Soumendra Mohanty is an acclaimed thought leader and SME in the areas of analytics, IoT, AI, cognitive, and automation. He is a two-decade veteran with expertise in next-gen big data solutions, BI architectures, the enterprise data warehouse, customer insight solutions, and industry-specific advanced analytics solutions. With his broad experience, he has designed and implemented data analytics solutions for Fortune 500 clients across industry verticals. Soumendra is an advisor with the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. He is also associated with the Indian Statistical Institute and various universities as visiting faculty specializing in big data and analytics. Soumendra speaks at various global forums, CAO advisory forums, and educational institutions. He is author of the books Data Warehousing, Big Data Imperatives (Apress), and Analytics in Practice. Sachin Vyas is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience intechnology, data, and analytics. He was the founder and CEO of AugmentIQ Data Sciences, a company acquired by LTI. LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company. AugmentIQ focused on creating platforms and solutions specific to big data engineering and data sciences and provided solutions to large and complex data and analytics problems for financial services companies. He currently heads LTI’s platforms and enabling solutions with converging technologies across devices, data, computing, and artificial intelligence. Sachin is the recipient of the EMC Transformer Awards-2012 and the SKOCH Digital Inclusion Awards-2012 in India. He has a mechanical engineering degree from VNIT, Nagpur, India.