Gowri Selka is the former Head of Data Analytics for Walgreens Boots Alliance and currently President of Volantsys Inc. www.volantsys.com

In her current role, Gowri focuses on partnering with organizations to attain business outcomes by leveraging Data, analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation capabilities.

During her experience in strategic leadership role, as Head of Data Analytics, Gowri established Data Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap to implement a globally scalable, secured, integrated analytics platform across multiple lines of businesses, such as Retail, Healthcare, Supply chain.

• Improved analytical capabilities by implementing several consumption patterns on data platform to allow for online processing and analysis of billions of transactions.
• Setup analytics forum to empower cross divisional data scientists to collaborate and develop assets that aligns with organization goals.
• Improved competitive positioning by enabling digital transformation analytics to accurately develop customer insights, segmentation, and personalized marketing products.

As a strategic technology service provider, Gowri believes in working cohesively with the clients to help enterprises adapt to emerging technologies efficiently. Reskilling of the workforce to embrace change in an enthusiastic manner is essential to keep the customers engaged with the right value proposition.

Gowri’s passion is to implement technology solutions in a manner that extends the careers of technologists and business experts, enabling them to prepare for the new roles and activities that will be required for organizations to be successful in an environment of continual technological disruption.

In addition to her years in corporate executive and leadership roles, Selka is a futurist thinker and speaker who has:

• Co-organizer of AI DAYS Chicago  http://www.chicagoaidays.com/
• Judged the Future Business leaders of America - to understand actions to be taken to help high school female students adapt to technology career.
• Was the summit keynote speaker at Dataworks Summit
• Speaker at the AI Congress, CQAA forum
• Board Member at A Safe Place - Domestic abuse prevention organization