Emad Mostaque

Founder & CEO, Stability AI

Plenary

Bio

Emad Mostaque is a British entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Stability AI. Under his leadership, Stability AI has helped further generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion, creating a community of more than 200,000 creators, developers, and researchers, as well as several research hubs worldwide. His open source ethos and approach to AI puts ownership back into the hands of the people to activate humanity’s potential.

A mathematician and problem solver at heart, Mostaque started his career in finance with a background in engineering. With multiple entrepreneurial endeavors and the ability to spot emerging market trends, he has built the only independent, multi-modal AI company in the world. Mostaque studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and later obtained a BA and MA in mathematics and computer science from Oxford.