This archive report was first published on 15 May 2020.
35 Women Leaders Pioneering AI Adoption Across the Globe ¶
IBM has unveiled its list of Women Leaders in AI, honoring 35 exceptional female business leaders from 12 countries who are using artificial intelligence to drive transformation, growth, and innovation across various industries.
These leaders were chosen for their companies' demonstration of the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve business and work for their customers and employees. The annual recognition celebrates the honorees' accomplishments and creates a peer network for them to learn from each other and discover approaches for applying AI to solve pressing business challenges.
According to a recent IBM global AI survey, 34 percent of businesses surveyed across the US, Europe, and China have adopted AI. The honorees' AI efforts have led to increased customer satisfaction, improvements in employee retention, faster response times, significant cost savings, and more efficient processes.
"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," said Michelle Peluso, IBM's Senior Vice President for Digital Sales and Chief Marketing Officer.
IBM recently teamed up with Morning Consult to conduct a new global study of more than 3,200 AI professionals. Notable findings of that study include:
- 85 percent of AI professionals believe the industry has become more diverse over the past few years, with 91 percent thinking that shift is having a positive impact.
- 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 include:
- 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)
- And 32 other exceptional women leaders from around the world.
These women leaders are shaping innovative AI use cases, leveraging AI tools to build AI and supplement the data science skills shortage, and proving that human and machine collaboration can truly help improve how people work.
As organizations hasten their digital transformations amid an unpredictable environment, recognizing leaders on the forefront of adopting AI and learning from their experiences in building AI that's inclusive and transparent becomes even more important.
