The AI Optimist with Beena Ammanath

Customer Obsessed

Beena Ammanath leads the global Deloitte AI Institute and is a self-proclaimed AI optimist. As automation and the metaverse are becoming prominent parts of our reality, Beena joins hosts Eric Berridge and Erin Acevedo to discuss her industry insight on the current and future roles of AI and other advancing technologies. Listen in to this episode that explores both the benefits and dangers of programs like facial recognition and hear how technologists like Beena herself are standing on the frontlines to tackle the ethical implications of advancing tech—triaging problems and solving them before they emerge.

About Beena Ammanath

Beena is Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and leads Trustworthy AI & Ethical Tech at Deloitte. She is the author of the upcoming book releasing in spring 2022 – “Trustworthy AI” – which helps businesses navigate trust and ethics in AI.

An award-winning senior executive with extensive global experience in AI and digital transformation, spanning across e-commerce, finance, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services, and industrial domains with companies such as GE, HPE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, e*trade and a number of Silicon Valley startups, Beena is also the Founder of non-profit, Humans For AI, an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in AI.

Beena also serves on the Board of AnitaB.org and the Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering. She has been a Board Member and Advisor to several technology startups. Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, artificial intelligence, and technology in general, can make our world a better, easier place to live for all humans.

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