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Hot Off The AI Furnace - March 16th

Hot Off The AI Furnace - March 16th

NEW SPEAKER DROP: Senior AI executives from ICBC, Fitch Ratings and Deepmind join the AI Hot 100 Summit Line Up

AI Furnace
March 16, 2026

The AI Hot 100 Summit 2026 is back for its third edition on May 6-7th, 2026 in New York City. Don’t miss the most powerful Applied AI Summit, convening 500+ senior AI executives from industry, founders, and VCs to shape the future of AI.

🔥 New Speakers Joining Our Line-Up This Week 🔥

Pawan Verma

Chief Data Officer

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Jayeeta Putatunda

Director - AI CoE

Fitch Ratings

Thorsten Schaeff

Developer Experience

Google Deepmind - Gemini

Pawan Verma, Chief Data Officer, ICBC

As Chief Data Officer of a $7.3T global bank, Pawan brings a wealth of expertise in 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 from one of the world’s largest financial institutions. His perspective on driving data excellence and enabling smarter business outcomes at scale will be a true highlight of the event. 💡📈

Jayeeta Putatunda, Director - AI CoE, Fitch Ratings

Jayeeta is an award-winning Lead Data Scientist and Director at Fitch Ratings, specializing in NLP and Generative AI. At Fitch, she develops scalable Generative AI solutions for financial services while exploring open-source models. Her research on AI for financial inclusion has been presented at ACM's ICAIF and AAAI-25, and she serves as a technical paper reviewer for NeurIPS and COLING.