Beth Rudden is the CEO and Chairwoman of Bast.ai, a company that leverages emerging technology to build custom conversational AI tools or CATs for clients. Prior to founding Bast, Beth worked at IBM for 20 years, founding their Data Science practice and working with numerous clients to design and implement large scale solutions leveraging machine learning and training folks in data science.

Beth has a Masters in Anthropology from University of Denver and a Classics (Greek and Latin) Degree from Florida State. She helped design the Data Science Profession in IBM, accredited through Open Group. Beth has over 40 patents, including the integration of analytic algorithms into information systems to create decision support automation, cognitive role-based visualizations, and container based distributed analytics for privacy, taking the algorithm to the data.