Invited Talk
Last updated on 14 February, 2019
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DAY 1 - 26 August, 2019 |
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
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Cognizant Digital Business |
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Tredence Analytics |
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DAY 2 - 27 August, 2019 |
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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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Barclays |
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H2O.ai |
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Prof. U Dinesh Kumar
Professor, Decision Sciences, IIM Bangalore
Chair, Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics
Chair, Career Development Services
Chair, Data Centre and Analytics Lab
E-Mail: dineshk@iimb.ac.in
Profile: Click Here
U Dinesh Kumar is a Professor in Decision Sciences Area and also the Chairperson of DCAL at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). Dinesh Kumar holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from IIT Bombay and has over two decades of teaching and consulting experience. He has been recognized as one of the Top 10 most prominent analytics academicians in India for his extensive research in big data analytics.
Dr. Dinesh Kumar has spearheaded the analytics education industry in India. IIMB was one of the first education institute in the country to offer a regular long-term certification program on Business Analytics & Intelligence (BAI) in the year 2010. Professor Kumar regularly conducts corporate training programme in Analytics and has trained many professionals in the field of analytics in the last 11 years.
He has published more than thirty case studies on Business Analytics and Machine Learning Algorithms based on Indian and multinational organizations at Harvard Business Publishing. He has authored 3 books and his most recent book titled “Business Analytics – The Science of Data Driven Decision Making” has been recommended by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Topic Title : Case Studies in ML and AI
Naveen Kumar Bhansali
Consultant, Data Centre and Analytics Lab
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
E-Mail: naveen.kbhansali@iimb.ac.in
Around 14 years of industry experience working on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning/Machine Learning
Consulting across the globe on various domains/verticals such as telecom, retail, aerospace, e-commerce, education, federal agencies and IT – Exchange & Storage
He has done consulting on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for several large MNCs including Embraer Brazil, FWD Hong Kong, Bank of Thailand, TIM Brazil, Hawaiian Telecom USA, Bank of Ayudhya in Thailand, ASOS UK, VTC Hong Kong, etc.
Alumnus of IIM Bangalore
Published cases in Harvard Business Publications
Topic Title : Workshop on Deep Learning
Ajay Kumar
Vice President and India Head of Group Treasury Technology
Barclays
E-Mail: getajay@gmail.com
Ajay Kumar is the Vice President and India Head of Group Treasury Technology at Barclays. He is a senior financial technologist, cloud and big data architect and data scientist.
Ajay has held several senior leadership positions at Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland in India. He has a broad range of experience in investment banking which includes building platforms for trading complex exotic derivatives and building a cross-asset core risk and analytics platform centered around modern risk generation compute technology. He was also instrumental in the development of cross asset and front to back Big Data fabric at Barclays Investment Bank.
Ajay is passionate about analytics and his area of interest is the application of analytics in Investment Banking.
Topic Title : Optimize re-marketing campaigns using ML
Raman Narasimhan
Vice President
Cognizant Digital Business
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
E-Mail: raman.narasimhan@gmail.com
Raman is a Vice President in the Artificial Intelligence and Analytics practice of Cognizant Digital Business. He heads the AI Centre of Excellence and Strategic Solutioning team within CDB. With over 25 years of experience in helping customers in their Information Management and Analytics needs spanning geographies and industries, he also drives several strategic imperatives for the practice, runs M&A, helps with thought leadership, advisory and strategic solutioning for client’s digital data foundry, AI/ML adoption, AI solutioning, business case preparations, use case identification for potential AI applications and architecting enterprise grade digital data solutions. Raman also helps shape practice strategies, supports in analyst relations, and a regular speaker in conferences and seminars across the globe.
Topic Title : Ai trendZ      A → Z
Sudalai Rajkumar
Data Scientist
H20.ai
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
E-Mail: sudalai.rajkumar@h2o.ai
Sudalai Rajkumar (aka SRK) is a Data Scientist at H2O.ai Inc, building Driverless AI, an automated machine learning platform. He is currently leading the NLP efforts for this platform. In his 9+ years of experience, he has built ML products and also done data science consulting. He has solved a lot of interesting data science problems in multiple domains including finance, customer support, e-commerce, health care, transportation.
Apart from his day job, he takes part in various data science competitions to enhance his knowledge and has won several of them. He is a Kaggle Double Grandmaster in Competitions & Kernels section. He is currently ranked #1 on Analytics Vidhya platform as well.
Topic Title : Mastering Data Science Hackathons
Dr. M Mathirajan
Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
E-Mail: msdmathi@iisc.ac.in
Topic Title : A research process with Prescriptive Analytics
Mukul Shrivastava
Analytics Consultant
Tredence Analytics
E-Mail: mukul.shrivastava@hotmail.com
Mukul is a young entrant in Analytics industry and has learnt and grown with the industry during the analytics boom. With more than 4 years of analytics experience, he has majorly worked in retail space and has done multiple projects on customer analytics. Currently working as an Analytics Consultant for Tredence Analytics he works for a Fortune 10 retail client and heads a team of 20 people. The project he would be discussing about right now is based on logistic operations, a field that was a new experience for him where he worked along with his team of 3 to come up with a solution that to save 25% of logistic cost for the client. The project was also recognized as the 2nd best project by IIM-B.
Topic Title : Logistic Cost Optimization in a Multi-Echelon ecosystem
Namrata Rawat
Project Manager
Walmart Labs, India
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
M.Sc. (Statistics), Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
E-Mail: namrata48@gmail.com
Enthusiastic Data Science Professional with 8+ years of experience in machine learning, recommendation engines, optimization & business consulting.
