Meet the AI visionary, co-founder and chairman of the world’s largest online learning platform. Discover how this industry leader is transforming the future of digital education.
North America
Core Intelligence Domain: Artificial Intelligence
Location: California, United States | Languages: English, Mandarin
Representation: Represented globally by PSpeakers Global Intelligence
Andrew Ng is globally recognised as one of the most transformative minds in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and digital education. As a visionary tech executive and pioneering researcher, his proprietary frameworks and strategic foresight have fundamentally reshaped how multinational conglomerates, start-ups, and academic institutions approach machine learning at scale. By bridging the gap between cutting-edge computational research and enterprise-level AI strategy, he has enabled global organisations to integrate generative AI and deep learning into their core operational architecture to secure sustainable competitive advantages.
Andrew’s executive trajectory is defined by a series of foundational milestones in the global tech ecosystem. As the founding lead of the Google Brain project, he spearheaded the development of massive-scale deep learning algorithms. This initiative famously resulted in the “Google Cat” project, which demonstrated the extraordinary capacity of neural networks to learn autonomously from unlabelled data, a breakthrough that catalysed the modern era of deep learning and enterprise AI applications.
Following his landmark tenure at Google, Andrew served as Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led an elite 1,300-person AI group. He orchestrated the company’s comprehensive global AI strategy, driving monumental advancements in speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. His strategic leadership solidified Baidu’s position as a premier global AI powerhouse and demonstrated his unique capability to scale AI operations across highly complex, multinational infrastructures.
Today, Andrew continues to architect the future of the industry through multiple strategic ventures. He is the Founder and CEO of Landing AI, which provides sophisticated enterprise AI solutions to revitalise legacy industries such as manufacturing and logistics. He is also the Managing General Partner of AI Fund, a premier incubator supporting the next generation of disruptive AI start-ups, and the Founder of DeepLearning.AI. In 2024, reflecting his unparalleled strategic insight into corporate AI integration, he was appointed to the Board of Directors at Amazon, further cementing his influence over global technological commerce.
Beyond corporate leadership, Andrew is a globally celebrated educator whose mission is to cultivate a highly skilled, global AI workforce. As Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, the world’s leading online learning platform, he has been instrumental in democratising access to top-tier educational programmes. His flagship Machine Learning course has enrolled over 8 million students worldwide, making him arguably the most influential computer science educator of the 21st century. He remains an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where he continues his lifelong commitment to cultivating elite engineering talent and advancing foundational AI research.
A central pillar of Andrew’s advisory work is his proprietary AI Transformation Playbook. This strategic framework provides C-suite executives and board members with a definitive roadmap for transitioning legacy businesses into agile, AI-first enterprises. It outlines actionable phases: executing highly visible pilot projects, building an internal AI team, providing broad enterprise-wide AI training, developing a defensive AI strategy, and aligning internal and external communications to ensure successful digital revitalisation.