Ayah Bdeir is a Lebanese-Syrian-Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and innovator, currently serving as CEO of Current AI, a company focused on building public interest AI. She is widely recognized as the inventor of littleBits, a company that produced modular electronics kits for education and prototyping, which was acquired by Sphero in 2019. Bdeir also co-founded Daleel Thawra, a directory of protests, initiatives, and donations for the Lebanese Revolution.