Tia White
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Industry Executive and Visionary
Biography
• Tia White is a true disruptor, pioneering major transformations in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for Fortune 100 companies and helping them stay at the forefront of innovation. • Tia plays a critical role in guiding organizations through the adoption of the latest and most advanced technologies, such as Generative AI and Agentic AI, enabling them to evolve quickly in a rapidly changing digital landscape with unique solutions for their businesses. • As the first Black woman hired as a General Manager in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Analytics at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s leading tech companies, Tia leads product, engineering, and go-to-market strategies for a cutting-edge portfolio. • Starting her career as an engineer and becoming a Director of Engineering at a Fortune 100 company before age 30, Tia brings deep technical expertise and executive insight to her work. • She has consistently helped global enterprises harness the power of emerging technologies to transform operations, enhance customer experience, and drive growth. Tia serves on the AI + Ethics Advisory Board for Omnicom Precision Marketing and is active on nonprofit boards, including Rewriting the Code, which supports early-career women in technology from over 800 colleges across 81 countries. • Featured in Forbes and a frequent speaker at leading conferences like SXSW and Grace Hopper, Tia shares her insights on emerging tech, AI strategy, and inclusive leadership with audiences around the world. Tia White is a true disruptor with the ability to think big. She pioneered multiple major transformations including Public Cloud Migrations and Data Transformations well before they were a focus of most organizations. She has held executive roles at multiple Fortune 100 companies, getting her start at Wells Fargo, followed by roles at Capital One and JPMorgan Chase & Company before her current role as the General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Adtech and MarTech at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Tia has built and led global teams and prides herself on being a people-first leader with the ability to deliver paramount results. In her current role, she is responsible for owning go-to-market, product, and engineering for a portfolio of services on track to exceed profits of more than $25M including one of the fastest-growing services at AWS. Getting her start as an engineer, she quickly grew and expanded her scope to become a Director of Engineering at a Fortune 100 company before the age of 30. Throughout her career, she has helped companies harness the power of disruptive and emerging technologies to grow and improve the customer experience as well as lead massive transformations. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity has been a passion of Tia’s since she entered corporate America. It’s not a hobby, but a mission she lives day in and out – creating a STEM world where women, Black and Brown people are no longer a minority. To that end, she has held various leadership positions over the past 10 years, championing and executing corporate and CEO-led councils, programs, and strategies. With a focus on recruiting, retaining, and developing underrepresented talent across the technology field she has created mentoring programs for college-aged women of color, worked directly with Women Who Code on creating unique Summer Immersion Programs, and has helped companies more than double their Black tech and engineering population and massively grow their women population. She is very involved in her community and passionate about educating the next generation in tech, with a focus on minority women. She serves on numerous non-profit boards including Rewriting the Code, which supports early-career women from 800+ colleges and universities and 81 countries with a passion for technology. As a woman in tech and a single mother, Tia believes in the power and support of a "village” to create a healthy home and work life. She speaks to the importance of mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship in and out of the workplace. Tia has been featured in Forbes and has spoken and emceed at several large conferences including SXSW and Grace Hopper speaking on a variety of topics ranging from engineering to professional development.
Speech Topics
It Takes a Village: Making it Work as a Working Mom
Mentorship and Diversity in STEM
Transformation and Innovation: Disrupting Your Industry with ML and AI
In today's digital world, data is the cornerstone that companies must embrace to accelerate innovation. Innovation is essential in today's economy to maintain a competitive advantage. In this conversation, Tia White will share how to unleash the power of data to deliver rapidly with machine learning and artificial intelligence. From leveraging data to make timely (even real-time) decisions to utilizing a machine for use cases such as personalization, forecasting, etc., Tia shows the audience how to make massive improvements without much human intervention. She will also discuss how to bring the organization along the journey - people, processes and tools.
Using Generative AI To Optimize Your Business
In the last 3 years, the amount of data we have readily accessible has grown over 1600x. To that end, we are unleashing the power of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), allowing companies to quickly deliver solutions such as text or image creation with very minimal data required. In this conversation, Tia will explain GenAI in very simple terms, how to identify appropriate use cases for GenAI and when traditional ML may be more appropriate. Based on her expertise as a current AI executive, Tia leaves audiences with real-time insights into the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence.
The Power of Generative AI... Agents
The AI landscape has shifted in a rapid fashion. We are now in an age where we have moved from information to action. Picture a world where your co-workers are now virtual, and have an uncanny ability to learn at warp speed and complete uber complex tasks fast. These "virtual" co-workers are really AI agents and have become necessary in a world where productivity and innovation efficiencies reign supreme. In this conversation, Tia will explain what AI agents are, how to build and deploy them. She will dive deep into the aspects of technology and business processes that must be true to succeed. Tia will close with the necessary aspects of privacy and change management to safely create the next best co-worker that the world needs but wasn't expecting.
The Future Is Federated: How AI Collaboration Will Transform Regulated Industries
As AI becomes increasingly central to business strategy, industries like healthcare, financial services, and government face a unique dilemma around how to innovate with machine learning without compromising data privacy, regulatory compliance, or intellectual property. In this dynamic keynote, AI and ML leader Tia White introduces federated learning: a groundbreaking advancement that allows organizations to train shared machine learning models without ever exposing sensitive data. With deep experience leading cloud migrations, enterprise AI transformations, and multimillion-dollar service portfolios at Fortune 100 companies, Tia shares how federated learning allows multiple organizations to collaborate on training powerful AI models whether matching patients to clinical trials or improving fraud detection across banks. Drawing from real-world examples and her work across the technology and banking sectors, Tia demystifies the technology, its implications, and why regulated industries must act now to stay competitive in the age of AI.
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