Our Convener
Olubayo (Bayo) Adekanmbi
Our convener, Olubayo (Bayo) Adekanmbi is a C-level Business and Technical leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Innovations, and Geospatial Data Science with over 22 years of experience. He is recognised as one of the top 50 Data Innovators in the world by the US-based Corrinium Intelligence. He has a PhD from the University of London (City).
He is a recent winner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge for his work on the use of Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models for Financial Inclusion. Bayo has led his team at Data Science Nigeria/DSNai to build many AI for social good products, five of which have been recognized by UNESCO/IRCAI as part of the Global Top 100 list of AI products for social impact in 2021 and 2022. He is a leading academic researcher whose work has been published at top global AI conferences, including NeuRIPS, AAAI, CVPR, ICLR and ICML.
He has worked on Telecoms mobility data, financial behaviour and diverse geo-referenced datasets for many years as C-level executive in charge of advanced analytics, innovation and data strategy for Africa’s 2 largest telcos (MTN Nigeria/South Africa and Airtel Africa) across over 30 African countries and working on datasets of over 250 million subscribers.
Profile Summary
Industry-level Advanced Analytics and Data Science practitioner
- Previously served as General Manager Business Intelligence and Chief Marketing/Strategy Officer.
- Served as the Chief Transformation Officer, MTN Nigeria
- Awarded the prestigious MTN Yello Star award for the conceptualisation of a Customer Value/Risk Management framework, which led to multi-billion naira revenue growth.
- Developed many operational analytical models for industry applications
Practising Data Scientist and active on the world’s No 1 platform – Kaggle
- Kaggle Competition Bronze
- No 1 on the Data Science Dojo In-class Capstone project Leaderboard
- Top 1% amongst the over 11,000 data scientists competing on the Kaggle Titanic Machine learning survival model
Patent owner (United States Patent Office final approval stage) for a Data Science product
- Social Pricing Recommender algorithm for low income prepaid telecommunication users using uncalled-called numbers modelling (US62400186)
Doctoral-level scholar – combined PhD programme at the University of London (CityU) and TIAS Business School, the Netherlands.
- Research work on application of Data science algorithm to understand the effect of customer social networks on consumption behaviour in luxury and telecoms industry.
Community Builder, Pan-African mentor and Knowledge leader
- Advisory Board member, insight2impact (i2i) – a global resource centre that seeks to improve financial inclusion through the smarter use of data.
- Winner – MIPAD – Most Influential People of Africa Descent (Class of 2018)
- Chairman, Data and Advanced Analytics workstream of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG)
- Participant, Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa
- Part-time academic mentor/supervisor
Published Author
- The Future is Shared : Sharing Economy and Sharepreneurship in emerging market.
- The future is Shared is available on Amazon
- Artificial Intelligence Simplified: 99 Use Cases and Expert Thoughts
- Artificial Intelligence Simplified is available on Amazon
