Ola Mohajer is the Founder and CEO of Transcend, an AI-powered platform purpose-built for peace, security, and strategic risk. A former refugee and war survivor, Ola brings a personal commitment to solving the world’s hardest problems through innovation, inclusion, and principled leadership.

Before founding Transcend in 2023, Ola spent 15 years advancing peace, development, and trade as a policy advisor in the Canadian government, a strategist at the United Nations, and a Senior Program Officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She has led complex projects in Sudan, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Jordan, authored U.S. policy guidance and deployed tools and mediations that prioritized civilian engagement in peace processes, and worked directly with government and UN officials across Africa and the Middle East.

Ola holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Religious Studies from the University of Calgary. She holds numerous awards for her research and work and is a frequent speaker, advisor, and author on policy strategy, AI for peace, peacebuilding, and civic inclusion.

At Transcend, she leads a team building the first AI-first platform for non-kinetic strategy—accelerating conflict analysis, surfacing diplomatic options, and amplifying local voices to help governments and organizations act faster and more wisely in the face of crisis.

Topic: Orchestrating Peace in Sudan: Revolutionizing Mediation with Agentic AI

Sudan’s conflict is one of the world’s most catastrophic—and most neglected. Amid immense human suffering, fragmented mediation efforts, and a rapidly shifting conflict landscape, peacemakers are being asked to do the impossible: understand fast-moving dynamics, coordinate across competing tracks, and design inclusive, adaptive processes without the analytical or strategic support their counterparts in defense or intelligence routinely receive. This panel introduces Transcend, the first agentic AI platform designed explicitly to support peacemakers, mediators, and conflict-focused institutions. Through an interactive case study on Sudan, the panel will explore how AI agents built for peace can help mediators and organizations navigate fragmentation, generate strategic options, and surface inclusive solutions—faster, and with greater clarity. Joined by Barney Afako, one of the UN’s leading mediators in the Horn of Africa, the panel will examine what kinds of support practitioners actually need, and how Transcend’s technology can augment—not replace—their judgment.