Namrata has extensive experience in business analytics consulting and process deployment. She has designed numerous innovative advanced analytics frameworks in highly diverse fields such as Retail, Risk Management & Finance. She has crafted these data science empowered decision systems for organizations such as Walmart Labs, GE, and TESCO.
She has also won the Walmart global hackathon 2016-17 which had 100+ data scientist participating from across the globe.
Currently based out of Bay area, CA and looking to take up new set of challenging role in diverse environment of data science.
Title Topic: Every Drop Counts - Unleashing the Prospective Locations for Water Harvesting using Geospatial Analytics.
Sandeep Chigurupati
Senior Data Scientist
Tekfriday Processing Solutions
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Bachelor of Technology – Information Technology, Sri indu college of engineering (JNTU)
E-Mail: datascience.sandeep@gmail.com
Over 5 years of experience in solving business problems using Descriptive Analytics, Predictive Modelling and Machine Learning. Completed Business Analytics and Intelligence course from IIM-Bengaluru, which comprises topics like Descriptive Stats, Predictive Modelling, Stochastic Modelling, Machine Learning and optimization.
Currently working as Senior Data Scientist at Tekfriday Processing solutions. Worked on projects related to Loan-Under-Writing, Customer Lifetime value, Store Segmentation, Customer Segmentation, Marketing channel attribution.
Key Developments:
Developed and intelligent and dynamic underwriting system which is based on “Xtreme Gradient Boosting” for one of the financial clients. This includes online learning of the algorithm with streaming data and also automated frequent model retrain.
Identifying default and delinquent customers with the help of machine learning algorithms.
Expertise in handling Class-imbalance, anomaly detection, binary/multi classification and regression problems with proficiency in Hyper-parameter tuning.
Title Topic: Every Drop Counts - Unleashing the Prospective Locations for Water Harvesting using Geospatial Analytics.
Aparana Gupta
Assistant Vice President,
Credit Suisse
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Masters of Technology (Information Technology), International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
E-Mail: aparana.gupta9@gmail.com
A Data Scientist. technocrat & keen learner at heart, ‘Aparana’ has 8+ years of rich & diverse professional experience with robust inter-disciplinary skills across Data Warehousing, Mining, Business Analytics, Machine Learning & Information Systems in Investment Banking domain.
Other than bagging various STAR & SPOT awards during her professional tenure, she has been awarded 2 years of scholarship by SIEMENS Corporate Technology, Bangalore during her M.Tech Program at IIITB. Her interests & forte includes - Risk & Finance Analytics, Statistical Modeling, Predictive Modeling, Optimization, Unsupervised Machine Learning, Dimensional Data Modeling, Data Mining & Performance Tuning.
Currently working as ‘Assistant Vice President’ at Credit Suisse she has been meticulously shouldering end to end delivery of the Data Quality & Risk Analytics Systems using Agile Framework, while also leveraging & honing the above stated concepts & technologies.
Title Topic: Every Drop Counts - Unleashing the Prospective Locations for Water Harvesting using Geospatial Analytics.
Kalaivani Thiagarajan
Sr.Executive – HR
Cognizant Technology Solutions.
Executive Program from IIM, Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Black Belt, Benchmark Six Sigma.
MBA – Human Resources
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications
E-Mail: Kalaivani.thiag@gmail.com
Kalaivani is currently Sr. Executive – HR at Cognizant; working as transformation consultant on process improvements and reengineering across the HR function. Her current key roles would include Robotics Automation of the manual repetitive tasks, process revamp and elimination of unnecessary steps and thereby drive compliance & governance along with potential save for the organization. In her 9 yrs career, she has played all the various roles in the HR function starting from Employee on boarding till Separations.
Kalaivani is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified professional. Currently working on AI and Machine learning initiatives for the HR portfolio and leading the HR Analytics team.
Title Topic: Text and Sentiment Analysis of BREXIT and beyond.
Vinodhini Ranganathan
Data Scientist,
St.Johns Research Institute
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
E-Mail: vinodhiniranganathan14@gmail.com
Vinodhini is currently a Data scientist in the medical informatics division of SJRI. Her roles include analyzing Clinical Data and developing Clinical Decision Support Systems to improve patient care using Natural Language processing, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing techniques.
Vinodhini comes with a diverse experience of 5 years in the IT sector and 3 years in the e-commerce industry. She started as a Software Engineer in the IT services Industry and worked for Sopra Steria and Tata Consultancy services. Finding interest in the booming e-commerce industry and the urge to become an entrepreneur, Vinodhini co-founded a computer electronics e-commerce platform and was the lead of Digital Marketing and Customer Analytics.
Title Topic: Text and Sentiment Analysis of BREXIT and beyond.
Guruprasad Dasappa
General Manager, Products and Innovation,
Accenture Operations
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Chartered Management Accountant, CIMA, UK
Cost Accountant, ICAI, India
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical, PESIT, Bangalore
E-Mail: guruprasad.dasappa@accenture.com
Guruprasad is a General Manager, Products & Innovation at Accenture Operations, leading development of several solutions that leverage advanced analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities. Guru has delivered large-scale global outsourcing operations programs for several Fortune 500 companies across finance, procurement, industry-specific operations & analytics. Guruprasad is very passionate about authoring new products and services and bringing them to life - making it real.
Before joining Accenture, he was Business Finance Manager at Wipro transforming its Global Procurement Organization. He started his career with Bosch, India where he focused on developing fuel injection components and also setting up purchase controlling for India business.
Title Topic: Text and Sentiment Analysis of BREXIT and beyond.
