Digital Velocity 2025
AI & Data on the Digital Frontier

KEYNOTE

Sol Rashidi

With 10 patents, a best-selling author of Your AI Survival Guide (Top 100 AI books of 2024), and voted FORBES 'AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century,' Sol is a Data & AI tech executive with a strong business acumen who's led massive transformations for enterprises and the broader commercial AI marketplace, including PEs, VCs, and startups. Helping IBM launch Watson in 2011 and holding the first Chief Data and AI Officer role appointed back in 2016, Sol has operated as a CDO, CAO, CDAO, and CAIO for several Fortune 100s and was voted one of the '50 Most Powerful Women in Tech,' 'Top 100 AI Thought Leaders,' and 'Top 100 Data & Analytics Leaders.'

Sol’s upcoming keynote, The Customer Data Advantage: Driving AI Success with Real-Time Insights and Privacy by Design, promises to share cutting-edge insights on leveraging real-time data to drive AI success while prioritizing privacy and ethical practices.

As a SHAPER, Sol combines her pragmatic approach with visionary thought leadership to drive change where it matters, sustain a post-launch operating model, and motivate others to expand their Data & AI footprint. She ensures technology is leveraged as an enabler—not a replacer—of human intelligence and ingenuity, amplifying our inherent capabilities to drive Catalytic Commerce.