Dele Atanda

Dele Atanda is a futurist, digital visionary and pioneering social entrepreneur. His ground-breaking best seller The Digitterian Tsunami: Web 3.0 and the Rise of the NEO Citizen, foretold the emergence of a third generation of the internet driven by specific forces while exploring the social and cultural ramifications of the intersection of these forces with the physical world.

Atanda is a celebrated innovator having led digital transformations for Fortune 100 companies including IBM, BAT and Diageo that become the gold standard for digital engagement and operations within their sectors. He is currently CEO of metaMe, the world’s first Self- Sovereign AI and Ethical Data Operating System.

Atanda is also founder and Chief Imagineer of Metaiye Media, a novel crypto media company and producer of metaKnyts, the world's first Crypto Comic franchise. metaKnyts aims to bring generation Z and alpha into the ownership and trust economies through storytelling and play, incorporating NFTs and AI across comics, gaming, the metaVerse and beyond.

Atanda is an ardent advocate for the use of technology to advance and increase humanity while positively transforming society. He also chairs The Internet Foundation, an NGO dedicated to advancing digital human rights and the ethical use of data in commerce and lives between New York and London with his wife and two children.