I have dedicated my life’s work and career to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for societal and economic prosperity. For 25 years, I have led the research and development of 100s of AI approaches, including machine learning, autonomous robotics, music recommendation, conversational agents and distributed AI, which we applied and deployed across several industries. My motivation comes from driving the best AI success for society and business. I have taken increasingly bigger leadership roles overlooking company and government-wide AI and Data Science strategies as well as executing these strategies.