Uday Akkaraju

Uday Akkaraju is the CEO of BOND.AI, an award-winning human-centered artificial intelligence platform for banks. Uday has a background in interaction design and cognitive science and focuses on making machine intelligence empathetic and created the world’s first Empathy Engine® for finance. Uday was recognized as an ‘International Innovator’ by the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Prior to BOND.AI, Uday founded and successfully ran an artificial intelligence research lab that helped early-stage companies design the product and take it to market. He regularly speaks at international AI & FinTech conferences such as the Mobile World Congress, Paris Fintech Forum, Money 2020, IBM Tech Talks, Signal, Finovate, Voice and more. Outside of the office, Uday advises several AI startups & entrepreneurs to help create fair and equitable machine learning systems.