Harshit is a Design Thinker by Profession, Digital by Blood, but above all, an Entrepreneur by Passion. His core strength lies in transforming businesses and getting them ready for this digital era, by leveraging new-age tech. His 3 half-decade avatars have been about building Scalable Consumer Internet Products, Innovation & Change Management, & Creating Differentiated Monetization Business Models. His learnings from unsuccessful projects, pivoting start-ups and pathbreaking work make him a riveting storyteller & an award-winning digital leader both fused in one. The 2 things he takes pride in? His ability to learn-unlearn-relearn & putting method to the madness.
Recognised as Top 100 influential Leaders in Asian Analytics Industry and Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists in India, Anish is a professional with over 19 years of experience with exceptional expertise of delivering value through innovative use of data across a spectrum of industry verticals.
An informed opinion Leader and the go-to person in the field of Data Analytics, Data Visualisation, Strategy Design, Thought Leadership, Financial Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Anish is a trusted expert who has moved and inspired people and organisations with innovative ideas, scaling them into sustainable change not just in one company but in an industry, niche or across an entire ecosystem, globally.
He is on panel of a number of industry conferences and has authored several papers on various subjects related to Artificial Intelligence and advanced Data & Analytics. He is also a member of the advisory board of an AI start-up and colleges/ universities intending to set-up structured courses on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Besides, Anish in on panel of a number of AI themed industry bodies. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan Business School and is also a visiting guest faculty in a number of tier 1 colleges and universities in India.
Two-time entrepreneur with 35+ years of work experience. Suresh spent the first 15 years of his 35-year career in sales, marketing, advertising, media and banking. He started his first venture, RedPill Analytics, in 2000 in Singapore. RedPill was the first analytics firm in Asia. Business leader IBM acquired RedPill in 2009, to date one of their few Asian acquisitions. Now a second time entrepreneur with Crayon Data, with a bold vision to simplify the world's choices using their revolutionary personalisation platform: maya.ai. Crayon is one of the only Asian players to consistently win global recognition
Pooja has over 10 years of experience with exceptional expertise of delivering value through innovative use of data across a spectrum of industry verticals. She has a proven track record of defining and executing large scale projects involving complex data. She is a multi-faceted professional with advanced analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills. Currently working as Vice President – Natwest Group, India. Pooja’s current role involves using extremely large, complex data sets to draw conclusions and effectively communicate findings with both technical and non-technical team members. She is proficient in using SQL / SAS / Python, Machine Learning and Tableau.
Mathangi has Worked across large organizations and start-ups. She has published more than 20 global patents in data sciences with 10 global patent grants adept across machine learning , NLP technologies & tools. Her expertise lies in Machine Learning, NLP, Web Analytics, Text Analytics, Predictive Modelling, Optimizing customer experience, Experimentation, Voice of customer analytics, Data Mining,Business Analytics, Customer Analytics.
Shubhanshu is currently working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Citi, Singapore. He pursued his Masters in Business Analytics with specialization in Consumer and Big Data Analytics from National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining Citi, he has worked as a Data Scientist in ad-tech domain in Singapore.
In his data science experience in the advertising industry, he:
- worked in R&D, wherein he worked on building state-of-the-art frameworks to optimize programmatic advertising.
- worked with FMCG & Hospitality clients, wherein he built frameworks to understand new market audiences, & customer reviews using NLP and deep learning.
Prior to his Masters, he worked as a Software Development Engineer with early to mid age startups. He handled various engineering roles and projects including product backend, devOps, and analytics. Agile methodology, clear communication with different stakeholders, and continuous development in short sprints are some of the values that he learnt working with small and dynamic teams.
Data Evangelist with 9+ years of experience in diverse industries. She provides expert data & analytical solutions to derive insights for different business units. Speaker & Trainer for data visualisation tools. Passionate hiker & love playing squash.
