Women Leaders in AI 2021

Thu 25 Mar 21 - Fri 31 Dec 21

The Mall Group Chairwoman Supaluck Umpujh selected an honoree of 2021 Women Leaders in AI

IBM’s annual Women Leaders in AI program celebrates more than 40 global women leaders from 18 countries using AI to drive better outcomes and shaping the future of AI for business

Bangkok, Thailand : IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Supaluck Umpujh, the chairwoman of The Mall Group, is selected as an honoree of the Women Leaders in AI this year. As the first and only honoree from Thailand, and one out of two honorees from ASEAN, Supaluck has been selected together with 40 exceptional female business leaders from 18 countries around the world where she is recognized for pioneering the use of AI to drive the business transformation as well as growth and innovation in the retail industry.

The recognition celebrates Supaluck’s leadership for The Mall Group in leveraging IBM’s AI technology to improve efficiency in business processes and driven greater personalized shopping experience for its clients across the The Mall, The Emporium, The Emquartier, Paragon Department Store and Bluport Hua Hin Resort Mall. Being the first retail chain in Thailand to adopt AI, The Mall Group has used the technology to better understand the changing behaviors and trends of consumers and derive real-time insights from its extensive shopping databases, which include its M Card (over 4M customers) and its SCB M VISA program (over 600,000 customers).

IBM created the annual Women Leaders in AI program in 2019 to help provide visibility to women leading in AI, encourage increased diverse participation in the field, and provide honorees a network for shared learning. Recognizing leaders on the forefront of developing and deploying AI at scale and learning from their experiences in building AI that’s inclusive, fair, and explainable becomes even more important as the industry works to emerge more resilient from the pandemic. The 40 leaders recognized in 2021 were selected based upon the ways they are using AI as a transformation agent to help drive results for their organizations and the employees, customers, and citizens they serve.

“We are at the tipping point of the new era of retail, and technology is clearly the most important ingredient in this winning formula,” said Supaluck Umpujh, Chairwoman of The Mall Group Co., Ltd. “The Mall Group wants to be the Retail-tainment lifestore destination that provides the limitless anywhere anytime personalized shopping experience for everyone in the family. AI is today a key that helps us make seamless shopping experience possible for our customers, be it at stores, online at home or via their smartphones.”

“As AI is at the forefront of the business transformation, our female leaders represent today the light of diverse capabilities that is shining and driving the progressive use of AI across industries,” said Patama Chantaruck, Vice President for Indochina Expansion and Managing Director of IBM Thailand. “Despite the hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on businesses around the world, the success and innovative AI use cases of this year’s honorees become an inspiration for all of us to overcome any challenges and thrive in 2021.”

From working to put trusted health information at the fingertips of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic to working on projects to help tackle the challenges of climate change, the 2021 honorees are demonstrating how advancements in natural language processing, automation and trustworthy AI can be used to better predict outcomes, automate processes and drive new efficiencies. Explore the stories of how these women leaders are using AI to help transform their businesses — and the lessons they've learned along the way — at https://www.ibm.com/watson/women-leaders-in-ai

As world’s leading AI solutions and services provider, IBM is continually bringing new innovations to IBM Watson from IBM Research in the core areas of natural language processing (NLP), trust and automation. IBM has been named a Leader in the Gartner February 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services. IBM is also recognized as a Leader in two other recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant reports : August 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and March 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms.

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Addendum - The 2021 IBM Women Leaders in AI honorees:

Supaluck Umpujh, Chairman, The Mall Group (Thailand)
Siew Choo Soh, Managing Director, DBS (Singapore)
Helen (Teyi) Tsai, Co-Founder and Web Developer Lead, Agrolly (Mongolia)
Chimka Munkhbayar, Co-Founder, Agrolly (Mongolia)
Airei Soh, Marketing IT Strategy & Planning, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Satoko Maeda, Assistant Manager, Hiroshima Prefecture (Japan)
Mari Sasaki, Section Chief, Kakuichi (Japan)
Manami Endo, IT Planning Section/Information System Dept., TRUSCO Nakayama Corporation (Japan)
Mio Sugihara, Assistant Manager, System Management, TRUSCO Nakayama Corporation (Japan)
Kaori Matsue, RC & Quality Assurance Division, Mitsui Chemical, Inc. (Japan)
Melissa Dorey, Digital Experience Principal, Telstra (Australia)
Annie Shu, Manager of Strategy and Innovation, Westpac (Australia)
Amy Oding, Operational Support and Automation Manager, Vodafone (New Zealand)
Tracey Hawes, General Manager - Marketing & Trading, Finewine Delivery (New Zealand)
Annapurna Vishwanathan, Head of Digital, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. (India)
Julie Losee, Manager, Equipment Lease Accounting, Ford Motor Company (United States)
Denise Stokowski, Group VP - Platform Products, Gainsight (United States)
Joan Francy, CEO, Admed Inc (United States)
Divya Rathanlal, Emerging Technology Program Manager, City of Austin Texas (United States)
Regina Olivares, Principal Management Analyst, Clark County (United States)
Sandra Corkern, Associate Director, Ernst & Young LLP (United States)
Sabita Sharma, AVP – Automation and Innovation, Everest Global Services, Inc (United States)
Jennifer Turner, Senior Director – Digital Innovation/Strategy and Transactions, EY (United States)
Curren Katz, Director of Data Science R&D, Highmark Health (United States)
Lisa Sherman, President and CEO, The Advertising Council (United States)
Pam Griffin, Associate Director, Cleaning Division, The Clorox Company (United States)
Poonam Verma, Managing Director, Head of Security Engineering and Operations, The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) (United States)
Leah Karlin, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering, At Point of Care (United States)
Bharathi Ramadass, IT Product Manager, ServiceNow (United States)
Catharine Fennell, CEO, videoBIO (Canada)
Manoela Morais, Co-Founder and CEO, Agrolly (Brazil)
Ekaterina Ostankova, Product Manager, Virtual Assistant Lab, Lloyds Banking Group (UK)
Fella Benaziza, UX designer consultant, Capgemini France (France)
Anette Böhm, General Manager Corporate HR, KBC Group NB (Belgium)
Alu Rodríguez, SVP Business Transformation, NH Hotel Group (Spain)
Elisabetta Burei, Head of Business Requirement Mngmt Technology Office, CheBanca! (Spain)
Gema Pérez Ramón, Director Taxation Office, Tax Administration Agency – Agencia Tributaria del Ayuntamiento de Madrid (Spain)
Jeanette Fürst, Director of Sales, OpenAdvice IT Service GmbH (Germany)
Donatella Sciuto, Full Professor in Computer Engineering and Deputy Rector, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Hagit Tzafrir, VP Healthcare Division at Harel, Harel insurance LTD (Israel)