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NEW KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: Andrew Reiskind, the Chief Data Officer of Mastercard will be headlining The AI Hot 100 Summit

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AI Furnace
March 27, 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.

🔥 The Chief Data Officer of Mastercard, Andrew Reiskind will be headlining The Summit 🔥 

Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard

Andrew Reiskind is the Chief Data Officer for Mastercard. He is responsible for the company’s enterprise-wise data strategy and management to ensure Mastercard helps its customers make smarter, data-driven decisions with trust, responsibility and ethics at the core. This includes ensuring that data is trustworthy, available and of good quality to allow for its use in innovation in payments and in AI driven insights and models. His areas of responsibility include data strategy, data policy, data governance, AI (model) governance, data quality, data and AI ethics and privacy enhancing technologies.

📣 He’ll be Joining an Incredible Line-Up of Senior AI Executives and AI Visionaries…

Ron Lefferts

Divisional CEO, Co-Head of Data & AI

London Stock Exchange Group

Bhaumik Sharma

Chief Digital and Technology Officer

Haleon PLC

Pawan Verma

Chief Data Officer

ICBC

Jayeeta Putatunda

Director, AI CoE

Fitch Ratings

Max Junestrand

Co-Founder & CEO

Legora

Scott Likens

Global Chief AI Engineer

PwC

Sai Sharany Nalla

Principal AI/ML Director

Nike

Richard Barretto

Chief Information Security Officer Progress

Laura Gebhardt

VP, AI & Data Strategy Mastercard

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