Speaker Bio:  

Sudipta Ghosh
Associate Director, PWC
Sudipta Ghosh is an Associate Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. Sudipta has more than 13 years of consulting experience in the field of Business Intelligence (BI), Information Management (IM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Sudipta has wide experience in managing and architecting complex large scale BI and EPM implementations in industry sectors like FMCG, Hospitality, Direct Marketing and Services across a number of functional areas like Marketing, Finance and Human Resources. Sudipta has also been involved in formulation of Technology Strategy of various organisations. Sudipta is a gold medallist from IIM Calcutta and a silver medallist from IIT Kharagpur. Sudipta is a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kolkata and at Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at IIT Kharagpur, taking courses in Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, Data Mining and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Sudipta has conducted multiple seminars for Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Institute of Cost and Work Accountants of India (ICWAI), Sudipta is a member of the PwC global team for defining Information Management (IM) methodology across the network of PwC firms and has rolled out multiple trainings to senior management on EPM and IM.
Suchindra Bapu Rangaswamy
Competency Lead - BI, Optimal Solutions (India)
Suchindra is currently heading the BI Practice at Optimal Solutions, India. He has successfully handled various projects for clients in U.S, Malaysia, UK, Bangladesh and India. He has been a keen planner, strategist and implementer with demonstrated success in end-to-end project management and ensuring effective management of various resources to meet project specifications.He has been recognized for excellent quality of work. He also has a significant experience working with Customers, Project Managers and Technical Teams for securing & executing concurrent projects. He has worked on very high priority projects with primary clients like SAP India, SAP GDC, SAP Malaysia, Kafco, Moserbaer, Mastek, Turner Constructions, Pedrollo, Berger Paints and secondary clients like Honeywell Inc, Homebase, Jones Retail Corp, Telecom Malaysia, Wipro, Relaxo footwear and HUL. He has efficiently worked with cross-functional teams in multi cultural environment.
Dipanjan Saha
Vice President, Head of Delivery, CIBER India
Dipanjan Saha, the Vice President of CIBER India, is also the Head of Delivery. He has more than 20 years of IT consulting experience, which includes extensive experience in management consulting in the field of Globally Distributed Delivery Management, Business Consulting, Program Management, Enterprise Architecture and Practice Management. Dipanjans primary focus area is driving organizational objectives through strategic & technical leadership and consulting in functions like Business Transformation, Service Delivery Excellence, Practice Development, Cost Optimization, Client Relationship Management, Channel Partner Integration etc. Dipanjan has delivered technical solutions in the context of System Integration as well as large-scale long-term application management through an expanded focus on the cost-competitive, market-relevant delivery of solutions. Dipanjan is a B-Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and a Master of Business Management - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Parag Shrungarkar
Principal Consultant, Infosys
Parag is a Principal Consultant with Infosys, specializing in SAP Business Intelligence. At Infosys, Parag is responsible for providing Solutions, Thought Leadership and Consulting in the traditional areas of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, as well as newer areas such as BI Mobile and Enterprise Information Management. He also leads Center of Excellence on BI Mobility. Parag has nearly 15 years of consulting experience in diverse technology areas of SAP BW/BusinessObjects, Portals, ABAP, Basis, web applications development and system administration. He has worked on numerous projects in leadership roles for architecting and implementing data warehouse/business intelligence solutions for clients in Automotive, Telecom, High-tech and Utility industries. Parag carries deep customer focus and relationship, strong communication skills and experience of working/coordinating with diverse teams. He is currently based in Pune, India and works with clients across the globe.
Sabyasachi Banerjee
Senior Consultant, ATOS Group
Sabyasachi is currently working as Senior Consultant with Siemens IT Solution & Services Pvt Limited (belonging to ATOS Group) He has over 14 years of experience workin as Manager IS Application, Project Manager, Business Finance Controller , Manager Finance (Corporate Finance) and SAP FICO consultant. Sabyasachi has handled Multiple SAP Projects and has lead multiple teams (over 15 people) consisting of resources from different part of the world. Worked across many countries in Asia and Europe His past employers were Hewlett Packard, ABB, Gontermann Peipers (I) Limited (ISPAT Group).
Avaneesh Dubey
Senior Vice President, SAP Labs India
Avaneesh Dubey is Senior Vice President On Premise Business Suite test center of SAP. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from IIT and post graduate management degree from IIM Bangalore. In his early career he has contributed for the success stories of Citicorp (COSL) and HSBC bank. He is a person who has worn several hats in the history of SAP. He started as a developer in SAP AG. After that he made a phenomenal difference with CMS(Collateral Management system) where he played the roles of a lead, an architect, a coach, the line manager and so on. Later he headed the development units in India in the area of financial services (banking and insurance), public services, manufacturing and test services. Currently as a member of the global leadership team of SAP he is responsible for end to end Test solutions for SAP Business Suite. Personally he is a bull in the share market and an innovative carpenter. Avaneesh has all along been a promoter of innovation and new initiatives at the SAP, in particular in SAP Labs India. His deep industry insight and experience make him an invaluable leader of the organization
Ashok Kannan
AVP-IT Head, Ashok Leyland-John Deere
Ashok Kannan is currently the IT Head of Ashok Leyland John Deere Construction Equipment Co. P. Ltd, a 50-50 joint venture between Ashok Leyland, the flagship company of Hinduja Group and market leader in automotive industry, and John Deere, the market leader in agriculture, construction and foresty. He has 20+ years of experience in IT Leadership and Management, out of which he has 16+ years of experience in SAP Project, Program, Delivery, Practice and Bid Management. After completing BE-EEE from University of Madras, he did his masters in HR from IGNOU as well as in Engineering Business Management from University of Warwick, UK. He has worked in several reputed organizations such as Alstom, T-Systems and Xansa. He also has multifunctional experience, and has worked in parallel assignments as SBU Head, managing end-to-end organizational operations.
