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Er. Shantanu K. is an industry expert in intelligent automation, software development, and innovation. He specializes in AI-ML, NLP, hyper automation, and DevOps. Shantanu is currently the Global Head of Cognitive Technology and Intelligent Automation at IQVIA, where he drives sustainable digital transformation and automation initiatives across the organization globally. He established the Global Automation CoE (RPA+AI+NLP+ML) from scratch and collaborated RPA and other cognitive technologies like AI/machine learning, data engineering, intelligent automation, OCR, image processing, and NLP capabilities together to provide sustainable solutions to different business units. Shantanu has overall 15 years of experience in the IT industry and is specialized in strategizing digitization and automation roadmaps for Fortune 500 enterprises. He has vast experience in setting up global cognitive automation COEs from scratch for large organizations. Shantanu has a proven track record of delivering key software development and automation programs, very complex architecture design and implementations for large organizations. He has been recognized among top product architects of India by NASSCOM in 2013. Shantanu is an university gold medalist in computer science from AUS with specialization in AI-ML-NLP. He is a pioneer researcher in NLP and has published multiple research papers in international IEEE conferences and journals. Shantanu is equally skilled in IT and business management and takes keen interest in service-oriented architecture (SOA), distributed system development, SDLC, RDLC, Python (TensorFlow, NLTK, OpenCV, Keras), NLP (semantic analysis, Wordnet), AI-ML, RPA (Automation Anywhere, UI Path, Power Automate, Assist Edge, Work Fusion, etc.), APA (Alteryx), OCR (Abby, Google, Microsoft OCR), multi-cloud architecture (Oracle, Salesforce, AWS, Azure DevOps), Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation, big data, deep learning (CNN, RNN, ANN), and Java/J2EE. Shantanu is an Agile and DevOps professional coach and has extensive knowledge of digital transformation for large enterprises. Shantanu did his Executive MBA focused on general business management and operations from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and M.Tech in Data Science and Engineering from BITS Pilani. He has worked with Morgan Stanley as a program project manager and ANZ as an assistant manager IT in the past. Shantanu has brought to the organization