tasks
* Help design a human-in-the-loop annotation workflow, including active learning and error correction loops
* Evaluate model performance, benchmark experiments, and ship measurable improvements each cycle
* Use vision-language models or LLM APIs where helpful for weak supervision, annotation drafting, or quality checks.
Requirement
* Strong Python skills
* Experience training machine learning or computer vision models.
* Familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
* Interest in OCR, document understanding, or low-resource language processing.
* Ability to run experiments, analyze errors, and communicate results clearly.
Nice to have
* Prior OCR experience, especially text detection, recognition, or layout analysis
* Experience with Tesseract fine-tuning, TrOCR, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, or custom CTC/transformer OCR pipelines
* Experience with object detection models such as YOLO, DETR, or similar architectures
* Experience working with low-resource scripts or languages
* Familiarity with active learning or human-in-the-loop annotation tools
* Familiarity with vision LLM APIs for drafting, weak supervision, or validation
* Audio ML experience, such as segmentation, forced alignment, or Whisper
Send your resume at: yemane@ibrave.co
We are looking for an ML/OCR engineering intern to help digitize printed Amharic and Ge’ez book pages into structured data.
You will work on OCR, computer vision, and human-in-the-loop annotation systems for low-resource scripts. This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable experimenting with models, evaluating results, and improving a real pipeline over time.
What you’ll do:
* Build and fine-tune OCR models for printed Amharic and Ge’ez textImprove text detection, recognition, and page layout analysis
* Train object detection and classification models for document-processing tasks
* Help design a human-in-the-loop annotation workflow, including active learning and error correction loops
* Evaluate model performance, benchmark experiments, and ship measurable improvements each cycle
* Use vision-language models or LLM APIs where helpful for weak supervision, annotation drafting, or quality checks.
Requirement
* Strong Python skills
* Experience training machine learning or computer vision models.
* Familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
* Interest in OCR, document understanding, or low-resource language processing.
* Ability to run experiments, analyze errors, and communicate results clearly.
Nice to have
* Prior OCR experience, especially text detection, recognition, or layout analysis
* Experience with Tesseract fine-tuning, TrOCR, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, or custom CTC/transformer OCR pipelines
* Experience with object detection models such as YOLO, DETR, or similar architectures
* Experience working with low-resource scripts or languages
* Familiarity with active learning or human-in-the-loop annotation tools
* Familiarity with vision LLM APIs for drafting, weak supervision, or validation
* Audio ML experience, such as segmentation, forced alignment, or Whisper
Send your resume at: yemane@ibrave.co
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AI Builder Hackathon is coming to Addis Ababa!
Calling all developers, engineers, and AI builders.
On August 29–30, 2026, Hackation is bringing its AI Builder Hackathon to Addis Ababa for the first time outside Germany.
The challenge: Build the Agent - Agentic AI for Real-World Operations.
Tracks:
⚙️ Workflow Automation Agent
📊 Intelligent Data Pipeline
💡 Open Innovation
Build a working AI solution, connect with builders and mentors, and showcase what you create.
🌟 Top builders may be invited to a 3-month working contract with the Hackation team and partners.
📅 August 29–30, 2026
📍 Magnolia Hotel & Conference Centre, Bole Atlas
💻 Solo builders and teams are welcome
🎟️ Free — limited spots
Register: https://pretix.hackation.de/Hackation/Hack2026.Addis/
Learn more: https://hackation.de
#GDGAddis #WTMAddis #AgenticAI #Hackathon #AIBuilder
Calling all developers, engineers, and AI builders.
On August 29–30, 2026, Hackation is bringing its AI Builder Hackathon to Addis Ababa for the first time outside Germany.
The challenge: Build the Agent - Agentic AI for Real-World Operations.
Tracks:
⚙️ Workflow Automation Agent
📊 Intelligent Data Pipeline
💡 Open Innovation
Build a working AI solution, connect with builders and mentors, and showcase what you create.
🌟 Top builders may be invited to a 3-month working contract with the Hackation team and partners.
📅 August 29–30, 2026
📍 Magnolia Hotel & Conference Centre, Bole Atlas
💻 Solo builders and teams are welcome
🎟️ Free — limited spots
Register: https://pretix.hackation.de/Hackation/Hack2026.Addis/
Learn more: https://hackation.de
#GDGAddis #WTMAddis #AgenticAI #Hackathon #AIBuilder
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