Seema Kumar is the Technical Director for Cloud & Cognitive Software, India/South Asia. She leads a team of client technical professionals and architects and is responsible for scaling up the IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software business in the country. She is a trusted advisor to clients and partners who are on their journey to Cloud and AI. Prior to this role, Seem was leading the Developer Ecosystem Group for IBM India, leading the charge to build out an active developer base across the ecosystem. She has led several strategic programs including Call for Code, Startup programs and key industry partnerships.

A technical leader with a career spanning several roles including software development, product management, partner enablement and ecosystem development, Seem has the experience of leading diverse teams through her career in IBM. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology Leadership Team and a recognized speaker at various external and internal technical conferences.

Vikas is responsible for sales of all IBM Cloud, Security and Cognitive portfolio across IBM India and South Asia, and leads Hybrid Cloud Integration, Data Platform, AI, Security Software, Security Services and Cognitive Applications (Blockchain & IOT Platforms) businesses.

Vikas has close to 30 years of experience across Cross Geography Business Leadership roles, IT Services Business, Telecom / Service Provider business and Cloud Computing. During his career, Vikas has worked in several geographies including Europe and APJ and led large teams and charters in India and across Asia Pacific & Japan.

Previously, Vikas was the General Manager of Professional Services Delivery, Dell EMC Asia Pacific & Japan. He oversaw implementation, consulting and operations management and residency offering across Asia Pacific and Japan managing a 1,000+ strong, multi-cultural team. Prior to that Vikas served two years in EMC India successfully leading the company’s services and product pre-sales engagement with customers and partners.

Prior to EMC, he worked at Microsoft India and led their Microsoft Consulting Service (MCS) and Premier Support business. He later led Microsoft India’s foray into the Telecommunications and Media & Entertainment verticals and led the first Cloud offer launches and cloud syndication services in India during 2010.

Before Microsoft, he also co-founded STG, an IT distribution, training, and consulting startup, and managed the company’s software development/consulting portfolio in both India and abroad. Vikas’s journey into IT services began in Tata Consultancy Services where he served as a developer and Systems Analyst in BFSI and Defense projects in UK and India.
Vikas has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and loves reading and theater.

Anil Bhasker is the Analytics & Big Data Platform Leader for IBM India/South Asia. He is an Engineering Graduate from IIT, Delhi with an MBA in International Finance & Marketing from IIFT Delhi. As part of his continuous upskilling, in 2015-16, Anil also completed an Advanced Course in Data Science and Mathematical Modeling from North Western University to align his career goals with his passion in Data & Analytics.

He has over 25 years of work experience with a total of 12 years in IBM. His experience spans across IT Services and Software business, where he has been leveraging his industry relationships, technical expertise and Leadership skills to lead large teams of technocrats across functions. In his current role at IBM, he has been leading IBM’s charge across Hybrid Data Management, Data Governance, Data Science and AI Business, leading to its phenomenal growth over last 3 years. Before this, he had held multiple Leadership positions across GTS Brand in IBM. Prior to IBM, he was the Business Entity Head at HCL, where he led various Business Units across, Defence, Public Sector and Large Corporates.

As part of his mission, Anil continues to ensure that IBM contributes to the science of Decision Making at all levels across Governments and Organizations to make this world a better place.

An accomplished Technical Executive with rich IT leadership experience – consistent track record of driving increased levels of productivity, profits and internal/external customer satisfaction. Recognized as a Technology Evangelist and Change Agent. Demonstrated skills in Infrastructure Solution Design and implementing technical solutions that reduce TCO and deliver a strong ROI. 24 years of extensive experience in requirement analysis, creative problem solving, technical assessments, strategic planning, technical sales, team building, project management, staff and resource management

Rajesh Malhotra works as a sales leader in Data & AI solutions. He has over 28 years of experience working across multiple domains. He is currently responsible in supporting customers imbibe and adopt best practices and solutions in data & AI platforms for advance Analytics and Optimization. He has held many key roles in the Industry working at leading IT companies like HCL, Satyam and Capgemini, advising and supporting companies in large transformational projects in Enterprise Resource management, Strategic sourcing and eProcurement, Cloud and DC migration.

He is an engineering graduate from MNIT, Jaipur and a Post Graduate in Management from International Management from IMI, New Delhi.

Rakesh Meher manages UGI pillar, which is one of the 3 key pillars of IBM Data & AI Business.

He is responsible for evangelising the data driven decision making culture in the customer community across ISA, and quite instrumental in scaling up the UGI business to new heights. He has been loved by his customers for his in-depth techno-functional knowledge in Data & AI space, and has been entrusted by many to help them set up Data Governance practice at an enterprise level.

In his 8 years of IBM career, he has been the go-to person for IBM ISA for reviving several Analytics products and curating new offerings, which has been invariably well accepted by the customers. Moreover, he has also helped many state govts to set up master data management programs for their SRDH initiatives. He is also responsible for developing Partner ecosystem, and helping partners develop new solutions on IBM analytics platform.

He has been recognized as “Best of IBM” 2 times because of his profound contribution to the IBM Data & AI ecosystem’s growth in ISA. He is an alumnus of London school of Economics and Political Science, and his 13 years of work experience spans across Asia & Europe.

Nishant leads marketing and strategy for IBM's Data and AI software in Asia Pacific.

In his current role, he is helping companies across Asia Pacific to accelerate their digital transformation leveraging advancements in artificial intelligence technologies.

He has worked extensively with global businesses across multiple industries esp. Banking, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Retail & Public Services.

