Full Name

Karim Beguir

Job Title

CEO & Co-Founder

Company

InstaDeep

Speaker Bio

Karim Beguir is the co-founder and CEO of the AI company InstaDeep, which was acquired by BioNTech in 2023. In recognition of his work over the past decade to democratise AI, he received a TIME 100 Impact for AI award in 2024. As a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of AI, he is an advocate on the global stage for AI's strategic importance in developing countries. Karim led the team that created the AI-powered Early Warning Systems for High Risk Covid Variants and played a pioneering role in using LLMs for biology. He helps companies and leaders come to grips with the latest AI breakthroughs and deploy them. He's also a mentor at the Google for Startups Accelerator and sits on the steering committee of the Deep Learning Indaba, Africa’s largest machine learning community.