Why this AI entrepreneur moved from New York City to Singapore

After growing up in Lahore, graduating from Harvard, working on Wall Street, and completing her PhD at the London School of Economics, the world was Ayesha's oyster.

As she was about to return to New York with her two small children, however, her husband Parag had a different idea. "He had visited Singapore. He was a very big fan of the environment, the business-friendliness, the meritocracy," she shares.

Since her undergraduate days, Ayesha had been gradually building up her expertise in AI, a nascent field at the time. On Wall Street, she was a junior programmer working on quantitative models. For her PhD, she studied how AI could create smarter and more sustainable cities.

In 2017, Ayesha co-founded Addo AI, an advisory firm that offers AI solutions to help companies solve business problems and become more competitive.

"The one message I always try to put across is we need to embrace the fact that we are entering a human-machine hybrid economy. AI is not a fad. And it's not something to be intimidated by."