Announcing the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Women in AI Awards

Asserting the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Girls in AI Awards

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With VentureBeat’s flagship occasion, VB Transform, simply across the nook, we’re excited to announce the finalists for the seventh annual Girls in AI Awards. The winners shall be introduced throughout a particular program on the principle stage of Rework on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. PT.

VB Transform is a premier two-day occasion on June 24-25 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Trade specialists and friends will collect to supply complete insights and finest practices on what’s truly working in enterprise AI—from copilots to brokers. Attendees may have quite a few alternatives to forge significant connections and broaden their networks.

As a part of this occasion, VentureBeat will honor ladies leaders and changemakers in AI throughout 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 subject and their optimistic affect on the group. 

Investing in ladies in AI will create extra useful AI that higher fits audiences, and boosts ROI for firms. The affect has by no means been extra clear, or extra vital, and we’re proud to acknowledge leaders in AI who’re making an affect.

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

  • 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 ladies within the subject of AI, offering steering and help and/or encouraging extra ladies to enter the sector of AI.

  • Sandra Brown, deputy common counsel at SoftBank Robotics America, Inc.
  • Suruchi Shah, engineering supervisor, mannequin serving workforce at LinkedIn
  • Parul Bhandari, international head telco, media and gaming accomplice technique at Microsoft
  • Reut Lazo, Founder at Women X AI
  • Nicole Carignan, SVP of safety and AI technique, subject CISO, at Darktrace

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 educational analysis or impacting AI.

  • Lindsay Richman, CEO at Innerverse AI
  • Payel Das, principal analysis scientist and supervisor at IBM Research – T.J. Watson Analysis Heart
  • Suma Kumaraswamy, senior director, head of OMB Digital Merchandise Innovation at First Tech Federal Credit Union
  • Ann Irvine, Chief Knowledge and Analytics Officer at Resilience
  • Hannaneh Hajishirzi, senior director of NLP at AI2; Torode Household Affiliate Professor within the Allen Faculty 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 sizzling subject 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 wish to congratulate all the ladies who had 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 major distinction in AI.

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