Announcing the nominees for VentureBeat’s 5th Annual Women in AI awards

With VentureBeat’s flagship occasion VB Remodel proper across the nook, we’re excited to announce the nominees for the fifth annual Girls in AI Awards.

The winners shall be introduced throughout lunch on the principle stage of Remodel on July 12 in San Francisco. The announcement will even be live-streamed on our homepage VentureBeat.com. 

Remodel is a two-day in-person occasion going down on July 11 and 12. Business specialists and friends will come collectively to supply complete insights and greatest practices on enterprise information journeys. As an added bonus, contributors can have quite a few alternatives to forge significant connections and develop their networks.

On the July 12 in-person occasion at San Francisco’s Marriott Marquis, VentureBeat will acknowledge and honor ladies leaders and changemakers within the area of AI. The winners shall be within the following classes: Duty and Ethics of AI, AI Entrepreneurship, AI Analysis, AI Mentorship and Rising Star.

The nominees have been submitted by the general public and winners are chosen by a VentureBeat committee. Winners are chosen primarily based on their dedication to the business, their work to extend inclusivity within the area and their constructive affect in the neighborhood. 

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This award will honor a lady who has began firms displaying nice promise in AI. Consideration shall be given to issues like enterprise traction, the expertise resolution, and affect within the AI area.

• Maria Telleria, cofounder and CTO at Canvas.
• Could Wang, CTO of IoT safety at Palo Alto Networks.
• Barr Moses, cofounder and CEO at Monte Carlo.
• Kathy Hickey, head of product at Accelerant.
• Mitra Goswami, senior director, information science, at PagerDuty.
• Marcie Apelt, managing VP for AI and machine studying and Innovation Lab at Capital One.
• Rudina Seseri, founder and managing associate at Glasswing.
• Deborah Yang, CEO cofounder at Daizy AI.
• Lana Feng, CEO and cofounder at Huma.ai.
• Azul Garza Ramirez, CTO and cofounder Nixtla.
• Vannia Gonzalez, senior supervisor for machine studying engineering at Capital One.
• Mona Rakibe, CEO and cofounder at Telmai.
• Liz Tsai, CEO and founder at HiOp.

This award will honor a feminine chief who has helped mentor different ladies within the area of AI, offering steering and assist and/or encouraging extra ladies to enter the sector of AI.

• Chenxi Wang, founder and basic associate at Rain Capital.
• Priya Vijayarajendran, CTO and head of engineering and safety at ASAPP.
• Grishma Jena, information scientist at IBM.
• Marily Nika, AI product lead at Meta.
• Bela Labovich, vp of engineering at Athena Health.
• Zohra Ladha, senior director of information science at Tredence Inc.
• Penny Li, SVP of very massive scale integration (VLSI) at SambaNova Systems.
• Sujatha Sagiraju, CPO at Appen.
• Fathima Minha Farook, skilled mentor, sport developer, sport designer, QA tester {and professional} gamer on the International Game Developers Association.
• Gabriella Barros, senior member of technical employees at modl.ai.
• Neychelle Fernandes, director for options and technical presales at Elucidata.

This award will honor a lady 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.

• Karen Myers, lab director for the synthetic intelligence heart at SRI International.
• Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, senior director and head of tech analysis at Spotify.
• Natalia Vassilieva, senior director of product for machine studying at Cerebras Systems.
• Heather Reed, information scientist at ASAPP.
• Himani Agrawal, principal supervisor for information science at Walmart.
• Divya Saxena, graduate analysis assistant, PhD pupil at  Florida International University.
• Lisa Seacat DeLuca, senior director of product and engineering at Unstoppable Domains.
• Fallon Farmer, principal information scientist at  FiscalNote.
• Mariko Wakabayashi, machine studying lead at OpenZeppelin.
• Cindy Xu, senior employees software program engineer at Zoox.

This award will honor a lady who demonstrates exemplary management and progress within the rising scorching matter of accountable AI.

• Cansu Canca, affiliate analysis professor at Northeastern University.
• Carol McCall, chief well being analytics officer at ClosedLoop.
• Diya Wynn, senior follow supervisor at Accountable AI at AWS.
• Rebecca Gorman, CEO at Aligned AI.
• Jane Scowcroft, director of conversational AI, information technique, at Nvidia.
• Dilek Karasoy, product and advertising director at Picovoice.
• Kavya Pearlman, founder and CEO of XRSI.
• Namrita Mahindro, chief digital officer at Aditya Birla Chemicals.
• Vidhi Chugh, VP at Wells Fargo.
• Amy Okereke, senior director for digital values at Walmart.
• Victoria Vassileva, director of AI efficiency and duty at Arthur.
• Natalie Pierce, chair of employment and labor follow at Gunderson Dettmer.

This award will honor a lady at first stage of her AI profession who has demonstrated exemplary management traits.

• Mahsa Ghafarianzadeh, engineering supervisor for habits prediction at Zoox.
• Ti Zhang, senior supervisor and information science at Walmart. 
• Daria Soboleva, senior machine studying engineer at Cerebras Methods.
• Natalie Abeysena, CEO and cofounder at Shopwise AI.
• Supreet Kaur, AVP at Morgan Stanley.
• Catherine Hansen, director of promoting at Sway AI Inc.
• Cristina Scheau, senior director of engineering at Cruise.
• Kleida Martiro, associate at Glasswing Ventures.
• Kanchan Bahirat, senior laptop imaginative and prescient analysis engineer at Simbe.
• Karolina La Fors, post-doc in accountable design at DesignLab University of Twente.

We’d prefer to congratulate all the ladies who have been nominated to obtain a Girls 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.