Speakers

Amit Kirti leads the Data and Analytics (DnA) team at EY GDS Strategy and Transactions (SaT). In this role, he is responsible for building Analytics and AI capabilities for EY GDS Strategy and Transactions. Amit works closely with clients across sectors helping them solve complex business problems, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Generation, Cloud, and other new and emerging technologies.
He combines his years of strong business consulting experience in problem-solving for clients across sectors such as consumer, industrial, and healthcare amongst others with emerging technologies to build innovative solutions. He has been instrumental in developing multiple strategic solutions for key accounts delivering tangible P&L impacts.

Pranav is a Client partner for Mphasis strategic accounts in Canada geography, responsible for client relationships with 2 of the top 50 Canadian firms. Pranav moved to Canada in 2018 and was responsible for setting up Mphasis Ontario presence from scratch, for a leading life insurer, where we scaled the engagement to over 100 FTEs in 3 months’ time.

He possesses 20 years’ Information Technology experience, having successfully delivered over 10 programs in financial services industry, including 3 large scale multi-system modernization initiatives. In his prior roles, he has led design thinking workshops, business consulting, prototyping for creating new business solutions in capital markets and insurance space.

Pranav lives in London (Ontario). He is an avid cyclist and loves to read about advancements in medical sciences.

Philip is a creative problem-solver, plain and simple. In 2018, he founded Philip Agnello Creative Consulting, the Toronto-based, global boutique brand and creative consultancy helping SaaS start-ups reach their goals through business-centric branding.
Philip is the author behind the pioneering 4 Areas of Understanding philosophy, a model for uncovering the knowledge and understanding that is necessary to craft effective strategies for brand and creative initiatives.

Kshama Dhir is the global lead for EY GDS Strategy and Transactions (SaT) service line that comprises over 2800+ professionals in India, Poland, China, Hungary, and Spain.

She has a rich experience in business transformation, global operations, and the development of new and customer-centric solutions. Her keen interest is to build new markets and develop next-generation leadership. Kshama is a Chartered Accountant and has a master’s degree in Finance. She joined EY GDS in 2007. She has about 25 years of experience with a host of Global organizations.

Liam Flanagan began his career in the technology start-up world fostering the earliest of business ideas as the facilitator of Genesis’ Evolution Program. After growing this program to support 60 new NL tech companies per year, Liam moved to Ottawa to pursue a Masters of Entrepreneurship, Technology Innovation Management, and work full-time for Invest Ottawa’s ScaleUp Program.
Supporting Ottawa’s top scale-up technology firms between $1M and $50M in annual revenue gain access to funding, resources, and mentoring eventually led Liam back to NL, where he joins techNL as Local Talent Lead. Currently, Liam supports NL tech jobseekers find their ideal career by connecting them with employers, educators, and resources.

Rajesh has over 20 years of experience and is passionate about technology and its applications. Starting his technology journey in building products and platforms, he was instrumental in institutionalizing technology adoption across teams, sold, priced, and built Intellectual Properties that can generate nonlinear revenue in the IT services industry. He has been the key architect in building platforms that brings different pieces together including the flexibility of the cloud, the restrictions of global compliance like PCI, HIPAA, and DPA, the low cost of open source technologies, the existing investments of enterprises in technology to transform and pivot business units of multiple Fortune 500 customers in different domains.

Rajesh has not only led several programs around technology transformations but participates in everyday design and coding, building products that make a difference in people’s lives. Rajesh is a first-generation entrepreneur with four patents in the product, platforms, and cloud under his belt. Rajesh is TOGAF Certified and is keenly interested in transformational programs of enterprises where multiple parts of the organization change and the enterprise architecture around transformations. He is also a certified AWS Architect and has spent nearly a decade understanding and architecting for the cloud and has spoken in public forums on the architecture of the cloud. He truly believes that the best of digital and analytics is yet to come in financial services.

The lending industry is still largely paper-based and most of the current systems are inward-focused rather than customer-focused. He is on a journey to be able to build the organization with these nuggets of wisdom, as one of the most customer-focused companies that make a difference to people. Rajesh loves to spend time with his daughter and is an avid traveler to embraces new cultures and living.