Jay Patel

Jay Patel

Jay Patel is the Director of Technology at Jacaranda Health and an AWS CTO Fellow. He leads the use of AI to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes across Sub-Saharan Africa. He led the creation of UlizaLlama, the first open LLM for five African languages; UlizaMAMA, a specialized AI that answers pregnant women’s and new mothers’ health questions; and SautiMama, an open Swahili voice AI. Most recently, he built a climate alert system that warns pregnant and postpartum mothers ahead of extreme heat and other weather events. His work has scaled Jacaranda’s digital health platform to serve millions of mothers across the continent.

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  • Organization
    Jacaranda Health
  • Profession
    Director of Technology
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In person
9 July 2026
15:45 - 16:00
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
AWST - Perth, Australia

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