Award-winning senior technology executive and AI leader.
Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025.
Women in Technology Hall of Fame – WITI, 2017; Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business – San Francisco Times, 2017.
Fisher-WITI: Leading Women in Analytics – Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
In her 2023 book, Zero Latency Leadership, Beena Ammanath establishes the skills and mindset for leaders to make informed and mindful decisions about technology. An expert in simplifying complex topics, she provides practical frameworks to decide what technology is relevant, and how to embed trust, sustainability, and equity in those decisions. Zero Latency Leadership builds on Beena’s 2022 book, Trustworthy AI, which addresses the topic of ethics and trust in AI, providing practical guidelines for organisations developing or using AI solutions. As founder and CEO of Humans for AI, Beena spearheads the drive to demystify and bring diversity and inclusivity to AI.
A computer scientist by education, Beena is Global Head of Deloitte AI Institute and Global Trustworthy AI Leader and Technology Trust Ethics Leader, Deloitte. Her career so far has spanned leadership roles in finance, marketing, e-commerce, telecom, retail, software products, service, and industrial domains. Beena has also held technical and leadership roles with companies including Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, E*TRADE, and a number of Silicon Valley startups. She is also founder and CEO of Humans for AI, non-profit promoting diversity and inclusion in AI, and a board member of AnitaB.org, a nonprofit advancing women in STEM and supporting inclusive technology.
The value of human creativity in the AI era (TEDx Talks, 2024). Zero Latency Leadership: Driving Equity, Trust, and Sustainability with Emerging Tech (2023); Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI (2022); The Year in Tech 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (2022). ‘How AI will shape the future of Industrial IoT’(CIO, November 2016); ‘Uncover the Human Side of Data: 2016 Executive Summary’ (Marketing Analytics and Data Science, January 2016); My high heels don’t make me any less high tech (CIO, October 2016).
“Beena’s contribution to leadership in an era of AI is immense; by unpicking the thorny issues around the ethical implementation of technology, she provides practical guidance for leaders to incorporate trust, sustainability, and equity in their technology strategy.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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