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VentureBeat introduced the winners of the seventh annual Girls in AI Awards at VB Rework in San Francisco on June 25.
The awards acknowledge and honor the ladies leaders and changemakers within the discipline of AI. The nominees had 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 in the neighborhood.
Winners had been introduced with awards by VentureBeat’s senior AI author Emilia David and myself (affiliate managing editor).
“We’re thrilled to be right here to current the seventh annual Girls in AI awards,” David stated in her opening remarks. “We need to supply reward for all of the people who find themselves behind the scenes and serving to remodel the business.”
This award honors a girl who launched firms now exhibiting nice promise in AI. Judges thought of elements comparable to enterprise traction, know-how and affect within the AI house.
This yr’s winner is Natalya Lopareva, CEO and founder at Algorized. Her know-how, initially developed from analysis on the College of Zurich, helps find individuals after earthquakes and might now assist save lives in numerous functions.
“At Algorized we make the most of AI for individuals sensing, so we allow bodily AI, we’re on the intersection of human and machine,” Lopareva stated in her acceptance speech. The award went to her complete workforce and all of the wonderful girls working on the firm.
>>See all our Rework 2025 protection right here<<This award honors a girl who has made a major affect in AI analysis, serving to speed up progress both inside her group, as a part of tutorial analysis or impacting AI typically.
This yr’s winner is Lindsay Richman, CEO at Vibrissa AI (previously Innerverse AI). Richman and her workforce are centered on sensor and biometric knowledge and their functions. They’re creating analysis round longevity, mobile orchestration, mitochondrial well being and biophotonics.
“A vibrissa is definitely a whisker, a hair, that really detects vibration,” Richman stated in her acceptance speech. “And my firm had performed a whole lot of work in sensor analysis and discovering methods to make use of vibrations to file occasions to hopefully do a whole lot of sensor-based recording with out a whole lot of {hardware} that presently slows processes down.”
She stated she was thrilled to be again at Rework and “assist so many nice individuals, together with nice girls, at this convention.”
This award honors a feminine chief who has helped mentor different girls within the discipline of AI, offering steerage and assist and/or encouraging extra girls to enter the sphere.
This yr’s winner is Suruchi Shah, engineering supervisor for the mannequin serving workforce at LinkedIn. She spearheads the event of cutting-edge infrastructure for big 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 individual, nonetheless, she stated in an announcement after: “I’m deeply honored by this recognition — it belongs as a lot to the sensible girls I’ve been privileged to mentor because it does to me. Collectively we’re proving that an inclusive, supportive group is the quickest path to breakthrough AI innovation.”
This award honors a girl 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 firms and the web at massive.
Cohen couldn’t settle for her award in individual, however she despatched in a video acceptance, saying she was honored to be acknowledged. “Right here at Cloudflare, we’re on a mission to assist construct a greater web, and a greater web is one the place we’re utilizing AI responsibly, and that could be a world the place content material creators of all sizes and shapes are flourishing on this wonderful world that’s in entrance of us with AI.”
She added after the occasion: “I joined Cloudflare simply over a yr in the past to assist construct a greater Web. Our international community now has GPUs in over 190 cities, making AI quick and accessible to everybody around the globe, and we’re constructing instruments to assist foster a future the place AI innovation thrives whereas respecting content material possession. And as our co-founders prefer to say, ‘we’re simply getting began’.”
This award honors a girl 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 presents a conversational AI knowledge analyst that enables customers to work together with their knowledge utilizing pure language and obtain instant, analyst-level insights.
“This award actually means quite a bit to me,” Vlasova stated throughout her acceptance speech. “DataGPT was began as a daring thought to construct the world’s first AI knowledge analyst. Lots of people questioned us. Some thought that it may be too bold, even past my and my workforce’s potential. However we pushed more durable and right now we’re main the way in which. What is really significant in life is at all times exhausting, and what issues is to have imaginative and prescient, grit and to maintain going. To all the ladies on the market, go over it, lead it, construct it. You’ve received it.”
We’d prefer to congratulate all the girls who had been nominated to obtain a Girls in AI Award and to our winners. Because of everybody for his or her nominations and for contributing to the rising consciousness of girls who’re making a major distinction in AI.
