Kavita Ganesan Keynote Speaker

  • The AI for Business Expert, Over a Decade of AI Experience
  • Author, "The Business Case for AI: A Leader's Guide to AI Strategies Best Practices & Real-World Applications"
  • Founder, Opinosis Analytics

Kavita Ganesan's Biography

Kavita Ganesan is an internationally recognized, award-winning, author of The Business Case for AI: A Leader’s Guide to AI Strategies Best Practices & Real-World Applications. With over 15+ years of experience in AI for practical applications and 20 plus years in tech, Kavita has helped deliver numerous successful AI initiatives for Fortune 500 companies as well as midsize operations to newly funded AI startups. Kavita has also spoken at top universities in the US and Australia and at corporate events around the world. 

Kavita holds graduate degrees from prestigious computer science programs—specifically, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She has been featured by numerous media outlets including Forbes, TechTarget, Venture Beat, Verizon, CIOReview, SDTimes, Techopedia, CEOWorld, CMSWire, and Ted Magazine and has appeared as a guest expert on over 20 podcasts. Kavita’s AI book has also been highly recommended by ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. To learn more about Kavita, visit www.kavita-ganesan.com.

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Kavita Ganesan's Speaking Topics

  • AI IN BUSINESS: FOUNDATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES & RISKS

In this introductory talk, attendees will learn what AI is and isn’t (including Generative AI), its benefits to a business (including real-world uses), and the dangers and risks that it presents.

  • HOW TO SPOT LUCRATIVE AI OPPORTUNITIES

In this talk, you’ll learn how AI opportunities differ from simple software automation, a repeatable framework to spot promising AI opportunities, and how to frame AI initiatives so that they’re measurable.

  • JUMPSTART YOUR ORGANIZATION’S AI STRATEGY

In this talk, you’ll learn how to transform your company into an AI-capable organization--strategically. You’ll learn the 5 pillars of AI preparation, quick tips for finding AI opportunities and a method to developing your organization’s AI strategy.

  • THE BUSINESS CASE FOR AI IN YOUR INDUSTRY

In this talk, we'll explore what AI means to business, how it’s relevant to your company’s business processes, and how businesses in your industry are leveraging and seeing success from AI and how you too can get started with AI in your business.

  • HOW TO BUILD A CAREER IN AI

While AI seems like a worldwide job replacer, it’s actually a net job creator. There are numerous opportunities to build a lucrative career in AI. You don’t have to be an AI expert, but you have to be AI-fluent and strategic in your approach. This talk, will introduce the audience to the numerous career pathways in and around AI technologies and how you can get started.

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Videos of Kavita Ganesan

Enabling Opinion Driven Decision Making by Kavita Ganesan

Books by Kavita Ganesan

"The Business Case for AI: A Leader's Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications"

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