Sri Ambati

CEO & CO-FOUNDER , H2O . AI

Founded in 2011 , H2O . ai has grown to become one of the leading artificial intelligence ( AI ) cloud companies and is now recognised as a global visionary and thought leader in automated machine learning ( autoML ), time series forecasting and responsible AI .

» H2O . ai , the AI Cloud leader , is working on its founding mission to democratise AI . The world ’ s leading data scientists and engineers - including over 20 Kaggle Grandmasters - come to work at H2O . ai to deliver on our vision of making AI accessible to any business , government entity , nonprofit or academic institution in the world . More than 20,000 organisations and millions of data scientists trust H2O . ai as their AI provider . Customers include AT & T , Citi , GlaxoSmithKline , Hitachi , Kaiser Permanente , PwC , Unilever , Walgreens , and many more . H2O . ai is picking winners in every vertical , on every continent , and making them AI superpowers to take on the tech giants with the H2O AI Cloud . Our innovative maker culture and customer obsession have won the trust and love of our customers . We recently closed US $ 100bn in Series E funding led by Australia ’ s largest bank , the Commonwealth Bank of Australia . We ’ ve now raised over US $ 250mn , and are the latest AI unicorn valued at US $ 1.7bn .

» The team at H2O . ai , every person , is a maker and we are all there to build and create for our customers . As the CEO and founder , I started H2O . ai to lead a global movement to democratise AI . I look after the strategic direction of the company , product development and guidance of our global customer base ’ s AI-driven digital transformation initiatives . My passion is our ‘ AI for Good ’ initiatives , where we are working to solve some of the biggest problems in the world , like climate change and health equity . But the success of H2O . ai is about the makers — the thousands of data scientists and professionals from the community of customers , investors , partners , current and future shareholders , the opensource community , nonprofits and government entities . The goal of this work is to democratise AI and make the world a better place .