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Driving the BA Capability Transformation!

Technology has always been a helping hand for industry leaders in reducing the cost and complexity, making improved products and develop a new business model. But the current wave of industry disruption is loaded with terms such as IoT, agile, CX, robotic process automation, AR/VR, blockchain, mobility, machine learning, connected devices, and digital ecosystems that possesses new opportunities as well as challenges for practitioner to prepare themselves for the digital age.

BA Convention 2018 will have industry leaders to talk about these disruptive technologies and how one can solve complex business problems with the help of these technologies.

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2018 Speakers

Ken Fulmer CEO & President IIBA® Read More Ken Fulmer Close Ken Fulmer President and Chief Executive Officer International Institute of Business Analysis Prior to joining IIBA, Ken was a Management Consultant and IT Executive Advisor. He was formerly CIO at Delek US and the Chief Technology Officer at Sunoco, Inc.- a Fortune 500 Oil Company. Ken had been with Sunoco for over 25 years, in various positions within the Information Technology field His responsibilities as CTO included managing the Project Management Office (PMO), managing the IT planning and application architecture, and leading the practice area for Business Analysis. Ken was deeply involved in Commercial Product and ERP implementations, Refinery, Supply Chain, and Retail systems in the Downstream Oil and Petrochemical industry. Ken has an undergraduate degree from LaSalle University, and has an MBA from Clarion University. Ken served on the Board of IIBA (from 2011-2016) and was on the Executive Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee. Ken has also been active on the teams involved with Strategy Development and with the Business Model initiative at IIBA. Most recently he held the position of Chairman of the Board of IIBA.	Michael Augello Consulting Director OptimiseYou Read More Michael Augello Close Michael Augello Consulting Director OptimiseYou, Coaching & Mentoring Michael is an influential leader in Business Analysis. His passionate involvement in building successful professional communities has led him to a long term board director role on the global board of IIBA where he has had a central role in developing strategy. After joining the board in 2010, Michael served as Chair from 2014 to 2016. Following a career in project delivery spanning many different delivery and general management roles, Michael co-founded a successful consulting company which led to stock exchange public listing in 2007. The consultancy was later acquired by UXC / CSC. In recent years, Michael has returned to Business Analysis leadership roles through coaching, mentoring and leading capability uplift programs.	Cecily Macdougall Managing Director Building4Business Pty Ltd Read More Cecily Macdougall Close Dr. CECILY MACDOUGALL Managing Director Building4Business Pty Ltd Dr Cecily Macdougall is Founder and Managing Director of Building4Business Pty Ltd, which specializes in the Strategy-to-Execution Process (SXP). Cecily is a recognised expert in why transformation programs fail, early recognition of failure, and how to re-establish them. Cecily has found that SXP is the missing link needed to build the foundations for successful strategic change/transformational programs. Cecily has proven that the core skill needed to conduct Strategy to Execution is Strategic Business Analysis and that Strategic Business Analysis is key to program success!	Lalit Desiraju Senior Director CAPGEMINI CONSULTING Read More Lalit Desiraju Close Lalit Desiraju Senior Director Capgemini Consulting Lalit Desiraju as Senior Director of CAPGEMINI CONSULTING in India, is responsible for building and executing Digital strategy for Capgemini's global and Indian clients. Lalit has a track record of more than 17 years of building high performance teams & executing on customer success focusing on Digital Transformation, Operational Excellence and CIO Advisory offerings for global client base	Shantha Maheswari Managing Director Accenture Read More Shantha Maheswari Close Shantha Maheswari Managing Director Managing Director Cross OG Industry Practice, Advanced Technology Centers Shantha Maheswari is a Managing Director leading Cross OG Industry Practice and Inclusion and Diversity for Advanced Technology Centers in India. For over 20 years, Shantha has led and advised client transformations in her leadership roles of Business Portfolio, Sales, Strategy M&A, Global Large Deal Executive, Innovation and Delivery across Retail Consumer Goods, Travel, Industrial, Health and Life Sciences industries globally. Shantha believes in creating a new legacy of business growth sustained by value creation and people leadership. She is passionate on people transformation, nurtures underlying principles of diversity, inclusion and mentorship to evolve them as successful leaders. She is noted for her skills as a strategic transformation change agent, underpinned by her defining quality of being an ‘ambitious adventurer’. As a public speaker, Shantha has been on many panel discussions on topics such as ‘Work Life balance’, ‘Career Back to Work’, ‘Inclusion and Diversity’ organized by associations such as Avtar foundation, NASSCOM, many Corporate Diversity Boards and STEM events. She is also active industry speaker and panelist at multiple industry summits. She is also an active blogger and develops thought leadership point of views on next generation technologies. Shantha is a Stanford certified Program Manager, Revenue Storm assessed Client Partner, Shipley certified large deal assessor, and a recipient of CEO awards for high performance. She holds an Executive MBA from Symbiosis, Pune and an Engineering degree from PSG College, Coimbatore. Shantha is a recipient of the World Women Leadership award for exemplary leadership and has also contributed to the book “Innovating Women' by Vivek Wadhwa, a renowned global thinker. She is an avid practitioner of Yoga and does experiential learning for kids when she finds time.
