Pelonomi Moiloa

Pelonomi Moiloa is the CEO and founder of Lelapa AI, a company building the world’s most efficient language infrastructure. With a background in electrical and biomedical engineering, she leads Lelapa’s mission to unlock the digital economies of the Global South, starting in Africa, by developing scalable, locally optimised language AI for constrained environments and pioneering more efficient modelling techniques for the world at large. She has been recognised as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, a Bloomberg Catalyst, a Mozilla Rise 25 Award recipient as well as Forbes Africa 30 under 50. She is also a TED speaker, known for her insights on SLMs and human centric AI. Before founding Lelapa AI, Pelonomi worked at the intersection of finance, data science, and machine learning, applying technology to large-scale systems challenges. She also serves as a trustee of a girls’ scholarship fund and a director of a community-based nonprofit. https://womenaibuilders.org/top-100-women-in-ai