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13 May 2025
Nashville, USA

Data & AI Awards Shortlist

The Data & AI Awards honours both companies and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in the data and AI industry over the past 12 months. 

As the data and AI industry’s most prestigious awards, over 400 entries were received this year. We have 12 categories to celebrate, covering a wide range of data and AI applications across three key streams: Innovation, People and Culture, and Data and AI for Good. 

The Shortlist

Innovation

Blend partnered with a leading construction manufacturing company: Exterior Products Manufacturer

Genmab: Smart Policy Insight Engine (SPIE)​​​

Mars Inc.: V2C Platform

National Grid: GridGPT

National Grid: National Grid Storm Outage Model

Schneider Electric: AI Eco Mode of SpaceLogicTouchscreen Room Controller

Scotiabank: SecAI Platform

Travel and Hospitality company (Fortune 1000): Revolutionizing Hospitality Search Through Advanced AI: A Leading Hotel Brand’s Journey to Personalized Guest Experiences

BigID: AI Remediation Recommendations

Conative AI: Modernizes Inventory Management to Transform Brands

EVERSANA: AI-Powered HCP Panels Redefining Training Excellence

Securiti: Gencore AI

SnapLogic: AgentCreator

Snorkel AI: Snorkel Flow and Snorkel Custom

Brown & Brown Insurance: Using AI with Purpose

Chevron: Responsible AI Program

EY: Responsible AI Framework

Herbalife: Empowering Transformation: Herbalife’s Responsible AI for Global Impact

National Grid: Responsible AI

TD: Trustworthy AI

Destination Canada: Traveller Twin: Transforming Tourism with Digital Twin Technology and Generative AI

Lowes Foods: Carrie Rath

Spotify: AI Insights Bot

TD: Interaction Analytics Platform

Astera: Unstructured Data Management

Blend: Ada: Transforming Knowledge Sharing

CoreLogic: Leveraging AI for Wildfire Resilience

Final Round AI: Empowering Job Seekers and the Future of Work

HGS CX Technologies Inc: Biologically Inspired Engineering for Cognitive Workforce Management

John Snow Labs: Spark NLP library

Logicmonitor: ML for Data Driven Customer Experience

SalesChoice Inc.: Using Generative AI for Employee Wellbeing

Spines: AI-driven book publishing platform

University of Illinois: MBA Program AI-Driven Case Study

Credibly: Automation of manual tasks to improve loan originations

Destination Canada: AI and Data in Action: Transforming Tourism Through the Canadian Tourism Data Collective

Dow Jones: Marketing Data Science & Technology

Equifax: Enterprise Data, Analytics & AI

Fortune 500 retail telecom provider: Elevating Industry-Leading Customer Experience Through AI-Enabled Hyper-Personalization

Herbalife: AI-Driven Transformation: Empowering Innovation and Efficiency

Lowes Foods: Zebra Workcloud solution

New York Life: Driving Our Client Experiences Through Data Modernization and Innovation

Novartis: Driving Digital Transformation and Business Growth with Data-Driven Strategies and AI

Scotiabank: Digital Risk Engine – Documentation Support

TD: COACH

Under Armour: SAM AI Assistant

Businessolver: Sofia solution

Denodo: Transforming GenAI-Powered Solutions​​

EY: Competitive Edge

First CDO Partners: Putting AI at the heart of our knowledge base

NTT DATA: Digital Twin of Customer

Reltio: Data Cloud for First Tech Federal Credit Union

Searce Inc.: Transforming Content Discovery Through AI-Powered Intelligence

People and Culture

Colgate-Palmolive: Colgate-Palmolive: Best Place to Work in Data & AI

Domino’s: Domino’s Analytics & Insights Team

Mars Snacking: The Mars Snacking Chief Data Office (CDO) team

Skechers: The Sketchers Data & Analytics (D&A) department

Blend: Blend: Best Place to Work in Data and AI

EDB: EDB: Best Places to Work in AI and Data

Rivery: Rivery

Snorkel AI: Making Data Labeling Programmatic Through Employee Empowerment

American Express: Global Decision Science Leadership Team

Destination Canada: Destination Canada’s Data Dream Team: Elevating Tourism Through Collaboration and Innovation

Dow Jones: Marketing Data Science Team

Freddie Mac: One Data Team – Innovating, Transforming, and Modernizing Data to Make Home Possible

Herbalife: Empowering Teams, Elevating Culture: Herbalife’s Data & AI Transformation through Collaboration and Innovation

National Grid: The Data Science Team Empowers the AI Revolution at National Grid

Dr. Adita Karkera, Chief Data Officer, Government & Public Services, Deloitte

Dr. Paul Pallath, VP – Applied AI, Searce Inc.

