Speaker bio page for Kate Balingit

Bio

Kate Balingit is the VP of Digital innovation for Mars Petcare and leads the Digital Health Initiative, a cross-functional effort to develop health screening instruments for pet parents to help identify early signs of disease using artificial intelligence and computer vision. Kate started her career at Google, where she spent nearly 10 years working on digital transformation programs with some of the largest automotive companies around the world. She also spent time at Waze, the navigation app, unlocking new use cases for their unique real-time data assets, as well as 4 years at a deep tech startup that specialized in computer vision and in-vehicle cameras, building products for geospatial intelligence, mapping, and autonomous driving. She joined Mars in 2022 with a goal of marrying her love of technology with her love of her two dogs and anchored on the belief that when we work together, we truly can make a better world for pets.