Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard,

Companies looking to breach the veil of uncertainty and weaving resilience into their DNA for future shocks are focusing on gathering more data to unlock new revenue options.

This data has enormous potential for helping a firm thrive and for assisting executives in making real-time decisions. However, this can only happen if this data is used to its full potential in order to generate useful insights.

And business intelligence can prove to be more useful in these tumultuous times if it is relayed in a real-time manner. Active intelligence seems to be the answer. It provides analytics-ready data along with the most updated information in real-time. With an amalgamation of the data at rest and data in motion, it represents the pulse of the data, providing business insights and creating an intelligent data-to-analytics pipeline.

Prepare your business for unexpected situations in future by using Active Intelligence, as it can help you anticipate the upcoming trends. It provides more detailed insights, thanks to AI-powered analytics. Active Intelligence also represents the business moment by adding business logic to analytics-ready data, transforming it into business-ready data and enabling collaboration among all data personas.

About The Economic Times virtual round table

As we are in the midst of the epidemic, companies must cling to the most cutting-edge technology in order to prosper in these trying times. The Economic Times Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile will unleash the power of using Active Intelligence in today’s data-driven demands. With real-time agility becoming the need of the hour, it is critical for businesses to adapt to demands as quickly as possible. Active Intelligence enables them to not only outperform the competition, but also to adapt and respond quickly to changing situations.

Speakers

Aashish Goyal
General Manager – Data Strategy & Governance
Tata Communications Ltd.

CK Tan
Senior Director, Solutions & Value Engineering
Qlik

Pankaj Agarwal
Deputy Vice President – IT
Tata AIG

Subhasis Majumdar
Principal Consultant & Head Ultimatix
Tata Consulting Services Ltd. (TCS)

Poornima Ramaswamy
VP, Global Solutions & Partners
Qlik
Moderator

Agenda

4:00 – 4:05

Opening by ET Edge

4:05 – 4:15

Presentation: Power of Active Intelligence: Transcending collaboration beyond the last mile by CK Tan, Senior Director, Solutions & Value Engineering, Qlik

4:15 – 4:55

Round Table Discussion: Active Intelligence: Accelerating informed decisions

Active Intelligence has raised the bar for technology, giving traditional methods a run for their money. With real-time and analytics-ready data, it has sped up business processes and is assisting them in making rapid and informed decisions. In this session we will discuss how this technology is rapidly evolving and will touch upon the following topics:

  • How to tackle business problems using Active Intelligence
  • How data pipelines enable quick decisions
  • How can businesses begin to incorporate Active Intelligence
  • Business outcomes that Active Intelligence may help you accomplish
  • Helps in prompting immediate actions

4:55 – 5:00

Closing remarks by ET Edge

Aashish Goyal, General Manager - Data Strategy & Governance, Tata Communications Ltd.

A Senior Technology Leader specialized in data driven tools & technologies and having 20+ years of industry experience delivering products and services for customers across a wide number of geographies, functional areas & enterprise systems. He has performed diverse roles in technology & business solutions, IT strategy, program management, solution architecture & delivery in organizations including Tata Communications, Fidelity International, Infosys, BNY Mellon, Cognizant, and Capgemini. Currently he is leading the enterprise data strategy, data governance, BI, and self-service analytics functions within the Digital & Information Technology Department in Tata Communications Ltd, Chennai. In his previous role within the Enterprise Technology department in Fidelity International, he was responsible for the expansion of core data hubs and reporting capabilities across several business areas globally, replacing legacy systems, reducing tactical solutions and manual processes across the business, and introducing a core set of data hubs, data marts and reporting solutions to service the front, middle and back-office operations. He is an engineer from I.I.T. Chennai and has done an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. Has completed hands-on executive programs from global universities in emerging technologies, business transformation, management, and leadership. He is a self-driven professional who keeps moving things forward even in the face of ambiguity & imperfect knowledge and has sharp analytical skills.
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CK Tan, Senior Director, Solutions & Value Engineering, Qlik

CK is a Senior Director in Global Solutions and Value Engineering at Qlik. His team focus on business value consulting and advises top strategic clients in Asia Pacific to create strategic, well-aligned data and analytics solutions. As a design thinking practitioner, he often incorporates humancentred design to help businesses transform their business by adopting data-first culture and sustainable data-driven
practices.

He brings to his role over 15 years of progressive experience in consulting, product marketing and industry sales within the Analytics and Technology space. He has extensive experience in leading consultancy practice teams whose focus is on delivering business value and driving customer success within data and analytics.
When not geeking out on analytics and technology, CK teaches his three daughters to become master Lego builders.

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Pankaj Agarwal, Deputy Vice President - IT, Tata AIG

Working with TATA AIG General Insurance as Deputy Vice President having more than 20 + exp in BSFI industry mostly in General Insurance. Managed medium to Large technology transformation projects. Currently manages Data Office for certain verticals + Data Governance vertical.
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Subhasis Majumdar, Principal Consultant & Head Ultimatix, Tata Consulting Services Ltd. (TCS)

I have completed my Masters’ in Computer applications in the year 1992. I have worked in Fujitsu ICIM for few years before I joined TCS in October 1995. My first assignment was with GPT, a UK based telecom giant where I worked in C++ in a real time telecom system followed by couple of assignments with GE Capitals in Seattle, USA where I worked mostly for a trading systems in Informix. I worked as a lead in Ticketting & Reservation system for Malaysian Railways, KTM, where we worked mainly in Oracle & D2K. I started working in an Accounting product of EX as an independent product manager where I released couple of Accounting products in the market towards the end of 2001.

I started working as a Technical Architect for one UK based utility company, United Utilities from middle of 2002 where TCS was engaged in the implementation of Primavera, a project management tool and worked there till July 2005.

Joined TCS Internal IT team, Ultimatix, in August 2005 and since then working here on different initiatives like development of major products in HR, Delivery, Time management and Analytics platform. Currently working as the Cluster Head and managing 4 major towers like Delivery, Time Management, Knowledge management & Analytics platforms with a total strength of 500 + associates.

I am based in Kolkata and living with my wife and daughter.

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Poornima Ramaswamy, VP, Global Solutions & Partners, Qlik

As the Executive Vice President of Global Solutions and Partners at Qlik, Poornima leads a multi-disciplinary team that blends alliances/channel strategy, consulting and education services, as well as value engineering. Her team designs and executes transformational strategies for large enterprise customers to maximize the value of their overall investments in Qlik’s data integration and analytics platforms. In her position, Poornima also holds a leadership role within the Customer Exchange Network.

Poornima joined Qlik from Cognizant, where she was the business leader for their AI & Analytics practice in North America. During her tenure, Poornima also led the Cognizant Chief Data & AI Officer Advisory Council, a community of analytics executives focused on AI & Analytics as a strategic imperative for organizations. Poornima has more than 20 years of experience across a variety of industries and started her career at Tata Infotech.

Poornima holds an MBA from ICFAI Business School, India and a BS in Mathematics from University of Madras, India.

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