Speaker Bio:  

Sandeep Bhagat
Principal Architect, Big Data & Analytics, Infosys
Sandeep has more than 16 years of experience as a Technology Strategist, Architect, and Software Designer. He has played crucial roles in large and cross-functional teams, as well as executed assignments with independent capability. He has extensive experience in business-technology alignment, technology strategy advisory, and business case development. His participation has helped organizations establish high synergy between business and technology and in attaining higher operational efficiency. Sandeep has served in various roles, including Technology Consulting, Practice Leadership, Delivery and Competency Building for Big Data and Analytics, and Cloud and Performance Engineering.
Viros Sharma
VP & Global Practice Head - DWBI & Analytics, ITC Infotech
Viros is having almost two decades of strong IT experience in various consulting and managerial positions. As a Global Practice Head Viros at ITC Infotech is responsible for non-linear growth initiatives, Go-To-Market Planning, Latest Technology Focus i.e., on Big data, Mobile BI, Predictive Analytics & Optimization, Program and Project Planning, Pre Sales Activities, Estimation, Resource Management, Client Interaction, Requirement Gathering, Relationship Building and Invoicing, Center of Excellence creation and maintenance. He is also actively involveed in defining and implemented CMMi processes in programs and project related to DWBI and Testing practices. Prior to ITC Infotech Viros was associated with iGate and Bearing Point.
Abhinav Agarwal
Director of Product Management & Strategy - Business Analytics, Oracle
Abhinav is Director of Product Management & Strategy in Business Analytics group of Oracle. In the 10 years that he has been with Oracle, he has been responsible for the product management of such products and areas as geo-spatial analytics, mobile business intelligence, interactive visualizations, Office analytics, and more. He is a post-graduate and a gold-medallist from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and holds a BE (Hons.) degree in Computer Engineering. He has over 18 years of international development, consulting, and start-up experience.
Derick Jose
Director-Big Data Solutions, Flutura Decision Sciences
Derick is presently the Director-Big Data Solutions at Flutura Decision Sciences. Prior to Flutura, he was associated with Mindtree as Vice-President of Analytics Solutions. He is Focused on advanced business analytics on Customer behavior data in the Retail , CPG and Travel verticals and in Helping clients apply Customer behavior segmentation models , Unstructured data text mining, Propensity scoring models (cross sell, attrition etc) and generating insights locked in raw data. Derick is Currently very sharply focused on High end Predictive/Statistical Analytics related service offering bundled with consulting / high end value added services in the KPO area. His specialties include Non linear business models, Business Analytics, Statistical modeling, Hosted Analytics, Text mining, Indatabase mining techniques.
Raghuram Mutya
Director - Business Intelligence, Dell Services
Raghuram is having almost two decades of IT experience. His expertise lies into Business Intelligence, Information Management and Datawarehousing. Prior to Dell he was associated with ITC, HP and Perot Systems.
Asha Subramanian
Associate Vice President, HCL Technologies
Asha is having almost two decades of IT Experience. Her expertise lies in Social media Analytics, Big Data Analytics and Mobile Computing.
Ranjith Radhakrishnan K.C
General Manger-IT, TVS Motors
Ranjith has over two decades of IT experience. He is been responsible for managing New Dimension IT initiatives and Delivering solutions for the IT users. Prior to TVS motors Ranjith was associated with TVS Electronics, Harita Infoserve Limited and Grasim Industries.
Dr. Ambrish Joshi
AVP - Healthcare and Life Sciences, Smart Decision Services, Genpact LLC
Ambrish comes with 15 years of Industry experience. His expertise lies in Business Research & Analytics, Competitive Intelligence, Decision support for global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology organizations - Practice, Solutioning, Operations and Subject Matter Expert.
Sridhar Jonnala
Advanced Analytics Consultant, IBM Global Services
Sridhar serves as a Technology Consultant on Data & Text Mining Technologies to IBM Global Business Services. He has 14 years of experience leading the development of complex IT systems and products including the development of real time predictive analytical solutions. Prior to Joining IBM, Sridhar had served as a consultant at leading IT and Financial service companies on identity & Social security Solutions. He is a regular platform speaker on the subject of Social and Identity Analytics.
