One of the world’s leading authorities on machine learning, AI speaker Andrew Ng has also shaped the way humans learn. An accessible and enlightening keynote speaker, Andrew Ng brings a deep humanity to his vision of an AI-driven future.

Andrew Ng is the founder and CEO of Landing AI, which helps companies around the world achieve AI-powered digital transformation. He also founded deeplearning.ai and its sister company Workera, which help train tomorrow’s machine-learning experts and match them with employers. As co-founder of Coursera, Ng helps millions of individuals and organizations learn from the world’s best universities.

At Stanford University, where he is an adjunct professor, Ng led the development of a massive open online course platform. This effort paved the way for future MOOCs, and directly inspired both Coursera and Udacity.

His academic interest in machine learning led him to found the Google Brain project, which married deep learning and big data. As a director of drive.ai, Ng helps guide the practical application of AI to the question of autonomous vehicles.

Ng’s work has earned him recognition from organizations ranging from the MIT Technology Review to the World Economics Forum. Additionally, he writes a weekly newsletter, the Batch, and contributes to publications including the Harvard Business Review and Slate. Through Landing AI, Ng has published two books, Machine Learning Yearning and AI Transformation Playbook.

NASA, Google, and the Max Planck Society are just a few of the organizations that have benefitted from Ng’s talks.