13 May 2025, 7pm
Nashville, USA
The DataIQ Awards North America honors 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.
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 SpaceLogic™ Touchscreen 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
Cotality: 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
SalesChoice Inc.: Using Generative AI for Employee Wellbeing
Spines: AI-driven book publishing platform
University of Illinois: MBA Program AI-Driven Case Study
Category Sponsor
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
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
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
Theory+Practice: Best Data & AI Team
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, formerly at 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
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
Category Sponsor
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, formerly at 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
