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To build a sustainable competitive advantage through digital transformation, it is essential that organizations adopt a long-term automation strategy to implement Intelligent automation solutions that include both RPA & Cognitive capabilities. This holistic approach has enabled many forward-thinking enterprises to accelerate the impact of automation beyond just cost reduction to increase revenue growth, enhance competitiveness and improve employee and customer experience. This viewpoint examines the path enterprises need to follow to reach the Intelligent Automation summit and key considerations to keep in mind when devising their long term intelligent automation strategy.

Speaker Profile

Hari is the lead Subject Matter Expert & Director for the Intelligent Automation impact center for PwC India. He has successfully lead multiple largescale Automation Programs for various clients across various industries & sectors. He is a certified lean practitioner and six sigma black belt certified with 16 years of overall experience, of which 12 yrs. spanned Overseas and Domestic experience across Strategic/Process Consulting Services and Operations Management in the Banking sector & the last 4+ years on learning & mastering automation technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Conversational automation (Chatbots).

Having managed the delivery & operations of 1000+ BOTs into production across multiple RPA tools, Hari has elaborate hands-on experience in leading RPA projects & helping clients transition from RPA to Intelligent Automation across industry sectors, with strong capabilities on Process optimization, Agile implementation, Governance, CoE setup & post-implementation reviews and automation risk assessments.

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Glimpse of computer vision
Primer on openCV framework
What is Sikuli framework
Showcasing real life examples using sikuli
An example being how to extract data and send emails all in a single click
How to use your python skills in RPA
Based on available time few more examples that can be easily understood by participants


Introduction to Automation Anywhere community edition
Q&A

Speaker Profile

Bharathi is a Principal engineer with AT&T Communication services India ltd. He works in the 4G and 5G space who is a pioneer in RPA and also in AI field. He is also a PYTHOnator who like to transform the industry. Under his mentorship, hundreds of people (from students community and also from the industry) got into the bandwagon on Python and automation. He holds more than 78 awards within his company and also holder of THREE nanodegrees from Udacity (all in AI field). He loves to develop Alexa based skills as his hobby and ready to embrace new challenges every day.

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I can cover a range of topics from:

what’s it like to start RPA & reach 350+ bots in less than 3 years.
How is it to be the women in RPA side, what’s it like? When the industry itself is so small
Switch careers from non-tech to tech, Career Mapping
Some of my Abstract included – Finance AP Journey, Take the robot out of the Human

Speaker Profile

Speaker at Cast for RPA, at the conference of ‘Future of Software’.
High performing leader with expertise in Operations, M&A, Divestitures, Strategy building and optimizing organizational processes, performance measurement and infrastructure to maximize business results in Information Technology industry.
Skilled professional who transforms strategic plans into workable solutions and benchmark performance against key goals.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

· Mergers & Acquisitions
· Divestitures (or De-mergers)
· Organization wide Transformations
· Service Delivery & Operations Management
· Financial plan development
· Process Excellence & Automation
· Strategic Planning & Leadership
· Stakeholder Management

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RPA is paving the way towards Cognitive automation. The organizations have seen success in pockets with RPA and some of them have hit the threshold on what RPA can deliver. The real opportunity, though, is to move beyond RPA to intelligent automation. This next generation technology - bringing together capabilities intelligent-OCR , ML, NLP, cognitive capture, and advanced analytics.

Speaker Profile

Sandeep is responsible for the worldwide GTM strategy, sales, enablement and success of Kofax's Global Strategic Alliance partners. He has advised customers and partners for over a decade in varieties of roles including Consulting , Pre-sales , Channel sales and Alliances. His areas of expertise include Business Process re-engineering , Analysis and Intelligent Automation

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RPA address repetitive and manual tasks, but in complex business process like Insurance Claims, huge intelligence gap is left to provide automated "business as usual" service.

Presentation talks about - How one can identify and bring in intelligence to the process? What are the steps involved? How an automated process should think and act. Drill down of a specific business process to address the intelligence gap in transforming RPA to IPA using core technology agents or Cognitive agents (Machine learning and Natural Language Generation) will be explained in detail. This specific business process will be from Insurance Claims area.

Presentation takeaway - High-level understanding of how to bring in intelligence to your automated robotic process and what are the steps involved.

