David Yang

David Yang is a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, founder and Board Director at ABBYY, co-founder of Yva.ai, and a member of the Band of Angels. He started his first company, ABBYY, in 1989 when he was a 4th-year university student. Today ABBYY has more than 1,000 employees and is a leading developer of Intelligent Automation solutions including Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition, Intelligent Document Processing, and Process Intelligence software with offices in 14 countries. Thousands of companies and more than 50 million users in 200 countries rely on ABBYY applications and solutions.

Currently, Dr. Yang is dedicated to Yva.ai by Findo, an ABBYY spin-off he co-founded in 2016. The company is developing an AI-powered real-time employee analytics and performance management system helping organizations save millions of dollars by predicting employee resignations, detecting interpersonal conflicts, and more.

Dr. Yang started a variety of business, creative, and educational projects: he created Cybiko, a pocket communication computer for teenagers (1998-2003); co-founded iiko, a software company focused on solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industry (2005); co-founded Plazius, a mobile customer loyalty and payment platform (2013); founded a number of creative art-based ventures including FAQ-Café studio (2004) and DeFAQto (2010); co-founded Ayb Educational Foundation and Ayb School (2005); published a book on healthy eating "Now I Eat What I Want!" (2013).

Dr. Yang holds numerous patents and has published several research papers and articles. His areas of interest include AI, modern art, architecture, and education. The World Economic Forum in Davos named him as one of the top 100 World Technology Pioneers.