The bootcamp is an intensive, residential and all-expense paid knowledge retreat in a remote part of the city, where data scientist enthusiasts and experts are groomed in the latest tools of data science and machine learning; combining best practices from global industry leaders and academic researchers.

The bootccamp features international PhD-level Data scientists from at least 4 continents with proven result in algorithm and application development. The January, 2017 bootcamp had 10 PhD-level data scientists from 3 continents.

Global instructors

• Dr Arinze Akutekwe, Data Scientist at Fujitsu UK
• Dr Samuel Durugo, Lead Data Scientist Microgaming U.K
• Damilola Ojo, Director of Analytics with Delta Partners Dubai,UAE.
• Humphrey Obie Data Science Doctoral Researcher, Australia
• Babatunde Olorisade Machine Learning Doctoral Researcher UK
• MIIA South Africa team : Dr Jacques Ludik, Dr Andrew Collier, Dr Charles Copley, Dr Thuso Simon, Dr Catherine Cress and Odisitse Maswibilili.

Local instructors

• Professor Shittu of the Department of Statistics of the University of Ibadan facilitated R programming advanced classes.
• Over 10 hands-on local support providing participants with help in Statistics, R and Python, especially the Python Nigerian team.
• Industry experts discussion by Ngozi Dozie of OneFi/ Arise and  Yomi Akinyemi of KPMG.