Saying the nominees for VentureBeat’s fifth Annual Girls in AI awards

With VentureBeat’s flagship occasion VB Rework 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 primary stage of Rework on July 12 in San Francisco. The announcement will even be live-streamed on our homepage VentureBeat.com. 

Rework is a two-day in-person occasion happening on July 11 and 12. Trade consultants and friends will come collectively to supply complete insights and finest practices on enterprise knowledge journeys. As an added bonus, individuals could 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 subject of AI. The winners shall be within the following classes: Accountability and Ethics of AI, AI Entrepreneurship, AI Analysis, AI Mentorship and Rising Star.

The nominees had been submitted by the general public and winners are chosen by a VentureBeat committee. Winners are chosen primarily based on their dedication to the trade, their work to extend inclusivity within the subject and their constructive affect locally. 

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This award will honor a girl who has began corporations exhibiting nice promise in AI. Consideration shall be given to issues like enterprise traction, the expertise answer, and affect within the AI house.

• 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, knowledge science, at PagerDuty.
• Marcie Apelt, managing VP for AI and machine studying and Innovation Lab at Capital One.
• Rudina Seseri, founder and managing companion 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 subject of AI, offering steerage and help and/or encouraging extra ladies to enter the subject of AI.

• Chenxi Wang, founder and normal companion at Rain Capital.
• Priya Vijayarajendran, CTO and head of engineering and safety at ASAPP.
• Grishma Jena, knowledge scientist at IBM.
• Marily Nika, AI product lead at Meta.
• Bela Labovich, vice chairman of engineering at Athena Well being.
• Zohra Ladha, senior director of information science at Tredence, Inc.
• Penny Li, SVP of very massive scale integration (VLSI) at SambaNova Techniques.
• Sujatha Sagiraju, CPO at Appen.
• Fathima Minha Farook, skilled mentor, recreation developer, recreation designer, QA tester {and professional} gamer on the Worldwide Sport Builders Affiliation.
• 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 girl who has made a major affect in an space of analysis in AI, serving to speed up progress both inside her group, as a part of tutorial analysis, or impacting AI.

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

This award will honor a girl who demonstrates exemplary management and progress within the rising sizzling subject of accountable AI.

• Cansu Canca, affiliate analysis professor at Northeastern College.
• Carol McCall, chief well being analytics officer at ClosedLoop.
• Diya Wynn, senior observe supervisor at Accountable AI at AWS.
• Rebecca Gorman, CEO at Aligned AI.
• Jane Scowcroft, director of conversational AI, knowledge technique, at Nvidia.
• Dilek Karasoy, product and advertising and marketing director at Picovoice.
• Kavya Pearlman, founder and CEO of XRSI.
• Namrita Mahindro, chief digital officer at Aditya Birla Chemical compounds.
• 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 observe at Gunderson Dettmer.

This award will honor a girl to start with stage of her AI profession who has demonstrated exemplary management traits.

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

We’d wish to congratulate the entire ladies who had been nominated to obtain a Girls in AI Award. Because of everybody for his or her nominations and for contributing to the rising consciousness of ladies who’re making a major distinction in AI.