IBM Recognizes 40 Business Women Excelling in Artificial Intelligence

The American IT MNC, IBM, recently celebrated the women pioneering the AI Business worldwide. The list recognises women across different industries and geographies of the globe. These ladies have employed AI in most efficient manner to accelerate, innovate and transform their companies.

In an event organised by IBM at IBM Watson Experience Center in New York, the company celebrated the honorees and women leaders also shared their valuable experiences in coming ahead with AI initiatives. Also, students from IBM's P-Tech program attended the event to grasp knowledge from their wits.

Michelle Peluso, SVP, Digital Sales & CMO, IBM stated at the event, "Artificial Intelligence is poised to drive dramatic advances in every industry. Today, we are sharing the stories of more than 30 incredible women, who are paving the way forward in how AI is advancing businesses and changing how people work and live. At IBM, we know gender equality is critical and nowhere is this more important than in AI. We hope the stories shared today will encourage many more women to take a leadership role in shaping the future of this important technology."

The list wanders around 15 different countries sailing across industries like telecommunications, finance, education, energy, entertainment and others. The enlisted women were selected on the criteria based upon the steps they have taken to embrace AI for digital transformation of their company and drive better results, better employee and customer engagement with the company.

Here is the list of 40 recipients of the honours:

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Out of all the 40 women mentioned, two of them represent India. Harmeen Mehta, CIO and Head Cloud and Security Business of Bharti Airtel and Seema Gaur, Executive VP and Head IT of IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company.

While most of the countries are battling against each other to become AI superpower, India is making significant progress with such pioneers taking the AI centric business to another level of success.