“When I joined Citi four and a half years ago, data science or analytics before I even talk about AI, was often an afterthought. We used to think: ‘We’ll use analysis to prove a point that the business already had in mind,’” she said during a conversation that I moderated. “The advent of gen AI was a big paradigm shift for us,” she said. “It actually put data and analytics at the forefront of everything. All of a sudden, everyone wanted to solve everything with Gen AI. “