AI & Me – How it will impact all of us

Manik Gupta is head of Bayer Consumer Health’s Analytics and Insights (aI) group in North America. In his current role, Manik oversees multiple aI Communities of Practice, including Human Truths, Consumer Engagement, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and Data Science, and aI Canada. Manik’s primary role is to build next-gen bionic capabilities and accelerate the digital transformation of the business through data and analytics. Prior to his current role, Manik was responsible for leading advanced analytics and Big Data product development for AT&T where he owned the development and delivery of big data and IoT analytics solutions for the enterprise market. Prior to AT&T, Manik was with Georgia-Pacific where he led advanced analytics for their Home Cleaning Solutions business. Prior to Georgia-Pacific, he was with Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy and Analytics practice where he led analytics engagements for Fortune 500 clients in the Consumer-Packaged Goods, Retail, Financial Services, and Media sectors. Early in his career, Manik was a part of a start-up called Zyman Group where he led marketing science engagements for multiple Global 1000 clients. Manik is a graduate of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and has an engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Ekta is a senior financial services executive with over twenty-five years of experience in leading large-scale operations, strategy, transformation, data governance and integration functions across organizations. Ekta is a transformative leader and has repeatedly built  global organizations from the ground up, delivered  business impact, modernized functions and hired the  best talent which has allowed her to deliver quickly with  sizable results. She fosters an inclusive environment and promotes  diversity in thought and leadership. Ekta has held progressively senior roles at Accenture, JPMC, GE  Capital, Synchrony and GENPACT.  Ekta has a foundation in finance and is a certified Master Black Belt (Six Sigma) and change accelerator (work-outTM). She uses these as her tool-kit. Currently at Accenture, Ekta serves as the global lead for data management and governance. In this capacity, Ekta works across clients to help them set up their data infrastructure expeditiously to enable data is made available across the organization and is used in a compliant way. With the advent of advanced analytics, it is becoming more critical to ensure data that is used for any analytics has known provenance, transparency, quality and governance…Ekta works with her clients to deliver these capabilities. Ekta completed her education in India and US and is more recently a blogger and speaker on how to maximize use of data in a responsible way and wys to govern data to ensure it can democratize across the organization. Ekta lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and 2 girls and their 3-year golden retriever. She enjoys traveling, reading and spending time with immediate and extended family and friends.