ISUW 2023 Speaker

Prior to CESC Power Group, Sanjay Prasad was CIO for Tata Power, an integrated Utility covering Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Renewables & Power Trading value chain. His focus areas are Enterprise IT governance, interventions through Foundational Digital Technology & Cybersecurity using levers of AI-ML-NLP, Process Automation, Blockchain and IT-OT integration. As a startup mentor in a IIT-incubator arm, and as part of the Angel investing fraternity, he strives to enhance this partner ecosystem. He also sits in the industry advisory board of a software services major. His earlier roles, besides that of CIO, covered Technology & Innovation enablement in the CTO's Office in TCS & for the BPM businesses in TCS and Citigroup, with prior progressive IT stints in Colgate, Unilever & Tata Motors. As a Citigroup EVP, Sanjay was a member of its Global IT Leadership team. He had set up and grew a mid-sized Technology Services SBU P&L across NA, EMEA and ASPAC primarily in the BFS domain which later went on to serve Energy-Utilities, FMCG-Retail and Manufacturing domains. He has co-founded OSPAI (Other Services Providers Association) along with other industry peers, which works closely with DOT to facilitate convergence and reuse of IT & Telecom Infrastructure. He has earlier represented industry in DOT’s IT-ITES Standing Committee. In the early noughties, he had been a Steering Convener of IESUP (Indo-European Systems Usability Partnership), an EU programme to promote Systems Usability. Sanjay, a BE from Jadavpur University and a MBA from XLRI, has received several industry recognitions and awards of which the ABP Infocom Changemaker 2022, CIO Icon 2022, CIO Samman 2021, and Tata Global Innovista Award are the more recent ones. He also sits as jury member of similar awards , including those which mentors and recognizes emerging IT & Digital Leaders. As an inventor, his work received a patent grant in the area of process automation. He is a Fellow and former Vice-President of the Computer Society of India, and a Senior Member of the ACM & IEEE. He was also an Industry representative in the Academic and Executive Council of the WB University of Technology for several years, and in the recent past, Convenor, CII Power Sub-Committee on Data Privacy.