Makesh Kannaiyan
Head, Technology and Operations, ERP Practice, Sonata Software
Makesh is working with Sonata software as Technology and Operations Head for ERP practice. Makesh is currently leading the SAP BO 4.0 Platform initiatives for one of the leading software OEM. He has an overall industry experience of 30 yrs and 15 years of experience in Leading ERP applications (SAP, Oracle and MS) in leadership roles and as techno functional architect. Makesh have conceptualized and completed one of the first Successful ‘SAP All in One implementation’ for Dairy Industry in record time of three months using the fast start methodology. He has built 540 member strong SAP technology team within a span of 3 years – this team included Basis, SAP All in One and SAP Security competency team to architect, win and support the large SAP projects. He has successfully completed more than 6 upgrade projects as Subject Matter Expert in SAP technology/Software Engineering Implementations/Rollouts.
Amit Banerji
Vice President & Head - ERP Practice, MindTree
Amit Banerji heads the ERP Practice at MindTree and brings in over 25years’ experience in IT Industry and 14+ years’ experience in ERP/SAP Consulting, Solution Architecting, and Services Delivery management for Indian and Global Customers. At MindTree, Amit is responsible for providing strategic direction to grow ERP practice, SAP Services Delivery Management and achieve high Customer Satisfaction. Prior to MIndTree, Amit has worked at Satyam Computer Services (now MSAT) , IBM Global Services and SAP India in Solution architecting and SAP Service Delivery Management roles. Amit has experience of leading large complex SAP implementation, multicountry roll out projects and managing SAP ADMS engagements for Global Fortune 500 customers covering SAP ECC, SAP Netweaver, CRM and APO solutions. Amit holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineeging from I.I.T Kanpur and MBA degree from I.I.M Bangalore.
Prashant Kulkarni
Head: SAP Business Analytics, Mahindra Satyam
Prashant comes with 15 years of rich cross functional experience across multiple industries. He has played variety of roles as Head of SAP BI Practice, Competency Development, Solution Architect, Pre-Sales, Consulting and delivery oversight for SAP BI Projects globally. Prashant in his current role is a core-member of Mahindra Satyam Enterprise Business Solutions (SAP) leadership team and Practice Head for SAP Business Analytics & Technology focused on Enhancing Business Capabilities, Generating Ideas/opportunities for People and Competency growth Prior to MahindraSatyam he worked for over 7 years in USA, Consulting and providing IT solutions across multiple customers.
Pradeep Pathak
SAP Global Delivery Head, L&T INFOTECH
Pradeep Pathak is a Top-Notch Manufacturing & SAP Professional with a Successful Career Spanning 32Yrs. Pradeep Pathak, an Engineer by profession and a Technocrat by passion has over 22 Years of strong functional experience in Manufacturing Engineering Industry comprising Materials Management and Procurement, Production Planning and Production Engineering, complimented by over 10 years experience in and around SAP environment. As Global Operations Head – SAP BU with L&T Infotech; managing around US$ 100 Million Global SAP Delivery of over 60 international projects spread across Middle East, Europe, North America & Asia with a dedicated team of 2800+ SAP Consultants. Proven track record of executing several projects including SAP Upgrades, BW Enhancements, HCM Implementation, SEM BPS Implementation, HR Instance consolidation, Unicode compliance, Merger & Acquisition, SAP Global Rollout in 109 countries operating from multiple countries & multiple locations and various Non SAP Projects With hands-on core competency in SAP implementation & support, he has progressed fast from core team member to SAP consultant to lead the teams and operation groups in various service offerings of L&T Infotech for its international customers, strategic business partners and other key stakeholders of SAP eco-system.
Nagisetty Janardhan
CoE Lead - SAP HCM , Wipro
Janardhan is currently the Competency Lead - SAP HCM Practice at WIPRO. He has over all 21yrs of industry experience and 8+ yrs of experience in SAP domain. He has worked as Consultant, Competency Lead and Business Advisor in SAP. His expertise are in Business Process Consulting/re-engineering/Advisory, Pre-sales Solutions Support/RFP, Compliance/Efforts Estimations, Process Excellence Audit Reviews during entire SAP Project Life cycle, Innovation & Re-usability of Solution Objects, Implementation & Support consulting and Competency Development Plans-design & implementation. Janardhan is a Gold Medalist in PG (PM&IR) from Kakatiya University, Warangal and he as a MBA degree from Pondicherry Central University.
Sanku Bose
Vice President, Global Head - ERP Practice, ITC Infotech
Sanku Bose is Vice President in ITC InfoTech with international experience. He has a 21+ yrs of overall industry experience. He is currently heading Global ERP Practice in ITC Infotech responsible for SAP and PeopleSoft Practice Development, Thought Leadership and Solution Innovation for global business challenges. His current strategy is to expand ITC Infotech’s SAP footprints globally in aggressive way with assured sustainability. Mr. Bose’s core competencies include Practice Development and Program management capabilities in the areas of SAP Solutions and IT Strategy, Infrastructure, Applications Integration, Application Management Services, Governance and Operations Management. He has driven a number of successful global business transformation programs with a specific focus on value and organizational change management. He is very hands-on, strong on operations as well as strategy. He has a significant experience in Global SAP rollouts, centralization, shared service centers, instance consolidation, infrastructure and internal controls. He has demonstrated strong Management and Organizational Skills and technical expertise in SAP R/3 including NetWeaver 2004/2004s. Mr. Bose earned Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi.
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