> Mohamed El-Geish

Mohamed is passionate about advancing AI capabilities, leading a career marked by pivotal roles in some of the world's top tech companies. He is CTO and Co-founder of Monta AI, a product studio for global AI solutions.

Formerly, as the Head of Alexa Speaker Recognition at Amazon, he led teams that delivered groundbreaking developments in voice AI and redefined customer interaction with the technology. Earlier at Cisco, he was Director of AI, following the acquisition of Voicea (a company he co-founded) to unlock insights and actions otherwise lost in enterprise conversations.

At LinkedIn and Microsoft, Mohamed led AI and big data teams, serving hundreds of millions of users through his work on LinkedIn's newsfeed personalization, Outlook.com, and Visual Studio. His academic pursuits at Stanford University as a student and a part-time Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning (CS229) and Deep Learning (CS230) reflect his commitment to nurturing the next generation of AI experts.

Mohamed co-authored Computing with Data, a guidebook to wrangling big data effectively, and is currently working on another book titled Machine Learning in the Real World, set to hit bookshelves in 2024. Through his career and writings, Mohamed is driven by a mission to empower people around the globe to collaborate more effectively using software that provides great experiences.

Mohamed enojys calligraphy and photography; his work was featured as Bing.com's wallpaper in 2011.