Traci is a leader in the “Lighthouse”, KPMG’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics. Traci is responsible for the D&A Strategic Transformation 

Traci is a leader in the “Lighthouse”, KPMG’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics, and AI.  Traci is responsible for the US Lighthouse Artificial Intelligence Team and for KPMG Ignite (KPMG’s Global AI platform). She is an experienced executive with significant expertise leading programs focused on artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and big data technologies. Traci also leads the global KPMG Google Innovation Lab focused on experimentation, testing and innovating with pre-launch and new Google products.  She is a proven leader with a long record of success in designing, developing and deploying solutions to address clients’ most complex problems.  Traci’s experience spans several industries include Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Financial Services and High Tech.

Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track-record of establishing market leadership positions. Sumit has led multiple $1B+ enterprise software and SaaS businesses with responsibilities in managing P&L a

Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track-record of establishing market leadership positions. Sumit has led multiple $1B+ enterprise software and SaaS businesses with responsibilities in managing P&L and all functions of the business from R&D to sales. With expertise in creating new market categories, Sumit brings a proven leadership approach that results in top-performing teams.

Prior to joining Instart, Sumit served as the general manager of the end-user computing business at VMware. Prior to VMware, Sumit served at Citrix, where he held a number of executive roles – across engineering, product development, marketing, corporate development, and general management – and was a key contributor to Citrix’s growth from a private company to the publicly-traded, multinational business that it is today.

Sumit holds an MBA from the University of Florida – Warrington College of Business, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Jay Boddu is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur, business executive, and product development leader. Jay most recently was the Vice President and Head of New Business/Product Incubation at Juniper 

Jay Boddu is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur, business executive, and product development leader. Jay most recently was the Vice President and Head of New Business/Product Incubation at Juniper Network. Previously, Jay has held a number of key investing and operating roles at Sofinnova Ventures, Sun Microsystems, Amdahl Corporation, ATI Research, and venture funded start-ups. Jay has completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS from Iowa State University, a B Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Jay also spent a year at Stanford University as a visiting scholar focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Jay holds over 50 Patents. He is a Board Member/Observer/Advisor/ Investor to 40+ start-ups

Dr. Sreekar Krishna is currently working as a Managing Director of Data Science & Innovation at KPMG LightHouse, a AI Center of Excellence within KPMG's Innovation & Enterprise Solutions Division. He specializes in 

Dr. Sreekar Krishna is currently working as a Managing Director of Data Science & Innovation at KPMG LightHouse, a AI Center of Excellence within KPMG's Innovation & Enterprise Solutions Division. He specializes in innovative ideas centered around Big Data Machine Learning and Knowledge from Unstructured Data. Working with KPMG's customers, he has helped evangelize the transition of various industry partners from the traditional data warehousing to a more sophisticated Big Data Analytics driven culture. He specializes in Big Data AI solutions that improve business process and customer engagement. Specifically, he focuses on the core areas of Machine Learning and its associated technologies like Natural Language Processing, Billion-scale Data Processing, Ranking, Information Retrieval and Simulation. 

Previously he worked at Microsoft Bing as a Senior Researcher in the Core Ranking and Relevance team, before which, he held the position of Assistant Research Technologist with the School of Computing, Informatics & Decision Support Engineering, Arizona State University. 

Sreekar has published a book chapter, 5 journals and over 30 conference papers in various academic venues. In the past, he has worked with various research institutions including Samsung SDS Korea and UtopiaCompression Corporation on advancing computer vision algorithms for real-world applications including target tracking, marine obstacle avoidance, face detection in videos and visual knowledge discovery. He also worked at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India as a research assistant towards developing real-time face detection and person tracking algorithms.

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few.

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few.

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few. She has launched many successful and Insightful products over the last decade many of which encompass AI and machine learning expertise. She lead query disambiguation and speech recognition efforts on leading edge Google Home and Google Assistant enabled devices using Google Cloud ML models. Surbhi holds a Bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur and Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

In her current role, she leads Juniper’s off box GTM strategy as Head of Product for Network Virtualization and SDN Software products at Juniper Networks. 

She is very passionate about supporting the IIT community and is one of the key leaders of the IIT Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning forum, a Board Member for IIT Bay Area organization, and the former President of IIT-Kanpur West Coast alumni association. She is also the Chair and leader of the "Women in Product" San Francisco Bay Area organization.

Accomplished Technology and Management leader with over 18 years in transforming global companies’ IT, security and risk management strategi

Accomplished Technology and Management leader with over 18 years in transforming global companies’ IT, security and risk management strategies to meet business objectives. Lead "Fortune 100” companies with “C-level” relationships, collaborate and drive cross-functional alignment. Awarded “Best Mentor” in developing high-performance teams, successfully lead diverse teams (including offshore) on complex multi-year programs.

Bidyut Parruck is also CTO at InterfaceED Solutions which has deployed an expert system for ER physicians at local hospitals. He has also mentored multiple healthcare startups using AI at IIT Startups.

Bidyut Parruck is also CTO at InterfaceED Solutions which has deployed an expert system for ER physicians at local hospitals. He has also mentored multiple healthcare startups using AI at IIT Startups. He is an accomplished executive with track record of technical and business leadership - having founded multiple successful startup companies, raised funding and seen many exits including an IPO. He is currently exploring a healthcare application using AutoML.

Technology leader with 20 years experience addressing business, consumer and societal challenges through Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Data. It's an interesting time -- 

Ellen Campana, Ph.D, is a Director in KPMG’s Lighthouse Center of Excellence with 20 years of experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Conversational Ai implementation and deployment. Prior to joining KPMG, she developed systems at NASA, Intel and big data healthcare startup Apixio. Now based out of KPMG’s Silicon Valley Office, she drives innovation of omnichannel customer experience for large clients in healthcare, finance, and government globally. 

Technology leader with proven track record of building products in Digital Health, Consumer electronics, FinTech and Cloud based SaaS platforms.

Technology leader with proven track record of building products in Digital Health, Consumer electronics, FinTech and Cloud based SaaS platforms.

Led globally distributed engineering teams to help drive innovation and product development at companies including co-founded startups with successful exits and large public companies.

Surendra Saxena is a Vice President at IntelliH, Inc. where he is responsible for solution business requirement and market development of a chronic and post- operative patient management solution.

Surendra Saxena is a Vice President at IntelliH, Inc. where he is responsible for solution business requirement and market development of a chronic and post- operative patient management solution.

Prior to IntelliH Surendra was a Principal Advisor Healthcare strategy where he built a management consulting practice delivering Healthcare strategy engagements to several leading hospitals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Qatar and Australia.

Surendra has over 25 years of experience in high technology and healthcare. Surendra has been a speaker in International Conferences in Dublin, China and has also moderated several panels. He has authored books on enterprise messaging technologies as well as globalization and virtualized delivery of services.
Prior to joining Cisco Surendra was a founder CEO of a venture - backed company DevFlow, a startup building Process Management solutions. He was also a founder of OutsourceMethods and ConeXL.
Surendra has held Senior Management positions in several companies such as Fiorano and HCL Technologies America.

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