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Ashok Panda

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Vice President & Global Head AI & Automation Services at Infosys
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ashok Panda serves as the Vice President and Global Head of AI & Automation Services at Infosys, where he leads the firms strategic vision for AI. With 28 years in IT and consulting, he founded the Topaz Center of Excellence to help enterprises adopt and scale AI responsibly. Colleagues describe him as a methodical and high-performing leader with excellent client focus.

On a personal note, he is an avid traveler. He is also deeply interested in the future of technology, particularly brain-machine interfaces, which he believes can significantly improve the quality of human life.

He recently completed an advanced training program in Data Science and Machine Learning from the University of Cambridges Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Vice President & Global Head AI & Automation Services
Job Level
Senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Enterprise AI Adoption
Heads the Infosys Topaz Center of Excellence, which he founded to help clients discover AI opportunities and scale deployments responsibly across their enterprises.
Responsible AI
He has authored articles on the importance of building safe AI, emphasizing a "Responsible by Design" mindset that embeds ethics and accountability directly into the AI pipeline.
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Career

Work history

10-2022
Vice President & Global Head AI & Automation Services
Infosys
1-2018 - 9-2022
Associate Vice President & Global Head - AI and Automation Services
Infosys
4-2016 - 1-2018
Head, SAP Center of Excellence
Infosys
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The future of AI was explored by Ashok Panda from Infosys. Featured in Facebook (ELCIA.IN)
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Education
8-2022 - 12-2022
Infosys Financial Leadership Program
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
10-2023 - 3-2024
Diploma
Harvard Business School
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