Akiko Murakami

Akiko Murakami is the executive director of the Japan AI Safety Institute and the Executive Officer and 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, she 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. She 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 March 2024.