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Maneesh Bhandari Maneesh is a Business leader (with the heart of Data Scientist) bringing in a blend of consulting, operations and analytics skills. In his role as analytics leader he has built and scaled global teams to deliver business value for clients. He was instrumental in building Finance analytics practice for a large Technology and Consulting company. Maneesh possesses an unique ability of 'marrying' business problem with statistical analysis and designing business context specific solutions. He is adept at communicating with CXOs and product managers by converting complex statistical solutions into simple business language. He has worked on several new ideas and cutting edge analytics products, and has filed a patent on transforming Order to Cash process using analytics. Topic Title : Marketing Head's Conundrum
Pramod Kumar Bagri Pramod is a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of experience bringing in blend of Analytics, Finance and Consulting to solve real world business issues. He has led design and execution of multiple finance analytics and transformation engagements realizing multi-million dollar revenue enhancement, working capital & net income benefits for clients in areas of Functional finance (Procure to Pay, Order to Cash and Record to Report), Business Finance (Financial planning and analysis, Budgeting) and Shared services/Outsourcing strategy working directly with C suite of Fortune 500 companies In the current role as Analytics lead for a Large Technology and Consulting Company, has the mandate to build and scale the Finance analytics practice. He leads delivery for Finance analytics projects across North America, EMEA, LATAM and APAC. Also involved in development and incubation of ready-to-use products to accelerate analytics adoption in Finance organisations and involved in research on next-gen finance analytics solution to bring differentiation and value for clients. In past roles, has built and grown own consulting business, scaled and led global team as a finance controller and has interacted with industry stalwarts as part of leadership development programs. Title Topic: Marketing Head's Conundrum 
Dr. Ananth N. Rao Dr. Ananth N Rao, Ph.D, MNAMS, PGCRCDM, CSSB Current Profile: Working on several Data Analytics / BI / Predictive modeling with IIM-Bangalore. Quality: Data validation, Operations research (Process Engineering, Value Re-engineering), Activity Based costing, Service Excellence metrics. Currently handling multiple process re-engineering & Analytics projects at Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore. Examples: Improving Lab efficiency Linen Management, Food cost production, Discharge process, Material costs reduction, Time-motion studies, Resource allocation, , Customer Feedback analysis – A predictive approach, Unique effort of utilizing models of Service Excellence such as TICSI, Four Corners theory, Voice of process, SWOT analysis, Baldridge criteria, Competitive intelligence, Kano model etc. for enhancing Service excellence in the hospital. Focused efforts on Customer Loyalty & Retention by utilizing Voice of Customer (VoC) and understanding the Mind of Customer (MoC). Copyright granted by Government of India for a novel method of measuring Service Excellence – Daily Point Average Worked extensively on development of unique metric called “Daily Point Average” an exclusive Customer Satisfaction metric (Patent in progress). The same has been granted copyright by the Government of India. Drive Technology driven initiatives such as Electronic Medical Records implementation, E Prescription, New Hospital Information System, Online appointment system, Cart on Wheels, RFID enabled asset tracking etc. Essaying role of Lead Black Belt-Responsible for implementation of Six Sigma projects – Green belt, Yellow belt projects & Train-the-trainer programs for Apollo Hospitals, Karnataka region. 
Murale Narayanan Information Technology executive with over 16 years of experience in successfully setting up and managing IT operations for large corporations such as EMC and Occidental (Oxy). His expertise include establishing Enterprise Storage, BRS build & IT Operations. He took the lead in setting up Global IT Command Center (IT Cloud infrastructure, Mission Critical Apps Monitoring, Process Operations, Critical Incident Management, Event Management & Analytics and Security) ground up and also taking IT team to next level. His expertise also includes Cloud Computing, Big Data, Analytics transformation, Storage / Backup product development & Implementation, and IT Service operations, Business Innovation. Currently, IT Director at EMC Corporation, India Center of Excellence. EMC is an award-wining organization and is a global leader in enabling businesses and providers to transform Cloud Computing, Big Data and Trusted IT in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. He is also a featured writer on the topics of innovation, Cloud, Big Data, Service Management and Crowd Sourcing Business Review, Wired, CIO, CXO magazine to name a few. Topic Title : Accelerating IT Transformation using Business Analytics
Lokesh Banagir Worked as a Serviceline & Delivery lead for Big Data & Analytics and App modernization businesses within EMC Professional Services at India COE Primarily responsible for incubating new service offering, building teams, deliver strategic projects and provide sales support on go to market strategy. Work closely with global practices and delivery leaders in defining road map for practice plan/ service offerings and help building remote delivery capabilities. This involves driving the best practices, efficient delivery, training plan, career planning, hiring, evangelism for the practice team members etc. Strengths: - Strong leadership and customer relationship building capabilities - High Commitment, Adherence to Quality, Ownership centric approach and meticulous - Strong interpersonal, communication & collaboration skills Key achievements: - Built large Big Data & Analytics teams - Incubated Mainframe Modernization at COE - Built factory processes & methodologies for seamless delivery with Onshore/offshore models - Delivered large global programs in applications migration and re-platform using, Microsoft, Greenplum and BigData technology Title Topic: Accelerating IT Transformation using Business Analytics 
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 1990 – 1996 3. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras B.Tech, Engineering 1986 – 1990 Topic Title : Analytics and Science for Growth and Consumer Experience at Flipkart. 
Dr. Ambrish Joshi 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:
Topic Title:Transformation Approach at Analytics function within Pharmaceutical organizations 
SANJAY MUJOO Sanjay has 21+ years of IT Customer Support delivery experience. He joined HP in April 1998. 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. 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. 
Pulak Ghosh 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. Education: • PhD, Statistics, Oakland University, Michigan, USA. Topic Title: New challenges, Solutions and Application in Statistics and Machine Learning for Big data analytics. 
Souma Das 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 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 19 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 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 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 Title Topic: Leveraging Customer Insights for Analytics at Thomson Reuters |
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