Speakers

Jayeeta Putatunda is an award-winning Director of AI at Fitch Ratings, leading scalable Generative AI solutions for financial services. She serves as an Enterprise Platforms Advisor at NVIDIA, sits on Preql.ai's advisory board, and recently joined HearstLab as a Corporate Venture Capital Scout, focused on funding women-led startups to address the gap where only 2% of venture capital goes to women founders. Her achievements include the AI100 award in Generative AI (2024) and recognition among the Top 25 Visionary Women in FinTech AI. Her research on AI for financial inclusion has been presented at ACM's ICAIF and AAAI-25, and she serves as a technical paper reviewer for NeurIPS and COLING.

As NY State Ambassador for Women in AI and Stanford's Women in Data Science ambassador, Jayeeta champions diversity in tech through extensive mentorship and advocacy. She has conducted 40+ tech talks, mentored 170+ individuals, and was featured on a Times Square Billboard as among North America's Top 1% mentors. An international speaker at conferences including ICML, ODSC, CDAO, and RAISE Paris, she has also guest lectured at Columbia, NYU, and PACE University, and judged prestigious competitions including AI Journal Awards, AI Summit Startup Showcase, and the Congressional App Challenge, to name a few. At Fitch, she is an active member of 100 Women in Finance and serves as Shadow Board Member for Fitch Women's Network, demonstrating her commitment to building a more inclusive tech community.