Keynote speaker.
Philosophical engineer.
Who is Dr. Deitra Sawh
Dr. Deitra Sawh is a strategic advisor who helps executives cut through the AI hype and decide what's actually worth building. While the market pushes every leader toward agents and the latest tech stack, she asks the question almost no one is asking: what does your business actually need? Sometimes that's AI, but often it's a simple automated workflow. Knowing the difference is what separates leaders who move fast in the right direction from those who move fast in the wrong one.
She's a philosophical engineer. She takes the large, sometimes scary world of artificial intelligence and brings it back to simple, human terms, so a leader can see the real dilemma in front of her and make the decision with confidence. She doesn't sell tools and she doesn't do the work for you. She makes sure you make the right call, build the thing worth building, and sustains it.
Meet Deitra
Deitra holds a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering and a Master of Mathematical Finance, with more than two decades building financial, risk, and machine learning models and turning messy data into decisions people can act on. A woman with a Ph.D. in a field where that's still rare, she has spent her career making high-stakes calls as a specialist and translating between the technical experts and the leaders who answer for the results.
She works most closely with women executives leading operationally complex companies through this moment of disruption. She also hosts “We Are The Machines”, a podcast that makes you fluent with AI, without the hype.