Srikanth Narasimhan
Distinguished IT Engineer
Cisco Systems
E-Mail: snarasim@cisco.com
Srikanth Narasimhan is a Distinguished IT Engineer at Cisco Systems. In his current role, he is responsible for architecting Cisco IT’s Autonomous Operations journey. He has 31 years of industry experience with significant expertise in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, autonomic systems, adaptive security, context-aware architecture, machine learning and cloud networking spanning telecom, banking, financial services and high tech industries.
Prior to joining Cisco Systems in 2000, Srikanth was Vice-President of Engineering for eCredit, Inc., Massachusetts. Srikanth is a frequent speaker and panelist at IEEE, COMSNET, Open Group Architecture Practitioner Conferences around the world.
Srikanth was CEO and co-founder of Seekyourguru.com, an online e-learning platform.
His 2004 White Paper “Eight Architecture Lessons from History” published by Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute received wide acclaim globally in IT Architecture Community.
In 2015, Srikanth was recognized as “Top Chief Architect in India 2015” by John Zachman, widely known as “Father of Enterprise Architecture”. He has been a mentor to 4 startups as part of Cisco Startup Accelerator program – Launchpad.
In 2016, Srikanth was chosen to be a Torchbearer at the Rio Paralympic Games in Brazil. His torch carried the message “Celebrate Talents Beyond Labels” representing the special needs people around the globe – for a “Faster, Higher and Stronger” future.
Topic Title : Design Patterns for Autonomous Systems
Dr. Jay Bharatheesh Simha
Chief Technical Officer/Director (Analytics)
Abiba Systems and Advisor and Professor
Analytics and Data Science
REVA Academy for Corporate Excellence
REVA University
E-Mail: jbsimha@gmail.com
Dr. Jay B. Simha as the CTO of ABIBA spearheads research, development and product & technology innovation. Dr. Simha comes with over 15 years of significant experience in R&D and business intelligence & analytics consulting. He has implemented several large-scale systems for telecom, BFSI and manufacturing industries in business intelligence and analytics. Prior to working with ABIBA, he worked with Siemens, on medical data analysis, algorithm design and data analysis.
At REVA University, as an advisor and professor in Analytics and Data Science, he guides the program design and delivery of Analytics and Data Science for working professionals. He is passionate about teaching and sharing his vast knowledge ranging from Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the learners’ community.
He holds a post-graduate degree in Mechanical and Computer Science. He also has a doctoral degree in Data Mining and Decision Support from Bangalore University. He had post-doctoral collaboration with Louisiana State University, USA. His interests lie in business visualization, predictive analytics, big data, social media analytics and decision support.
Panel Discussion : Analytics Education
Amardeep Sibia
Chief Executive Officer
SatSure Ltd.
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
E-Mail: amardeep@satsure.co
Amardeep is the CEO of SatSure. He leads overall company strategy and direction with a focus on leveraging advances in earth observation, big data, machine learning and cloud technologies for generating business-critical insights in the areas of agriculture, forestry, smart cities and infrastructure.
Previously, Amardeep held leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and Earth2Orbit. Amardeep was the CTO at Earth2Orbit. He was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he served for 17 years across in the US, UK and India. He lead multiple technology infrastructure teams responsible for engineering, architecture, analytics, automation and operations. In UK, he was responsible for the Goldman’s EMEA network infrastructure. He was also Goldman’s global network security architect.
Amardeep is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and he holds a Bachelor of Technology with Honours from Thapar University, Patiala. He is a guest faculty at IIMB where he teaches analytics. He is also an advisory board member to IIMB’s Data Centre and Analytics Lab.
Topic Title : Large Area Analytics
Pulak Ghosh
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Professor
PhD, Statistics, Oakland University, Michigan, USA
BSc and MSc, Statistics, University of Calcutta, India
E-Mail: pulak.ghosh@iimb.ac.in
Pulak Ghosh is Professor in the Quantitative Methods & Information Systems Area at IIMB. His key specializations are in various fields of Quantitative Marketing, Big Data, Analytics, Bayesian Nonparametric, Health Analytics, and Econometrics. He is an accomplished researcher of international repute.
Prior to joining IIMB, he served as Associate Director, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, USA, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Georgia State University, and Associate Professor at Emory University, USA. He is a visiting faculty at several institutes of international repute.
Awards
Distinguished Alumni Award- Oakland University, MI, USA — April 2016
Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis Medal for outstanding contribution to Econometrics — January 2016 Given by Indian Econometric Society
Professor C.R. Rao National Award in Statistics — 2015, for outstanding contribution in the field of Statistics. Given by the Ministry of Planning & Programme Implementation, Government of India.
Named among the Top 10 Most influential Analytics Leaders in India (Only Academician in the list), by Analytics India Magazine — 2015
Chair of Panel Discussion on “Future Trends of Analytics in India", 4th Business Analytics Conference, IIMA —April 2015
Panel Discussant on Optimizing Financial Services Delivery in India, Geo-Spatial Analysis in the Inclusive Finance India Summit, New Delhi — December 9, 2014
Invited as a Keynote Speaker, Talk on Big Data, Bayesian and Consumer Conference on “Recent Advances in Statistics", University of Pune, India — January 2, 2015
Best Paper Award, 2013, 7th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM) for the paper, "Do Household TV Viewing Patterns Demonstrate Efficiency and Concentration?"
Awarded Young Scientist Award, 2011 by International Indian Statistical Association for outstanding contribution in the Statistical Applications. The award recognizes outstanding contribution and innovative work on applied statistics area by someone under the age of 45 years.
Topic Title: Economics in the age of Big data
Kumar Rahul
Co Founder and Director
Hopoye Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
EGMP, IIM Bangalore
NIT Jaipur Alumni
E-Mail: rahul235@gmail.com
Rahul Kumar is an alumnus of NIT Jaipur and IIM Bangalore. He has more than 11 years of experience spanning across software development, business consulting, analytical
modelling and leading process improvement initiatives. He started his career in Information Technology sector and worked in companies like Satyam Computers, Nokia, Siemens and Deloitte Consulting before venturing into his own business.
