Shyamala (Shy) Chalakudi

A strategic visionary with foresight and imagination, Shy Chalakudi has an impressive 20+ history of surpassing ambitious business goals, leading revolutionary data-first digital transformations that create memorable customer experiences. Known for being a trusted advisor and data technology expert for Fortune 100 global companies, she has a consistent record of positioning organization for ground up transformation success, spurring multi-million dollar business growth connecting data insights across revenue streams. Shy’s contributions stand at the forefront of the nexus of forces - social, mobile, cloud and information technologies. She orchestrates enterprise data strategy to fuel the design of the machine learning framework that deliver conceptual containerized technology on-premise with scalability to Cloud that drive unique competitive advantage. A calculated risk taker, her digital centric data technologies innovation resulted in three unique Blockchain technology patents. Throughout her tenure across financial, technology and product sectors, Shy has a reputation of extending her time to mentor young women and university students with career advancement and growth. She is currently pursuing her doctoral thesis on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, specializing on social networks & influence marketing strategies. Shy lives in Austin, Texas, is married to a technology geek, and has a son and a daughter.