VentureBeat introduced the winners of the seventh annual Ladies in AI Awards at VB Remodel in San Francisco on June 25.
The awards acknowledge and honor the ladies leaders and changemakers within the discipline of AI. The nominees have been submitted by the general public and chosen by a VentureBeat committee based mostly on their dedication to the business, their work to extend inclusivity within the discipline and their constructive affect locally.
Winners have been introduced with awards by VentureBeat’s senior AI author Emilia David and myself (affiliate managing editor).
“We’re thrilled to be here to present the seventh annual Women in AI awards,” David mentioned in her opening remarks. “We want to offer praise for all the people who are behind the scenes and helping transform the industry.”
This award honors a lady who launched corporations now exhibiting nice promise in AI. Judges thought-about elements corresponding to enterprise traction, expertise and influence within the AI house.
This yr’s winner is Natalya Lopareva, CEO and founder at Algorized. Her expertise, initially developed from analysis on the College of Zurich, helps find individuals after earthquakes and may now assist save lives in numerous purposes.
“At Algorized we utilize AI for people sensing, so we enable physical AI, we are at the intersection of human and machine,” Lopareva mentioned in her acceptance speech. The award went to her whole group and all of the wonderful girls working on the firm.
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This award honors a lady who has made a big influence in AI analysis, serving to speed up progress both inside her group, as a part of tutorial analysis or impacting AI usually.
This yr’s winner is Lindsay Richman, CEO at Vibrissa AI (previously Innerverse AI). Richman and her group are targeted on sensor and biometric information and their purposes. They’re growing analysis round longevity, mobile orchestration, mitochondrial well being and biophotonics.
“A vibrissa is actually a whisker, a hair, that actually detects vibration,” Richman mentioned in her acceptance speech. “And my company had done a lot of work in sensor research and finding ways to use vibrations to record events to hopefully do a lot of sensor-based recording without a lot of hardware that currently slows processes down.”
She mentioned she was thrilled to be again at Remodel and “support so many great people, including great women, at this conference.”
This award honors a feminine chief who has helped mentor different girls within the discipline of AI, offering steering and assist and/or encouraging extra girls to enter the sector.
This yr’s winner is Suruchi Shah, engineering supervisor for the mannequin serving group at LinkedIn. She spearheads the event of cutting-edge infrastructure for giant language mannequin (LLM) serving, serving to revolutionize the way in which AI fashions are deployed throughout LinkedIn’s ecosystem.
Shah was not capable of settle for the award in particular person, nevertheless, she mentioned in a press release after: “I’m deeply honored by this recognition — it belongs as much to the brilliant women I’ve been privileged to mentor as it does to me. Together we’re proving that an inclusive, supportive community is the fastest path to breakthrough AI innovation.”
This award honors a lady who demonstrates exemplary management and progress within the rising discipline of accountable AI.
This yr’s winner is Stephanie Cohen, chief technique officer at Cloudflare. She is main efforts to redefine the financial mannequin of the web, and making a sustainable future for content material creators, publishers, AI corporations and the web at giant.
Cohen couldn’t settle for her award in particular person, however she despatched in a video acceptance, saying she was honored to be acknowledged. “Here at Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better internet, and a better internet is one where we are using AI responsibly, and that is a world where content creators of all shapes and sizes are flourishing in this amazing world that’s in front of us with AI.”
She added after the occasion: “I joined Cloudflare just over a year ago to help build a better Internet. Our global network now has GPUs in over 190 cities, making AI fast and accessible to everyone around the world, and we’re building tools to help foster a future where AI innovation thrives while respecting content ownership. And as our co-founders like to say, ‘we’re just getting started’.”
This award honors a lady within the early stage of her AI profession who has demonstrated exemplary management traits.
This yr’s winner is Arina Vlasova, CEO at DataGPT. The corporate gives a conversational AI information analyst that enables customers to work together with their information utilizing pure language and obtain fast, analyst-level insights.
“This award truly means a lot to me,” Vlasova mentioned throughout her acceptance speech. “DataGPT was started as a bold idea to build the world’s first AI data analyst. A lot of people questioned us. Some thought that it might be too ambitious, even beyond my and my team’s potential. But we pushed harder and today we are leading the way. What is truly meaningful in life is always hard, and what matters is to have vision, grit and to keep going. To all the women out there, go over it, lead it, build it. You’ve got it.”
We’d prefer to congratulate all the girls who have been nominated to obtain a Ladies in AI Award and to our winners. Due to everybody for his or her nominations and for contributing to the rising consciousness of ladies who’re making a big distinction in AI.
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