Speaker Profile

Over 21 years of experience in IT software systems. Provided enterprise level architecture and solution design, using technologies Azure cloud services, IoT and analytics. Involved in Process Automation, digital transformation and Platform Simplification engagements, worked on Business Architecture and Technology Architectures for a few leading fortune 500 companies. TOGAF 9 certified Architect and has good domain knowledge in Retail, Logistics, Banking and Insurance. Currently Leading RPA practice at EVRY India Pvt. Ltd.

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Drag and drop RPA code certainly can’t solve because of the absence of:

1. Implementing enterprise level architecture

2. Integrating several modules in hierarchical fashion

3. Keeping infrastructure and it’s changes in consideration

4. Ignoring process level changes

5. Overlooking underlying applications’ changes (because of maintenance and advancement)

If we leave AI enabled RPA aside (because it has immense capabilities) brands are not even able to reap the benefits, RPA alone can facilitate; but only short-term benefits out of their automation initiatives, those are not even sustainable. RPA benefits are not immediate in nature. RPA investment grows exponentially over a period of time.

There is no such term exists – cost effective (most of people mean cheap) RPA. It always involved a cost, effort and perseverance. As per my personal experience; if implemented well; RPA can start reaping it’s benefits in 6 months and grow exponentially thereafter

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Radhakrishnan or RK as he is called is a Digital Transformation leader with over 22 years of experience in the industry.

At Infogain RK has been leading solution deployments and technology consulting with key client for over 16 years. He currently heads Infogain’s Intelligent Automation Solutions, offering four types of automations systems to develop the best fit solutions for our clients, solutions (Robotic Process Automation, Service Automation, Data Automation & Cognitive Automation.)

RK was one of the key leaders that led the first ever Automation Anywhere deployment on Google Cloud. A true-blue technocrat, RK has led many deployments that have resulted in over 40% reduction in process costs for our clients.

Prior to joining Infogain, RK was the acting Tech Lead with Bizmatics Inc and a Program Lead with US Interactive. RK earned his degree in engineering from University of Mumbai and a masters from University of California.

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challenges we faced & how we overcame all those

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Finance is one of the core sectors that is getting increasingly disrupted using Digital technologies. The focus of this session will be to share real life case studies and potential areas where IPA can be used to achieve high impact results without compromising on Compliance.

Speaker Profile

Business Excellence Advisor with over 15 years of proven experience in Innovation, Transformation and

Business Problem solving using LEAN, Design Thinking and Digital (Automation, Analytics, Blockchain etc) in Finance, Compliance and Legal functions

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Industry has matured enough and is talking about Intelligent aka cognitive automation. RPA industry has matured and needs a Data Driven and and a scientific approach using enterprise architecture as a part of Intelligent Automation.

Speaker Profile

Rameshwar is a seasoned Enterprise Architect with over 20 yrs of experience in diversified industries and various technologies ranging from ERP to Intelligent Automation. He leads the Intelligent Automation spectrum at Avaya , an active blogger , speaker at various forums and media, runs the 6th largest Automation meetup known as DFWRPA ( www.meetup.com/DFWRPA-Business-Process-Meets-Intelligence/). He focuses on Data & Intelligent Automation and has recently run Intelligent Automation Summit- Destination Dallas.He is also an advisor on various startup’s in DFW community and passionate about badminton and ping-pong

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The topic will address how new and emerging technologies such as RPA and Process mining will redefine the traditional BPM industry. Enterprises will have to be judicious about where to embark BPM and where to deploy RPA to derive tactical as well as strategic benefits from their IT automation.

The talk will also feature how process mining is becoming mainstream and how it can aid CXOs with the much-needed visibility and predictability into their process automation journey.

Speaker Profile

years of experience in the technology domain spanning product management and core software development/architecture. Currently leading the RPA strategy and delivery for Vuram Technologies.

Previously managed Data and Business Intelligence team @ Altisource Labs - building next-gen applications.

Certified BPM Architect and hands-on experience with Big Data solution. Industry experience ranges from Networking/Telecom (Novell, Lucent, Sycamore), BPM (Pega) and OLAP Data Management.

