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Applied AI Practitioner of the Year
Technical AI Experts
Applied AI Practitioner of the Year
Honouring the African engineer or technical expert whose work is advancing the frontier of AI capabilities on the continent.
Accepting Nominations
63 nominees
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Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
Fundamental Research Lead, Lelapa AI
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Dr.Chris Emezue
Technical Expert in Natural Language Processing
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AI/Data Engineer — Namibia University of Science & Technology (NUST); participant, Lacuna Fund Crop Disease Dataset Project
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Aliraza Sumar
E-commerce growth leader and AI automation specialist based in Kenya.
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Hillary Kipkemoi
Generative AI Engineer | Machine Learning Enthusiast
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Kinsley Gitonga
Machine Learning Engineer | System Design | Software Engineering
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Jade Abbott
Co-Founder & CTO, Lelapa AI; Co-Founder, Masakhane — South Africa
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Dr. Tobi Olatunji
Co-Founder & CEO, Intron Health; AI Voice Engineer — Nigeria
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Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
Fundamental Research Lead, Lelapa AI — Ethiopia
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George Musumba
Director, Centre for Data Research & Cyber Security — DeKUT; IEEE Kenya Computer Society Chair
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Dr. Alexandre Ntwari
AI Researcher / Engineer — AIMS Rwanda / Carnegie Mellon University Africa
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Marlize van Romburgh
Editor in Chief of Crunchbase News,data-driven reporting,startups and VC
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Kareem Waly
Egypt · Advancing Arabic AI and Graph Intelligence for Africa.
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Omar Barakat
Egypt · Building enterprise-scale AI systems that serve millions.
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Mohamed Elgendy
Egypt · Democratizing AI education across the Arab world.
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Anas Abuelhaag
Egypt · Bridging cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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Mahmoud Ayman Abdelmohsen
Egypt · Turning advanced machine learning into practical business solutions.
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Silas Adekunle
Nigeria · Frontier Robotics Pioneer & Multilingual LLM Infrastructure Architect
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Izunna Agupusi
Nigeria · Edge AI Visionary & High-Efficiency TinyML Systems Innovator
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Ifeanyi Nwanegbo
Nigeria · Applied Analytics Architect & Multi-Scale Data Pipeline Engineer
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Taiwo Adebiyi
Nigeria · Computational AI Scholar & Scientific Machine Learning Researcher
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Tyron Lambrechts
South Africa · Machine learning engineer building practical AI systems.
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Kelly Morrison
South Africa · AI/ML engineer with enterprise delivery experience.
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Faheem Moolla
South Africa · Senior AI/ML engineer with strong industry progression.
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