Katia Walsh, Ph.D.'s Linkedin Analytics

Global business technologist, making brands indispensable through Digital, Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities across industries: • Transforming companies into customer-centric cultures • Solving high-value problems to enhance customer experience, drive efficiencies, enable new revenues, and make a positive impact on society • Delivering billions in revenues, cost savings, margin, and return on investment • Envisioning, developing, and expanding digital products globally and fueling Digital Disruption and Innovation • Upskilling employees with no-coding-experience into Machine Learning professionals • Mentoring, advancing, and propelling people and organizations to reach full potential • Humanizing the technical areas of Digital Technologies, Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI and advancing Ethical and Responsible Data and AI for Social Good Global recognitions include: • 2022 Global Data Power; Data Leader CDO Magazine; Top 50 Women of San Francisco • 2021 VentureBeat AI Mentorship Award and Evanta's Women Technology Leaders • 2020 Corinium Business of Data 100 Global Data Innovators; Business Transformation 150; Top business leaders of UK Artificial Intelligence Industry • 2019 Forbes Women Defining the 21-century AI movement; 2019, 2020 World Economic Forum Data Policy Leader • 2019 Top 50 Retail Insider Movers and Shakers • 2019 UK Influential Business Woman Award • 2018, 2019 Data Leader of the Year, Women in IT • 2018 Top 10 most influential people in data-driven businesses • 2017 Data Leader of the Year • 2017 Best-in-Class Winner in Internet and Telecoms • 2017's top 5 Women in Tech worldwide Expertise: At Forrester, helped Fortune 500 brands and start-ups thrive on technology change; at Fidelity, enabled businesses to achieve strategic goals and lead in customer experience through Data and Technology - incl. one of the first FinTech platform businesses; at Prudential, launched the top Kaggle competition, with ~45,000 entries and 2,200 teams, and, through AI, transformed life insurance sales from a 10-week to a 2-day process; at Vodafone, built, led, and scaled a Big Data and AI capability for 500 million customers in 25 countries delivering 2 billion euros per year; at Levi Strauss & Company, launched, leading, and scaling the Digital, Data, and AI transformation of the iconic brand Industries: Retail; Telecommunications; FinTech, InsurTech, Financial services; Consumer Goods, Business-to-Business