Akli Adjaoute
Akli Adjaoute is an investor and entrepreneur in the area of artificial intelligence. He founded Brighterion in April 2000 which was acquired by Mastercard in August 2017, and he is now advisor to the President of Mastercard. Brighterion delivers a leading AI and machine learning platform that provides real-time mission-critical intelligence from any data source, regardless of type, complexity or volume. Brighterion’s AI solution secures billions of transactions monthly and is used and trusted by 76 of the top 100 U.S. banks and more than 2,000 customers worldwide, processing more than 100+ billion transactions annually. While running Brighterion, Akli was Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco where he shared his real-world experience with the students. Previously, he founded Conception En Intellligence Artificielle in 1988 while finishing his PhD in Artficial Intelligence at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Conception En Intelligence Artificielle offered Rylm, an artificial intelligence platform, MINDsuite, combining the power of Smart Agents, Neural Networks, Business Rules, Genetic Algorithms, Constraint Programming, Fuzzy Logic, and Cased-based Reasoning. Akli holds PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Pierre and Marie Curie University in France. He also holds Master of Mathematics and Computer Science from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) in France.