--- title: The WSAI community's top 50 Innovators official list 2022 description: "Which AI Brains left us shook this year? Who blew our minds? Meet the World Summit AI community's top 50 Innovators in 2022. Who is your top pick? 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We're excited to announce the World Summit AI community's top 50 Innovators official list 2022💥  Who is your top pick? Join the conversation @worldsummitai #WSAITop50 #AIBrains Top 50 Innovators official list 2022 1. **Peter Norvig**, Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow, **Google** and **Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence** 2. **Joelle Pineau**, Co-Managing Director, **Meta AI Research**, and Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, **McGill University** 3. **Dr. Steve Chien**, Former NSCAI Commissioner; JPL Fellow; Senior Research Scientist in the Mission Planning and Execution Section, Technical Group Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence/Integrated Planning and Execution, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, **California Institute of Technology/NASA** 4. **Cassie Kozyrkov**, Chief Decision Scientist, **Google** 5. **Renée Cummings**, Data Activist in Residence, **University of Virginia** 6. **Doina Precup**, Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Associate Professor of Computer Science, **McGill University**; Research Team Lead, **DeepMind** 7. **Michael Kagan**, CTO, **NVIDIA** 8. **Samantha Samaras**, Global Vice President Science & Technology, Beauty and Personal Care R&D, **Unilever** 9. **Colin Murdoch**, Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer, **DeepMind** 10. **Professor Francesca Rossi**, President, AAAI, Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, **IBM** 11. **Irina Rish**, Core Member of **Mila** – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; Canada **CIFAR **AI Chair, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Autonomous AI; Professor, **Université de Montréal** 12. **Michael Spranger**, COO, **Sony AI** 13. **Stefano La Rovere**, Global Director of Robotics - Advanced Technology (AT), **Amazon** 14. **Dame Wendy Hal**l, Regius Professor in Computer Science, **University of Southampton** 15. **Joe Depa**, Europe AI Lead | Global Lead for Data-led Transformation | Senior Managing Director, **Accenture** 16. **Dr Vindell Washington**, CEO of Onduo and the Chief Clinical Officer, **Verily Health Platforms** 17. **Elizabeth M. Adams**, Affiliate Fellow, **Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)** 18. **Dr Catalina Lopez-Correa**, Chief Scientific Officer, **Genome Canada** 19. **Dominique Malenfant**, Executive Vice President & Chief Information & Technology Officer, C**N** 20. **Sue Black OBE**, Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist, **Durham University** 21. **Benjamin Lev**y, Co-Founder and General Partner, **BotstrapLabs** 22. **Baiju Devani**, Head of Machine Learning, **TD Bank Group** 23. **Jack McCauley**, Co-Founder and Former Chief Engineer, **Oculus VR**; Innovator in Residence, Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation, **University of California at Berkeley** 24. **Alice Xiang**, Senior Research Scientist (AI Ethics Lead), **Sony AI**; Head of AI Ethics Office, **Sony Group Corporation** 25. **Erik J Larson**, Computer scientist, Tech Entrepreneur, Author, Research Scientist, **KBSI, Inc.** 26. **Carolina Bessega**, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, **Stradigi AI** 27. **Vilas S. Dhar**, President, **Patrick J. McGovern Foundation** 28. **Meredith Broadbent**, Former Chairman of the **U.S. International Trade Commission**; Senior Adviser (non-resident), Scholl Chair in International Business, **Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C** 29. **Professor Marc-Antoine Dilhac**, Director of Algora Lab; **CIFAR** Chair in AI Ethics, **Mila** (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute); Professor of Philosophy, **Université de Montréal** 30. **Mark Surman**, President and Chief Executive, **Mozilla Foundation** 31. **Elena Fersman**, VP, Global AI Accelerator, **Ericsson** 32. **Wei Li**, VP/GM, AI and Analytics, **Intel** 33. **Professor Anil Seth**, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, **University of Sussex** 34. **Orlando Machado**, Chief Data Officer and Vice President, **The LEGO Group** 35. **Anna Scaife**, Professor of Radio Astronomy, **University of Manchester** 36. **Bruce Stamm**, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence and Application Development & Maintenance, A**ir Canada** 37. **Markku Allison**, VP Strategy & Innovation, **Chandos Construction** 38. **Dr. Sasha Luccioni**, Research Scientist, HuggingFace; Founding Member, **Climate Change AI (CCAI)** 39. **Prof Dr. Konrad Tollmar**, Research Director, **SEED Electronic Arts** 40. **Bill Wong**, AI & Analytics Practice Lead, **Dell** 41. **Professor Gillian Hadfield**, Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI), **University of Toronto** 42. **Serge Massicotte**, CEO, **Ivado Labs** 43. **Mo Chen**, Amii Fellow; Canada **CIFA**R AI Chair; Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science and Principal Investigator of the Multi-Agent Robotic Systems Lab, **Simon Fraser University** 44. **Dr José-Marie Griffiths**, Former Commissioner, **National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence**; President, **Dakota State University in Madison** 45. **Davood Shamsi**, Senior Engineering Manager, Optimization, ML/AI, **Apple** 46. **Dr Matthew Taylor**, Canada **CIFAR** AI Chair and Fellow-In-Residence, **Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)**; Director, Intelligent Robot Learning Lab and Associate Professor of Computing Science, **University of Alberta** 47. **Deval Pandya**, Director of AI Engineering, **Vector Institute**; Member of task force for Digitalisation of Energy, **UN Economic Commission of Europe** 48. **Patrick St Amant**, Co-Founder, CTO, Inventor, **Zetane Systems** 49. **Amna Habiba**, Founder, **BloomED Foundation** 50. **Topher White**, CEO and Founder, **Rainforest Connection**   **Global AI events calendar 2023** **World Summit AI  ** 11-12 October 2023 Amsterdam, Netherlands [worldsummit.ai](https://worldsummit.ai/)   [Find out more & book tickets >](https://worldsummit.ai/)[>](https://worldsummit.ai/) [Subscribe to the mailing list to receive the latest event news >](https://worldsummit.ai/wsai-newsletter/)[>](https://worldsummit.ai/)   **World Summit AI Americas ** 19-20 April 2023 Montréal, Canada [americas.worldsummit.ai](https://americas.worldsummit.ai/)   [Find out more & book tickets >](https://americas.worldsummit.ai/)[>](https://worldsummit.ai/) [Subscribe to the mailing list to receive the latest event news >](https://americas.worldsummit.ai/world-summit-ai-americas-newsletter/)[>](https://worldsummit.ai/)   **Share your content with the World Summit AI community**   Got some interesting content you want to share with our community of over 200,000 AI Brains? You can send us anything from a published piece you have written online, white paper, article or interview. 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