Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is the Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading AI research company and now a part of Alphabet. DeepMind has produced landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which was heralded as a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein folding.A chess and programming prodigy, Demis is a renowned computer scientist, neuroscientist and videogames designer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2018 he was awarded a CBE.