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AI & India - Navigating The AI Revolution Gary Event

With Ranjit Tinaikar (CEO, Ness Digital), Balakrishnan Venkatachalam (COO, Pratham), Ranjit Bawa (Tech Ecosystems & Alliances Leader, Deloitte), Vasant Dhar (Prof., NYU Stern), Seema Mody (CNBC).

	Nov 10 (Tue) @ 06:30 PM $30
	Venue, 725 Park Ave

AI has the potential to reshape global economies. In India, it could disrupt the technology & outsourcing industries that employ millions, while also creating new opportunities to improve productivity, education, & access to expertise.

India therefore faces a broader question than whether AI will create or eliminate jobs: How can the country use AI to expand opportunity while managing the risks to workers, inequality, privacy, & democratic institutions? This panel brings together perspectives from technology, academia, & education to explore how India can navigate that transition. Panelists include:

Ranjit Bawa - US Chief Technology & Ventures Officer, Deloitte
working on Enterprise AI, technology services, & the future of work

Vasant Dhar - Professor, NYU Stern & NYU Center for Data Science; host of Brave New World
covering AI, human decision-making, governance, & democracy

Ranjit Tinaikar - Host, Newsweek AI Impact Forum; former CEO, Ness Digital Engineering
covering AI, India's technology sector, & the changing economics of IT services

Bala Venkatachalam - Chief Operating Officer, Pratham
covering AI in education, Pratham's technology initiatives, & expanding access to opportunity

Moderator: Seema Mody - CNBC Technology & Global Markets Correspondent

Presented in association with Pratham USA

Ranjit is Deloitte's Global Technology & Ecosystems & Alliances Leader & the US Chief Technology & Ventures Officer.

He is focused on imagining, engineering, & launching the next generation of tech-powered businesses & platforms within & across Deloitte's businesses. He is responsible for technology strategy, innovation, & emerging growth businesses, as well as oversight of Deloitte's ecosystems & alliances. Ranjit serves on the US Executive Leadership team & the Global Executive Team. He sponsors several Deloitte CXO programs & actively serves a number of clients in the financial services & high-tech space. Ranjit previously served as Deloitte's Chief Strategy & Technology Officer & Deloitte's Cloud leader.

Ranjit's perspective has been sharpened over nearly two decades driving technology innovation & delivering breakthrough solutions for some of the world's most forward-thinking enterprises. He has spearheaded major new initiatives for leading global financial institutions & other complex organizations, where technology is the foundation of the service delivery model.

Ranjit's educational background-in electrical engineering & finance-provides him with a well-rounded understanding of the interrelated dynamics of technology, economics, & the forces shaping innovation. His early career in aircraft engineering operations-where each decision affects a complex, mission-critical system-fostered his belief that every challenge presents an opportunity to innovate & improve. Today, he applies that perspective to help empower organizations as they launch new initiatives, embrace next-generation technologies, & reimagine themselves at every stage of the transformation journey, from initial conception through full-scale implementation.

Vasant Dhar, Ph.D., is Robert A Miller Professor at NYU's Stern School of Business & the Center for Data Science. He is the author of a recent book, Thinking with Machines: The Brave New World of AI, which offers a practical framework for thriving in an AI-driven world.

Dhar is one of the world's leading authorities on prediction, data science, & governance of AI. He brought Machine Learning to Wall Street in the early 1990s, & has been active in a number of areas that include sports & medicine, in which he is using AI machines that can identify disease based on smell. His larger research focuses on when we should rely on machines to make decisions & when we must retain human oversight, & the challenges that confront us in how to govern AI.

Dhar hosts the Brave New World podcast, where he interviews thought leaders about the world that our future selves would like to inhabit. His approachable style & ability to explain complex ideas make him a sought-after commentator for healthcare, parenting, education, finance, & tech media.

Seema Mody is a technology & global markets correspondent for CNBC, focusing on the intersection of foreign policy, Silicon Valley & Wall Street. Given Mody's experience reporting overseas, she helps synthesize complex international stories for CNBC's investor audience. Within technology, Mody covers the software & cloud services companies at the leading edge of artificial intelligence adoption. She also reports on the globally diversified industrials sector.

Dr. Ranjit Tinaikar is a global technology & financial services executive with over 30 years of experience driving transformation across North America, Europe, & Asia. He most recently served as CEO of Ness Digital Engineering, where he led a landmark sale of the company to KKR, reshaping Ness into a focused digital engineering specialist.

Earlier in his career, Ranjit was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in the Financial Services & Technology practice, where he pioneered the firm's Lean Software Development practice. He went on to serve as a Managing Director at Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv) & as President of Fitch Solutions.

Ranjit currently serves as Chairman of Praxent, a native AI services firm in financial services built in partnership with Anthropic, & is Host & Senior AI Contributing Editor of the Newsweek AI Impact Forum, where he engages CEOs & investors on how AI is reshaping global industries. He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh & an M.Tech from IIT Bombay.

Outside of work, Ranjit lives in New York with his wife; his two children are now young professionals in New York as well.

Balakrishnan ("Bala") Venkatachalam is a seasoned social impact leader with over 25 years of experience driving innovation, organizational growth, & cross-sector collaboration in education & development. He currently serves as the President & COO of Pratham International, where he leads the organization in scaling its evidence-based education & youth training programs globally. Bala has worked extensively across India, the U.S. & more recently in Sub-Saharan Africa, & Latin America, helping to launch & expand impactful initiatives in foundational learning, technology-enabled instruction, & vocational training. Prior to this, Bala served as Executive Director of Pratham USA & his previous experiences include roles at Innovations for Poverty Action, The Monitor Group, & KPMG, as well as co-founding a mobile tech startup focused on field data solutions. He brings deep expertise in organizational development, governance, fundraising, & systems-level change, & has worked closely with governments, donors, & other philanthropic partners to strengthen & support education systems.

Bala holds an MBA from INSEAD, is a qualified Chartered Accountant, & serves on multiple boards & advisory groups related to global education & sustainability.