Kiara Nirghin

Kiara Nirghin is an award-winning, Stanford technologist and bestselling author. Originally from South Africa, Nirghin gained international recognition at a young age when she won the Google Grand Prize for seminal research in AI algorithms and predictive modeling for real-world applications in climate change. Since then, she has been featured by TIME Magazine and The Guardian on their MostInfluential lists, named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, and is on Forbes30 under 30 list. As a prominent Gen Z sustainability advocate and technologist, she isinternationally recognized as a scientific and cultural pioneer for her generation, havingalready published her first book with Penguin Random House and is a guestContributor to The Economist and TIME 100 Voices.Beyond her scientific achievements, Nirghin demonstrates an extraordinary level ofcreativity by using her platform to inspire and empower others. She advocates throughboth public and private organizations like the UN Women and L’Oréal UNESCO for Women in Science. Nirghin has served as the youngest member of Google’s Impact Fund and is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chima, a San Francisco-based leading AI startup backed by prominent venture capital investors in Silicon Valley like General Catalyst and YC. Chima focuses on redefining the new potential of generative AI across industries with cutting-edge models that are responsible, sustainable and effective.