Sushma Kondalkana
Manager- Information Management, Metro Cash & Carry
Sushma has more than a decade of experience in the areas of business development, marcom strategy, project execution, service management, change management, vendor assessment, product assessment, training, client support, analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management. A self-confessed Strategy enthusiast and prior to joining Metro, has serviced the decision making workshops of Information Systems Strategy, planning, innovation and idea evolution workshops in the capacities of a consultant.
Ravi Rathinam
Head CMIS, ING Vysya Bank
Having around 17 plus years of experience in the field of Technology and Banking.Started the career as a developer and has implemented many projects/ products mainly in the BFSI sector. Currently Heading Centralized MIS unit at ING Vysya Bank Limited. Responsible for addressing and delivering the reporting requirements for the Internal Business Units. Heading the Data Management Initiative projects including 1) Business MIS Project 2) Automated Data Flow at ING Vysya bank Ltd.Prior taking up this role, managed the technology improvement engagements in the wholesale banking domain.
Samit Paul
Staff Data Scientist, Intuit
With more than a decade of IT experience, Samit has successfully implemented several predictive modeling and data mining techniques for various domains ranging from tagging textual data to modeling financial risk. Currently he is the Data Scientist at Intuit.
Pushparaj K
Enterprise Applications Manager - IT, Bangalore International Airport
Pushparaj has over 15+ years of experience various technologies which includes Microsoft, Oracle, Java, Middleware, etc. His experience spans across Administration, Information Technology and Project Management. He is responsible for Implementation of projects which includes Mission Critical Applications & Software System Integrations, BIAL Portal, Reporting tool and Enterprise Applications for the enterprise and implementation of In-house application built for various departments at the airport.
Kishore Nair
Head - Decision Models & Campus Head - Risk Modelling, ANZ
Kishore is currently the Head of Decision Models for ANZ. He manages a team of predictive modellers across Bangalore, Melbourne and Chengdu. He is also the Campus Head of the Risk Modelling and Measurement in Bangalore, the team develops and implements retail/wholesale credit risk models across Asia Pacific, Australia and NewZealand. Kishore has been a practitioner of predictive modelling for the last 10 years as a banker and consultant building models for banks across Asia, US & Europe.
Sandip Chakraborty
Sr. Vice President – IT & PMO, Bharti AXA General Insurance
Sandip Chakraborty has over 24 years of work experience in the field of insurance with 11 years experience in the field of Information Technology and Project Management. He started his career with National Insurance Company Limited and worked in various roles in Regional and Operating Offices. Over the years he gained considerable expertise in various areas of general insurance. During a short span of time, IT & PMO team has strengthened the Company by rolling out robust IT infrastructure and applications to cater to a high growth trajectory of the Company. With highly stabilized core application and mission critical workflows designed and seamlessly integrated with core system including document management, the Company has put in place a distinct differentiation through Service and unique value proposition to the customers. The B2B and B2C offerings through internet have seen a huge acceptance by the customers and partners.
Srinivasan Sengamedu
VP Analytics & Labs, Komli Media
Srinivasan currently serves as the Vice President and Head of Komli Analytics and Labs. He is a former Director of Research at Yahoo Labs and is a world class researcher in the field of machine learning and data mining. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science and has several years of experience in research, technology leadership and entrepreneurship with over 100 research papers published, 30+ patents filed and 3 patents granted.
Rohit Chatter
Senior Architect, Yahoo!
Rohit is a thought leader specializing in designing solutions involving huge amount of data. He architected Paid Search BI stack for Microsoft-Yahoo alliance that uses Hadoop, Hive & HBase. He has deep knowledge & understanding of various usage models involving traditional databases & newer Big Data platforms to provide customer centric and cost effective solutions. He has spent 16 years in the industry. Before joining Yahoo he has worked for the companies like Tivo, Alcatel Lucent etc. Some of his recent projects include BI solutions for Paid Search Advertiser Analytics, Partner Analytics & Web Analytics.
Phaneender Aedla
Program Director - Big Data and Analytics, Happiest Minds
Phaneendar has more than a decade of experience in the IT industry. His expertise lies in Big Data and Analytics. Prior to Happiest Minds Phaneendar was associated with AON, Oracle, MindTree.