Ouafa Benterki

CEO & Founder

MTY Intelligent Software

Ouafa Benterki is the CEO and founder of MTY Intelligent Software, the first Algerian women-led technology startup that specializes in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Since 2019, she has been the first Arab/African woman named Microsoft regional director, a title that Microsoft awards every year to the top 100 IT professionals in the world. Ouafa is considered an emerging leader in technology by TechWomen, an Initiative of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has been a member of the Advisory Experts Council at the Arab International Investors Forum, president and founder of the Machine Translation Association in Algeria, a member of the MIT regional accelerated program dedicated to developing the Algerian entrepreneurship ecosystem, and pioneering machine translation research in Algeria.