Company honors 35 professionals from 12 countries, as new global survey shows benefits of diversity to AI -- but notes that work is still needed to close gender gap
These leaders were chosen because they and their companies are demonstrating the power of AI to help improve business and work for their customers and employees. The annual recognition not only celebrates the honorees' accomplishments, but also creates a peer network for them to learn from each other and discover approaches for applying AI to solve pressing business challenges.
Research from a recent
Many honorees are demonstrating how the power of
Explore the stories of how these women leaders are using AI to help transform their businesses — and the lessons they've learned along the way — at ibm.biz/womeninai. Follow us at @IBMWatson for live social updates.
"Artificial intelligence will be at the center of business transformation over the next decade, and for us to mitigate bias moving forward, we need women and diverse teams at the forefront of AI. That's why we are proud to share the stories of 35 remarkable women who are driving progressive use of AI using
To shed more light on diversity in AI,
- 85 percent of AI professionals believe the industry has become more diverse over the past few years; of those, 91 percent think that shift is having a positive impact. 74 percent of AI professionals believing diversity hasn't improved say the industry must become more diverse to reach its potential.
- While men and women working in AI were equally likely to be interested in math and hard sciences growing up, men working in AI were more likely to be told they had a natural talent for mathematics and hard sciences than women, while women were more likely to be told they had a natural talent for the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts.
- Two in five AI professionals facing hurdles in implementing AI reported challenges in building AI tech or getting their organization to adopt AI.
- Women in AI globally were nearly five times as likely as men to say their career advancement was negatively impacted by their gender.
The 2020 IBM Women Leaders in AI honorees are:
Tiphanie Combre , Senior Director, AI Assisted Service and Automation, ADP (U.S. )Amy Shreve-McDonald , Lead Product Marketing Manager for Business Digital Experience, AT&T (U.S. )Mara Reiff , Vice President, Strategy and Business Intelligence,Bell Canada (Canada)Tammy Lucas , Vice President of Marketing,Best Western Hotels & Resorts (U.S. )Sheila Ambruster , Senior Manager, Strategic Architecture, The Boeing Company (U.S. )Claire Lucas , Head of Artificial Intelligence,Bouygues Telecom (France )Rosa Martinez ,Cognitive Project Manager, CaixaBank (Spain )- Michèle Brengou, Cognitive Factory Business Leader, Crédit Mutuel (
France ) Ashley Lawrence , Research and Innovation Project Manager,Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (U.S. )Maiga Bishop , Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics, Dillard's (U.S. )Jo Ann Tan , Head of Infrastructure, TheHartford (U.S. )Susanna Shen , General Manager—Corporate IT, Hong Kong and China Gas Company Ltd. (Hong Kong, China )Yui Ozawa , Chief, AI Promotion Team, its communications Inc. (Japan )Ryoko Miyashita , Manager,Customer Service Department , Customer Service Section, JACCS Co., Ltd. (Japan )- Momo Tokumon, Assistant Manager, Web Sales, Japan Airlines (
Japan ) Karla Capela Morais , CEO and Founder, KOY–Law Intelligence (Brazil )Marisa Ferrara Boston , Automation and AI Lead Architect, Audit Technology,KPMG LLP (U.S. )Junko Kato , Manager of the Customer Service Administration Office,Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. (Japan )Donna Dodson , Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, NIST:National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S. )Kristen Bennie , Head of Open Experience, NatWest Group (U.K. )- Lisa Bouari, Executive Director, OutThought AI Assistants (
Australia ) Melissa Molstad , Director of Common Platforms, Data Strategy and Vendor Relations, PayPal (U.S. )Linda Maruta , Head of Product, Pulsar (U.K. )Izumi Hatta , Manager,AI Skills & Dialog Group , Rakuten, Inc. (Japan )Amala Duggirala , Enterprise Chief Operations and Technology Officer,Regions Bank (U.S. )Carol Chen , Vice President for Global Marketing, Global Commercial, Royal Dutch Shell (U.K. )Monica Pedraza Garcia , Operations Director, Santander (Spain )Sabine Rinser-Willuhn , Manager, HR Systems, Siemens AG (Germany )Aarthi Fernandez , Global Head of Trade Operations Product, Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore )Jenni Barnett , Executive Director, Digital, Telstra (Australia )Nicole Hein , Technical Product Owner, Telstra (Australia )Lee-Lim Sok Keow , Deputy Principal, Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore )Paola Molino , Head of Transformation Programs, Vodafone (Italy )Atsuko Shinozuka , Manager, 3D Smart & Try and Omni-Channel Strategy,Wacoal Corp. (Japan )Piera Valeria Cordaro , Commercial Operations Innovation Manager,Wind Tre S.p.A . (Italy )
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