What is the fully automated enterprise you ask? Your hosts will get right to it and have a conversation about what to automate and the impact on people with guest author, Ravin Jesuthasan of Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work.
Ravin Jesuthasan
Global Leader of Transformation Services at Mercer, Futurist, and Author
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Ravin Jesuthasan
Global Leader of Transformation Services at Mercer, Futurist, and Author
Ravin Jesuthasan is a recognized futurist, global thought leader, and author on the future of work and human capital. He has led multiple research efforts on the global workforce, the emerging digital economy, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the transformation of work.
Ravin is the Global leader of Transformation at Mercer and a partner of the firm based in Chicago.
He has lead numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum including its ground-breaking studies; Shaping the Future Implications of Digital Media for Society, Creating a Shared Vision for Talent in the 4th Industrial Revolution and HR 4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the 4th Industrial Revolution. He is a regular participant and presenter at the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings in Davos and Dalian/Tianjin and is a member of the forum’s Steering Committee on Work and Employment.
He has been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, one of the top 8 future of work influencers by Tech News, one of the top 100 HR influencers by HR Executive and was named to the Thinkers 50 Radar Class of 2020.
Ravin is the author of Transformative HR, Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment and Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach to Applying Automation to Work. Transformative HR and Reinventing Jobs were winners of the Axiom silver and gold awards for business book of the year in 2012 and 2018 respectively.
He has authored over 100 articles including 12 for the Harvard Business Review and his article in the HR People and Strategy Journal entitled Performance Management as a Business Discipline received the Walker Award for the most original and valuable contribution to the HR profession. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine.
Ravin is a frequent guest lecturer at universities around the world including Oxford University, Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.
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Imagine the innovations your brilliant team can’t come up with because they’re stuck doing mundane work. It’s sad, right? The fully automated enterprise enables its people by unburdening them from the dull, repetitive work, so they can do the work worth doing.
The fully automated enterprise puts the power to create automations into the hands of non-developers. Low-code tools and training enable everyone to create their own automations. Mary and Diego will introduce a UiPath customer who will share their success in making this happen.
Kevin Kroen
PwC Partner, Intelligent Automation Leader
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Kevin Kroen
PwC Partner, Intelligent Automation Leader
Kevin is a partner in PwC’s US Advisory practice, specializing in intelligent automation. He is currently driving go-to-market efforts on PwC’s next-generation digital upskilling and automation management platform, ProEdge. In addition, he provides leadership over PwC’s overall go-to-market strategy on intelligent automation. As part of this role, he manages PWC’s strategic alliances with leading automation software vendor platforms, such as UiPath.
Prior to this role, Kevin led PWC’s Financial Services Advisory intelligent automation practice and has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry on large operations and technology transformation initiatives.
Kevin has a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Information and Decision Systems. Prior to joining PwC, Kevin worked as a Financial Services consultant for Diamond Management and Technology Consultants and Accenture.
In this segment, we’ll speak with UiPath artificial intelligence (AI) experts, PD Singh and Bhavana Mathur to learn how the fully automated enterprise uses AI today and what that will look like in the future.
Bhavana Mathur
VP Product Management, UiPath
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PD Singh
VP AI Products, UiPath
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Bhavana Mathur
VP Product Management, UiPath
Bhavana is an experienced leader in product management, business strategy, and execution of product vision and roadmap. Bhavana joins our team from mobile analytics and marketing company Tune where she served as Vice President of Product Management.
Bhavana has also worked on product management at IT cost management company Apptio, travel company Expedia, insurance software company Vertafore and BI company Informatica. Prior to that, she held engineering positions at software firms SuccessFactors, Motorola and Infosys.
PD Singh
VP AI Products, UiPath
PD Singh, is the Head of AI Products at UiPath. He led teams building process understanding, computer vision and currently leads document processing and AI center product lines at UiPath. He has 19 years of experience in building high-performance AI systems in varied enterprise areas like healthcare, CRM, and productivity apps. He built multiple startups, corporate R&D teams and worked in Microsoft research, managing the deep learning team. His past work includes an automated retail stores startup, a predictive system for patient readmissions, and founding some of the first intelligent mobile apps and NLP components for Microsoft Office. He built a new business group to do ‘AI for sales and marketing’ - with multibillion-dollar impact to Microsoft. PD has a Masters from Stony Brook University and holds multiple patents.
