Utpal Mangla is VP and Senior Partner at IBM Services. He leads IBM’s TME Industry Center of Competency focussing on Artificial Intelligence, IoT, 5G EDGE, Hybrid Cloud, Robotics and Blockchain Innovations for clients worldwide. In his role as a senior executive in the business with P&L responsibility and thought leader in emerging technologies, Utpal’s mission is to fuel growth by building, selling & implementing differentiated competitive market solution offerings. Under Utpal’s leadership, his team recently achieved company’s mission of making “Watson AI Impact 1 Billion Consumers”.
Utpal is also a Senior Partner at a Canadian Telecommunications company and runs multiple programs with team of 500+ practitioners spread across different countries. Utpal brings deep expertise focusing on Digital Transformation, Customer Insights, SAP, Data Analytics, Field Workforce Management, QA and Network data monetization.
Utpal is a regular speaker at industry forums, university leadership and business conferences globally, including GSMA MWC, THINK, TMForum, Salesforce Dreamforce, Cannes and CEM Telecoms. He is a regular contributor to white papers, industry blogs, external analyst reports, contributes to press and has multiple patents. Utpal is on the board of ATIS, committee member of SCTE and TMForum’s AI Advisory Board. He is also a member of IBM’s Industry Academy and 5G EDGE acceleration team.
Utpal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering with Highest Honors and MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has also completed executive studies in Harvard Business School’s Strategic Leadership, Wharton School’s Financial Value Creation and Stanford Business School’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs.
At ABB, Rob lead a team responsible for acceleration of the digital adoption with customers, ABB’s digital businesses, and incubation of strategic group-wide digital businesses. ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, servicing customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. The company operates in more than 100 countries with about 135,000 employees.