Program speakers

Liesl Yearsley 

CEO – Akin (artificial intelligence)

Lee Yearsley is the CEO/founder of a Public Benefit AI company, a Frontier AI Model developer.

Before that she was CEO of an AI company Cognea, which was acquired by IBM. Before that Yearsley was CEO/founder of a search engine company which went public.

Yearsley has been at the intersection of advanced technology, emerging markets and social impact her whole career, and is a technical .  technical founder with 4 patents in the field