He co-founded a start-up ARIMA Research in June 2014 and was involved in internal operations and consulting engagement for various clients till December 2015. He has
ventured into another business primarily aimed at logistics and transport industry.
On the technical front, he works as a research associate at IIM Bangalore and has executed several projects in analytics domain. His recent work at IIM Bangalore on “Behavioral Modeling to Predict Renege” was published at Harvard Business Review. His current engagement is a Govt. of India funded research project on developing credit scoring model for urban co-operative banks. He has taken several public as well as client specific trainings on “Introduction to Data Science using R” and “Introduction to Machine Learning Concepts using R”. He has presented papers in several national and international conferences. Few of the prominent ones are:
· Paper Presentation at CMMI conference organized by CMMI Institute, 10-11 Dec 2014 at Shenzhen, China.
· Paper Presentation at CCSE conference organized by China computer and software enterprises, 6th Dec 2014 at Shenzhen, China.
· Paper Publication and Presentation at 6th International ITSM Conference organized by QAI Global Services in Bangalore, August 2013.
· Paper Presentation at SEPG Europe conference organized by SEI | Carnegie Mellon University, 5-7 June 2012 at Madrid, Spain.
He is a certified R professional and has also undergone workshop on the usage of statistical models and techniques from ISI Bangalore. His other certifications include DB2 certification from IBM and ISO 9001:2008 lead auditor certification by DNV India.
Topic Title : Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Earnings Manipulations
Gaurav Vohra
CEO and Co Founder
Jigsaw Academy
MBA, IIM Bangalore
BA, Economics, Sri Venkateswara College
E-Mail: gaurav@jigsawacademy.com
Gaurav is the CEO & Co-founder of Jigsaw Academy. With over 15 years of experience in the field of analytics, he has worked across multiple verticals including financial services, retail, FMCG, telecom, pharmaceuticals and leisure industries.
His experience spans leading companies like Capital One Financial Corporation, GE Capital, Symphony Marketing Solutions and Genpact LLC.
Gaurav has been rated as one of the "Top Analytics Academicians in India” by the Analytics India Magazine.
An active and leading member of the analytics community, he has been a speaker and panelist at several events and his thought leadership articles are widely followed on LinkedIn and other media.
In his spare time, he can be found cycling up the Nandi hills and scaling new heights trekking up the Himalayas.
Panel Discussion : Analytics Education
Vidyasagar Nallapati
Dell EMC, Bangalore
Executive Program, IIM, Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Bachelor of Technology, IIT BHU
E-Mail: vidyasagar1729@gmail.com
Vidyasagar N is a Data Scientist and Software Architect from Bangalore with close to 10 years of experience. He loves all the things mathematics, statistics, machine learning, developer tools, automation and anything that will make systems better and easier, which brought him to data science, system architecture, building large scale distributed services and designing rock-solid data pipelines. An alumni of IIT BHU and IIM Bangalore, BAI 5, Vidyasagar when not writing code can be found traveling, playing music and indulging in coffee.
Currently, Vidyasagar is working on Machine Learning and Deep Learning based solutions across various domains as a part of Consulting team at Dell EMC. Earlier, he had worked as software engineer and architect at several startups building scalable big data and machine learning platforms.
Topic Title : Deep Learning Architectures for Natural Language Processing
Jitendra R
Principal Data Scientist
IHS Market
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Business Analytics and Intelligence
Bachelor, University of Mumbai
E-Mail: jitu1701@gmail.com
Jitendra R, an alumnus of University of Mumbai and IIM Bangalore, is a Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience in Data Analytics and Data Engineering in industries as varied as Telecom, E-commerce, Energy, Pharma and Financial services. He is a joint secretary in the Analytics Society of India (ASI) and additionally guest faculty at IIMB. On the academic front his work in analytics at IIMB has been published and distributed as case studies by Harvard Business Publishing.
Topic Title : Deep Learning Architectures for Natural Language Processing
Rahul Nagar
Co-Founder & Director
Str8bat Sport Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
MS , George Washington University – Washington DC
BE Electronics, NIT – Nagpur
E-Mail: rahul@str8bat.com
Rahul Nagar is Co-founder of a sports wearable venture called str8bat. Str8bat provides instant , visual and actionable insight to sportsperson and help them get better everyday. Being an endurance athlete (Olympic Triathlete, IronMan, Marathon Runner & Long Distance Swimmer), he is a big proponent of technology usage in sports to help upcoming, professionals and amateur players. Prior to incubating str8bat, Rahul was Digital Transformation Leader with IBM India where he played a key role to grow and transform multiple businesses in India by providing next gen and transformative solutions to its clients. In his corporate career of 20 years, Rahul has worked both in India & USA with organizations like CSC, Fidelity Sanchez, World Data Inc, Yash Technologies, Citicorp.
Rahul is also an Alumni Leader of The George Washington University – Washington DC and has been instrumental in setting up GW’s presence in India.
Topic Title : Analytics in Sports
Maneesh Bhandari
Cognitive and Analytics leader
IBM Cognitive Process Services
Maneesh is a Thought leader and Six Sigma Master Black belt bringing in a blend of Consulting, Operations, AI, Automation, Analytics and Process Excellence skills, he has rich experience of creating end-to-end solutions/platforms by bringing together elements of Business knowledge, AI, Automation, Analytics and Technology.
His Expertise lies in building & scaling analytics practice across business practices, industry verticals, which has resulted in building and leading global Analytics teams.
