Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman

• CEO of Microsoft AI & Co-Founder of DeepMind Technologies
• Senior Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
• Board member at The Economist and a member of the Steering Committee of WEF’s AI Governance Alliance.
• Named to the TIME 100 list of Most Influential Leaders in AI.

Mustafa Suleyman started life as an entrepreneur. He started a telephone counselling service aimed at Muslim youth. This organization became one of the largest health support services of its kind in the UK.

After this, Mustafa went on to work as a human rights policy officer for Ken Livingston, who at the time was the Mayor of London. Thereafter, he started Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that used conflict resolution to address social issues. Amongst his many clients at the time, Mustafa Suleyman, the United Nations, the Dutch Government, and WWF.

From there, Mustafa co-founded DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence/machine learning company. He was the Chief Product Officer. The company, which quickly established itself as a leader in the AI sector, had the backing of Elon Musk, Scott Bannister, and the Founders Fund, amongst others. DeepMind Technologies was later sold to Google in 2014.

At present, He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, a new division bringing together Microsoft’s major consumer AI products and teams, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. He is also an EVP in the company and sits on the senior leadership team.

Mustafa Suleyman’s accomplishments have been recognized both in the US and UK. In 2019, he received the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and the same year he accepted the Silicon Valley Visionary Award.

His New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma was published in September 2023, and has since been translated into 33 languages. The book explores the widespread impact of frontier technologies and Bill Gates described it as: “An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”

Mustafa Suleyman – Speaker

Mustafa Suleyman engages his audiences in all aspects of the AI phenomenon. With the ability to expand on the benefits of AI and its uses in all aspects of modern society, he is equally versed in discussing and explaining the moral ethics involved in the concept.

Speaking topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Ethics
• Thought Leaders
• Founders / CEOs
• Disruptors
• Entrepreneurs
• Futurists
• Artificial Intelligence
• Science & Technology
• What’s Next?
• Innovation