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Passionate about how Machine Learning and AI can have an impact on all businesses, Walid Daou currently runs Advanced Analytics initiatives at OCP.
He started his career in Financial Markets, as a Quantitative Trader in London, in Barclays Capital and in a Hedge Fund, Capula.
He then founded and run an Edtech company in France and Morocco for six years, that became the leader in the market of preparation of competitive exams, in Morocco.
Machine Learning enthusiast, he teaches the ""AI for Executive"" course at EDHEC.
Walid Daou is a Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris, in Applied Mathematics.

AMLD Africa 2021 / Speakers

Walid Daou

AI Lead, OCP

Carolina Odman

Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape

Stefano Ermon

Assistant Professor, Stanford

Aisha Walcott-Bryant

Research Manager, IBM Research Africa

Karim Beguir

CEO and Co-Founder, InstaDeep

Tawfik Jelassi

Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

AMLD / Global partners