About: Kristen Summers is AI CTO in Data and AI Expert Labs and Learning at IBM. She has been working in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, with a primary focus on applied research, for over 20 years. Her work has focused primarily on Natural Language Processing and related areas, making sense of human communications as they naturally occur. She has led projects on question answering, entity recognition, entity co-reference, machine translation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and other related topics. Before joining IBM, she was Technical Director in the Knowledge and Information Management Division Group at CACI. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and a BA in Computer Science and English from Amherst College.