Badri Devalla

Senior Director & Head – AI & Automation Solutions,
EdgeVerve

Badri Devalla is the AVP, AI & Automation Solutions Head at EdgeVerve. Badri is responsible for implementing solutions leveraging AI & RPA products for Enterprise clients. Badri has delivered cognitive automation across Enterprise Operations using AI techniques ranging from Recommendation Engines to Deep Learning-based NLP to redefine customer experience and improve operations efficiency. His current focus is on “Doc to Digital” approaches to pipeline enriched & validated extracts from documents to Enterprise systems supporting business processes for New Business, KYC, Servicing, Claims, Telecom Billing, and Contracts Analysis.

In his 25+ years of experience, he has led teams of systems architects, business process consultants, and Automation experts. He is an alumnus of Texas A&M University with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering (Data Compression & Error Correction) and a PhD in Computer Science (Networking & Real-time Systems).

Sateesh Seetharamiah

CEO, Edge Platforms,
EdgeVerve

Sateesh Seetharamiah is a Whole-time Director at EdgeVerve. He is the Chief Business Officer and Global Head, Edge Products. A leader with entrepreneurial, management consulting, operational and IT leadership experience spanning over 25 years. He is a strong believer in the immense potential AI and Automation have in transforming enterprises of the future. Sateesh is one of the founding members of EdgeVerve and comes with rich experience in the product and platforms domain. Being a passionate technologist, Sateesh has been instrumental in establishing many foundational technology capabilities that drive todays EdgeVerve strategy.

With deep roots in supply chain, he was one of the pioneers of Internet of Things (IoT) in its early days, went onto establish a lab at MIT focused on defining communication standards and use cases that eventually became household applications. A well-regarded thought leader in the intelligent automation space, Sateesh conceptualized and championed ‘Process Discovery’, a novel concept that uncovers efficiency opportunities for enterprises and humans alike.

Before joining Infosys, Sateesh held various senior management positions consulting for fortune 500 CPG, HealthCare, Retail, Automotive and Logistics companies in North America and Europe. Sateesh has also been active in the start-up community with a few of his own start-up stints in the software and RFID arena. As Director at Brambles limited, Sateesh led the intelligent asset tracking strategy aimed at providing end to end supply chain visibility. He was also part of the advisory councils for many supply chain product firms including SAP, i2 and Manugistics.

Praveen Kombial

Vice President, Global Sales Head,
EdgeVerve

Praveen Kombial Is the Global Product Head of Business Applications at EdgeVerve, an Infosys company. His mandate is to leverage Artificial Intelligence and Emerging technologies to build and launch products solving for specific business problems for industries globally.

At EdgeVerve, Praveen leads a highly talented team of Engineers and Product managers in building an ecosystem of Products addressing industries and functions such Financial Services, Insurance, Consumer Packaged Goods and Supply chains.

Prior to Infosys, Praveen spent many years at GE Capital and GE Money in India and did a gamut of functions and roles across retail finance, corporate leasing and risk management. Among other things, he managed a 500Mn$ Auto portfolio, was instrumental in setting up a fast funding channel in consumer lending and expanded a corporate leasing product. With his background across core Industry domains and the evolving cutting-edge technology landscape, Praveen is on the forefront of driving change and brings a practitioner’s view to translate concepts to reality.

David C. Williams

Assistant Vice President, Automation, Hyper-Automation,
AT&T Business Solutions

David began his career with AT&T in the Network Technology Organization, and over time has been featured on NBC, Fox, ABC, EBONY, Black Enterprise, & more. During his time with the company, he has held a number of roles and assignments from Training, Data Center management, Enterprise support, Customer Experience, and Chief of Staff.

In these roles David has created deep-link HTML marketing initiatives that garner 90 million monthly impressions, led Competitive Intelligence which helped shape AT&T’s Mobile First strategy, our employee discounts, has been responsible for supporting several Fortune500 companies encompassing $120M in revenue, and authored two patents for Reprogrammable RFID and bridging satellite and LTE technology.

In his current role, David is responsible for hyper-automation & emerging technology to transform Customer/Employee Experience and Cost Structure for his organization. He leads the largest Robotics Process Automation program worldwide. His innovations are driving change across the company as his team has developed 600+ Bots automating 70M contacts, realizing $400M in operating income at over 3,000% ROI. Additionally, he also invented & sponsored a decision engine driving $200M credit reduction annually.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Dallas Baptist University, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Electronics Technical Platform, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Robotics Process Automation certifications.

David is the 2021 Legacy Award recipient at Black Engineer of the Year STEM Global Conference, 2022 IT Team of the Year bronze Stevie Award, 2022 NSBE Outstanding Technical Contribution Award, 2x Dream in Black winner, 2x AT&T Champion of Diversity Award winner, a proud mentor of multiple Employee Groups, & Diversity Ambassador.

David’s humble beginnings in the poorest corner of Dallas, TX and rise through a corporate giant is encapsulated in his recently released book entitled, Business Model.

The Business Model book is one of the world’s first literary works, offering its own associated NFT, called ANOMALY. He enjoys continually giving back through Solar Robot Workshops to his community and abroad as he has traveled to India & Israel carrying the message that small ideas are still bright ideas. He also enjoys family activities, volunteering, fitness training, and motorcycle riding.

Mike Stober

Executive Director, Operational Excellence, Clinical Operations Group at Aetna,
a CVS Health Company

Mike Stober has spent the past 30 years primarily in a Management Consulting capacity responsible for advising C-suite executives on how to drive operational efficiency that impacts not only bottom line business results but also recognizing the balance that is required to understand the impact to internal colleague and external customer experiences. He has significant experiences in the healthcare, P&C and banking industries leading large scale transformations. He is currently employed by CVS Health leading their Operational Excellence group for Clinical Operations.

He is also an adjunct professor at two area universities instructing in Business Analytics and Operations. His primary focus has been in value stream disruption to identify, diagnose and execute on improvement opportunities that reinvent and disrupt the economics of these value streams. He has done this via perfecting a scientific approach that combines the use of digital data collection, primary and secondary research, advanced analytics, lean six sigma and human-centered design disciplines to deliver exceptional economic value to the firm and customers.

Kavita Bhadauria

Director – Platform Marketing,
EdgeVerve

Kavita heads product marketing for Edgeverve. In her role, she is responsible for product messaging, value proportion, and growth. She is also a part of the management committee that drives strategic initiatives for Edgeverve.

N. Shashidhar

Vice President & Global Platform Head,
EdgeVerve

Shashidhar is an accomplished executive with over 24 years of experience in the software Industry. He is currently Global Platform Head of AssistEdge – Automation suite of products.

He is one of the founding members of EdgeVerve and comes with rich experience in the product and platforms domain. He was part of core team that conceptualized and setup EdgeVerve as product subsidiary of Infosys. He has played key roles across Technology, Client Engagement and Functional leadership at Infosys.

He is passionate about Strategy and Business Transformation. He has played stellar roles in architecting transformations in Engineering Business and subsequently at Products & Platforms business at Infosys.

He is a University Gold Medalist in Engineering and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Shrikant Deo

Director – Product Management,
EdgeVerve

RPA thought leader and Director of Product Management for AssistEdge, the market leading RPA product from EdgeVerve Systems.

Senior IT Products professional with a total of 20+ years of experience in multiple leadership positions. Has conceptualized and built B2B IT products from scratch and taken them to market. A global leader with experience in managing IT teams across USA, UK, Australia and India. Has done MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.