Akshay Kulkarni is a renowned AI and Machine learning evangelist and a thought leader. He has consulted with several Fortune 500 and global enterprises in driving AI and Data Science-led strategic transformation. Akshay has a rich experience of building and scaling AI and Machine Learning businesses and creating significant client impact. He is currently working as Senior Data Scientist at Publicis Sapients core data science team where he is part of strategy and transformation interventions through Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, working on various Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial intelligence engagements by applying state of the art techniques in this space. Prior to this, he has been a part of Gartner and Accenture, where he scaled the AI and Data Science business to be a leading market leader. He is a regular speaker at major Data Science conferences and recently had given a talk on deep learning and attention networks all the way to production using kubeflow at O’Reilly AI Conference - London and has published international books on Data Science/ Artificial Intelligence with Packt and Apress. Akshay has majorly worked in the retail and e-commerce domain and specializes in analytical problem solving, machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and Model Productionization. He is passionate about teaching and also acts as a Data Science Mentor at various organizations like ProfondAI, Udemy, Great learning, Upgrad, Reva, etc, helping people learn data science. He is also a key contributor and editor at ProfondAI and an industry advisor at a few of the top graduation institutes/universities (IIM’s, IIT’s, NIT’s) in India.