Maneesh authored a paper on Marketing analytics that has been published by Harvard Business Publishing.
He filed a patent for transforming Order to Cash process using predictive analytics
Topic Title : Category-Optimization: Generate Multiple Scenarios and maximize Category Revenue /Profitability for Retailers
Praveen K Singh
Senior Data Scientist
IBM Global Business Services
Praveen has 17 years of experience in Marketing Research Analytics and Risk Management.
He has extensive experience in developing Analytical/Statistical based models for major CPG, FMCG and Retail Clients based on Survey, Scanner, home panel, and Loyalty Card data.
His focus has been on providing tactical and strategic direction to clients in the areas of Brand communication strategy using brand Equity/Tracker data, Go to Market Strategy that includes Market Structure, Shelf Space Optimization, SKU Affinity and Profitability Analysis, Sales decompositions based on ATL , BTL and Pricing.
His Advanced Model building capabilities includes BDLM, SEM, Survey analytical models, Classification and Regression tress, Ensemble Models, Advanced Time series models.
He has been instrumental in managing center of excellence for large CPG client with overall account development responsibility
Topic Title : Category-Optimization: Generate Multiple Scenarios and maximize Category Revenue /Profitability for Retailers
Hanumesh Nagur
Project Manager
IBM Cognitive Process Services
Hanumesh comes with 10 years of experience in Project Management, Pre-sales in Data Analytics, and BI Reporting based projects across Retail & Telecom verticals.
His strength lies in Client Relationship Management, Requirement Gathering, Project Delivery Management and he has been responsible for Positioning IBM's Analytics capabilities through effective project management and Client Servicing.
His strong Presales Management and Solution Development skills has led to winning significant number of Analytics based projects and contract renewals year on year.
Topic Title : Category-Optimization: Generate Multiple Scenarios and maximize Category Revenue /Profitability for Retailers
Vineet Shukla
Director of Engineering– Data Science and Machine Learning
United Health Group - Optum Global Solutions
Engineering graduate, Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology, Allahabad
MBA (PGPEM), IIM Bangalore
E-Mail: shukla.vineet@optum.com
Vineet is driving Machine Learning and Data Sciences initiatives at Optum – UHG . Vineet joined Optum after a long stint with Motorola. He comes with a diverse industry experience of 17 years. He brings with him a good blend of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence and Software Development. He has built data science enterprise solutions to help the organization leverage its potential data assets to gain Insights leading to more efficient, effective and competitive business decisions. These solutions have been enabling different stakeholders across organization (e.g. engineering, product management, marketing, sales, customer centricity and portfolio planning) with strategic inputs and related business insights. He has filed a couple of patents; has been actively driving & contributing to hackathons and other innovation initiatives.
Topic Title : Data Science practice in Health domain and Deep learning
Ravishankar Rajagopalan
Engineering Manager – Data Sciences
United Health Group - Optum Global Solutions
Ph.D, Applied Statistics, The Ohio State University
E-Mail: rajagopalan.ravishankar@optum.com
Ravi is a Senior Data Scientist working with Optum – UHG, Bangalore where he focusses on applications of Deep Learning in Healthcare. He has 10+ years of experience in Data Science and Analytics having worked in companies like Mu Sigma, GE and [24]7 Innovation Labs. He has worked in the areas of Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing/Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence.
Topic Title : Data Science practice in Health domain and Deep learning
Parag Chitalia
Senior Director – Advanced Analytics
VMware
Master of Science, Management-Science, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
E-Mail: @vmware.com
Parag setup and leads the Advanced Analytics & Data Sciences teams at VMW, based out of Palo Alto, California. He brings over 25 years of Analytics experience & consulting with over 200 Global Fortune 500 Companies. He was one of the pioneers in setting up the 500+ Dell Global Analytics in Bangalore.
Topic Title : Data Sciences at VMware
Dineshkumar Vaitheeswaran
Research Associate
Decision Sciences and Information Systems.
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Big Data Analytics
Post Graduate Diploma in International Business
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
E-Mail: dineshkumar.vaitheeswaran16@alumni.iimb.ac.in
Dinesh works as a Research Associate at IIM Bangalore and has been part of some major projects in analytics domain. He has worked closely with TVS Motors, SMNetserv and Manipal Global. His field of expertise and major projects include building geospatial analytics, persistency and propensity models.
He is an experienced IT Professional with both technical and strategic management background, with 8 years of experience in Insurance Domain which includes Project Management, Operation Directing, Business Development and Communication.
He has worked directly with Insurance Industry giants such as AXA, AIG and Friends life at Tata Consultancy Services. Leading business projects, from start-up to execution and delivery of sustained results have been his strengths. He has travelled athwart the globe, mentored and lead teams across the organization to support the cultural transformation and achieve the established goals.
He is a LOMA Certified ALMI and Sun Certified Java professional. A number of accolades have been accredited to Dinesh’s magnanimous contribution, to mention a few - Star Team Award- Friends life UK; On the Spot Award- AIG Japan; Best Service Award, TCS; Certificate of Appreciation, AXA UK.
Being an avid coder and a data science enthusiast, he is fascinated towards Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He wishes to see himself leading some promising roles in this domain in near future.
Topic Title : Intelligent Public Transport System Using Big Data Technologies
G Kumar
Research Associate
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Big Data Analytics
Bachelor of Engineering, Panjab University, Chandigarh
E-Mail: Gaurav.kuma16@alumni.iimb.ac.in
Gaurav is currently working as a research associate under Decision Sciences and Information Systems Dept. at IIM, Bangalore where he is using Big Data analytics approach to extract every ounce of information from public transport data to better understand passenger behavior and ridership patterns and know how they really use the transport infrastructure and equipment. He was also the Discussion forum moderator for Statistics for Business – II at EdX.
