Cari Covent

Global Chief Data and AI Advisor, Microsoft

Cari Covent is the Global Chief Data and AI Advisor at Microsoft Corporation and an internationally recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data strategy, and enterprise digital transformation. She advises Fortune 500 executives, founders and Boards on scaling responsible AI to drive productivity, innovation, and sustainable growth. She serves as a Director at Queen’s University Smith School of Business Master of Management and Analytics
program and Scale AI and is a selected Advisor to Canada’s Federal AI Strategy Task Force.

Previously, she led Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at Canadian Tire Corporation, advancing enterprise-wide AI enabled transformation at national scale.