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Please join us as we welcome Ganesh Padmanabhan on Friday, August 21 from Noon – 1:00 p.m. for his talk entitled: Digital Disruption in the Age of the Pandemic

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Digital Disruption in the Age of the Pandemic

The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations to transform and respond to an unprecedented change in customer behavior and market risks. While we have realized in the past few months that no organization is truly resilient, digitally fortified organizations have weathered the crisis better than others.  In this session, we’ll explore the common themes of disruption across various industries and the digital opportunities that emerge out of this crisis for businesses, individuals and humanity at large.

About Ganesh

 

Ganesh is an accomplished technology and business executive with deep expertise in commercializing and building fast growth businesses for Fortune 500 organizations and high growth startups. In his 18-year career, he has a strong track record of bringing disruptive technologies like Cloud, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver outstanding customer and shareholder value.

 

Most recently, he was the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Molecula Corp, a Data Management company that helps enterprises unlock access to their data. Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Market Development at CognitiveScale, Inc., an Enterprise AI company, that helps Global 2000 organizations deploy and scale practical, scalable and trusted AI systems. Prior to that, Ganesh was the General Manager of the Converged Solutions business spanning Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Hybrid Cloud, Business Applications, Big Data and Analytics scaling to $1.3B in global revenue. Ganesh spent the early years of his career in technical roles at Intel and Adaptec.

 

Ganesh is passionate about using technology to solve the biggest challenges for humankind and is a believer in the power of AI to augment human potential. He is an advocate for using technology as a global equalizer to create opportunities for all. He has been active in the community by mentoring local entrepreneurs and startups at Capital Factory, Texas. He recently served on the Texas Governor Abbott’s COVID-19 task force on Innovation, helping them unlock data to better decisions on the response and recovery in the State. Ganesh teaches a course on ‘Product Management and Strategy in Technology Driven Markets’ every Spring semester, at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas Austin.

 

A frequent keynote speaker, he is published at Forbes, Business Insider and other publications and was honored by the Enterprise Management 360 as one of the top 10 tech experts revolutionizing AI. Ganesh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calicut, India, and an MBA from UT Austin.