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Welcome to BA Convention 2019
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 possess new opportunities as well as challenges for a practitioner to prepare themselves for the digital age.

BA Convention 2019 will have industry leaders to talk about these disruptive technologies and how one can solve complex business problems with the help of these technologies.

Past Edition Keynote 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 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 Cross OG Industry Practice, Advanced Technology Centers Accenture An active industry speaker, blogger and recipient of the World Women Leadership Award for her dynamic leadership, Shantha believes in creating a new legacy for business growth. With an extensive experience of more than 20 years in sales, strategy, M&A, innovation and delivery across the Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel, Health and Life Sciences sectors, Shantha has spearheaded several client transformation projects. She holds an Executive MBA from Symbiosis, Pune and a B.E. from PSG College, Coimbatore. She is also a certified Program Manager from the Stanford University, USA. Her leisure time makes the ambitious adventurer practice yoga and running as well as volunteer for social causes including teaching the underprivileged children.
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 .	Gopal Katti Managing Director Accenture Read More Gopal Katti Close Gopal Katti Managing Director, Technology – Financial Services, Advanced Technology Centers - India Accenture A seasoned leader in global technology delivery with over 24 years of experience in helping large financial services firms solve complex business problems using technology. He has a deep understanding of the Banking and Capital Markets Industry across the macroeconomic, regulatory, changing customer demography and disruptive technology aspects. He holds Post Graduation in Software Enterprise Management from IIM, Bangalore and an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from Karnataka University. He loves teaching industry topics, mentoring and coaching people to help them achieve their full potential	Manikandan Seran General Manager – Upstream Production Information Delivery SHELL Read More Manikandan Seran Close Manikandan Seran General Manager - Upstream Production Information Delivery SHELL Manikandan Seran (Mani) is a leader with 23 years of experience across Engineering and IT industry. He moved into IT as SAP consultant and has played multiple roles in delivery with Indian and global Clients delivering and managing projects, programs and large portfolios across all project lifecycles including transformation programs.Mani joined Shell in 2016 and is an active player in Shell’s IT transformation journey that focusses on building a capable team in Bangalore and enhance internal ways of working including Agile for faster time to value to the business. In his current role he manages 500+ applications with a team that is spread across 17+ countries and a landscape that has many niche suppliers and technologies across project delivery, Information management, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestment. Mani has played multiple key client facing roles, transformation programs, skills and capability development, managing a portfolio from design to delivering value in his experience.	Suresh Krishna Pai Senior Director – Data Analytics UST GLobal Read More Suresh Krishna Pai Close Suresh Krishna Pai Senior Director – Data and Analytics UST Global Inc Suresh Krishna Pai, Senior Director – Data and Analytics at UST Global. Suresh has global consulting experience assisting customers on matters related to data management, data engineering and Insight engineering. He has evolved his career from business analyst to managing P&L for data services in last 16 years. Suresh has consulted customer across broad range of industry vertical such as healthcare, life science, manufacturing , energy & utility, banking and financial service, public sector and government agencies. He enjoys accelerating possibilities for his clients leverage their data assets.
Sowmyanarayan Srinivasan Managing Director Accenture Read More Sowmyanarayan Srinivasan Close Sowmyanarayan Srinivasan Managing Director,Life Sciences Industry,Adv. Tech. Centers - India Accenture Sowmya is an accomplished Life Sciences Executive with over 20 years of business experience and extensive leadership in driving new solutions and competencies, product management and business development for both large and start up organizations in the Life Sciences industry. In his current role at Accenture he is the Life Sciences Industry Lead	Veena Rao Global Head – Product Management Finastra Read More Veena Rao Close Veena Rao Global Head of Product Management - Corporate Banking Finastra Veena has extensive experience in banking and banking products over a career spanning 25 years. Veena started her career with India’s leading private sector bank, ICICI Bank Ltd, where she built skills in banking across project finance, corporate banking, forex treasury and relationship banking functions. She joined the IT sector as a domain consultant in early 2003, managing presales for FLEXCUBE at i-flex solutions (now Oracle Financial Services) where she built a repertoire of specialized skills in banking product presales. Veena moved on to HCL Technologies in 2006 to launch the product incubation unit for banking. She also managed the Domain Excellence team for strategic banking clients at HCL, before joining Misys (now Finastra). Veena currently heads product management at Finastra and is responsible for managing product strategy for its Connected Corporate Banking Solution. A Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and US CPA by qualification and training, Veena has morphed from accounting to banking to IT, adapting herself at each stage, to the needs and challenges of her career, as it evolved. Veena is passionate about grooming women into leadership roles and is running the Finastra Community Networks program as part of its Diversity and Inclusion program. Veena is also an active speaker at conferences and has presented at various Zinnov and IIBA Conferences in the past.	Saptorshi Hore COO ThoughtWorks India Read More Saptorsi Hore Close Saptorsi Hore COO ThoughtWorks India Saptorsi Hore is the Head of Operations / COO for ThoughtWorks India, being responsible for operational business planning, strategic planning, professional services management - people management, recruitment, staffing, training and immigration, financial management and reporting, portfolio management, demand management and administration. He is a member of the global operations leadership team. He is a senior management professional with 19+ years in the IT industry having proven his expertise in managing client relationships, delivering large technology programs, grooming leaders and in setting up and heading business operations. He has played a variety of roles in ThoughtWorks like that of the Market Principal for the EU offshore market, Program Director, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Client Principal, Program Manager, Delivery Manager, General Manager for the Gurgaon office, setting up the Analytics practice and General Manager for the Bangalore office. He has around 15 years of experience in delivering software projects in an distributed model, with 11 years in delivering projects using Agile methodologies. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur and did his MBA from IIM Calcutta.	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.