George Jojo Boateng
Speaker at AMLD Africa 2026
Dr. George Jojo Boateng is a Computer Scientist, Educator, and Social Entrepreneur recognized as one of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, and 2021 MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. He is an Senior Researcher, Core Director of Wearable AI for Rheumatoid Arthritis Management (WARAM), and Lecturer of the #AI4Impact course at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is also the CEO and Cofounder of Kwame AI, an AI start-up that has built AI assistant such as Adesua (science education), SuaCode (coding education), Eskwai (legal work), and runs community support initiatives: AfricAIED, a workshop on AI in Education in Africa, and Brilla AI, an open-source project building an AI Contestant for Ghana's National Science and Math Quiz (NSMQ).
He previously worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge, U.K., and as an Applied Scientist at Amazon (Alexa AI). He has a PhD in Wearable AI from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a BA in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Engineering from Dartmouth College, U.S.
At AMLD Africa
WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Leveraging Smartphones and AI to Provide Coding Skills to Africans
I will share our journey of building and running SuaCode ([https://suacode.ai/](https://suacode.ai/)), an AI-powered platform that enables young people across Africa, without computers but only mobile devices like smartphones, to be introduced to computer programming, providing a launchpad for better
