Infosys Topaz AI Conversations: Phoenix Chapter

Ashiss Kumar Dash, known as “Dash,” is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Services, Utilities, Resources, Energy, and Sustainability at Infosys. With over 25 years of experience, he leads digital transformations for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, driving operational excellence, revenue growth, and innovative strategies. Dash contributes to global discussions on AI, energy transition, and sustainable development through platforms like the World Economic Forum and the UN. He holds positions on various boards, including Infosys Public Services and BlueAcorn ICI, and serves as a Trustee of Infosys Foundation USA.

Daniel is a strategic, engaging, and dynamic leader with 25+ years of experience creating and sustaining transformational business value and outcomes through digital and enterprise technology platforms. He is currently the VP of Information Technology at Toyota Material Handling North America, driving digital transformation throughout manufacturing and front office operations as well as the company's dealer management systems. He represents TMHNA on the SAP Global Automotive Advisory Council and is active with several organizations focused on innovation and exploring the art of the possible through technology. Previously Daniel was the Director of Global Applications and Digital Innovation at Komatsu and held business unit CIO and other executive IT roles at Johnson Controls.

Serving UiPath high tech and strategic customers, Kevin Bernstein leads automation and AI projects that drive significant improvements in their business processes and operational efficiency. A pioneer in the emerging field of agentic process automation, he develops practical and implementable use cases that leverage agentic AI’s power to enable autonomous decision-making and streamline complex enterprise environments. His expertise includes developing adaptable UiPath workflows, integrating AI/ML technologies, and applying GenAI and agentic AI to create innovative solutions. Prior to joining UiPath, Kevin spent 8 years at Intuit, where he successfully implemented a robust RPA program.

Nishant Khare is a seasoned IT leader, excelling in sales, delivery, and digital and AI transformation solutions. As the Head of Americas at Infosys Topaz, he leads a high-impact team delivering cutting-edge AI/ML, generative AI, conversational AI and Intelligent Automation products and solutions across all industry verticals. Nishant drives Infosys Topaz brand growth, fosters partnerships, and champions AI democratization. Nishant is your go-to expert for leveraging AI and Automation to achieve transformative business outcomes. Meet Nishant to learn how to transform your business, too.

Born in India, Pawan Sinha received his undergraduate degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and his Masters and doctoral degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the Department of Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also had extended research stays at the University of California, Berkeley, Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center, the Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton and the Max-Planch Institute of Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany. He joined the MIT faculty in 1tititi and was promoted to full professor in 2011.

Pawan’s research interests span neuroscience, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and public health. Using a combination of experimental and computational modeling techniques, research in his laboratory focuses on understanding the processes and principles of perceptual development. The lab's experimental work on these issues involves studying healthy individuals and also those with neurological disorders such as autism. The goal is not only to derive clues regarding the nature and development of human visual skills, but also to create more powerful and robust AI systems. Additionally, an initiative in his lab, Project Prakash, seeks to simultaneously accomplish humanitarian and scientific objectives by providing sight surgeries to congenitally blind children in the developing world, and subsequently following their visual development. This work has yielded information regarding how extended blindness impacts visual development late in childhood, and also the programs of learning that might underlie the acquisition of visual proficiencies after late sight onset.

Pawan has served on the program committees for prominent scientific conferences on object and face recognition and is currently a member of the editorial board of ACM's Journal of Applied Perception. He is a recipient of the Pisart Vision Award from the Lighthouse Guild International, the PECASE – the highest US Government award for young scientists, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience, the John Merck Scholars Award for research on developmental disorders, the Jeptha and Emily Wade Award for creative research, the James McDonnell Scholar Award, the Troland Award from the National Academies, the Global Indus Technovator Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi. Pawan's teaching has been recognized by Departmental honors and the Dean’s Award for Advising and Teaching at MIT.

Dr. Sinha has authored numerous publications over the years, including textbooks, journal articles, reviews, and abstracts.

Sundhar has worked in information technology for more than 25 years with increasing responsibility in the Data Management space. At First Citizens Bank, he is responsible for Data Engineering. He is heading the creation of Enterprise Data Domains leveraging the data platform to serve clean, connected, complete and protected data.

Sundhar is leveraging his deep expertise in data products, data privacy, data protection, data governance & business analytics to build a state-of-the-art modern data platform that enables self-service of data across the bank in a federated and controlled environment.

Prior to SVB, Sundhar worked at American Express where he was responsible for managing delivery of innovative Merchant data and customer servicing data products to improve: the top line and overall NPS. Sundhar also led the MYCA (manage your card account) programs at American Express that pioneered partnership with Apple Pay and programs to increase customer spend.

Previously, Sundhar held IT positions at NTT Data, consulting and delivering data programs for large manufacturing companies like Honeywell Aerospace and Hyundai Information Systems.

He holds a master’s degree in business administration from University of Arizona, master’s degree in computer applications from PSG College of Technology in India and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Loyola College, Chennai in India.

Vivek leads the AI and Automation portfolio at Infosys and helps clients transform their businesses by leveraging AI. He also drives the adoption of AI and automation within Infosys in all service offerings and internal functions to improve efficiency and drive differentiation. As an AI leader, he is responsible for competency development, building service offerings, solutions, platforms, and partnerships in this space. He works with think tanks, academia, industries, and other regulatory bodies on AI adoption and responsible and ethical use of

Wiley is the Principal Partner Development Manager with AWS and leads the practice development with Infosys’ for Financial Services globally. Wiley has extensive financial services industry experience and leadership across Business Development, Strategy Development and Execution, Client and Partner Management, and Sales. His primary focus is to accelerate the Infosys/AWS partnership through marketing, innovation, and sell activities, building scaling mechanisms to drive velocity with the AWS and Infosys teams globally, in Financial Services.