Evident - Evident AI Talent Roundtable

How does investment in AI talent correlate to outcomes from AI use cases?

Wednesday 7th May 2025 15.00-16.00 BST | 10.00-11.00 EDT

VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE

Event Speakers

Ricardo García Martín

Head GRM Data & Analytics & Analytics Transformation, BBVA

Ricardo serves as both the Global Head of GRM Data & Analytics, as well as the Global Head of Analytics Transformation at BBVA. In this role, he is focused on maximizing business value through advanced analytics, while driving the transition to cloud-based solutions. To that end, BBVA recently established a new organizational construct that integrates the bank’s global network of data scientists and specialists. Ricardo’s 20-year career spans multiple roles at Tier-1 institutions, in roles ranging from risk analytics, model development and validation, as well as risk management.

Sumee Seetharaman

Vice President, AI/ML Practice & Center of Excellence, TD Bank

In her current role, Sumee works in partnership with the bank’s innovation program to develop new technology use cases. Her team builds AI/ML proofs-of-concept to evaluate their feasibility and scalability. This includes designing experiments to stress test new ideas, ensuring they are both technically feasible and financially sustainable. Sumee joined TD Bank in 2014, after starting her career in program management at Microsoft.

Alexandra Mousavizadeh

Co-CEO and Co-founder, Evident

Alexandra has spent 25 years ranking and quantifying complex societal and political forces, and for the last 6 years she has focused on AI. She started her career at Moody’s, then Morgan Stanley, and later became CEO of ARC Ratings and Director of the Prosperity Index. Most recently, Alexandra was Director of Tortoise Intelligence, publisher of The Global AI Index.

Colin Gilbert

VP of Intelligence, Evident

Colin leads Evident's Intelligence Team. focused on developing new content offerings and expanding our customer-facing diagnostics. Colin has spent the last 15 years working in Research & Advisory services, specializing in using quantitative benchmarking to measure an organization's digital aptitude vs. performance. Previously, he served as a Managing Vice President at L2 Inc. (acquired by Gartner in 2017), where he worked on the Digital IQ Index® as it expanded to cover nearly 1,500 leading brands across 15x B2C industries.

AI transformation efforts require deploying the right configuration of people at the right time to accelerate change, optimize performance, and realize results. Along the way, banks need to balance between several core capability areas.

As banks progress along their AI journeys, Evident is tracking how these investments into AI talent (“inputs”) translate directly into AI use cases and related ROI (“outcomes”).

In our next virtual roundtable, we'll dive into the latest data from Evident's 2025 Talent Report. During this session, we will explore how the AI talent stack is changing across the 50 banks tracked in the Evident AI Index. We'll further unpack emerging trends, identify critical new roles, and explore which capability areas leading banks are prioritizing moving forward.

Key Questions for Discussion:

> How do you optimize the AI talent stack to accelerate production and deployment of use cases at scale?

> What are emerging best practices to coordinate the expansions of AI Hubs?

> As banks roll-out enterprise-wide Gen AI tools, what types of training activities drive uptake?

> How do leading banks ensure continuing alignment between technical talent and business leaders?