Sherry Comes is a managing director at Deloitte, in the Applied AI group. She specializes in the areas of voice solutions, AI, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, analytics, data science, and machine learning. Her innovative approach has won her innovation awards, and has helped her lead, and be an integral part of, many ground-breaking advancements, such as being the first person to bring AI solutions to Africa as a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Watson. She has done extensive work around creating voice virtual assistants in financial services and has also received a number of patents.