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Kriti Sharma, (born April 1988) is an artificial intelligence technologist, mobile product inventor and one of the first chatbot executives in the technology industry. In 2017, Sharma was named in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30. She is a speaker on financial technology, big data, product management and millennial entrepreneurship. She is currently the Vice President of Bots and AI at Sage Group, one of the UK’s largest tech companies. She is the inventor of “invisible accounting” with Pegg, first of its kind chatbot for business finances. She has been leading efforts to create more diverse and ethical artificial intelligence and “embracing botness” which means that AI does not have to pretend to be human, instead it needs to be useful.
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Education
Sharma holds a Bachelors in Engineering [2010] and a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews [2011]. At the age of 21, Sharma was elected as a Rajiv Gandhi Science Fellow for her work in energy optimisation and its applications in astrophysics, material science, polymer and bioinformatics research. In 2010, Google awarded her the Google India Women in Engineering Award for excellence in computer science and demonstrated leadership in promoting diversity. She was awarded a Systers Pass It On award by Anita Borg Institute for her work in educational outreach for girls in Rajasthan.
Career
In September 2011, Sharma joined Barclays where she led product management of technology innovations such as Pingit mobile payments app. Pingit won the App Store Best of 2012. She was later appointed Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics at Barclays Africa where she led a team of data scientists and created products using open-source real-time analytics. Her group focused on using machine learning to make user engagement with financial services intelligent and personalised. During this time, she also mentored fintech and healthcare startups in Africa and drove Open Data Collaboration across industries.
In February 2016, Sharma joined the UK’s largest software group Sage to lead mobile products for more than 6 million businesses globally. On 26 July 2016 Sharma and Stephen Kelly, CEO of Sage, launched Pegg, the world’s first personal chatbot for business finance. Pegg was created by Sharma to make accounting as easy as texting. Within six weeks of launch, the chatbot was being used by people in 85 countries. Sharma also announced a partnership between Sage and Slack to create conversational workplace.
She is the founder of Messaging Bots London, a community of more than 1000 bot developers in Europe. She was named 44 in Peter Buchroithner's top 100 list of global people to watch in the bots space, published in VentureBeat.
She led a global research at Sage on the new generation of entrepreneurs in July 2016. The report revealed insights about young entrepreneurs. It also highlighted the need to change policy to enable businesses of today.
Awards and honors
Early life
Sharma was born in 1988 in Rajasthan, India. She and her two siblings were brought up in Jaipur. She now lives in London.