Since 2019, VentureBeat has been honoring the women leaders, mentors, researchers and entrepreneurs who are transforming the AI industry -- making it magnitudes more equitable, ethical and groundbreaking for all. The VentureBeat Women in AI Awards was founded to emphasize how vital the voices, work and experiences of these women are to AI as a field and a technology, and to shine a light on some of these leaders.
This year, over 200 women were nominated over five categories, and we're delighted to introduce our potential winners. Each was selected based on their commitment to the industry, their work to increase inclusivity in the field and their positive influence in the community. The winners will be announced and their praises further sung during Transform 2022.
And don't forget to register for the 4th Annual Women in AI Breakfast presented by Capital One. Panelists will delve into AI’s unconscious bias, and how the gender gap in data and AI-centric fields can make or break how applications are developed, during the live panel discussion, “How Women in Data & AI Fields Lead to Greater Diversity in Workforces and Applications.”
You'll see industry leading experts of every gender tackle topics ranging from ethics to equality in their research, as well as in-depth knowledge and actionable insights from VP of Engineering and Head of Data at LinkedIn, Ya Xu; Chief Data Officer at Mastercard, JoAnn Stonier; and Molly Parr, VP, Product, Digital Customer Experiences, Enterprise Products & Platforms at Capital One. Register for the live breakfast now!
And now, meet our 2022 Women in AI nominees
Responsibility and Ethics of AI
This award honors a woman who demonstrates exemplary leadership and a commitment to progress in advancing responsibility and ethics in the field.
Beena Ammanath, Executive Director, Global Deloitte AI Institute, Deloitte
Diya Wynn, Senior Practice Manager, Responsible AI, Emerging Technologies & Intelligent Platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice, Salesforce
Minerva Tantoco, Chief AI Officer, NYU MCSilver
Mirka Snyder Caron, Senior Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data and Fraud, TD Bank
Muthumari S., Head of Data Science, Brillio
Nikki Pope, Senior Director, AI and Legal Ethics, NVIDIA
Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Susan Gonzales, CEO, AIandYou (www.aiandyou.org)
Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku
Siobhan Hanna, Managing Director of Global AI Data Solutions, TELUS International
AI Entrepreneur
This award honors a woman who has launched an AI company that shows great promise. Consideration was given to factors such as business traction, the technology solution and impact in the AI space.
Aleksandra Kazantseva, Head of Business Development, BizzClick
Anu Shukla, Co-founder, Executive Chairman, Botco.ai
Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Arize AI
Denise Leaser, President, MyInnerGenius
Devaki Raj, CEO and Co-founder, CrowdAI
Dr Michelle Perugini, CEO and Co-Founder, Presagen
Dr. Somdutta Singh, Founder & CEO, Assiduus
Gila Hayat, Co-founder & CTO, Darrow
Dr. Maya Said, Founder, CEO, Outcomes4Me
Dr. Rachita Navara, Co-founder and CEO, SafeBeat Rx
Rama Chakaki, COO, aiXplain
Vaysh Kewada, CEO and Co-founder, Salience Labs
Manasi Vartak, CEO and Founder, Verta Inc.
AI Research
This award honors a woman who has made a significant impact in AI research, either by helping accelerate progress in her organization, as part of academic research, or impacting AI innovation.
Cristina Gorrostieta, Principal Data Scientist, Cogito Corp
Dr. Ranit Aharonov, Chief Technology Officer, Pangea Biomed
Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Head of Technology Research for Personalization, Spotify
Nicole Jiang, Director of Product and Design, Abnormal Security
Victoria Muradyan, Machine Learning, Researcher, Picsart
Amy Steier, Principal Machine Learning Scientist, Gretel
AI Mentorship
This award honors a woman leader who mentored other women in the AI field by providing guidance and support/encouraging more women to enter the field of AI.
Angie Westbrock, COO, Standard AI
Anita Weemaes, Solution Architect, NVIDIA
Belén Sanchez Hidalgo, Senior Data Scientist, Team Lead, DataRobot
Danika Hannon, Midmarket Sales Executive, Quantinuum
Nancy Li, Vice President, AI & Platform, BrightAI
Penny Li, Senior Vice President of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), SambaNova Systems
Rebekah Leslie-Hurd, Director of Compiler Software Engineering, Cerebras Systems
Sadie St. Lawrence, Founder and CEO, Women in Data
Dr. Tanya Mishra, CEO & Founder, SureStart
Sujatha Sagiraju, Chief Product Officer, Appen
Tina Nguyen, SVP, Director of Analytics, Truist Bank
Zoe Hillenmeyer, Chief Commercial Officer, Peak
Taniya Mishra, Founder and CEO, SureStart
Sujatha Sagiraju, Chief Product Officer, Appen
Andrea Clayton, Chief People Officer, Appen
Rising Star
This award honors a woman in the early stages of her AI career who has already demonstrated exemplary leadership traits.
Alice Fridberg, Data Scientist and Team Lead, Skai
Catherine Hansen, Director of Marketing, Sway AI
Daria Soboleva, Machine Learning Engineer, Cerebras Systems
Dhanya Jayachandra, Chief Technology Officer, Unitek
Emma Stapleton, Senior Data Scientist, Actium Health
Gina Romero, CEO & Co-Founder, Connected Women
Katie Robbert, Co-Founder & CEO, Trust Insights
Lipika Ramaswamy, Senior Applied Scientist, Gretel
Luminita Busuricu, CEO, QuickLegal
Manisha Gupta, Global Head, Product Management, HCM & Cross Functional Analytics, Oracle
Meghan Mergui, Data Scientist, BigID
Monika Shrivastav, AI Operations & Strategy Lead - Applied AI Group, Walmart
Nare Tarlamazyan, Lead Product Manager, AI, Picsart
Prerna Dogra, Senior Manager, AI Products, NVIDIA
Rebecca Clyde, Co-founder and CEO, Botco.ai
Shrimai Prabhumoye, Research Scientist, NVidia
Supriya Gupta, General Manager, Recommendations, Credit Karma
Susan Sly, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, RadiusAI
Yardenne Assa, CEO and co-founder, Unboxable
Jigyasa Grover, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Twitter, Inc.
Saloni Potdar, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Dr. Ana S. Rufino Ferreira, Staff Software Engineer and Manager, Woven Planet
And don’t forget to register for Transform, the leading event on applied AI for enterprise business and technology decision-makers of every stripe. This year Transform spans two full weeks, both live in San Francisco and virtually. Register now!
July 19: The Data & AI Executive Summit | LIVE at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Join over 500 data and AI executives in-person to network with peers and hear success stories from c-level thought leaders on applied data and AI strategies.
July 20-22: The Data Week | Virtual
July 26-28: The AI & Edge Week | Virtual
Cutting across the most critical topics in Data and Al, pick, choose and learn from wherever you are across the two weeks.