This event started as a desire from CEAUL to provide machine learning training to its members, and has slowly but steadily evolved into a workshop coined “Hands-on machine learning in ecology”. It is a free event, organized an run by kind folks donating their time to do so. We invited Carl Donovan (CREEM), Ian Durbach (CREEM) and Emmanuel Dufourq (Stellenbosch University) to deliver the hands-on component, and then invited a number of researchers to provide talks on applications on ML. This mix of lectures, hands-on applications and talks will hopefully provide a good learning environment, generating a good balance between learning and discussion.