Aisha Kana

Aishakana is the co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence consulting and incubator company. She is a strategic advisor in artificial intelligence, smart cities, and financial technology, with clients including Singapore's largest public transportation company SMRT, SmartDubai committed to reforming Dubai's governance and service delivery, and YES Bank, one of India's largest banks. In 2017, ADDO AI was named one of the top four artificial intelligence companies in Asia by Forbes magazine. Kana has been working on Wall Street for over a decade, dedicated to developing large-scale trade, risk management, and data analysis systems. She is the co founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research consulting group aimed at analyzing the impact of accelerated technology on the economy and society. She is the head of the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is also the guiding professor at Singularity University. Kana has been named one of Singapore's top female entrepreneurs and one of Asia's top financial technology influencers by Fintech Asia. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Singapore Ministry of Education, focusing on applied learning in future skills and emerging industries. Kana is the author of Straight Through Processing and the co author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human Technology Civilization, which thrives in the emerging human technology civilization. She founded 21C GIRLS, a charity organization that provides free coding and artificial intelligence courses for girls in Singapore.