About Okezue

Okezue Bell is a Nigerian-American Stanford student studying mathematics and an AI activist. Bell has conducted applied AI research at Microsoft, Harvard Medical School, the MIT Media Lab, and Boston Children's Hospital. He invented a low-cost prosthetic arm that was successfully tested on amputees and is being reproduced in countries spanning Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.

Okezue is also the founder and president of Fidutam, one of the largest responsible technology civil society groups. They have nearly 1,600 members with chapters spanning 50+ countries, college campuses, and global regions. Fidutam has developed a digital ID platform for the bottom billion and coordinated closely with stakeholders at the White House, Google, the Future of Life Institute, Chatham House, Brookings, OpenAI, and more.

Through individual and group workshops, Fidutam has collectively reached over 81,000 students globally, with help from the NAACP, Fab Foundation, Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Google Code Next Programs, the University Scholars Forum, the Commonwealth Students’ Association, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Columbia University, and more.

Bell's work feature or written in Bloomberg, Marketplace, ABC, WFMZ, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Business & Market Insider, New Scientist, the Hill, Tech Policy Press, NPR, and more, presented at Web Summit, COP27, and Congress' AI Insight Forums as the youngest speaker ever, and been honored by President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, and the Royal Family. Okezue has been inaugurated as a NASDAQ Face of Entrepreneurship, Code.org CS Hero, and a SwissCognitive Global AI Ambassador.