This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, CARI 2024, in Bejaïa, Algeria, in November 23-26, 2024. The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The conference covers a range of subjects, including optimization and heuristics, cluster analysis, reactive systems, information security, natural language and speech processing, computer Vision and image processing, machine learning and deep learning.