BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SUMMITTheme: Transforming BFSI & Retail with Location Intelligence

Kanti Kopalle is Vice President and Market Leader for Location based services at Cognizant Technology Solutions, responsible for the practice strategy, investments, and ecosystem alliances. Kanti brings broad industry experience partnering with global technology platform companies, enterprise clients across industry segments and start-ups in the geospatial industry. In addition, Kanti is the P&L leader for Communications, Media and Technology industry segments, focused on Operations and Automation domains for Cognizant's global growth markets. Kanti has lived and worked across markets including Netherlands, US, India, Hong Kong and Singapore, and brings a global perspective to industry challenges and opportunities in the fast-evolving geospatial industry. Kanti holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Mumbai) and BE in Computer Engineering, and currently lives in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Mayank Singh serves as Chief Digital Officer & Vice President - Marketing & Technology at Domino's Pizza Indonesia. He is a visionary, highly strategic, and result-driven leader having 15 years of career experience in leading, managing, and scaling businesses in Food Retail, Media, Entertainment, e-Commerce, and Startups. As a passionate and entrepreneurial business leader, he leverages his expertise in in-depth marketing, product development & business building to facilitate all 3Cs of the digital domain (Content, Community & Commerce) with P&L responsibility for fast-paced start-ups. Some of his distinguished achievements include scaling up business and operations, building next-generation products, and delivering data analytics and strategic partnerships. Having a love for technology and a passion for entrepreneurship, he has led innovative and strategic projects and products ahead of the curve.

With a distinguished 20-year career in cybersecurity and information technology, Ajay Kumar Gupta is a visionary leader committed to transforming American healthcare. As the founder of HSR.health, he harnesses technology to innovate healthcare delivery, driving improved quality, lower costs, and health equity. Ajay's leadership steered HSR.health to pivot and support global COVID response, providing valuable insights into health risks' impact on broader markets. Chairing the Health Domain Working Group for the Open Geospatial Consortium and serving on influential healthcare task forces, boards, and committees, Ajay is a driving force for positive change, spearheading initiatives to address healthcare inefficiencies and shape the future of healthcare resilience.

Experienced FMCG enthusiast skilled in Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Marketing and Sales. A strong business development leader passionate about growing a data mindset and adoption of data-driven solutions with significant business value.

Inherently curious and analytical, Elsa generates more effective ways to leverage data and analytics to provide answers to critical business questions and deliver sustainable value through improved decision making. With solid experience in FMCG, Energy Sector and Retail Banking, Elsa enjoys new challenges and successfully drives innovative solutions in Insights, Data & Analytics and Business Intelligence, by leveraging her knowledge of how organizations operate.

She is an active listener who enjoys building relationships and gathering information through different perspectives. Her leadership style is defined by empowerment and transparency.

Originally from Lisbon, she currently lives in Copenhagen with her husband, son, and two chihuahuas. As her legacy, Elsa hopes to contribute to drive more meaningful human connections and to making this a better world for pets everywhere.

Kevin has more than 35 years' experience in financial markets across equity trading, sustainable finance & climate risk. He now focuses on how climate change & ESG processes will impact the cost of capital as well as the impairment to asset valuations that will be driven by the development of new regulatory & risk factors.

He is currently the Head of Markets at Vyzrd, an Australian based AI enabled analytics company that provides forward looking climate valuation solutions for corporates and financial institutions. He is also a Non-Executive Director for the Dutch ESG data company Sustainometrics.

Before joining the VYZRD team, Kevin was Managing Director and Head of S&P Sustainable One Investment Research. In this role, he was responsible for setting the firms Climate/ESG research agenda across markets and into investors.

Prior to S&P, Kevin was Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance at IHS Markit where he launched their groundbreaking, forward looking, Sovereign ESG data platform. This was the first in the industry to include multi variate climate scenarios in the quantitative assessment of short-term country risk. IHS Markit merged with S&P in early 2022.

Starting in 2011, he has also built a green transition data company, which modelled the changes in climate aligned industrial output for public companies. This resulted in him partnering with & subsequently joining FTSE Russell who acquired his business in 2018 having launched multiple indexes derived from his work. As part of this partnership, he was appointed Global Head of Sustainable Investment at FTSE Russell and a FTSE Exco member.

His journey into sustainable finance was preceded by 25 years in equity trading, latterly as Managing Director & Global Head of Electronic & Portfolio Trading at HSBC as well as time in electronic trading with Citigroup, Salomon Brothers & Fidelity Brokerage.

Phil Cottle, the Head of Forestry at ForestRe, the distinguished forest underwriting unit within Globe Underwriting Ltd. in the heart of London, is a seasoned expert with over 25 years of experience in assessing crop and forest risk. Renowned as the world's oldest forestry underwriter, he plays a pivotal role in de-risking investments into various forms of forestry, ranging from global institutions to community reforestation schemes. Phil, with a wealth of expertise in natural hazard impacts, excels in pricing risk, modeling worst-case scenarios, and designing innovative insurance products. A prominent figure in international reinsurance markets, he actively contributes to sustainable development through his comprehensive knowledge and impactful speaking engagements at forestry conferences worldwide. Phil holds an MSc in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, along with a BSc in Agriculture and Tropical Crops from Reading University.