Sanjeev Sharma Country Head & Managing Director ABB India Ltd Read More Sanjeev Sharma Close Sanjeev Sharma Country Head & Managing Director ABB India Ltd Sanjeev has been with ABB for about 30 years and has grown his leadership perspective in diverse global roles with base in Europe and Asia. Sanjeev is an electrical and telecommunications engineer and with management education at IMD Switzerland and INSEAD. He is known for having shaped many ABB businesses into high growth trajectory in his tenure. He is a relentless change driver with current focus on Industry 4.0, Digitalisation, Electric Mobility and Smart technologies for smart grids and cities.	Ashish Mehta MD, India&APAC Global Thought Leader IIBA® Read More Ashish Mehta Close Ashish Mehta Managing Director India & APAC & Global Thought Leader International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) Ashish Mehta is a seasoned leader with over 23 years of experience in leading global IT consulting and business analysis practice. A recognized thought-leader in the business analysis, Ashish has worked with clients globally to establish highly effective Business Analysis and IT Consulting disciplines, enabling the delivery of solutions to business and technical problems. Ashish leads IIBA’s Global Thought Leadership initiative to ensure relevance of business analysis in fast paced business and technology environment. Ashish is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. In his previous assignment, Ashish was a Vice President and Global Practice Head – Business Analysis at NTT DATA Inc. where he established a unique business analysis practice model – a $50M book of business with 350 consultants. Ashish has consulted in multiple domains like BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, Airline, Travel, Manufacturing and Public Sector. Awarded by IIBA for his dedication and commitment to business analysis profession, Ashish has volunteered with IIBA for a decade in different roles including Global Board of Director. His efforts have resulted into exceptional expansion of IIBA in India Region in the areas of corporate and individual memberships, chapters and academic collaborations. A committed and passionate business analysis visionary, Ashish frequently authors, advises and speaks on business analysis at various conferences internationally, and is dedicated to the growth of the business analysis profession .	Pavan Valluri Director CGI Read More Pavan Valluri Close Pavan Valluri Director CGI Pavan Valluri is the Director at CGI with responsibility of New Product Innovation, Development and, Product Leadership. He Serves as Business Architect for GWCM suite of products from India. Prior to Joining CGI, Pavan, in his 18 years of experience, has worked in Senior Positions in Product Companies designing and developing products. He has worked with Finacle, an Infosys Product Wing, Intellect Wealth Management Suite and Oracle. He has also served the wealth management industry as a Wealth Advisor and was Regional Head for Private Banking for renowned Private Banks (ICICI and Kotak Mahindra) in India.	Ramesh Revuru Head – Digital Integration L&T Infotech Read More Ramesh Revuru Close Ramesh Revuru Head - Digital Integration L&T Infotech Ramesh Revuru is Head- Digital Integration @ LTI. He has 22 years of experience working with both product development and IT services companies. He is author of two well researched books "That’s I.T" & “Get the software job”. His articles are published in popular IT magazines like Profit, eBIZQ & SCENE. His article on SOA was ranked among TOP 10 articles by Profit (Oracle) magazine. Speaker at conferences including TIBCO Conference, Annual IP summit, COLLABORATE, OAUG UK & GITEX. Trained in Power Speaking™. Before joining LTI, he was Chief Delivery Officer @ Minacs and also served with Oracle, Infosys and Computer Associates. He is BE (Electronics), MS (Software Engineering), MBA (Operations Research), and Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Stanford University).	Shalini Sankarshana Executive Vice President Product Management Broadridge Financials Read More Shalini Sankarshana Close Shalini Sankarshana Executive Vice President - Product Management Broadridge Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd With the passion for continuously delighting the customers in an enterprise product space, Shalini has been a part of the Financial Technology domain for a large part of the last 2 decades. She has built a thriving community of product managers and business analysts in Broadridge Financial Solutions, and is running the India Product and BA Center of Excellence. She has led several industry-wide initiatives in the capital markets and institutional trading space, working across the globe, and has been part of the Broadridge’s exciting industry and thought leadership era. She has had a rich experience of leading multi-cultural, multi-dimensional teams and developing exciting multi-market facing solutions serving global customers. She is an engineer and a thinker at heart, strategic leader by profession and curious overall.