Gaurav Pathak, Vice President of Product Management for AI and Metadata, Informatica

Ipsita Mohanty, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Salesforce

Rob Fuller, Chief Solutions Officer, Blend

Robin Sutara, Field CDO, Databricks

Rogayeh Tabrizi, Founder & CEO, Theory+Practice

Samuel Martinez, Managing Director Partner, SDG Group USA

Sharath Tadepalli, Director and Global Practice Leader – Data Science, AI, & ML, HGS CX Technologies Inc

Andreas Welsch, Founder & Chief AI Strategist, Intelligence Briefing

Ari Kaplan, Head of Evangelism, Databricks

Jayeeta Putatunda, Director – AI CoE, Emerging Technology, Fitch Group, Inc.

Jordan Morrow, Senior Vice President of Data and AI Transformation, AgileOne

Kash Mehdi, Vice President of Growth Operations & Strategy, DataGalaxy

Rajdeep Biswas, Global Vice President, Industry Solutions, Neudesic, an IBM Company

Santhosh Vijayabaskar, Director, Intelligent Automation, AI and Process Excellence, Fidelity Investments

Scott Zoldi, Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

Aravind ”Jag” Jagannathan, Vice President & Chief Data Officer, Freddie Mac

Avinash Tripathi, Vice President of Analytics, University of Phoenix

Deval Motka, Chief Data Officer, Genesco Inc.

Don Vu, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, New York Life

Ehrar Jameel, Head of Data Enablement, Analytics & AI, TK Elevator

Iraklis (Kli) Pappas, Head of AI, Colgate-Palmolive

Kumar Singirikonda, Director of DevOps Engineering, Toyota

Luke Gee, SVP, Chief Analytics & AI Officer, TD

Meaghan Ferrigno, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Destination Canada

Monica Kedzierski, VP, Global Data, Analytics & AI, Herbalife

Ruchika Singh, Director, Data Science & Insights, Spotify

Stanislav Rosenberg, Global Director, Head of Portfolio, Innovation, R&D Analytics, Mars Wrigley

Yannick Lallement, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Scotiabank

Data and AI for Good

Blend: Transforming Public Safety Through Ethical AI​​​

NTT DATA: Green Refresh | Making a difference

University Health Network: Dunn House: Canada’s First Social Medicine Supportive Housing Development

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS): MERMAID

EVERSANA: Harnessing Machine Learning for Rare Disease Identification: A Collaboration between the National Institutes of Health and EVERSANA

Healthcare Financial Inc. USA: Attestation portal

John Snow Labs: Healthcare NLP

Lurie Children’s Hospital: Enhancing Pediatric Care: Leveraging LLMs & structured data for Early Detection and Improved Outcomes

Northeastern University: Revolutionizing Public Health with AI-Powered Epidemic Prediction Systems

NYC Health + Hospitals: Nurse residency program

Searce Inc.: Revolutionizing Patient Care Through AI Innovation

Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Using GenAI to Augment Development of Informed Consent Forms at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Best Friends Animal Society: Data Solutions for Pet Lifesaving

Blackbaud: Blackbaud’s Intelligence for Good Strategy

International Air Transport Association (IATA): Incident Data Exchange (IDX) program of Global Aviation Data Management (GADM)

Safe Software Inc.: Safe Software Inc. Application: Data and AI For Good Hero Organisation Award

TD: TD Mindpower: Analytics for Social Good

United Nations: Data Insights for Social and Humanitarian Action (DISHA) initiative

Veritone: Clinical Applications of Voice AI for Individuals with Speech Impairments

Avinash Tripathi, Vice President of Analytics, University of Phoenix

Flavia Saldanha, ​AVP, Consulting Data Engineer & Data Strategy, Fifth Third Bank

Melissa Drew, CEO, Simply-Transformed

Monica Kedzierski, VP, Global Data, Analytics & AI, Herbalife

Ritesh Rao, SVP, Digital Banking Performance, Natalie Mabe, VP, Data & Analytics Delivery Manager and Susanth Dasari, Decision Scientist, Truist

Shivanku Misra, Vice President, Advanced Analytics, McKesson

Venkatesh Ravichandran, Applied Science Manager, Amazon