About me

** 👋I’ve been building tech products for 15+ years and currently lead a portfolio of GenAI products I’m incubating from 0 -> 1. Follow me for practical AI resources, tips and insights on building, scaling, and implementing AI products, responsibly. Let's learn and grow together! ** 🏆 Recognized as one of the Top Women Innovators in AI (AI Magazine, 2022), Top Women Leaders in AI to Watch (Data Tech Vibe, 2021), Top Women AI Leaders (RISE 2020), and Top 20 AI Mavericks to Watch (MKAI, 2020). **** Heena is an AI Product Leader at IBM’s Corporate Incubator program where she leads some of the best IBM teams to discover, validate, and ultimately build new products and businesses from 0 -> 1 and scale. Prior to that, she launched and scaled AI products for Industry 4.0 customers and led the IBM Watson AI Services. Her products spanned across a variety of advanced AI technologies such as Conversational AI (digital assistants, speech transcription, and synthesis), NLP, computer vision, and pattern recognition. **** She continues to make waves in the AI world outside her work, too. She is on a mission to reduce the gender diversity gap in the AI Industry and founded the global community 'AI for Her' to drive this. Find out more at https://aiforher.com/ And if you want to stay in touch, subscribe to the monthly AI for Her newsletter (link on the website)! Heena holds a double-major MBA from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the University’s Recent Alumni Award in 2019 for her contribution and impact towards women in technology initiatives. **** Twitter: @justheena Instagram: @simplyheena **** Note: My views on LinkedIn are my own and do not reflect any of my current or previous employers.