Awards & Recognition
WOW3 Unstoppable — Most Inspirational Women of Web3 and AI (2025)
Distinguished Data Scientist — Professional Certification, The Open Group (2024)
Bast AI awarded OEDIT Early-Stage Capital and Retention Grant (2024)
AI for the Rest of Us — Nominated #1 book to read in 2024 by Constellation Research
100 Most Brilliant Leaders in AI Ethics (2023)
IBM Master Inventor (2019)
Lifetime Achievement Award, IBM Academy of Technology
Board & Advisory
Board of Trustees, Maryville University
Advisory Board, Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI), Northwestern University
Cognitive World Think Tank Member
Conference Host, Enterprise AI World at KMWorld (2024, 2025)
Writing & Expert Contributions
Cognitive World — Writer and Expert Contributor
VentureBeat — Writer and Expert Contributor
Policy & Public Accountability
Testified before the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee on SB24-205, Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection act
Panelist alongside Colorado AG Phil Weiser at Silicon Flatirons on the regulatory future of AI
Speaker at ISP Symposium, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, with Congressman Joe Neguse on science communication ethics (2023)
Featured Moments
2026
The Cynefin Exploratory — Eagle
One of three Eagles with Dave Snowden and Delia McCabe
2025
Concordia Live
Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.) and Arvind Krishna in attendance
2025
Denver Council on Foreign Relations — Keynote
Followed by the Dean of the Korbel School, the Ambassador of the Middle East, and Representative of Taiwan
2024
Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee — SB24-205
Testimony on Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection act
2023
ISP Symposium, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
With Congressman Joe Neguse — ethics of science communication
2023
The Salzburg Dialogue (Austria)
2023
Global Female Leaders Economic Forum (Berlin)
Podcast — Host
And We Feel Fine — Co-host with Katie Smith
Podcasts & Interviews — Guest
Your AI Is Your Mirror, Not Your Oracle — Alistair Langer Podcast
Masters of Scale Strategy Sessions — with Reid Hoffman and Rana el Kaliouby
Redefining AI Ethics: The Key Role of Explainability — DataStax Podcast
Women in AI Ethics — Responsible AI at Scale
The Changelog
Selected Patents & Publications
50+ patents and publications as primary inventor/collaborator, spanning AI, NLP, knowledge graphs, data privacy, IoT, and semantic systems. Select patents donated to the Linux Foundation.
Bast AI — Pending
Ontology Management System with Explainable AI Integration
Multi-tier Data Verification System
Explainable AI Framework System
Cross-Domain Ontology Integration System
Inter-component Communication and Synchronization System
Selected IBM-Era Patents
Ontology-driven Feature Engineering in Statistical Predictions
Hyperplane Optimization in High Dimensional Ontology
Generative Learning Paths for Autonomous Upskilling
Representation of Distributional Similarity in Semantic Graphs
Violation and Exception Life Cycle Management via Blockchain
Method to Identify and Prevent Privacy Violations in Consumer Devices
Education & Credentials
MA Anthropology — University of Denver (1998)
BA Classical Archaeology (Greek and Latin) — Florida State University (1996)
IBM Appointments
Distinguished Engineer — IBM (appointed 2016)
Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) — IBM (appointed 2012)
IBM Master Inventor (2019)
Professional Certifications
Distinguished Data Scientist — Professional Certification, The Open Group (2024)
Renewal of a profession Beth created and got accredited through The Open Group in 2018
Renewal of a profession Beth created and got accredited through The Open Group in 2018
L3 Thought Leader Certified Data Scientist, The Open Group (2018, recertified 2022)
Books
AI for the Rest of Us (co-author) — Nominated #1 book to read in 2024 by Constellation Research
Julian Steward and the Great Basin (co-author and editor)
Full Timeline
2026
Jan 28 Sparking Forum (Toronto) — with Rebecca Jones
Jan 19 The Cynefin Exploratory
2025
Nov 19–20 KMWorld + Enterprise AI World (Conference Host)
Oct 29 Internet Librarian Connect — AI Ethics session
Oct 22–26 Artificiality Summit — Keynote provocation on Trust
Oct 22 Women in AI — Crystal Street
Oct 17 Homeless Prenatal Program Annual Luncheon (Bast AI hosted)
Oct 15 RMAIIG — Women in AI
Sep 26–28 Transformative Summit
Sep 24 Concordia Live
Sep 19 AIGG North America
Sep 5 DCFR Keynote
Jul 31 COLTT
Jun 9 InnEdCo
May 21 CULC Future Labs Webinar
May 14 Maryville Keynote
May 6–7 University of Toronto
Apr 4 CCD AI Workshop
Mar 28 Practically Tomorrow Podcast
Mar 17–19 KM + AI Summit
Feb 13 Maryville's Women Leadership Program
2024
Dec 3 WISE BRG
Nov 19 Enterprise AI + KMWorld
Nov 14–15 WLDA
Nov 4 ELVTR (Future Trends in LLMs)
Oct 30 DU — AI for the Rest of Us
Oct 24 AI for the Rest of Us at Tulane University
Oct 22 Riderflex Podcast
Oct 18 Homeless Prenatal Program Luncheon
Oct 17 Women in AI Virtual Event
Oct 14–16 Human Potential Summit
Oct 10 ProjectPro Podcast
Sep 23 Constellation AI Forum
Sep 19 DenAI Summit
Sep 16 Virtual Library Presentation
Sep 11 Crisp Connect 2024
Sep 10 Futures Summit CCC
Aug 9 DisrupTV
Aug 7 DVC Meetup
Jul 30 Luminoso Webinar
May 8–9 Data Summit 2024
May 8 Final Accelerator TVXW 2024
Apr 14–16 ASU + GSV Summit
Mar 21 Tampa Bay Library Consortium Tech Conference
Mar 4–7 SXSW EDU
Feb 7–9 Maryville Board of Trustees
2023
Dec 6 ISP Symposium, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Dec 1 CU Boulder Lecture
Nov 6–9 KMWorld & Enterprise AI World
Oct 18–19 HAI Alloy Summit
Oct 16–19 Internet Librarian Connect
Oct 4 Talent Forward
Sep 26 CDO Roundtable Event (Copenhagen)
Sep 18–22 Denver Startup Week
Sep 14 CTA Conference
Sep 1 CU Boulder Regents
Aug 3 COLTT Conference
Jun 29 CTA Insights Panel
Jun 4–7 AIMed Global Summit
May 30 Stand Together Workshop (SNA)
May 18 Temple Grandin
May 15 Maryville BOT Student Outcomes
Apr 28 USAID Presentation
Apr 25 Global Female Leaders Economic Forum (Berlin)
Mar 29 Computers in Libraries
Mar 1 Career Innovation Company Roundtable
Feb 16 MS Showcase (Explainable AI)
Jan 12–14 The Salzburg Dialogue (Austria)
2022
Nov 7–10 KMWorld
Oct 10 Gaming Industry Conference
Oct 5 Global Talent Summit
Sep 27–29 Mediatech Hub (Germany)
Aug 29 Master Class — Integrated AI Ethics (T3 Innovation)
Aug 3 T3 Innovation