Data for Health in Africa Meeting
&
5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Mr Darlington Akogo - Speaker

minoHealth AI Labs (Founder & CEO)

Darlington Akogo is a highly influential global leader in Artificial Intelligence, serving as the Founder and CEO of minoHealth AI labs; an AI Healthtech company, KaraAgro AI; an AI-powered Plant & Pest Disease Detection and Precision Agriculture platform, Runmila AI Institute; an AI and Data Science training institute, and Gudra AI Studio; an organization broadly exploring AI and Exponential Technologies applied various domains including Transportation, Sanitation and Energy. Darlington was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2025, and featured on the Forbes cover. He has also been recognized as one of the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent in Healthcare and chairs the Topic Group on AI for Radiology under the United Nations World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union and Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Health.

In addition, Akogo served as the Chair for the working group on Artificial Intelligence Economy for the African Union, which created the African Union (AU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Continental Strategy. He also serves as a Global Innovation Adviser to the International Development Innovation Alliance, an alliance between the top 15 international development agencies, including Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Affairs Canada, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Global Innovation Fund, Grand Challenges Canada, Skoll Foundation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), UNICEF, and USAID.