His research ambition is to get an in-depth understanding of learning principles and scaling them to big data. He has a keen interest for research in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, bayesian inference, and big data analytics.
Prior to joining IIMB, he was a Research & Development Engineer at GoPro where he worked on Proof of Concept of an Integrated Spherical Cameras, which envisaged 360 capture, and virtual reality. Overall, he has a three years of software engineering experience at Aricent, Gurgaon.
He was awarded Bachelors of Engineering in the First Division with Honors from Panjab University, Chandigarh, where he was also the recipient of university scholarship grant. Additionally, he was member of Technical Committee of UTECHNOS and IEEE Student Chapter, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh. He was also the academic intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Topic Title : Intelligent Public Transport System Using Big Data Technologies
Munish Kaushik
Program Manager, IBM India
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Big Data Analytics
E-Mail: munishkaushik@gmail.com
Munish is a Program Manager and a leader in CRM Platforms under Sales & Marketing domain. He has rich experience in leading cross functional multi-geographic teams, Automation & driving organization wide initiatives at a large scale. He has rich experience of creating end-to-end solutions/platforms by bringing together elements of Business knowledge. He is currently working on developing IBM's Cognitive Pricing Analytics helping sellers achieve maximum sales by pricing the products optimally.
He is an alumni of the prestigious IBM Corporate Services Corps program, where he worked with Govt. of Tanzania to provide a vision and a strategy for their 2020 Health programs. He is also an alumni of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore where he worked on public transport data to understand passenger behavior and patterns and know how they really use the transport infrastructure and equipment.
Munish has submitted multiple disclosures in various fields that are published on IP.com.
Topic Title : Intelligent Public Transport System Using Big Data Technologies
Ashish Chaturvedi
Senior Director, Analytics
Diploma, Management Development, Asian Institute of Management
Certified Fellow of Academy for healthcare Management (AHIP), CSQA and PMP
E-Mail: ashish_chaturvedi@optum.com
Ashish is a senior leader with successful analytics and deep domain expertise in healthcare industry. He has over 17 years of experience managing business for healthcare provider, healthcare insurer and healthcare pharmacy through efficacious deployment of analytics and technology initiatives.
In his current role as Healthcare Analytics Consultant; he is responsible for creating analytics driven organization through strategic vision and management of embedding analytics in the business to deliver measurable and sustainable value.
Topic Title : Using Machine Learning to Manage Health Outcomes and Patient Engagement
Swadeep Singh
Senior Manager, Analytics
PGP, IIM Bangalore
Mechanical Engg.,NIT Patna
E-Mail: swadeep_Singh@optum.com
Swadeep is an enthusiast data science professional with 6+ years of experience in machine learning, augmented intelligence, recommendation engine and business consulting.
He has designed Analytics deployment framework in Healthcare for increasing the analytics maturity. He has successfully deployed systems for empowered decision making for improving healthcare experience and healthcare cost.
Topic Title : Using Machine Learning to Manage Health Outcomes and Patient Engagement
Mr. Chetan Bhargava
Director
Wiley India.
E-Mail: @wiley.com
A technology enthusiast, visionary and market disruptor, Mr. Chetan Bhargava is MIT Sloan Fellow and has a glorious career spanning over 21 years. Mr. Bhargava has worked with the Tech Giants Microsoft and GE. His belief in technology and it’s power as market enabler introduced him to the Startup world. Mr. Bhargava was founding member of Zopper and has been on board with a few other startups. He recently joined Wiley wherein he leads the Solutions business. As Director of Wiley’s Solution business Mr. Bhargava is working on creating the New Age, technology enabled solutions for Learning and Skill Development. He envisions a platform of future which is driven by Artificial Intelligence and Analytics to deliver new age learning solutions and content tailor made as per the future of Industry and present capabilities of the Individual
Topic Title : Converging research-learning-innovation in emerging technology for building future skills
Dr Panagiotis Chountas
Principal Lecturer
University of Westminster, London
PhD in Computation, awarded by UMIST & Victoria University of Manchester
DSc awarded by BAS, Doctor of Technical Sciences- DSc, scientific subject “Systems with Artificial Intelligence”
Dr Panagiotis Chountas research reputation focus in the area of Data and Knowledge Engineering Intelligent Systems and their application to Business and Public organisation for the purposes of maximising business profitability and achieving more efficient and proactive process management. To this end his research is focused on the following areas: Business Intelligent Systems; Health Informatics; Large Databases and Data Repositories; Digital Media Storage Architectures. Dr. Panagiotis Chountas has been supported by the Royal society and Technology Strategy Board.
Panel Discussion : Analytics Education
Dr.Anand K Joshi
Ex.Founder Vice Chancellor, CMR University
Advisor, Welingkar B-School, Mumbai/Bangalore
M.Com. LL.B, MBA (HRM), Ph.D (Management)
Dr. Anand K Joshi was the Founder Vice Chancellor, CMR University and has been instrumental in strengthening the University’s educational ecosystem. He is currently the Advisor for Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai/Bangalore campuses, and is on Advisory Boards of several other universities/Institutions.
Dr. Joshi has rich academic and administrative competencies and brings a unique perspective and broad understanding of the various forms of education with his 28 years of experience in Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India and Welingkar B-School. He has taught at reputed professional bodies such as ICAI, ICSI, and ICWAI.
His case study has been acclaimed in the “ISB-IVEY Case Study Competition 2011”, and published by ‘Harvard Business Publishing’ and ‘Richard Ivey School of Publishing’. He also received the prestigious ‘AIMA’s Best Research Award 2011’. As a speaker and panellist, he has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses at seminars and conferences. He has more than 35 National/Intl publications and 6 citations.
