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With VB Transform’s main event just around the corner, we’re thrilled to reveal the nominees for the 6th annual Women in AI Awards. Winners will be announced on July 10 at 4 p.m. in San Francisco during a special program on the main stage of VB Transform, their flagship event.
VB Transform is a notable three-day gathering from July 9-11 at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. This event will bring together industry experts and peers to share extensive insights and best practices on enterprise data journeys, backed by case studies from leaders in the field. Attendees will have ample opportunities for networking and forming meaningful connections.
As part of this event, VentureBeat will honor women leaders and innovators in AI during the in-person sessions. Award categories include Responsibility and Ethics of AI, AI Entrepreneurship, AI Research, AI Mentorship, and Rising Star.
Nominees were publicly submitted, and winners were selected by a VentureBeat committee. Selection criteria included the nominees’ dedication to the industry, efforts to boost inclusivity, and their positive impact on the community.
While in-person passes for VB Transform 2024 are sold out, you can still register for exclusive on-demand access available after the conference.
The Women in AI Awards categories and nominees:
AI Entrepreneur: Recognizing women who have started impactful AI companies.
– Bhavani Vangala, VP of Engineering at Onymos
– Nicole Königstein, Head of AI and Quant Research at quantmate
– Jenny Dearing, co-founder + CEO at 1337
– Dani Grant, co-founder and CEO at Jam
– Iya Khalil, VP and Head of Data, AI and Genome Sciences at Merck
– Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Dr. at Clarity AI
– Sneha Roy, co-founder & COO at Murf AI
– Erin Rapacki, AI Robotics Leader at Nvidia
– Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures
– Kellye Kamp, Founder at Source Kamp
– Christina Lopes, CEO and Founder at FidoCure
– Allie K. Miller, AI Advisor and Angel Investor
– Inna Tokarev Sela, Founder and CEO at illumex
– Marguerite deCourcelle, CEO at Blockade Labs
– Sarika Garg, co-founder & CEO at CacheFlow
– Shelby Austin, CEO & co-founder at Arteria AI
– Charlene Putney, COO at Write with LAIKA
– Romy Rodriguez-Ravines, Head of Research and AI Modeling Strategies at DeNexus
– Debbie Yu, co-founder and Board member, ISEE
– Barr Moses, CEO & co-founder at Monte Carlo
– Fariha Shah, CEO & Founder at Cominty
– Meghan Joyce, CEO at Duckbill
– Ruth Poliakine Baruchi, Founder and CEO at MyndYou
– Angela Hood, Founder & CEO at ThisWay Global
– Sarah Buchner, CEO & Founder at Trunk Tools
– Deidre Paknad, co-founder & CEO at Workboard
– Arina Curtis, CEO & co-founder at DataGPT
– Val Vacante, VP, Solutions Innovation at Dentsu
– Maryrose Lyons, Founder at Ai institute
– Sheyda Demooei, co-founder, CTO at ViralMoment
– Megan Gray, CEO at Moment.AI
– Andrea Constantinof, Director of AI & Data Science at OpenText
– Rehgan Avon, Founder of Women in Analytics; CEO at AlignAI
– Shelmina Babai Abji, Founder and CEO at ShowYourWorth.ai
– Alisa Miller, CEO and co-founder of Pluralytics AI
– Surbhi Rathore, CEO & co-founder at Symbl.ai
– Nicole Eagan, Chief Strategy Officer at Darktrace
AI Mentorship: Recognizing women who guide and support others in the AI field.
– Suruchi Shah, Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
– Parul Bhandari, Head of Media & Telco at Microsoft
– Molly-Anna MaQuirl, Founder at AI Atlas
– Lisa Graham, CEO at Seeq
– Allie K. Miller, AI Advisor and Angel Investor
– Anjali Dewan, VP at American Express
– Julie Shin Choi, CMO and SVP at Cerebras Systems
– Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Staff Applied Scientist at PagerDuty
– Laura Grant, VP at American Express
– Ouafae KARIM, at AFRICA-EO-SERVICES
– Penny Li, SVP at SambaNova Systems
– Rebecca Evanhoe, Design Lead at Slang.ai
– Elizabeth Mashal, Senior Director at Standard AI
– Elif Albuz, Sr. Director at Cerebras Systems
– Kris Kashtanova, AI Creative Evangelist at Adobe
– Rima Safari, Insurance Sector GenAI Lead at PwC
– Reut Lazo, Founder at Women And AI
– Andrea Constantinof, Director at OpenText
– Nicole Carignan, VP of Strategic Cyber AI at Darktrace
AI Research: Recognizing significant contributions to AI research.
– Alicia Shapiro, CMO at AiNews.com
– Angie Aramayo, Technical Product Manager at IBM
– Payel Das, Principal Research Scientist at IBM
– Suma Kumaraswamy, Head of Experimentation at Barclays
– Kate Janssen, Lead Product Manager at Cleo
– Ann Irvine, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Resilience
– Eirini Kalliamvakou at GitHub
– Divya Saxena, Graduate Research Assistant at Florida International University
– Jordan Harrod, Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard + MIT
– Pallavi Tiwari, Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
– Natalia Vassilieva, VP at Cerebras Systems
– Joyce Mueller, Director at SADA
– Sujata Saini, at Tokyo Metropolitan University
– Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Senior Director of NLP at AI2; Professor at the University of Washington
– Sanaz Sheikhi, System Formal Methods Engineer at PassiveLogic
Responsibility and Ethics of AI: Recognizing leadership in ethical AI.
