Kriti Sharma

Kriti Sharma, (born April 1988) is an artificial intelligence technologist, mobile product inventor and one of the first chatbot executives in the technology industry.[1][2] She is a speaker on financial technology, big data, product management and millennial entrepreneurship.[3][4][5][6][7] She is currently the Vice President of Bots and AI at Sage Group, one of the UK’s largest tech companies.[8][9][10] She is the inventor of “invisible accounting” with Pegg, first of its kind chatbot for business finances.[2][11][12]

Education

Sharma holds a Bachelors in Engineering [2010] and a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews [2011]. At the age of 21, Sharma was elected as a Rajiv Gandhi Science Fellow for her work in energy optimisation and its applications in astrophysics, material science, polymer and bioinformatics research.[13][14] In 2010, Google awarded her the Google India Women in Engineering Award for excellence in computer science and demonstrated leadership in promoting diversity.[15] She was awarded a Systers Pass It On award by Anita Borg Institute for her work in educational outreach for girls in Rajasthan.[16]

Career

In September 2011, Sharma joined Barclays where she led product management of technology innovations such as Pingit mobile payments app. Pingit won the App Store Best of 2012.[1][17][18][19] She was later appointed Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics at Barclays Africa where she led a team of data scientists and created products using open-source real-time analytics. Her group focused on using machine learning to make user engagement with financial services intelligent and personalised. During this time, she also mentored fintech and healthcare startups in Africa and drove Open Data Collaboration across industries.[20][21][22][23]

In February 2016, Sharma joined the UK’s largest software group Sage to lead mobile products for more than 6 million businesses globally. On 26 July 2016 Sharma and Stephen Kelly, CEO of Sage, launched Pegg, the world’s first personal chatbot for business finance. Pegg was created by Sharma to make accounting as easy as texting.[12][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] Within six weeks of launch, the chatbot was being used by people in 85 countries.[31] Sharma also announced a partnership between Sage and Slack to create conversational workplace.[26][32]

She is the founder of Messaging Bots London, a community of more than 1000 bot developers in Europe.[31][33] She was named 44 in Peter Buchroithner's top 100 list of global people to watch in the bots space, published in VentureBeat.[34]

She led a global research at Sage on the new generation of entrepreneurs in July 2016. The report revealed insights about young entrepreneurs. It also highlighted the need to change policy to enable businesses of today.[35][36]

She has been leading efforts to create more diverse and ethical artificial intelligence and “embracing botness” which means that AI does not have to pretend to be human, instead it needs to be useful.[2][37][38][39]

Awards and honors

Early life

Sharma was born in 1988 in Rajasthan, India. She and her two siblings were brought up in Jaipur. She now lives in London.

References

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  2. 1 2 3 Badenhorst, Francois (2016-07-13). "Sage's bot gives AI the human touch". AccountingWEB. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  3. ↑ Clawson, Trevor. "Millennial Entrepreneurs - Strong On Personal Values But Not Keen On Red Tape". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
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  5. ↑ "Why Should Anyone Innovate Here?". Legatum Institute. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  6. ↑ "Defining the Future of Product Management". Product Management Festival. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  7. ↑ "Speakers - Big Data Analytics USA 2016". Big Data Analytics USA 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  8. ↑ "UK'S BIGGEST TECH COMPANY SAGE IGNITES AMBITION OF SMALL & MEDIUM BUSINESS OWNERS AT SAGE SUMMIT – Global Banking And Finance Review Magazine – Financial & Business Insights". www.globalbankingandfinance.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  9. ↑ staff, Guardian; agencies (2016-08-14). "Data on staff at 280 UK firms may be at risk after Sage breach". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  10. ↑ "How the IoT is transforming financial services". IT PRO. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  11. ↑ "Helpful chatbots are all the rage, so prepare to be frustrated". Financial Times. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  12. 1 2 Gibson, Robert (2016-07-27). "Sage announces new 'admin bot' as it commits to future technologies at Chicago summit". nechronicle. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  13. ↑ ":: Welcome to DNA Syndication - Packages". dnasyndication.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  14. ↑ "JNCASR". www.jncasr.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  15. 1 2 "Google announces winners of engg. award". The Hindu. 2010-02-28. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  16. 1 2 "Kriti S. - Anita Borg Institute". Anita Borg Institute. 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  17. ↑ barclaysgraduates (2012-09-10), Barclays - Kriti Sharma, retrieved 2016-10-26
  18. ↑ "Award-winning banking". www.barclays.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  19. ↑ Brignall, Miles (2012-02-16). "Barclays launches Pingit money-sending service for smartphones". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  20. ↑ FM, Player, 6| Big Data I: Yasaman Hadjibashi and Kriti Sharma of Barclays, retrieved 2016-10-26
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  22. ↑ "Speakers - Big Data Analytics USA 2016". Big Data Analytics USA 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  23. ↑ "Kriti Sharma | QCon London 2015". qconlondon.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  24. ↑ Cave, Andrew. "Meet Pegg, The Bot That Will File Your Expenses". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  25. ↑ "Stephen Kelly interview: 'I want Sage to be about everything to do with moving money'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  26. 1 2 "Sage One and Sage Live optimised for iOS | Sage UK". www.sage.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  27. ↑ "Accounting software provider Sage previews chatbot that manages your business expenses". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  28. ↑ "Heading for the clouds". Computer News Middle East. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  29. ↑ "Goodbye admin, hello Pegg – Sage introduces its first small business chatbot". Daily Fintech. 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  30. ↑ "Sage releases a Siri-type assistant for accounting named Pegg". Computer Dealer News. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  31. 1 2 "Don't make bots just because they are trendy, say experts - Mobile World Live". Mobile World Live. 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  32. ↑ "Sage Announces Slack Partnership and AI Bot 'Pegg'". Techvibes. 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  33. ↑ "Messaging Bots London". Meetup. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  34. ↑ "100 people to watch in the chatbot space". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  35. ↑ "Working to live, not living to work: New global research throws out conventions on millennials in the workplace". www.sage.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  36. ↑ Clawson, Trevor. "Millennial Entrepreneurs - Strong On Personal Values But Not Keen On Red Tape". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  37. ↑ Kleinman, Zoe (2016-10-11). "What if there were more women in tech?". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  38. ↑ Sharma, Kriti (2016-09-06). "Embracing 'botness': lessons from the front line of bot design". BusinessZone. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  39. ↑ Badenhorst, Francois (2016-09-30). "How to solve ecommerce's conversation conundrum". BusinessZone. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  40. ↑ "PRN Wire: Google awards women engineers". www.pressreleasenetwork.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  41. ↑ "Meet the Ambassador changing the face of accounting". One Young World. 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  42. ↑ "Our Alumni". FfWG. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  43. ↑ RSA. "Find a Fellow - RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 2016-10-26.

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