Speaker Bio:  

Sanjay Raj
Practice Diretor BI/DW, Syntel
Sanjay is currently serving as Practice Director for BI/DW. He has more than 22 years of experience in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence consulting for the insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, aerospace and communication industries. He is responsible for developing and running Syntel’s large BI/DW team, managing and delivering multiple projects across several industries and geographies, and developing strategies that enable clients to manage change and maintain performance throughout BI/DW projects.
Hemant Kulkarni
BIM - Technology Lead, Capgemini
Hemant leads the BI Architect Community & CoEs in Capgemini BIM practice and leading some important initiatives like Bigdata & Cloud BI. Hemant has more than 22 years of IT experience, out of which last 12+ years in Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing space. His core strengths are in the area of solution architecting, high-end consulting, CoE formation, execution and management apart from delivery and operational excellence. He Played variety of roles in his entire BI career span like Competency Head, Program Manager, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Presales lead, ETL and OLAP Lead. He has vast experience of building data warehouses and BI applications across domains but his strength is in Insurance, Manufacturing and gaming industry.
Dr. Mukund Deshpande
AVP- Head BI/Analytics Business Unit, Persistent Systems
Mukund heads the Business Intelligence/Analytics business unit at Persistent Systems. He is responsible for building the BI expertise and providing consultancy to projects within the company on data warehouse design, ETL design and analytics. He is having overall 10 years of industry experience, prior to working with Persistent Systems he worked with Oracle Corporation, USA for 4 years in its supply chain planning and scheduling group. He was awarded the second place in the KDDCup 2000 competition, which is an Annual competition organized by ACM SIG on Knowledge and Data Discovery. Mukund holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA and wrote his thesis on “Data Mining Techniques for Sequences and Graphs” that proposed new algorithms for solving problems in variety of domains, including web and e-commerce.
Atul Deshpande
Portfolio Manager (BI, Analytics and MIS Operations), IBM India
Atul is a core BI professional, has rewarding career of 14 years in the industry. He currently heads the BI and Analytics Operations for a leading Telecom Operator at IBM India. With wide experience of handling US, European and Indian clients, he has held different positions like BI COE Head, BI Architecture Design, Data Modeling, Delivery Management leader. He always feels his key strength to be innovative thinking, aggressive leadership, and extensive ability to understand client’s need.
Vinay Kumar
CEO, Datawise
Vinay is the Chief Executive Officer of Datawise. He has an overall industry experience of more than 19 years. His experience is varied, right from working with public sector companies, to Indian Industrial groups, to International firms, to the world’s largest private aviation player, to India’s largest corporate healthcare provider, working both in India & abroad. His previous employers were RPG Enterprises, NetJets, and Apollo. He has been a speaker at various forums. He is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and is currently pursuing his fellowship from XLRI Business School, Jamshedpur.
Shashank Garg
Co-founder & President, Infocepts
Shashank is a co-founder and President of InfoCepts, a specialist consulting firm delivering end-end data warehousing solutions to Fortune 500 clients in USA. InfoCepts exclusive focus on Data Warehousing Solutions allows them to provide their customers the advice, technologies and the implementation capabilities they need to be successful in this field. Prior to starting InfoCepts in 2004, he spent 8 years working in the field of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in the US. He started his career with MicroStrategy, a 400 Million Dollar software company, as a Consultant and then worked for various clients like Pfizer, Novartis, and Sepracor as a Data Warehousing Specialist. He holds a Masters degree from University of Maryland, College Park, USA and Bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.
Uma Venkataraman
CEO & Co-Founder, Ixsight Technologies
Uma has over 22 years of experience both as a user of Data for Business Applications and as provider of Data Quality Solutions to the Industry. She set up Ixsight Technologies Pvt Ltd together with Ms Savita Modak. She plays the role of a Data Quality evangelist representing Ixsight at various local and International conferences, seminars and academic forum to communicate and identify Data Quality Best Practices. She has been instrumental in providing a strong vision for the Company and product in particular and developing a value-added Delivery Framework. She holds a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering Degree and is also a MBA from one of India’s leading Management Institutes.
Anuradha Bankar
Head- Analytics, BI & DWH Practice, e-Zest Solutions ltd
Anu heads Analytics, Business Intelligence and DWH practice at e-Zest Solutions Ltd. She has over a decade of experience practicing BI. Prior to joining e-Zest, she has worked in UK as SAP BO BI consultant for top FTSE companies. Anu is an accomplished BI architect and has delivered several projects in Business Analytics. She has established high quality BI standards and policies in enterprises. She is known for her precision in troubleshooting large scale Data Marts and optimize the overall costs of managing DWHs.
Lawrence Samson
Vice President - Head Business Intelligence, HSBC
Lawrence is the Vice President – Head Business Intelligence and Special Projects at HSBC. He is having overall 14 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Sales Performance Management, Marketing Campaign Operations and Database Management. He is having excellent blend of business process knowledge and IT knowledge and has been part of business and implementing IT projects. He is heading a team of 65 MI staff across retail banking verticals.
Hemendra Chanchlani
Executive VP & Head BI & Analytics, Yes Bank
Hemendra is a Banking professional with 14 years of experience encompassing areas of - Business Intelligence & Analytics, Channel Development, Corporate Development & Strategy. He is an exposure across various business models & expertise on different business segments particularly Retail Banking, Wealth Mgmt & Financial Management.
Mukund Wadekar
CoE lead-DW/BI & Head Delivery & Analytics, Barclays
Mukund is having more than 18 yrs of experience in Data Warehouse & Integration and Information Management global executive, BI/DW Strategy, architecture, and global / dual-shore delivery experience using industry leading technology platforms like Teradata, Ab Initio etc. His specialties are Big-data ETL / Data Integration Architecture & Delivery. Past 9 years, he is associated with Global-100 companies delivering high-volume & mission critical Banking Analytics.
Vinod G
Associate Vice President - BI Unit, Tata Motors Finance
Vinod has 13 long years experience in banking industry especially in the field of BI & Analytics. He began his career with IDBI as manager and moved to ICICI bank latter on to serve as a Lead for Business Intelligence Unit. Currently he is working as Associate Vice President - Business Intelligence Unit at Tata Motors Finance.