Dr Olubayo Adekanmbi

Olubayo (Bayo) Adekanmbi is a C-level Business and Technical leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Innovations, Business Transformation, Strategy and Geospatial Data Science with over 22 years of experience with a PhD from the University of London. He is recognized as one of the top 50 Data Innovators in the world by the US-based Corrinium Intelligence. He is a winner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge for his work on the use of Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models for Financial Inclusion. Bayo has led his team at Data Science Nigeria/DSNai to build many AI for social good products, five of which have been recognized by UNESCO/IRCAI as part of the Global Top 100 list of AI products for social impact in 2021 and 2022. He is a leading academic researcher whose work has been published at top global AI conferences, including NeuRIPS, AAAI, CVPR, ICLR and ICML.He was recently appointed as the Federal Government representative to the Global AI Safety Network coordinated by the UK government as a global thinktank on AI applicaitons for socio-economic development acorss the world. 

He has worked on Telecoms strategy, mobility data, consumer behaviour and diverse geo-referenced datasets for many years as C-level executive in charge of advanced analytics, innovation and data strategy with experience at the Africa’s 2 largest telcos (MTN Nigeria/South Africa and Airtel Africa) across over 30 African countries and working on datasets of over 250 million subscribers.

He is the CEO of Data Science Nigeria/DSNai, where he leads world-class Artificial Intelligence knowledge, research, and innovation ecosystem which delivers high-impact & transformational research, and business use applications, He is the author of “The Future is Shared” and “Beginners Artificial Intelligence and Python Programming”. He has also built many industry best practice approaches in geospatial and generative Artificial Intelligence and its diverse application