Monthly Event Series 

Wednesday, October 16th^th, 2019, 6:00 – 9:00PM
Palace of Asia, Kingston, New Jersey - 08528

Topic: Artificial Intelligence to Singularity”

TiE NJ is kicking off a 2-session series on AI/ML/NLP led by Rajesh Makhija, CEO GoGestalt and Founding Partner 92Angels.   

Session 1: "Artificial Intelligence to Singularity” – Oct 16^th, 2019  This will be covered by Rajesh Makhija, where he will set the stage to help people understand AI / ML / NLP etc. and give a teaser on how it is going to disrupt/transform the world in the next couple of decades, all the way to a singularity in some form. By breaking it down to fundamental blocks we will deliberate on how should we embrace AI. The discussion will touch upon topics like, how we can develop strategies to implement AI systems and challenges faced by Enterprises using new deep learning and ML technologies. Providing perspectives in this field are Arun Shroff, Founder & CEO, Xtend.AI and Anand Srinivasan, Chief Data Scientist, Kaizen Analytix. 

Session 2: “AI/ML: Realizing the Potential” in Q1 2020, we get additional practitioners for panel discussion who are exploiting AI/ML/NLP commercially successfully.

 Agenda:

·       6:00-7:00pm: Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres

·       7:00-8:00pm: Presentation and Q&A

·       8:00-9:00pm: Dinner

You won't want to miss this very interesting event!!

Speakers:

Rajesh Makhija, CEO, GoGestalt, Founding Partner, 92angels

CEO, GoGestalt Corporation: Rajesh is the Founder and CEO of GoGestalt, which helps enterprises transform their workforce by elevating digital competency and mindset, thus enabling digital culture & help imagine what is digitally possible. Rajesh is also the founding Partner of 92angels, an angel investment company nurturing startups focused on human aspects of technology; specifically education, food, water, healthcare, communication and energy.  Previously, until May 2018, Rajesh was the CEO of Mphasis Wyde and Eldorado. Rajesh led a quick pace complete turnaround of both Eldorado & Wyde during his 4 years’ tenure. In recognition, in June 2017, Rajesh was awarded the Gold Stevie Award for "Executive of the Year" at American Business Award.   

 Arun Shroff, Founder & CEO of Xtend.AI Xtend.AI is a startup using AI to solve global health challenges in health and other domains. He is also co-founder/CTO of Medindia.net, a leading health website and application provider. In addition, Arun is a topic lead at the ITU/WHO Focus Group on AI for Health – a WHO initiative for evaluating AI and creating a global community on AI for health. Arun has been an invited speaker and expert on AI and technology at conferences globally including at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, WHO, Wilton Park, UK, Apollo Hospitals, and IIT Madras.  Arun has as a B.Tech from IIT Madras, an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and M.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University and certifications in AI/Deep Learning from Stanford.   

Anand Srinivasan, Chief Data Scientist, Kaizen Analytix Anand is a seasoned Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence professional with ~10 years’ experience in design, development, and delivery of AI powered solutions to drive business value. He has a proven track record of delivering AI/ML solutions in challenging time frames to several Fortune 500 companies. In his current role as a Chief Data Scientist, Anand heads the Data Science team that is responsible for design and development of analytical models and supports a cross functional team to deliver analytically sound solutions. Prior to joining Kaizen Analytix, Anand worked at McKinsey & Company in the Marketing and Sales practice. He served retail, travel, transport and logistics clients on Pricing and Revenue Management related business problems. In addition to solving the analytical problems on the projects, Anand also spent his time helping build analytics capabilities at the clients. Before McKinsey & Co., Anand was an Operations Research Consultant at Revenue Analytics, Inc. where he helped clients across hospitality,  automotive OEMs and automotive retail industry on solving problems like Channel Optimization, Inventory and Supply Chain Optimization, and Pricing and Revenue Management.  Anand holds an MS in Operations Research from University at Buffalo, SUNY and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur India.