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Learn together.
Build what matters.

AgenticGHX is a community run between Ghana and its diaspora: weekly talks, honest discussions, mentorship, and a fellowship that takes you from curious to shipping. We solve hard, local problems together — hackathons and bounties are how we practice, the people are the point. We start where we know best — Ghana — and grow with the continent.

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This week

NEXT TALK · FRI 17 JUL · 14:00 GMT / 10:00 EDT · ONLINE · FREE
Ali Oku · New York Genome Center

Application of single-cell foundation model (scFM) embeddings — Ali Oku · New York Genome Center

Foundation models trained on millions of single cells turn a cell's expression profile into an embedding — a vector you can compute with. Ali works with these models as a bioinformatics analyst at the New York Genome Center, and will walk through what the embeddings actually capture, where they help, and where they mislead.

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Finn · McGill University

Guest talk

Finn · McGill University — Guest session with open discussion. Topic was shared in the community chat.

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What happens here

Three ways to grow — most people end up doing all three.

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Weekly talks from Ghanaian and diaspora researchers, open discussions where questions are welcome, and a free fellowship — no CS degree required, life scientists especially welcome.

 build/

Real problems, real users. Take on a hard problem with problem owners who'll test your work, compute credits, and diaspora mentors. Ship for 20 real people before you scale.

 grow/

Shared growth. Mentorship both ways, writing and speaking reps, a venture track for future founders and investors — and a community that opens doors for each other.
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Open opportunities

Fellowships, grants, scholarships, hackathons, prizes — one list, sorted by deadline, so nobody misses a door because they didn't know it existed.

typemodeopportunityvaluedeadline
prize hybrid Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2027 (RAEng) up to £50,000 + 8-month training Opens Jul 13, 2026
hackathon remote Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud remote · worldwide · $45,000 prizes Jul 20, 2026
fellowship hybrid MEST AI Startup Program (Class of 2027) — Accra up to 12 months · training + mentorship Jul 20, 2026
hackathon remote OpenAI Build Week (Codex) — global online remote · worldwide · $100,000 prizes Jul 21, 2026
fellowship hybrid Y Combinator Fall 2026 Batch $500,000 investment + mentorship Jul 27, 2026

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The problem board

Problems are our curriculum — the most honest way to learn is to build something a real person needs.

flagshipspeechlow-resource

African-language speech models

ASR/TTS for Twi, Ewe, Dagbani, Ga — and the pattern generalizes to hundreds of low-resource languages across the continent.

open problem → real users waitingNLPwhatsapp

Voice-note bookkeeping

Spoken Twi market transactions → a ledger a loan officer trusts. Real traders in Kumasi will test it.

open problem → unfair advantageresearchgenomics

Bio × AI

Our community is life-sciences-heavy. Pair with a genomics or public-health member and build what neither of you could alone.

open problem →
crontab -l

This org runs on agents we built

Metrics, application scoring, grant scanning, comms, sponsor briefs, deal memos — six agents in production, built by our own members, soon open source. We teach what we practice: even our operations are a learning project you can contribute to.