Beena Ammanath

www.beenammanath.comBeena is an award winning senior executive with extensive global experience in AI, data, analytics and digital transformation. Her knowledge spans across e-commerce, financial, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies such as HPE, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, e*trade and a number of Silicon Valley startups. She is Founder of Humans For AI andHead of Deloitte Global AI Institute. A well-recognised thought leader, author and keynote speaker in the industry, she also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering and has been a Board Member and Advisor to several startups including Flerish, Predii, iguazio, CliniVantage and ProjectileX.Beena has been honored several times for her contribution to tech and her philanthropic efforts, including WITI’s Women in Technology Hall of Fame, UC Berkeley 2018 Woman of the Year in Business Analytics, San Francisco Business Times’ 2017 Most Influential Women in Bay Area, National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Multicultural Leaders in Tech, CIO.com and Drexel University's Analytics 50 innovator, Forbes Top 8 Female Analytics Experts and Women Super Achiever Award from World Women’s Leadership Congress.Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, AI and technology in general, can make our world a better, easier place to live for all humans.