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 will probably be introduced throughout a particular program on the primary 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. Trade consultants and friends will collect to supply complete insights and greatest practices on what’s truly working in enterprise AI—from copilots to brokers. Attendees can have quite a few alternatives to forge significant connections and increase their networks.
As a part of this occasion, VentureBeat will honor girls leaders and changemakers in AI in the course of 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 business, efforts to extend inclusivity within the area and their optimistic affect on the neighborhood.
Investing in girls in AI will create extra useful AI that higher fits audiences, and boosts ROI for firms. The impression has by no means been extra clear, or extra necessary, and we’re proud to acknowledge leaders in AI who’re making an impression.
This award will honor a girl who has began firms displaying nice promise in AI. Consideration will probably be given to issues like enterprise traction, the expertise resolution and impression 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, vp {of professional} providers 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 girls within the area of AI, offering steering and help and/or encouraging extra girls to enter the sector of AI.
- Sandra Brown, deputy normal counsel at SoftBank Robotics America, Inc.
- Suruchi Shah, engineering supervisor, mannequin serving crew 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, area CISO, at Darktrace
This award will honor a girl who has made a big impression 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 Information and Analytics Officer at Resilience
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi, senior director of NLP at AI2; Torode Household Affiliate Professor within the Allen College of Pc 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 to start with stage of her AI profession who has demonstrated exemplary management traits.
We’d prefer to congratulate the entire girls who have been nominated to obtain a Ladies in AI Award. Because of everybody for his or her nominations and for contributing to the rising consciousness of girls who’re making a big distinction in AI.