– Diana Kelley, CISO at Protect AI
– Parul Bhandari, Strategy Director at Microsoft
– Pamela Gupta, Founder & CEO at Trusted AI
– Karen Myers, VP at SRI
– Helen Gu, Founder and CEO at InsightFinder
– Agnes Peng, co-founder and COO at GliaCloud
– Maria Amelie, CEO at Factiverse AI
– Elizabeth Samara-Rubio, Chief Business Officer at SiMa.ai
– Katie Gardner, Partner at Gunderson Dettmer
– Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer at Microsoft
– Nastasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer at Microsoft
– Rebecca Qian, co-founder & CTO at Patronus.ai
– Shelley McKinley, Chief Legal Officer at GitHub
– Joy Buolamwini, President at The Algorithmic Justice League
– Susannah Shattuck, Head of Product at Credo AI
– Matar Haller, VP at ActiveFence
– Vidhi Chugh, Chief AI Officer at All About Scale
– Yi Chu, VP at American Express
– Dr. Sarah Benson-Konforty, Board member at The Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
– Jing Huang, VP at SurveyMonkey
– Bhavani Amirthalingam, EVP at Ameren
– Rocio Belfiore, Chief Innovation Officer at BairesDev
– Rebecca Finlay, CEO at Partnership on AI
– Lindsay Richman, co-founder at Innerverse
– Rebecca Finlay, CEO at Partnership on AI
– Priya Shivakumar, COO at Lightning AI
– Lucy Orr-Ewing, Chief of Staff at Coalition for Health AI
– Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony
– Oita Coleman, Senior Advisor at Open Voice Trustmark
– Raffaella Ieva, Maestro Artigiano at La Favola Incantata
– Rhiana Spring, Founder and CEO at Spring ACT
– Kathy Leake, Founder at Forum Ventures
– Fei-Fei Li, Professor at Stanford University
– Dilek Karasoy, Product Director at PicoVoice
– Ilana Golbin-Blumenfeld, Director at PwC
– Jennifer Kosar, US Trust and Transparency Solutions Leader at PwC
– Jackie Snow, Freelance Journalist
– Sophie Lebrecht, COO at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
– Sarah Franklin, CEO at Lattice
– Deiva Saranya Mandadi, Senior Manager at Walmart Global Tech
– Sumana Rao, Co-CEO at Sahas Foundation
– Anju Gupta, VP of AI at Northwestern Mutual
– Rebecca Ryakitimbo at Core23lab/KsGEN
– Sabrina Hsueh, Ethical AI Lead at Pfizer
– Hilary Packer, CTO at American Express
Rising Star: Recognizing women early in their AI careers who are showing exceptional promise.
– Joanna Zając, COO at Auctoria, Inc
– Smita Rajmohan, Senior Counsel at Autodesk, Inc.
– Parul Bhandari, Head of Media & Telco at Microsoft
– Devika Phansalkar, Data Quality Analyst at Zeiss
– Kleida Martiro, Partner at Glasswing Ventures
– Oleksandra Molloy at UNSW Canberra
– Ava Amini, Senior Researcher at Microsoft
– Laura Hamilton, Investor at Notable Capital
– Kylie Robison, Senior AI Reporter at The Verge
– Gabriella Palmeri, VP at Healthvana
– Mansi Thakar, Staff Security Analyst at NVIDIA
– Michelle Fang, Strategy at Cerebras Systems
– Elif Albuz, Senior Director at Cerebras Systems
– Daria Soboleva, Senior ML Engineer at Cerebras Systems
– Divya Saxena, Graduate Research Assistant at Florida International University
– Gabriella Palmeri, VP at Healthvana
– Jackie Rocca, VP of Product at Slack
– Yasmina Benkhoui, Senior Manager at NVIDIA
– Alice Deng, co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Slope
– Surabhi Bhargava, Senior ML Engineer at Adobe Inc.
– Grishma Jena, Data Scientist at IBM
– Tatousha Narcisse-Smith, Conversational AI UX Lead at Guardian Life
– Trisha Rao, President at GLOW GLOBAL LEADERSHIP OUTREACH AND WELL-BEING INC.
– Supreet Kaur, AVP at Morgan Stanley
– Akanksha Anand, Associate Data Scientist at CustomerInsights.AI
– Arpita Kaushik, Data Scientist at Rocket Mortgage
– Tracy Tse Betz, Partner at PwC
– Robin Stein, GenAI Lead at PwC
– Arpita Kaushik, Data Scientist at Rocket Mortgage
– Jayeeta Putatunda, Manager at Fitch Group
– Veronika Yurchuk, co-founder and CTO at traces.ai
– Rebecca Ryakitimbo at Core23lab
We’d like to congratulate all nominees for the Women in AI Awards. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped raise awareness of women making significant contributions to AI. Special thanks to our community partners, Women in Data, Women in Big Data, Women in Voice, and Firstboard.io, for their invaluable contributions.
If you’re interested in attending the Women in AI Awards and the Women in AI breakfast presented by Capital One at VB Transform on July 10, 2024, please request an invitation soon as space is limited.
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