Camilo is an awaken dreamer who transforms Ideas into Aactions. Truly passionate with life and work that came to his attention supported by an awesome team and co-workers. Living under Work-Life Integration Status where work became most likely a hobby to create Solutions within the problems and challenges that humans are struggling to solve. He is currently heading the data analytics and strategy team at Absa Bank Moçambique.
Abdallah is a Big Data consultant with extensive experience in building highly scalable 'Data-Projects' for getting max benefits from organizations' data and helps in making informed decisions.
Analytics leader with hands-on experience in building & nurturing high-energy team of analytics professionals, having 18 years of experience in Banking and Information Technology Operations. Loves solving business challenges through data-driven solutions using Analytics-Storytelling and Data strategies, demonstrating strong leadership and project management skills with teams across the globe. Currently striving to build analytics and data culture and next-line of leaders in her workplace.
Deepshikha brings 13 years of experience in the field of Data Science. As head of Data Science, she leads data science projects touching the aspects of acquisition, engagement and retention for issuing, acquiring and merchant clients in the payments ecosystem.
Deepshikha has led notable projects with clients such as deepening X border penetration, Card on File strategy, Credit Expansion, Cobrand opportunity analysis, Early Month on Book strategy, X sell models and strategy.
Prior to joining Visa, she has been part of organizations like Axis Bank, SCB, Aimia and American Express in various data science roles.
Stefan Hoppe is the OPC Foundation President since end 2018 coordinating the OPC expansion into the Internet of Things & Industrie4.0.
Stefan has been the Global Vice President since 2014 and the President of the OPC Europe organization since 2010 being the catalyst for initiating liaisons with other industrial consortiums that has resulted in OPC working groups developing companion specifications for the organizations respective information models.
Stefan Hoppe studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. Since 1995 he has worked for BECKHOFF Automation, starting as a software developer later as a lead Product Manager with focus on PC based Automation, connectivity and embedded software products.
You can reach Stefan under [email protected]
Shanthi is a strategic advisory and consulting leader at InfoCepts. She comes with 18 years of experience in IT services of which the last 14 years focused on Data and Analytics. Her experience includes consulting and business analysis, program management, BI solution development, presales and practice development. In her current role, she supports InfoCepts customers in the APAC region to advance their data and analytics journeys through solution advisory, roadmap definitions and implementation plans.
Alex Hoehl is the Senior Director Partner Channel Sales & Business Development APAC for Denodo. In this role he and his team are responsible for all partner related activities in the region including partner sales, building and evolving the partner network as well as educating the market about Denodo Data Virtualisation, its successful use cases and benefits.
Alex has over 20 years of experience in IT, holding leadership positions in sales, business development and business operations. He managed teams in key APAC markets such Singapore, Japan, India and Australia. Alex is an expert in building and driving fast growing businesses and has deep experience in working with customers and partners for joint benefits.
Starting his career as consultant and project manager in EMEA, he was seconded to Singapore by SAP in 2000 to help establish the SAP CRM APAC business. He launched SAP Business ByDesign, SAP’s first Cloud ERP solution and transformed SAP Business One (B1), are purely indirect business with over regional 120 partners, into a profitable business unit. He was one of the first members of the senior management team to build the start-up of BackOffice Associates in APAC. Alex joined Denodo in June 2018 to build the partner business in APAC.
Alex holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and is a PR in Singapore.
Richard Self worked in the aerospace sector for thirty years supporting the business with innovative approaches to the use of analytics to model aspects of decision forming and making.
He then made the transition into academia in 2002, where he now has small teams of Undergraduate and Masters students researching to identify the best frameworks of questions for developing strategies for the governance of analytics and data in order to deliver ethical and trustworthy business solutions.
Richard was co-chair of the IBM sponsored Big Data Analytics Educational Conferences between 2014 and 2018.
Richard is a regular invited keynote speaker at UK and international business conferences where he always provides the audience with the important questions for evaluating their business needs and technologies.
