Melda Akin is the CEO and founder of D14.AI and STEM training organization Sirius Labs.

D14.AI provides an AI-driven software platform for healthcare clinics, gyms, and logistics companies to optimize their workforce and manage business operations in an easy, secure and affordable way. Before launching D14.AI into Dubai’s burgeoning tech start-up scene, Akin was a software developer, system analyst, lecturer in computer and software engineering departments, project manager and the youngest director of an international tech company.

Melda Akin graduated from BSc Computer Engineering, and MSc in Intelligent Engineering Systems, focusing on Artificial Intelligence. Akin is the first woman in the world to organize and conduct AI and machine learning training for women in the MENA region. collaborating with the Cyber Defense and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Akin has won many awards for her work: she was selected among 200 candidates as one of the eight best female-founded start-ups in the Middle East and Africa region by Standard Chartered Bank, as well as a ‘New Entrepreneur of the year 2020’ by Gulf Capital, one of the Top 10 Women Behind Middle Eastern Tech Brands list by Forbes Middle East in both 2021 and 2022, and as one of the best seven women in tech entrepreneurship in Turkey by Microsoft.

Finally, Melda Akin serves as a mentor for the United Nations & for the UAE's NAMA Women Advancement organization.

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