Samiran Ghosh

Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Co | Startup Mentor | Author at Independent

Mumbai, India

In a career spanning 25 years, Samiran has held key roles at Microsoft, Dun & Bradstreet, IBM and TCS. Some of the senior leadership positions he has held recently are Chief Digital Advisor at Microsoft India and APAC Head of Technology for Dun & Bradstreet. Prior to that, during his 14 years at IBM, he did multiple roles across Consulting, Sales, Global Delivery, Solutioning, Research and Product Development. He took a one year sabbatical from IBM to work at the National Institute for Smart Government on several e-governance projects including the Aadhaar project.

Some of his most recent work in the digital arena include:
1. Helped design India’s first indigenously built sports car right from prototyping using the HoloLens through data monetization modelling up to the car launch in the Geneva Auto Show and in the Forza Horizon 3 X-Box game where it had than 3 million downloads – all of this using Microsoft’s own Connected Vehicle Platform along with 3rd party solutions
2. Helped conceptualise and develop functionality like connected farms, AI-based advisory, precision farming and traceability for Microsoft’s Digital Agriculture Platform that is now being socialized with key customers before commercial release. Currently he is also helping a client build their own agri-marketplace to improve farm yields and farmer realisations
3. Used Microsoft’s Smart Spaces / Smart Cities offering on the Azure Platform to deliver a working POC for the Microsoft campus expansion project at Redmond which is 145 structures across 500 acres, with 15MN sq. ft. providing office and lab space for nearly 59,000 people. In its first year alone, the POC saved $2MN with a clear visibility to save much more in the years ahead.

He has written for leading technology journals, is a guest lecturer at premier Indian and international universities, is an acknowledged AI Influencer and a TEDx Speaker. Apart from being a Senior Advisor at a leading management consulting firm, he also advises a few startups and is co-authoring a book on Blockchain and one on Artificial Intelligence to be published by Wiley in 2020.

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Mumbai, India
Speaking Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Blockchain