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Calista Redmond

Calista Redmond is vice president of global AI initiatives at NVIDIA, where she leads strategic collaborations with regions, ecosystem partners and product groups to advance national, state and local AI programs worldwide. Her work focuses on helping governments build digital resilience, local innovation capacity and AI ecosystems aligned with their cultural and economic priorities. Before joining NVIDIA, Calista served as CEO of RISC‑V International, driving global adoption of the open RISC‑V instruction set architecture across industry, academia and government. Previously, she spent more than a decade at IBM in leadership roles including vice president of the IBM Z Ecosystem as well as open source initiatives such as the Open Mainframe Project, OpenPOWER and OpenDaylight. Earlier in her career, Calista was an entrepreneur in four successful technology startups. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University and is based in Washington, D.C.

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How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment...