Speakers - 8th Growth & Resilience Dialogue

Meet the Speaker

Date April 11-12 2024

Darlington Akogo is a global leader in Artificial Intelligence. He's the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at minoHealth AI Labs, an AI Healthtech company; karaAgro AI, an AI-powered Plant & Pest Disease Detection and Precision Agriculture platform; Runmila AI Institute, an AI and Data Science training institute; and Gudra AI Studio, an organization broadly exploring AI and Exponential Technologies applied various domains including Transportation, Sanitation and Energy. Akogo has been named one of the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) in Healthcare. He's the Chair (Topic Driver) of the Topic Group on AI for Radiology under the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and World Health Organization (WHO) Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (FG-AI4H). At UN FG-AI4H, Akogo leads the development of global regulations and standards for AI in radiology. He also works with African Union, where he serves as the Chair for the working group on Artificial Intelligence Economy, working towards the development of a Continental African Union (AU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Continental Strategy that includes legislative, regulatory, ethical, policy, and infrastructural frameworks in consultation with stakeholders such as AU Member States’ governments, private sector, academia, innovators, and consumers. He also serves as a Global Innovation Adviser (GIA) to the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA), where he provides advice on how to ensure international development agencies are implementing responsible and localized Emerging Technology across the various countries in which they are based.

Focus: AI in HealthCare and AI in Agriculture.

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