In the past, he served as a consulting advisor on Educational Policy, Strategy and Institutional Governance to more than 30 Industries/Academic Institutions/Universities in 5 states including Kerala State Higher Education Council, Azim Premji Foundation and Engineering Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
Panel Discussion : Analytics Education
Dr.Anand K Joshi
Chief Learning Office
International Skill Development Corporation
M.Com.
FCMA, CMA (US)
Dip IFRS (ACCA, UK)
Certified Independent Director
Member of IOD
A renowned Strategist, Management expert and Trainer
An experienced management and finance professional with over 2.5 decades of professionally successful career in India and abroad. Worked for multinational firms in different capacities, The last position was with Endurance Technologies Private Ltd as a Group CFO. Also, served for an educational company as COO.
Was on the board of directors of Mather & Plat Fire Systems Pvt. Ltd and also on the board of directors of two subsidiaries of Endurance technologies Pvt. Ltd in Germany and Italy.Currently, Independent director of a US subsidiary in India.
Areas of expertise –
IFRS, strategic management, risk management and ERP projects, business analytics and skill development. Act as a facilitator and trainer for professional courses like CA, ICMA, ACCA (UK) and CIMA, MBA etc.
Renowned speaker at different forums and round tables. Address gatherings of leaders & professionals in various seminars, workshops and professional meetings for corporates & institutions in India and abroad.
Helped many Indian universities in upgrading their curriculum, training their faculty and by acting as a member of their Board of studies and Academic council.
Panel Discussion : Analytics Education
Anshul Dubey
Founder, Director
Certeza Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Executive Program, IIM Bangalore on Big Data Analytics
Bachelors of Technology (Computer Science & Eng.)
12+ years experience in Solution design and Data modeling. Focus areas: Supply Chain Management, Finance & Accounts
Successfully lead Enterprise Business Intelligence projects (Both green field implementations and support).
Designed, solved and implemented, large scale optimization scenarios
Vast experience in SAP-ERP, SAP-ABAP and SAP-BI.
Worked with multinational companies in the domains- Manufacturing, FMCG and Retail.
Part of team for IoT analytics platform development.
Expertise in data visualization and strategic insights.
SAS Certified Predictive Modeler Using SAS-Enterprise Miner
SAP Certified Solution Consultant – SAP BI 7.0
Certified in Basics of Supply Chain Management (APICS-CPIM)
Competencies
Data visualization using QlikView, Power BI.
R, Python, ABAP, SQL, IBM-OPL, SPSS, SAS,SAP
Predictive modelling, Machine Learning
Good functional knowledge of SCM.
Analytical & Reasoning skills, advanced MS-excel.
Technology agnostic. Solution based approach
Topic Title : Critical connections: Optimal gate assignment for a major metro airport in India.
Ravi Vijayaraghavan Vice President and Head - Analytics at Flipkart.com Contact: ravi.vijayaraghavan@gmail.com
I am an executive leader with a proven record of building world-class analytics and data sciences organizations. I have built and managed data science and analytics teams in Large Fortune 500 Companies and Silicon Valley startups.
I am currently responsible for the Analytics organization at Flipkart. Flipkart is the leading destination for online shopping in India and its biggest e-commerce player.
At Flipkart Analytics organization we are embarking on an exciting journey to build cutting-edge capabilities that enable Flipkart to make better business and product decisions with data and science
Education :
1. University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business MBA, Finance and Strategy 2004
2. University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, Engineering 90 – 96
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras B.Tech, Engineering 86 – 90
Topic Title : Analytics and Science for Growth and Consumer Experience at Flipkart.
Dr. Ambrish Joshi
Assistant Vice President, Genpact
Email: ambrishjoshi@gmail.com
I am currently working as AVP, Healthcare and Lifesciences, Genpact, and responsible for Analytics and research operations for leading several global pharma organizations. Have been working with 18+ years in Consulting/ Research & Analytics/ Project Management/ Operations/Solutioning/ Product and Marketing Management/ Leadership role in designing and developing strategies for Pharmaceutical & Healthcare businesses and products.
Work has been instrumental in providing decision support to leading global healthcare/ pharmaceutical organizations for developed and emerging markets. Work areas include Analytics function transition and transformation, Setting-up teams and executing several analytics and research engagement and projects – e.g. Performance reporting, Advanced analytics, Research and competitive intelligence, Business Intelligence and Data management, etc. Executed few diagnostic projects for leading Pharmaorganizations.
Worked with research & consulting organization for ~10 years and in past have worked for nearly a decade in the marketing/ product management function for pharmaceutical organizations.
Have also authored and presented research publications and guest lectures at several renowned institutions & organizations. Been an executive committee member at International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research - India Chapter
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business Administration from MLS University INDIA in 2008
- Post Graduation in Marketing/ Finance from University of Rajasthan INDIA in 98
- Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharma) from University of Rajasthan INDIA in 96
Topic Title:Transformation Approach at Analytics function within Pharmaceutical organizations
SANJAY MUJOO
Director
Hewlett Packard Enterprise - CSC Bangalore
Sanjay has 21+ years of IT Customer Support delivery experience. He joined HP in April 98. During his tenure of 14+ years at HP, he has setup India Remote Support operations for Commercial & Enterprise Customers, led Compaq & HP merger of technical support, led country services readiness planning, managed offshoring practice as an expanded role during the early GD days, and has been a part of the Leadership Team from the formative years of CSC Bangalore in 2005.