He is custodian for IBM Watson brand and leads AI Leadership initiative for IBM AP.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Deepali is responsible for driving marketing and brand initiatives, strategy and customer relationship management & execution for IBM India and South Asia. With over two decades of experience in marketing, e-commerce, product management and sales, Deepali has held leadership positions with eminent consumer brands and financial institutions.

Based in Mumbai, Deepali enjoys teaching and has mentored MBA students at top management institutes. She also mentors e-commerce startups as advisory board member at Startup Accelerators. She has been conferred multiple awards in the areas of women leadership and marketing and is a sought after speaker as a marketing expert at technology & digital forums.

Shweta works as a Program Director for Financial crime Insight Portfolio and Products in IBM India Software Labs. She has a B.E and a MBA degrees with and an overall experience of 20+ years in the industry in leading Product development teams spread across the globe. She has had breadth of functional responsibilities with hands on experience in strategic/go-to-market planning, business unit and team development, product management, and engineering strategies.

Shweta has multiple files and Patent on match and search normalization and has presented at various conferences like ACM, GHC and IBM Insight.

She has an ear for good music and is very proud of her music collection.

Chandrasekar (Chandru) Thyagarajan has 29 years of experience in finance and operations in Indian and global companies in the areas of business decision support, financial planning, business operations, accounting, costing of products and services, business controls, financial risk management, regulatory compliance, direct and indirect taxation, financial restructuring, sourcing of funds, procurement, real estate and transport operations.

Chandru has been with IBM for over 17 years and is currently the Vice President – Finance and CFO for IBM in India & South Asia. Prior to this role, Chandru has held several finance and operations leadership positions in IBM including that of CFO, IBM India/South Asia Domestic Business, COO for Global Business Services, IBM India/South Asia, CFO for Global Business Services, IBM Growth Markets based in Singapore, CFO for IBM Daksh Business Process Services and finance lead for IBM’s global delivery missions located in India.

Prior to joining IBM, Chandru worked for 12 years in finance leadership positions at several Indian companies in the automobile, financial services and IT sectors.

Shashi works as a sales leader in Hybrid Data Management in IBM. He has over 20 years of experience working across sectors.

He is currently responsible in supporting customers imbibe and adopt best practices and solutions in hybrid data management and enterprise data warehouse. He has held many key roles in IBM for the last 16 years+ and worked across sectors. He has worked on large analytics projects in major enterprises across India. He is an MBA from Pune University.

Vamshi is the Chief Technical Architect for IBM's Data Business in India/SA.

With over 12 years of global experience in the IT industry, Vamshi has been extensively involved in helping leading enterprises globally to implement strategies and programs to adopt latest technologies like Cloud, IOT and Automation. In his current role, he is helping organizations in India/SA region to accelerate their journey to Artificial Intelligence across key industries such as Telecommunications, Financial Services, Retail as well as Public Services.

John’s role is to help establish IBM Garage and it’s associated operating model in ISA. It involves engaging with CxOs and BU leaders to develop a transformation strategy and problem solve complex issues using the deep knowledge of available digital solution across the 4 horizons of – Digitization & automation (H1), Digital transformation(H2), Digital reinvention (H3) as well the latest research(H4). For a BFSI client we are setting up a disruptive platform to undertake a “Dual Transformation” leveraging an Ecosystem based Platform Business Model. This involves creating the overall value proposition for the platform along with appropriate digital processes, operating model, user experience and scalable architecture framework. In his role he needs to bring together resources and capability within both the client as well as IBM organization to deliver at speed that is the embodied in impactful digital transformation.

John has been a strategy consultant for over 19 years and within Digital strategy practice in IBM India for many years now. He has been advising a wide variety of clients across sectors and has worked on challenging engagements in India. He has also had experience in managing clients in US, Europe, Middle East and ASEAN. He is an IBM certified learning and knowledge facilitator for operating models, business case and core consulting skills.

Ravi Jain (Ravi) is currently the Associate Director - Server Solutions for India South Asia. He is also a part of the India / South Asia Systems & Technology Leadership Team. In this role, he oversees the business of the complete range of IBM SERVER SOLUTIONS (Power & Mainframe) and related services in the India-south Asia region for clients from a diverse set of Industries. He assumed this responsibility in April 2016.

Prior to this appointment, Ravi had held various appointments in the Systems and Technology business in the India South Asia from 2002, after he joined IBM from campus.

He was managing the West Region business from 2013 till 2015, where he was responsible for leading a team responsible for sales of IBM Server and Storage solutions in the enterprise and mid-market segments.

Ravi began his career with IBM in 2002 as Sales Specialist for the System x Servers. In his 15 years with IBM, he has undertaken various roles in India-South Asia, including that of a Product Manager for System xTM, BladeCenterTM and IntelliStationTM. Ravi has done an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), and B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD).

Sameer has over 19+ years of experience working with clients across geographies. Strong background in the areas of Business Analytics with extensive experience working on large scale data warehouse solutions. In depth understanding of Information Technology services and application in different industries.

A qualified CA also holding a Masters in Commerce, Roscoe has successfully delivered projects totalling in excess of $1M across Pharma, BPO, Insurance etc. resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction, and vindicated with an ex post facto PMP certification.

He now acts as a trusted advisor to organisations in building business cases that leverage emerging technologies, usually resulting in tens of thousands of dollars or 1000s of man hours saved.

Leslie serves application development and delivery professionals. His research helps AD&D pros understand how to plan and prepare for the propagation of automated intelligence, with practical insights into technology, platforms, and sourcing strategy. Leslie covers applications, frameworks, and services around AI and robotic process automation. Leslie also helps clients understand the key dynamics in the application services market, focused on Microsoft technologies.