Beena Ammanath is an award-winning senior digital transformation leader with extensive global experience in artificial intelligence, big data, data science, and IoT. Her knowledge spans e-commerce, financial, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services, and industrial domains with companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, E-Trade, and a number of Silicon Valley startups. Beena is currently global vice president for big data, artificial intelligence, and innovation at HPE. Prior to that, she was vice president of innovation and data sciences at GE. She is also the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Humans For AI Inc. and co-author of the book “AI Transforming Business.”

Beena has been honored several times for her contributions to tech and her philanthropic efforts, including the San Francisco Business Times’ 2017 Most Influential Women in the Bay Area, WITI’s Women in Technology Hall of Fame, the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Multicultural Leaders in Tech, CIO.com and Drexel University’s Analytics 50 innovator award, Forbes’ Top 8 Female Analytics Experts, and the Women Super Achiever award from the World Women Leadership Congress. Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, artificial intelligence, and technology can make our world a better, easier place to live.