From Data Hygiene to Business Trust: The Foundation of your AI Initiative Sahaj Software

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From Data Hygiene to Business Trust: The Foundation of your AI Initiative

Anant East, Ravindra Babu T, Anay Nayak

1 November 2024

ITC Maratha, Mumbai | Sahar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400099 India

About the Event

Sahaj Software invites you to emerge, an exclusive, invite-only roundtable discussion focused on a crucial topic for today’s market: From Data Hygiene to Business Trust: The Foundation of Your AI Initiative.

Poor data hygiene directly undermines nearly all AI initiatives, leading to unreliable outputs, increased risk, and failed implementations. When data lacks quality, models can’t generate accurate, fair, or secure results, creating signiﬁcant business and compliance risks. It is essential that we have a thorough discussion that leads to actionable, practical outcomes.

This event is part of Sahaj Software’s global series, designed to be a unique forum where senior industry thought leaders can network, exchange ideas, and discuss the pressing topics that are shaping the future of business.

This collaborative discussion will be co-anchored by Anant East, Chief Technology Ofﬁcer of Talon Outdoor, a market leading Global Out of Home agency, and Anay Nayak, Sahaj Software’s data engineering leader. Anant East brings over 30 years of experience in platform engineering and operations across Media, Retail, and Finance, where he leads the software engineering and support teams responsible for Talon’s proprietary technology platforms. In the follow up discussion, you will have the opportunity to interact with Dr. Ravindra Babu T, Sahaj Software’s Global Head of Data Science, Sunder Malyandi, Sahaj Software’s co-founder, and Priyank Gupta, Sahaj Software’s India MD.

We hope you can join us to move beyond theoretical discussions and help create a practical blueprint that other businesses can follow.

If you’d like to participate in this exclusive invite-only event, please reach out to Kaustubh Zende, Head of Sales, at kaustubhz@sahaj.ai to confirm your attendance and secure your seat.

Meet our Speaker(s)

Anant East

Chief Technology Ofﬁcer, Talon Outdoor

Anant East is the Chief Technology Ofﬁcer of Talon Outdoor, a market-leading Global Out of Home agency. With over 30 years of experience in platform engineering and operations across Media, Retail, and Finance, he leads the software engineering and support teams responsible for Talon's proprietary technology platforms: Plato (OOH inventory aggregation), ADA (Data Management Platform for audience targeting), and Atlas (programmatic OOH platform leveraging specialist data).Prior to his role at Talon, Anant played a key role in developing Global's OOH trading platform AdFloe and proof-of-play platform DigiPoP. Anant is an Accredited Member of the IPA (MIPA) and co-chair of standards at Outsmart, the UK's out-of-home body, where he was instrumental in delivering the OpenDirect programmatic standards adopted in the UK and USA. He holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent.

Ravindra Babu T

Global Head of Data Science Practice

As Sahaj Software's Global Head of Data Science Practice, Dr. Ravindra Babu leverages his expertise to empower numerous organizations, helping them strategically harness AI and data for competitive advantage. He holds a Master's degree in Statistics and Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. With nearly 40 years of experience in mathematical modeling and machine learning, his expertise spans Deterministic and Stochastic modeling, DS topics in Fashion and General e-Commerce, and Space Research. His areas of interest include Computer Vision, NLP, Data Mining, and Genetic Algorithms. He has various publications and has authored a Springer-published book, ‘Compression Schemes for Mining Large Datasets – A Machine Learning Perspective’.

Anay Nayak

Solution Consultant, Sahaj Software

Anay Nayak is a Solution Consultant at Sahaj Software with over 20 years of experience driving innovation in large-scale enterprise projects across diverse domains. For the past six years, he has specialized in building scalable data platforms and integrating data science models to deliver actionable business insights. With deep expertise in data engineering, architecture, and distributed systems, Anay focuses on crafting simple, robust, and high-impact solutions that balance innovation with real-world value. He is instrumental in guiding cross-functional teams to adopt emerging technologies, particularly Generative AI, to optimize software development life cycles and drive signiﬁcant engineering efﬁciency gains for clients. Anay is adept at deploying GenAI tooling in complex, polyglot technology stacks (e.g., Python, TypeScript), ensuring high code quality and consistency, and has successfully led strategic client initiatives.