Calista Redmond is the Vice President of Global AI Initiatives at NVIDIA, where she leads strategic collaborations with regions, ecosystem partners, and product groups to advance national, state, and local AI programs worldwide. Her work focuses on helping governments build digital resilience, local innovation capacity, and AI ecosystems aligned with their cultural and economic priorities.
Before joining NVIDIA, Calista served as CEO of RISC‑V International, driving global adoption of the open RISC‑V instruction set architecture across industry, academia, and government. Previously, she spent more than a decade at IBM in leadership roles including VP of the IBM Z Ecosystem as well as open‑source initiatives such as the Open Mainframe Project, OpenPOWER, and OpenDaylight.
Earlier in her career, Calista was an entrepreneur in four successful technology start‑ups. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University and is based in Washington, D.C.
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