Heather Hartnett and Dr. Ruchir Puri

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Heather Hartnett is the CEO and Founding Partner of Human Ventures. She was recognized as the venture capitalist of the year by the Global Connections for Women Foundation in 2019. She has also been featured and interviewed in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, TechCrunch and more. Marie Claire recognized Hartnett as “The Standout” on its New Guard list of The 50 Most Influential Women in America.

Until recently, Dr. Ruchir Puri served as CTO and Chief Architect of IBM Watson. Dr. Puri led the Deep Learning and Machine Learning Platform Initiative at IBM Research.
Dr. Puri is now the Chief Scientist of IBM Research. With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research is one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs.
Dr. Puri is an inventor of over 50 United States patents and has authored over 120 publications and a book on Analytics. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and was awarded 2014 Asian American Engineer of the Year.