Davar Ardalan is a generative AI leader specializing in Cultural AI, with a career spanning Booz Allen, NPR, National Geographic, the White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship Program, and startups. She is currently AI Strategist at The BAI Group.
Author of AI for Community: Preserving Culture and Tradition (Taylor & Francis, 2025) and named to the Voice AI 100 in 2025, Ardalan focuses on building trust and context in fast-moving technical environments and also creates mixed media art with the Annapolis Arts Alliance and Gallery 57 West.
