“Artificial Intelligence is a beacon of the New Normal and is a manifestation of future strategy for Nations, Enterprises & Humanity “

3:00pm – 3:15pm

Opening Address: Welcome to The AI-x Summit: E3xR3

• Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO , Center of Excellence for AI & IoT, NASSCOM

3:15pm – 3:40pm

Keynote Address: What the future holds? Technology, AI and Human

The last 18 months have reformed many aspects of our life and what was unthinkable has been achieved or delivered. The future is an exciting time, a confusing and uncertain one, but what does it mean for us? What will new technologies mean for humans, society, and the universe at large? How might artificial intelligence change the way we live together? The road ahead is interesting, but we need to prepare ourselves, organizations, and society to ensure a bright future.

• Anees Merchant, Executive Vice President, Applied AI & Digital, Course5 Intelligence

3:40pm – 4:15pm

4:20pm – 4:45pm

Fireside Chat: Resurrect the Complex & Unresolved Problems with AI

AI is touted as harbinger & beacon of hope to solve large, complex & unresolved problems of enterprises, nations, society & humanity; with increasingly intricate and eccentric geopolitical, macro & micro economic indicators in the equation, how does AI can become force propellent for solving spectrum of gigantic issues & challenges ranging from climate control, crime prevention, healthcare & judicial reforms, city congestion and others. Tune in to watch Pankaj & Paritosh ruminations on AI attempt to tackle the vicissitudes of global challenges …

• Pankaj Rai, Senior Vice President Strategy, Wells Fargo
• Paritosh Anand, Senior Vice President, Digital Platforms, Reliance Industries

4:50pm – 5:25pm

Panel Discussion II: Evolution of Data Driven Nations – Race to attain AI Supremacy

Data is the fuel of the nations. The Economist said: “Whether you are going for a run, watching TV or even just sitting in traffic, virtually every activity creates a data trace — more raw material for the data distilleries.”. Algorithms trained by all these data traces will be globally transformational. It’s possible that a new world order will emerge from it, along with a new “GDP” — gross data product —that captures an emerging measure of  wealth and power of nations.  It is time we identified what the field looks like now that new competitive and collaborative opportunities are developing. The panel will discuss the elements around Nations building AI supremacy and India’s quest amongst all to become premier destination for AI.

• Tathagat Varma, Head, Strategy & Operations, Walmart Global Tech India  (MODERATOR)
• Ranjani Mani, Director, Analytics & Data Sciences, VMware India
• Jayati De, Global Analytics Leader PARS, Amazon
• Anshuma Singh, Deputy Director, Applied Materials
• Sundara Ramalingam, Global Director, AI Consulting Partners, NVIDIA

5:30pm – 5:55pm

Unplugged Debate: Reset the Strategy with AI for Scale, Differentiation & Innovation

Nearly 85% of Fortune 1000 CXOs believe AI will allow their enterprises to obtain or sustain scale, differentiation & innovation in the market place, contrastingly, just one in the five enterprises have incorporated AI in the organization and less than 15% of enterprises have an AI strategy. How does CXOs & senior leaders look at retriggering & resetting the AI strategy for their enterprise. Anshu & Vidya, two seasoned leaders will dwell upon the global conundrum of pandemic laden market outlook and the need for traditional & new age enterprises to reset the strategy with AI for scale, differentiation & innovation. An intense debate you can’t afford to miss!

• Anshu Sharma Raja, CIO, Consumer, Private & Business Banking, Standard Chartered Bank
• Vidya Laxman, Technology Director, Tesco

6:00pm – 6:35pm

Panel Discussion III: Emergence of NextGen AI Workforce – Opportunities & Beyond…

AI is touted as the most sought after skills amongst the cache of exponential technologies; there are 265+ job lattice and career pathways that exists in AI arena and the range and spread of roles gets further contextualized basis industry segments & business functions. With proliferation of AI roles – entry level & lateral flooding the market; ensuing skills, competencies and attributes will come into the larger focus to get the right fitment. The panel will brainstorm on the new order of expectations from enterprises for AI workforce coupled with critical skills & competencies along with gainful opportunities that are often not visible but are up for grab!

• Saurabh Agrawal, Head, Analytics, Lenskart (MODERATOR)
• Shivani Rai Gupta, AI CoE Lead, Reliance Jio
• Ishu Jain, Director, Analytics, Swiggy
• Soumendra Mohanty, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Innovation Officer, Tredence
• Saswata Kar, Head, Analytics & Data Sciences, Philips Global Business Services

6:35pm – 6:55pm

Keynote Address: Data driven Intelligence – Organic Ingredients

Sanjeev MalhotrGiven the intense pressure on public and private sector alike to address the real problems facing society and planet today, we just cannot afford to wait years for generalized AI to catch up technologically. We need a fresh approach that delivers results today. Fortunately, millions of years of natural evolution has produced a model of highly coordinated behavior within and across species that allows massive flocks, colonies, blooms, herds, etc. of individuals to form distributed collective intelligences whose whole is greater than its parts. We are using this natural organic approach to harness the power of narrow AI to create truly smart city ecosystems. In this session we will dive into the details of the approach, its advantages, and its application in the real world.

• Philip DesAutels, Member, NCG Advisory Board | CTO, Tondo IoT

6:55pm – 7:25pm

Lounge Session: Data, Engineering & Cloud – The X- factor in AI led Transformation

AI alone will not solve large, complex & unresolved problems of the enterprises; next-in class enterprise transformation strategy will need a secret sauce of AI to succeed and provide impact. With the advent of extracting data from non- obvious sources, triggering robust data pipes for firing ensemble ML algorithms and hosting the transformational play of data & engineering on cloud;  the trifecta of Data, Engineering & Cloud have emerged as critical success factors to unleash enterprise transformation, innovation & disruption. The panel will dwell upon the facets of bring together data, engineering & cloud capabilities & solutions along with sharing multiple use cases & scenarios for AI-led transformation.

• Irina Ghose, Executive Director, Cloud Solutions, Microsoft (MODERATOR)
• Swetha Kasthurirangan, SVP, Credit Risk Head, Wells Fargo
• Imran Saeed, Global Head CPG, Vice President, Course5 Intelligence
• Mathangi Sri, Head of Data, Gojek
• Prinkan Pal, Vice President, Technology Labs, BRIDGEi2i

7:25pm – 7:30pm

Closing Remarks: 3AI way forward plans | Virtual Networking