Steven Smith

CEO of AccuWeather, the global weather leader, whose data powers forecasts for nearly a billion people worldwide, drawn from the world's largest, proprietary global weather database.I joined AccuWeather as a forecasting intern in 1997 and have held leadership roles across every dimension of the business, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Digital Officer, President of Digital Media, and President, before being named CEO in 2023. Today, I am leading AccuWeather's transformation into a data science and technology-driven organization built for the AI era. We are positioning AccuWeather's proprietary weather data, built on a foundation of Superior Accuracy™, as an essential asset in the emerging data economy. Half of the Fortune 500 and thousands of other customers from industries spanning agriculture, aviation, energy, logistics, insurance, and emergency management rely on AccuWeather.Our mission is to save lives, protect property, and help people and companies make the best weather-impacted decisions. Every day.We are also pursuing something that has never been achieved: the perfect weather forecast. Not a single forecast, but every forecast, every location, all the time. When we get there, it will strengthen the global economy, power a worldwide extreme weather warning system that does not exist today, and save hundreds of thousands of lives.