In the last 6 to 7 years, Sanjay has successfully led formation, management and transformation of very large teams, across HP product portfolio, serving Commercial & Enterprise customers globally. Sanjay also led successful transitions from across the globe into GC Bangalore. These transitions delivered superior TCE, elevated business performance and superior cost structures. He has led the centre through 6 Successful TSIA certifications and development of many innovative programs around Employee Capability, Support Models & TCE Improvement. Under Sanjay’s leadership, ESSN Career Planning Program won ‘Laksha’, a pan-industry national award. The onboarding process and internal certification process developed by Sanjay & team was adjudged Industry’s best practice by TSIA and major facets of it were adopted globally in GSC.
Business Strategy, Decision Sciences and Big Data Analytics Practice initiated by Sanjay is evolving to tackle real world problems in Delivery Excellence, Customer Support and Enterprise Infrastructure management.
Sanjay’s other experiences include Service Business Management at Olivetti India and Support Manager role at Ramco Systems (Bay Networks).
Sanjay holds an Engineering Degree in Electronics & Communication.
Topic Title:Importance of blending strategy and analytics into implementable real world business problems.
Anthony Thomas (Tony) is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for GE Global Growth Organization. Tony joined GE in September 2015.
Prior to joining GE, Tony has worked at Vodafone, Citigroup, Ernst & Young, Intelligroup Inc. etc., among other leading organizations and held leadership roles in Management Consulting, Information Technology and Business Operations. For most of his career, he was based out of USA. Tony has managed teams across the globe including in India and has made many key contributions to Information Technology.
In his previous role at Vodafone, Tony was instrumental in building a strong partnership between IT and the rest of the business. Under his leadership, Vodafone rolled-out the new central IT structure and laid the foundation for a world-class IT delivery team focused on business outcomes. He played a key role in helping the company achieve an all-time high satisfaction with IT employee, partner engagement and customer satisfaction.
During his tenure at Citigroup, Tony championed the digitization of key Banking processes, including acquisitions, servicing, payments for a full lifecycle positive channel agnostic customer experience. He also led the development and launch of eDelivery platform for global Digital Delivery.
Tony is a recipient of many industry awards for innovation and technology and is an active member in the startup ecosystem being a founding member of CIO Angel Network (CAN), and a member of Indian Angel Network (IAN). Tony has been a core member of Reserve Bank of India's Technical Committee on Mobile Banking; core member of CII National Committee on IT, ITeS&eCommerce, ASSOCHAM National Council on IT/ ITeS, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
Topic Title: Leading in a digital industrial world.
Souma Das
Managing Director, QlikTech India
Executive Summary
A 26+ year career in IT Product Sales & Services Leadership of consistent achievement and experience in leading sales, marketing, Product management, system engineering, consulting, operations,
My strength and passion is to build/develop and grow revenue lines of existing or new business operations and enjoy challenges of building from scratch for a startup or turn around brokenoperations to accelerated growth.
I enjoy building and working through a team, coaching them to grow and develop into more senior skill/management/leadership roles.
Post my MS, had started my career as System engineer with Wipro and followed by various roles at IBM, Citrix and currently with Qlik. 18 of 26 years I have spent in selling IT solutions & software in India sub-continent market.
Strong interest in people, technology, innovation and continuous improvement A highly focused, result oriented, multi-culturally aware, high integrity, non-political person, strong on vision/concept but also hands-on and delivery detail oriented.
Education
EMBA - The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
MS – Computer Sc. : Jadavpur University
BSc – Mathematics : University of Calcutta
Topic Title : Will be updated shortly.
Pramod Singh is Chief Analytics Officer of Yodlee based out of Bangalore. He is responsible for delivering analytics solutions for the enterprise.
Before joining YodleePramod Singh was Director of Digital and Big Data Analytics at Hewlett Packard. He has more than years of leadership experience in leading analytics teams and in design and implementation of analytics solutions.
Pramod was with the HP since 2000 in different roles. For almost 15 years at HP, Pramod has lead advanced analytics teams in areas of customer knowledge management, e- business , global business intelligence in IT and digital and big data analytics.. Before joining HP, Pramod worked at Wal-Mart's Information systems. Here, he designed and developed advanced assortment planning system, a technology that revolutionized the store assortment practices for Wal-Mart.
Pramod has PhD and Masters in Mathematics from University of Arkansas and an MBA in Marketing. Pramod is author of several published papers and patent and regular speaker at international conferences.
Topic Title: Democratization of Data.
Deepak Mishra
Head Analytics Practice
Thomson Reuters, Bangalore.
He is also in-charge of analytics consulting for Asia region
He had vast experience in Credit Risk Analytics, Marketing Analytics & Customer Insight Analytics in B2B and B2C domain
His keen interest in knowledge sharing led him to design and deliver training programs for Credit Risk Management, Analytics, SAS, Excel etc.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, he worked with HSBC Credit Risk Analytics for Credit Cards and Auto Finance portfolio.
Skills & Interests:
Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Market Basket Analysis, Genetic Algorithm, Technical Analysis of stock Markets
Education:
Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Specialization: Optimization, Statistics, Portfolio Risk Management, Genetic Algorithms.
Krishna Mohan
Sr. Manager Technology
Thomson Reuters.
He is a data enthusiast working on a Lead Generation application for Legal professionals. In recent years, Krishna has augmented his experience in infrastructure, application development and business strategy with data analytics targeted at improving customers' business opportunities. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Krishna has worked for Reed Elsevier, International Paper, Motorola and Sprint.
Skills & Interests:
Regressions analysis, Decision modeling, Sentiment Analysis, Classification
Education:
MBA - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
MS - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
PGPBA - Great Lakes Institute of Management (In Progress)
Title Topic: Leveraging Customer Insights for Analytics at Thomson Reuters
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