Akiko Murakami (Virtual)

Executive Director at Japan AI Safety Institute, Japan

Akiko Murakami is Executive Officer, Chief Data Officer of Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. She delivers DX of P&C insurance utilizing digital technologies and AI for the purpose of innovation challenges with digital.

Prior to joining Sompo Japan in 2021, Akiko was a researcher of Natural Language Processing, social analysis and text mining at IBM Research for 16 years. After this, she represented Watson development as an architect at IBM for 5 years. She is involved in "resilient engineering" that utilizes IT for disaster recovery, mitigation, and risk management and founded “IT Disaster Assistance and Response Team” (IT DART) in 2015 and became a board member.

Akiko is also a board member of The Association for Natural Language Processing from Apr 2022. She was a part-time lecturer at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University by Mar. 2024. In 2024, her background led her to become the Executive director of the Japan AI Safety Institute.