Emeka is a Senior Knowledge Engineer with Cymantiks Limited, a company that makes Government, Organizations and Cities smarter using Semantic Technologies and Computational Linguistics, for Modeling, Knowledge Representation, and Ontology Engineering, en-route to exploiting the opportunities in their Data Assets, Science Investments for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics to simulate human decision-making and high-level cognitive tasks that can be used to solve complex problems and achieve their desired Digital Transformation objectives.

In the last 25 years, Emeka has been at the forefront of technology and innovation in Nigeria from cofounding the earliest startup (ngex.com) to building cognitive solutions (Knowledge Graph on Disease Incidences, Nigerian Law Reports & Data, African Films) to building Smart Agents, Software Autonomous Systems and Rules as Codes (RaC) using Semantic AI and Blockchain technology.

Emeka is able to understand and explain technologies from deep diving under the hood to the value proposition level. He believes that Linked Data, Blockchain and AI will change and improve the way we live and work, and he is passionate about designing and building systems that will make this happen, and teaching others to do this as well.

He has been listed among the top 20 most influential Technology people in Africa (2013) by South Africa IT News to name a few .

He groks at the intersection of Digital Societies, Fintech, Economic Development, Public Health, Urbanization, Behavioral Sciences, Open Data and Semantic AI on Twitter (@EmekaOkoye).