Guest Presenter: Mahesh Calavai, Chief Digital & AI Officer, TVS Motor Group
Digital transformation entails solving for several horizons simultaneously. While the transformation is often understood as being ready for tomorrow and therefore has some glitter with the association, it almost always involves transforming what has been built previously, necessitating reduction of technical debt, reorchestration of business flows into new architectures, and reskilling of talent. One has to also deliver for the present in terms of business results, systems performance, and algorithms. Further, building for the future involves extensive groundwork in shoring up people, processes, metrics, and technology. The presentation will illustrate these yesterday, today and tomorrow aspects by detailing a real-life digital transformation in progress in the mobility industry.
Mahesh Calavai leads capabilities and teams that infuse digital and artificial intelligence technologies in customer experience, business performance and operations. Prior to TVS Motor, he had experience in software, data sciences and engineering, strategy and operations in start-ups and organizations including Baan Company, Fluor Corporation, Capital One and Target. Mahesh has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, USA, and an engineering degree from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.