Karan is the Asia Pacific leader for IBM Cloud Private for Data (ICPD). He is responsible for all aspects of ICPD business from building the team, driving GTM strategy and delivering growth across APAC region. His current mission is helping customers unlock value from their data using modern Data science and AI technologies with the combination of IBM platforms, Partner ecosystem and source technologies.

Prior to joining IBM, Karan was the first external leadership hire for Cloudera in Asia Pacific. He was part of the senior leadership team that inspired customers to adopt and deliver value through revolutionary technologies like Hadoop, Spark, machine learning and data science technologies.

Prior to IBM and Cloudera, Karan also held executive level positions at Informatica and HCL technologies. A technology and business thought leader, Karan has been the keynote speaker for many events across Asia Pacific and USA.

Karan has been named IBM Cloud engagement champion to inspire and engage more than 10000+ employees of IBM Cloud Asia Pacific. He is the founding member of Data and AI forum and has been featured in leading company blogs and publications.  

 Presentation Synopsis 
Operationalizing Data and AI in Healthcare

The marriage of technology and health has the potential to empower medical professionals and patients alike, while drastically cutting the cost of healthcare.

Using a measured no-hype approach, in this session Karan Sachdeva from IBM will help health care executives understand what can be done with AI and ML in healthcare today and what concepts are most crucial to producing valuable applications in the near future.

How data science and AI will help us structure the business of health care more effectively around outcomes, and how it will transform the practice of medicine by personalising for each specific patient. Demystifying the AI success with IBMs philosophy of ladder to AI, he will demonstrate how AI can be successfully adopted by healthcare organisations.