It’s November 29th. Helsinki, Finland and winter has come. Fortunately for us, the gloom is illuminated by an event of stellar brightness: Slush – the focal point for some 18 000 of the sharpest minds in the global tech industry.
Are you ready to be dazzled?
For TCS, this will be the third consecutive year of partnering with Slush. In 2017, Slush is about “A call for solvers” using the raw innovative energy of the startup to address real world problems.
To prepare you for this sensory overload described by some as TED meets Burning Man, we have the pleasure to invite you to the TCS Slush Experience 2017 on November 29, the eve of the main Slush event. As our Key Note speaker, we are proud to welcome TCS's CTO, Ananth Krishnan, a well-renowned speaker who will address the topic of living in a Hyperconnected world.
Ahead of our event we have assessed the Slush startups’ technologies and cherry picked the best and most interesting ones for your business aspirations. They will get a chance to pitch their ideas to you, the audience and winners will be chosen.
Please join us for an opportunity to mingle with your peers, get new insights from the start up scene, meet our Co-Innovation Network (TCS CoIN™) team and to get to know the rising stars of our selected startups. The evening ends with an informal dinner. To get in the mood, please watch the official Slush 2017 trailer here.
As our personal guest at the TCS Slush Experience 2017, you will automatically receive a two-day entry pass where you are free to continue with your own Slush experience live and unfiltered!
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information, please contact Kata Sjöstedt at kata.sjostedt@tcs.com or mobile +46 701 477 138.
Speakers:
Amit Bajaj, Head Europe, Tata Consultancy Services
Amit Bajaj is Head of Tata Consultancy Services’ European business, a unit which spans over 15 countries generating Euro 1.5 bn in revenues and supported by over 30,000 employees. He oversees strategic, customer, organizational and operational functions organized around 7 sub-regions that make up this unit – Nordics (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark), Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg), Central (Germany & Austria), Switzerland, France, South (Italy, Spain & Portugal) and Eastern (Hungary & Poland). In the 19 years that Amit has worked for TCS, he has occupied several leadership roles across markets & industries.
Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
Ananth directs research and innovation at TCS. Under his leadership the TCS research community has created a significant portfolio of patents, papers and IP. Ananth has been a member of the TCS Corporate Think-Tank since 1999, and has led several strategic initiatives. He has been a Principal Architect and Lead Consultant in the Architecture and Technology Consulting Practice.
Ananth was elected a Fellow at the Indian Academy of Engineering (INAE). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Computer Society of India, and is an invited faculty in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology. He has been listed in Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders (2007) as well as he has been chosen as one of Infoworld’s Top 25 CTOs (2007).
Dr. Gautam Shroff, Vice President and Chief Scientist, TCS Research
Dr. Shroff is involved with recommending directions to existing R&D efforts, spawning new R&D efforts, sponsoring external research, and proliferating the resulting technology and intellectual property across TCS’ business units. He heads the Data and Decision Sciences research area in TCS Research as well as TCS’ Innovation Lab in Delhi. Dr. Shroff worked earlier on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena as well as at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. In 1994 he was conferred the ‘Young Scientist Award from the Indian Department of Atomic Energy. Dr. Shroff has published over 60 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computation, distributed systems, software architecture, software engineering, big data, information fusion, virtual reality as well as artificial intelligence including machine learning, deep learning, Bayesian inference and natural language processing. He has written two books “Enterprise Cloud Computing” published in 2010, and “The Intelligent Web”, published in 2013.
Tommi Mäkinen, Innovation Lead - Europe, Tata Consultancy Services
After starting his journey in a small internet consultancy company as a business manager and a team lead, he progressed his career taking on leadership roles including strategic sales and business development in Northern European space.
His first assignment with TCS was leading the Digital Transformation initiatives in the Nordics. October 2016 Tommi was nominated as Innovation Lead for Europe. With the current assignment Tommi together with his team is looking into TCS clients’ future problem statements and helping them to leverage TCS Research and Innovation (R&I), TCS Co-Innovation Network, TCS Alliance partners as well as wider TCS platform.
