About

Abhishek Farkade is an accomplished Techno-Leader with over 20 years of experience in leading engineering innovation in Product Development and Digital Transformation, both in the enterprise and consumer domain. As the SVP of Technology at Jio, India's largest Telco, he has established a SaaS-based Conversational BOT Platform Business, with a current product portfolio that includes SaaS Platform for ML-Powered Voice Assistant, ML-Powered Chat Bots, ML-Powered Voice Bots, and Video Bots. Abhishek is a skilled strategist and has provided strategic direction for digital roadmap and growth strategy for organizations. He is also a co-founder of two product-based start-ups. Abhishek is skilled at building and leading internationally distributed high-performance innovation-driven teams and is an expert at Cloud-based highly scalable/distributed product development, SaaS Platform Development & Mobile Device platform development. Abhishek's product portfolio comprises Device & Cloud products powered by Natural Language Understanding Engine (NLU), Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence), Mobile, and Distributed Cloud Computing. He has 3 patents pending and has been a successful Engineering leader delivering a global product portfolio in partnership with Samsung, LG & Microsoft. The product portfolio included Fleet Management, In-Vehicle Infotainment System, and Media Applications. Abhishek is a Digital Transformation Advisor and Innovation leader, and he helps his business partners realize their business objectives, right from conceptualization to delivery. He has worked with companies like Mobiliya, where he was the Senior Director of Engineering and established a Global product portfolio in Automotive and ML domain. He also set up a strategic direction for digital roadmap & growth strategy and established an Engineering Org in India. Abhishek has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Amravati University. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, ML, Mobile, and NLU. With relevant experience of over 18 years, Abhishek is a seasoned leader in the technology industry.