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Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of enterprise innovation, offering unparalleled opportunities for growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage. However, the journey toward AI optimization is fraught with challenges, from legacy infrastructures to strategic alignment and workforce readiness. This keynote speech will navigate the complex landscape of AI integration, presenting a comprehensive roadmap tailored for Fortune 500 companies ready to harness the power of generative AI.

Technologist Deep-Dive (Gen AI & Data Science) Track
Retail
Business Leader
Data Science
AI Technologists

Author:

Dr. Astha Purohit

Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart

Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.

She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.

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Dr. Astha Purohit

Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart

Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.

She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.

 

Dr. Astha Purohit

Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart

Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.

She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.

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Dr. Astha Purohit

Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart

Dr. Astha Purohit

Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart

Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.

She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.

Enterprises ranging from banks to telecoms to utilities need support navigating every credit journey phase. The challenge lies in balancing a high conversion rate with manageable risk, a task made increasingly complex by the sensitivity of the data involved in the credit risk management process.

Discover how CRIF, a global company specializing in credit & business information systems, addressed these challenges through synthetic data and pseudonymization. Learn how they used Anonos to protect privacy while ensuring the effectiveness of origination and customer management processes, expanding their use cases, and proactively preparing for regulatory changes.

Author:

Steven Prestidge

Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
Anonos

An astute problem solver, Steve is a seasoned business and technology executive who finds smart solutions for the data challenges facing forward-thinking global enterprises. His experience in digital technologies spans more than 20 years and includes successfully guiding clients to use their data for advanced analytics, monetization and cloud processing.  

As Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer at Anonos, Steve works closely with a global team to expand partnerships with systems integrators and professional services firms. He works directly with commercial organizations to discover opportunities locked within data assets and utilize them fully without compromising security, privacy, accuracy or speed. 

Prior to joining Anonos, Steve held global executive and commercial leadership roles at Dell, Getty Images and most recently Data Republic. 

Steve holds a higher national diploma from the United Kingdom’s Evesham College.

Steve is based in Los Angeles, California.

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Steven Prestidge

Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
Anonos

An astute problem solver, Steve is a seasoned business and technology executive who finds smart solutions for the data challenges facing forward-thinking global enterprises. His experience in digital technologies spans more than 20 years and includes successfully guiding clients to use their data for advanced analytics, monetization and cloud processing.  

As Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer at Anonos, Steve works closely with a global team to expand partnerships with systems integrators and professional services firms. He works directly with commercial organizations to discover opportunities locked within data assets and utilize them fully without compromising security, privacy, accuracy or speed. 

Prior to joining Anonos, Steve held global executive and commercial leadership roles at Dell, Getty Images and most recently Data Republic. 

Steve holds a higher national diploma from the United Kingdom’s Evesham College.

Steve is based in Los Angeles, California.

Author:

Omar Ali Fdal

Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research
Anonos

Omar has a passion for creating products that unlock the value of data and address the challenges organizations face in managing and using data at enterprise scale. 

As a former engineer, Omar saw the opportunity to help organizations utilize more data without breaching privacy regulations, and co-founded Statice in 2018, a Berlin-based state-of-the-art data privacy technology company. With the company’s other co-founders, Mikhail Dyakov and Sebastian Weyer, they focused on delivering software that helps enterprises generate privacy-preserving synthetic data compliant for any type of data integration, processing and dissemination. The company was acquired by Anonos in October 2022. Following the acquisition, Omar joined the Anonos executive leadership team as Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research. Omar drives research and development of technology innovation to help organizations uncover the answers to the burning data privacy questions to support their business objectives.  

Prior to co-founding Statice, Omar worked as a research engineer in the field of search and data mining for several companies, such as the Amadeus IT Group, based in France. He also co-founded Hupp, an urban mobility startup in southern France. 

Omar speaks six languages fluently. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and has studied at IMT Atlantique in France (formerly Télécom Bretagne) and Uppsala University in Sweden. 

Omar is based in Berlin, Germany. 

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Omar Ali Fdal

Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research
Anonos

Omar has a passion for creating products that unlock the value of data and address the challenges organizations face in managing and using data at enterprise scale. 

As a former engineer, Omar saw the opportunity to help organizations utilize more data without breaching privacy regulations, and co-founded Statice in 2018, a Berlin-based state-of-the-art data privacy technology company. With the company’s other co-founders, Mikhail Dyakov and Sebastian Weyer, they focused on delivering software that helps enterprises generate privacy-preserving synthetic data compliant for any type of data integration, processing and dissemination. The company was acquired by Anonos in October 2022. Following the acquisition, Omar joined the Anonos executive leadership team as Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research. Omar drives research and development of technology innovation to help organizations uncover the answers to the burning data privacy questions to support their business objectives.  

Prior to co-founding Statice, Omar worked as a research engineer in the field of search and data mining for several companies, such as the Amadeus IT Group, based in France. He also co-founded Hupp, an urban mobility startup in southern France. 

Omar speaks six languages fluently. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and has studied at IMT Atlantique in France (formerly Télécom Bretagne) and Uppsala University in Sweden. 

Omar is based in Berlin, Germany. 

Author:

Lorenzo Gherardi

Head of Business Development, Banking & Finance
CRIF UK

Passionate about Fintech, my goal is to help customers unlock new opportunities and growth by harnessing the power of data, analytics, and technology to transform their credit processes. With a deep understanding of SaaS and Open Data, I had a pioneering role in bringing Open Banking value-added services to the UK market. My latest passion? ESG, exploring how the adoption of ESG data can make credit more ethical, sustainable, and profitable.

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Lorenzo Gherardi

Head of Business Development, Banking & Finance
CRIF UK

Passionate about Fintech, my goal is to help customers unlock new opportunities and growth by harnessing the power of data, analytics, and technology to transform their credit processes. With a deep understanding of SaaS and Open Data, I had a pioneering role in bringing Open Banking value-added services to the UK market. My latest passion? ESG, exploring how the adoption of ESG data can make credit more ethical, sustainable, and profitable.