Ashutosh Sharma VP, Research Director FORRESTER Read More Ashutosh Sharma Close Ashutosh Sharma Vice President, Research Director Forrester Research Ashutosh serves the CIO role and leads the India team that guides Business Technology (BT) and Marketing & Strategy Professionals. Ashutosh specializes in the area of BT and provides strategic guidance and advice to clients in the areas of digital business, cloud, mobility, big data, emerging technologies, sourcing, and contract management. Ashutosh has worked in various roles at leading consulting and IT services firms. Most recently he was with Infosys advising aerospace and automotive clients in the US. Prior to that, he spent close to nine years at Cognizant consulting for major retail and consumer goods organizations in North America and Asia Pacific. Ashutosh completed his postgraduate diploma in business management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.	Amit Bhatia Senior Analyst FORRESTER Read More Amit Bhatia Close Amit Bhatia Senior Analyst FORRESTER Amit's research coverage includes customer journey mapping, customer experience design, customer experience measurement, and customer experience maturity. He is also keenly interested in usability, design thinking, and empathy. Amit has more than a decade of experience across communication design, usability and consulting. His work as a content architect at the design group of a leading Indian SI grounded him in the principles of design and design thinking. His content and usability experience working with clients across US, Europe, and Asia Pacific further provided him an opportunity to understand how humans interact with technology. The practice of always focusing on end-users gained him the life-long skill of thinking outside-in. More recently, he was consulting with clients on customer experience at one of the Indian tech consulting firms.	Praveen Udupa Founder & Managing Partner Skillumin Learning Read More Praveen Udupa Close Praveen Udupa Co-Author Praveen brings 17 years of rich experiences in all facets of Business Analysis and Design Thinking. Praveen is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) from International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and Certified Professional in Requirements Engineering (CPRE) from International Requirements Engineering Board. Praveen has a passion for training, coaching and consulting. With over 8 years of experience in training, Praveen completely believes in the philosophy of “experiential learning”. He has created (and delivered) several impactful “learn by doing” workshop, that have received very positive feedback from participants. Over the last six years, Praveen has personally coached over 2500 students and professionals on various aspects of Design Thinking and Business Analysis. For a year in 2017, Praveen worked for IIBA as their Program Manager, tasked with the responsibility to develop course material for MBA students. Praveen is also a co-author of very recently released whitepaper by IIBA i.e. Digital Business Analysis: Crossing the Chasm from traditional to digital world –IIBA Global Thought Leadership Series 2018	Ananta Mahapatra Program Manager Global Thought Leadership IIBA® Read More Ananta Mahapatra Close Ananta Mahapatra Program Manager, India Programs and Global Thought Leadership, Co-Author IIBA® Ananta is a business analysis practitioner with over a decade of experience in business strategy, IP development, digital and IT solution development in Financial Services, Insurance, Health and Life Sciences domains. Ananta is a Certified Professional in Requirements Engineering from International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) and a member of International Institute of Business Analysis(IIBA®). In his previous engagement, Ananta was a business analysis practice lead for NTT DATA Inc., where he has contributed extensively to practice governance, thought leadership, sales support, business analysis IP and service design. In this capacity, Ananta has coached and mentored consultants in all aspects of business analysis. Committed to the growth of business analysis discipline, Ananta contributes to multiple business analysis forums and conducts boot camps for business analysis professionals and academic institutions.	Ganesh Iyer Founder dotin Read More Ganesh Iyer Close Ganesh Iyer Founder dotin As a passionate entrepreneur, he is on a mission to put a positive dent in this world. He has a unique 15+ years background in leadership,strategic planning, product management- Software and Hardware, Sales and Marketing Operations, Business Architecture, Design, Manufacturing which allows him to view solutions from a holistic perspective. His laser focus execution has enabled more than double digits growth (multi-million dollar ROI) for all the ventures he served. He was also a Research Assistant in one of the most prestigious schools in Asia- Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai). He holds Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University and Dual Masters degree from the State University of New York/Cornell University-Mechanical Engineering & Masters degree from San Jose State University-Biomedical Devices. He also holds Business-Continued Studies from Stanford University. He is also Cisco Gold Certified Business Architect and PMP certified. He is an active partner at SGLab.us & Advisor to nuRealtor LLC. He also has a passion for doodling with his comical strip tuuktukk intended to bring out the lighter side to any serious topics.
Aditya Bhamidipaty Founder & CEO FisrtHive Read More Aditya Bhamidipaty Close Aditya Bhamidipaty Founder & CEO FirstHive Aditya is the Founder/ CEO of FirstHive. He started the company in India with the firm belief that the nation responsible for one sixth of the world’s population should also be responsible for more than its fair share of technology innovation. His stewardship has helped FirstHive to carve a name for itself in the marketing technology industry, delivering ROI to some of the world’s largest brands on their marketing initiatives. Aditya started his career with Proctor and Gamble (P&G), where he played a pivotal role in turning around a loss making market into a profitable one in a record time, which then became the highest growth area for P&G. From there he moved on to join iGate, global technology and consulting solutions provider, in London where he was responsible for UK and Western Europe region, before moving back to India to set up the organisation. Aditya completed his Bachelors in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM-Ahmedabad.