Aicha Evans belongs to a rare breed of tech leaders: a Silicon Valley CEO whose global upbringing and humanitarian focus give her a uniquely grounded perspective.

Africa’s AI future hinges less on adopting tools and more on owning infrastructure, data, and governance — or risk a new digital dependency cycle.

Suleyman has been riding the wave of AI since before most of us had smartphones. At DeepMind he helped build AIs that mastered games and medicine, and today he leads Microsoft’s Copilot efforts.

Trained as an engineer and researcher, Warier’s early career moved through optimization, analytics, and large-scale applied artificial intelligence.

Karim Beguir founded InstaDeep in 2014, years before artificial intelligence became a boardroom priority and long before Africa was considered a credible origin point for frontier AI companies.

Muchnick was trained in business and economics at the University of Chile and later completed executive education at institutions including Harvard, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.