BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Ayesha Khanna is a speaker and strategic advisor. She is a world leader in artificial intelligence. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.A. in Operations Research from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Innovation from the London School of Economics.
She is co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence advisory firm and project incubator. She is a strategic advisor in artificial intelligence, smart cities and financial technology for major clients around the world. She also has Wall Street experience developing large-scale trading systems, risk management and data analytics. She is also co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies.
His articles on technology, innovation and smart cities have been published in media such as: "The New York Times", "BusinessWeek", "TIME", "Newsweek", "Forbes", "Harvard Business Review", "Strategy+Business" and "Foreign Policy".
She is the founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that offers free coding and artificial intelligence classes for girls in Singapore to further empower women in the technology sector. She is also co-founder and co-director of Pervaaz: School of AI and Computing, which provides business training in applied artificial intelligence and data science.
