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With VentureBeat’s flagship occasion, VB Rework, simply across the nook, we’re excited to announce the finalists for the seventh annual Ladies in AI Awards. The winners might be introduced throughout a particular program on the principle stage of Rework on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. PT.
VB Rework is a premier two-day occasion on June 24-25 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Business specialists and friends will collect to offer complete insights and greatest practices on what’s truly working in enterprise AI—from copilots to brokers. Attendees could have quite a few alternatives to forge significant connections and increase their networks.
As a part of this occasion, VentureBeat will honor ladies leaders and changemakers in AI throughout the in-person classes. The award classes embody Duty and Ethics of AI, AI Entrepreneurship, AI Analysis, AI Mentorship and Rising Star.
The general public submitted the nominees, and a VentureBeat committee will select the winners. The choice standards embody the nominees’ dedication to the trade, efforts to extend inclusivity within the discipline and their optimistic affect on the neighborhood.
Investing in ladies in AI will create extra priceless AI that higher fits audiences, and boosts ROI for firms. The affect has by no means been extra clear, or extra vital, and we’re proud to acknowledge leaders in AI who’re making an affect.
This award will honor a girl who has began firms displaying nice promise in AI. Consideration might be given to issues like enterprise traction, the know-how answer and affect within the AI area.
- Elnaz Sarraf, CEO and founder at ROYBI
- Natalya Lopareva, CEO and founder at Algorized
- Ouafae Karim, engineer and funder at AFRICA-EO-SERVICES (AFEOS)
- Francessca Vasquez, vice chairman {of professional} companies and generative AI innovation heart at AWS
- Val Vacante SVP of options innovation at Dentsu
This award will honor a feminine chief who has helped mentor different ladies within the discipline of AI, offering steerage and assist and/or encouraging extra ladies to enter the sphere of AI.
- Sandra Brown, deputy common counsel at SoftBank Robotics America, Inc.
- Suruchi Shah, engineering supervisor, mannequin serving workforce at LinkedIn
- Parul Bhandari, world head telco, media and gaming associate technique at Microsoft
- Reut Lazo, Founder at Ladies X AI
- Nicole Carignan, SVP of safety and AI technique, discipline CISO, at Darktrace
This award will honor a girl who has made a big affect in an space of analysis in AI, serving to speed up progress both inside her group, as a part of educational analysis or impacting AI.
- Lindsay Richman, CEO at Innerverse AI
- Payel Das, principal analysis scientist and supervisor at IBM Analysis – T.J. Watson Analysis Heart
- Suma Kumaraswamy, senior director, head of OMB Digital Merchandise Innovation at First Tech Federal Credit score Union
- Ann Irvine, Chief Knowledge and Analytics Officer at Resilience
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, senior director of NLP at AI2; Torode Household Affiliate Professor within the Allen Faculty of Laptop Science and Engineering on the College of Washington at Allen Institute for Synthetic Intelligence (AI2); and College of Washington
This award will honor a girl who demonstrates exemplary management and progress within the rising scorching matter of accountable AI.
This award will honor a girl at first stage of her AI profession who has demonstrated exemplary management traits.
We’d wish to congratulate all the ladies who had been nominated to obtain a Ladies in AI Award. Due to everybody for his or her nominations and for contributing to the rising consciousness of girls who’re making a big distinction in AI.