Academic background: M.S from Brandeis University, Certificate in Management from Harvard and MBA from Warwick University, U.K

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1. What is IPA & main purpose
2. IPA journey & framework
3. Leverage IPA to accelerate Digital Transformation
4. Value from IPA
5. IPA tools
6. Set of Use Cases

Speaker Profile

Dinesh Bhogle, based in Mumbai, draws on his experience in various executive positions to help clients build futuristic Business Applications around Emerging Technologies. Prior to joining DXC Technology as a Solution Sales Advisor, Dinesh had a career with Grid Infocom, Larsen and Toubro Infotech, Rave technologies over the span of 19 years in various roles of Consulting, Architecting and Delivering the complex innovative digital enterprise application in diverse domain areas. Dinesh has extensive proficiency in Emerging Technology such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Digital Transformation and Analytics. Dinesh is a certified TOGAF professional, in addition to various sophisticated RPA and AI certifications.

Dinesh had led the Architecture Group to deliver effective solutions for the Intelligent Automation Projects from due diligence at the client's landscape, finalizing the scope, design, architect, delivery and actively involved in monitoring, farming and providing analytics insights.

Dinesh possesses an ample array of knowledge on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Cloud, and OCR technologies. He is keen to learn the Emerging Technologies and want to be an Technology Evangelist in emerging technologies.

Dinesh earned a Master’s degree in Computer Application. He is fluent in Hindi & English.

Outside work, Dinesh is passionate about reading (blogs, articles, etc.), playing cricket and traveling with his wife and 13 years old son.

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Audit disciplines use simple and advanced data analytics for:

• Classification—Identifying good customer/bad customer and fraud/no fraud
• Clustering—Identifying groups with similar behavior
• Association—Determining that everyone who bought item A also bought item B, and 80 percent of them also bought item C
• Summarization—Describing groups with certain characteristics (e.g., executives with average use of company card totals greater than x dollars)
• Link analysis—Determining connections (e.g., A called B, and B immediately called C, hence, A may be linked to C)
• Deviation detection—Identifying transactions significantly different from the average
• Prediction/estimation—Predicting trends or growth of a new business
• Visualization—Perhaps this is not data analytics proper, but aids in nonautomated human discovery (e.g., charts or medical imaging)

SUMMARY

A well-seasoned professional with 18+ years of rich experience and an analytical thought leader with proven track records of enterprise first behaviours and skills - Productivity, Quality and Integrity.

10+ Years of Leadership, managed a larger teams, worked as Profit centre head, managed various units, time and cost-conscious Gut Leader with Project Management and Product Development skills.
Very immense experience in the onsite-offsite business model. Have hands-on in Anaconda for Analytics – developed numerous AI products around Statistical Inference, Machine Learning, Deep Learning (CV + NLP) and Visualizations.

Passionate in the areas of Data Journalism (DJ), Edge Computing (IoT) and Bigdata Analytics. Hands-on in Pattern recognition, Anomalies Detection and behaviour analysis. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt; Proficient in Lean and Six Sigma; ESSA, DFSS, DOE, DMIAC Concepts and Principles; Specialist in Business Function Structuring; Eliminate waste, standardize, simplify and automate; Hands-on in Lean and six sigma tools such as Minitab16 and SigmaXL. Technical Expertise

Techno-functional excellence across Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Process Improvement projects. Have fair scripting skills in various languages VBA, SAS, SQL, R, Django, Flask, HTMl, CSS, JS, Groovy, C++, Julia, Hadoop Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Spark and Python. Hands-on in Anaconda Cluster, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, Panda, cxOracle, Xlwings, pyODBC, hs2client, Matplotlib, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, Bokeh, Blaze, TensorFlow, pyDAAL and more Packages, word, powerpoint, excel and Access, Re-Engineered 600+ MI Processes. Technical support on Exploratory and Predictive Analytics, setting up Hadoop clusters, Apache Hadoop Ecosystems such as HDFS, Yarn, Map Reduce, HBASE, Hive QL and Pig Latin, Spark, MongoDB, Anaconda, and Revo-R. Hands-On in Implementing Microstrategy, Tableau, Qlikview, etc.

