Smriti Kataria

Smriti Kataria is the Head of Marketing & Product Growth at nSpire, a company building AI agents for the workforce of tomorrow. nSpire is driving innovation at the intersection of technology and career development with its conversational AI Career Coach Theo. Smriti previously served as Vice President of Marketing at Near (now Azira), a B2B SaaS location intelligence company, where she was the first marketing hire, and helped grow the company through Series A to Series D, across US & APAC. She has also been a D2C startup founder (successfully exited). Her enterprise experience extends to several leadership roles at Bharti Airtel, one of the world’s largest telecom operators with ~500M subscribers, where she launched 3G data services, and grew the global data business across Africa and Middle East markets. Passionate about technology that transforms how we live and work, Smriti is dedicated to be part of solutions that remove human limitations, and democratize access to opportunities. At ASU+GSV, Smriti will share insights on how AI agents are transforming career development, democratizing access to personalized coaching, and preparing the workforce for an AI-driven future.