Dr. Catherine Havasi

Chief Product Officer   


Basis Technology

Dr. Catherine Havasi is a technology strategist, artificial intelligence researcher, and entrepreneur. In the late 90s, she co-founded the Common Sense Computing Initiative, or ConceptNet, the first crowd-sourced project for artificial intelligence and the largest open knowledge graph for language understanding. ConceptNet has played a role in thousands of AI projects and will be turning 20 next year. She is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Luminoso, which helps companies get value from customer service data. She was honored as one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in business. She is currently a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab where she works on computational creativity and previously directed the Digital Intuition group at the Media Lab. She did her PhD at Brandeis University with James Pustejovsky.

Other Speakers