Creator of 4lens

Single-Handedly, Structured design and development of a cross-platform mobile and cloud android suite, named 4lens , otherwise called as “Smart Work Effort and Efficiency Tracker (Sweet)”. Sweet is a smart tracker to capture and report the productivity, efficiency and quality of information processing group. It helps to mitigate with the client on the day on day Business Analytics and Business Intelligence service delivery.

Other Academic Stuff
Advisor for HBR Publication, Member of HBR Advisory Council, Harvard Business Review, Member: ISACA; ASQ; International Council for Six Sigma; Harvard Square; Visit Faculty for SAS India and Alumni Mentor for AI Automation in Great Lakes.

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Going beyond automation through bots, this topic will unleash and lay down the foundational framework to adopt Intelligent Automation, a combination of RPA, Data Science, ML and required key components of the ecosystem including process reengineering, infrastructure and platforms (build and operate) and Intelligent Automation as a Service (IAaaS) at an enterprise level. The key challenges to be addressed through this 30 minutes presentation would focus on business, product, operations and engineering departments to architect next generation enterprise ready to automate, deploy, operate and scale automation. Will focus on key talent, skills, policies, organizational design and operating models and emphasis on best practices, tools and considerations to be a successful IA enterprise.

Speaker Profile

Milind comes with 20 years of experience leading complex transformation and delivery programs and Center of Excellence (CoE) across Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Agile-DevOps, Cloud, RPA, ML, Product and Process Reengineering, Integration and Automation. He is currently heading Technology CoE a part of Capability and Consulting division of Fiserv Global Services focusing on solutions in DevOps, Cloud, Products/Process reengineering across technology stack, Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, PCF, Intelligent Automation and Machine Learning, Conversational Banking, BlockChain, Cloud Native Apps incubating breakthrough technology solutions and services at an enterprise level. Milind has worked across IT Services, Product and Global Inhouse Center’s and is change catalyst for automation first

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1. Case study – In house RPA for settlements (Modular structure), leveraging ML
2. Leveraging change management for improved effectiveness
3. Leveraging Project Management and Six Sigma for modular RPA
4. In house vs third party

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I will be covering the risk and governance of bots and intelligent automation platforms including governance of AI/ML based systems,

Speaker Profile

Siddharth is a seasoned Regulatory & Risk transformation consultant with 9 years of consulting experience. He is focused on enabling large banks and insurance firms in dealing with Digital Risk. He has advised multiple GSIBs and large investment banks on Technology Risk & Regulatory Compliance. He is Part of the ISO TC307 committee involved in drafting standards for Block Chain/DLT Security, Governance & Interoperability. Siddharth also leads the KPMG India focus group on Emerging technology risk. He is also a founding member of the Hyderabad & Bangalore Fintech Forums.

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What comprises of HyperAutomation Platform, what are the key differentiators and value proposition. Real life use cases in Banking – Credit Card and Invoice Processing Automation with HyperAutomation services.

Speaker Profile

Raghav Nyapati is Digital Automation Leader with more than 17 years of rich experience in driving technology strategy, evangelizing product management, implementing digital transformation and providing business consulting across multiple industries using Digital Automation tools such as Business Process Management, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI and ML).

During his stint at various Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America,American Express, Walmart, Intel, Aetna and GE he had led many digital transformation programs as a Digital Strategist and leader.

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Moreover RPA seems like a usual development discipline. This statement is true as well as false (Am I playing with readers' emotions?...no..huh). RPA follows usual discipline routines e.g. development model (agile v/s waterfall), SDLC events etc. whereas RPA development is different than other development disciplines in terms of: output is not a product, it's a virtual employee but a newborn!!

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· Automation Continuum & RPA
· Approach to RPA
· Selection of Tool
· Selection of Processes
· Measuring RPA Maturity
· Why RPA projects fail?
· Establishing RPA CoE
· Future of RPA & Other Cognitive Technologies
· Discussion on 1-2 case studies with demonstration

Speaker Profile

An alumnus of NIT Bhopal and Warwick Business School, UK , Vivek is presently working as a Digital Transformation Leader at Tech Mahindra. He is leading digital initiatives in Tech Mahindra mostly focusing around Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence. He is helping customers to solve their business problems as well as innovate their business processes using digital transformation solutions. He also gets involved in Intelligent Automation assessment, planning, governance and execution using appropriate tools and technologies.