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Nilay Ghosh is a globally-acknowledged technical leader in the SAP practice at IBM Consulting. He has more than 20 years of experience working in the SAP technology stack, where he started from SAP R/3 and progressed to SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and numerous other SAP on-premise and cloud solutions. He has held several technical leadership roles in IBM, both for global client projects and internal strategic programs. He set up the SAP eSOA, SAP UX/Mobile, and SAP BTP practice in IBM's largest global delivery center in India. In addition to his role as lead architect in a large, global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, Nilay is the currently chief architect for all intelligent workflows developed under the strategic Evolution Program between SAP and IBM. A core member of IBM's SAP Global CTO Network, and a frequent speaker with a few patents on his name.

Kousik Goon is globally acknowledged technical leader in the SAP practice at IBM Consulting. He has more than 18 years of experience working in the SAP technology stack, where he started from SAP R/3 and progressed to SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and other SAP on-premise and cloud solutions. He has held several technical leadership roles in IBM, both for global client projects and internal strategic programs. He was instrumental in setting up SAP UX/Mobile and SAP BTP practice in IBM's largest global delivery center in India. In addition to his role as integration and extension architect in a large, global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, Kousik is the key subject matter expert for SAP S/4HANA extensions and integrations at IBM. A core member of IBM's SAP Global CTO Network, and a frequent speaker.

Sandip Jana is a global technical leader in the SAP practice at IBM Consulting. He has more than 22 years of experience in enterprise architecture, system landscape design, and simplification across different SAP technology platforms, both on-premise and in the cloud. He has led different IBM strategic offerings, helping customers embark on their SAP S/4HANA journey. He has held the lead architect role in different SAP transformation projects, in several global template and country roll out programs. Sandip is currently leading the SAP technical practice at the IBM global delivery center in India and is responsible for capability building in new dimensional technical areas. He leads IBM's unique offering SAP Hana Impact Assessment, which guides customers on their SAP S/4HANA transformation journey. He is also the global lead of IBM's unique SAP S/4HANA transformation offering, IBM Rapid Move. A core member of IBM's SAP Global CTO Network, and a frequent speaker.

Arindam Mukherjee is a senior technical architect and consultant working with IBM for close to 17 years. He specializes in in SAP Business Workflow, ABAP, ABAP development for SAP HANA, OData, and SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics technologies. Arindam is an established subject matter expert in SAP Business Workflow space, implementing workflow solutions for several global SAP customers, as well as driving the growth of the workflow competency and knowledge base content for classic workflows at IBM. Arindam is also an expert in flexible workflow with SAP S/4HANA., SAP Fiori, and OData integration, and has led multiple SAP S/4HANA implementations by engaging in end-to-end solution design, development, and support.

Srinivas Rao is an application architect with the SAP practice at IBM, with more than 16 years of consulting experience. He is passionate about and has extension expertise in clean core solutions. He is certified in SAP BTP extensions and integration. He has extensive experience in delivering complex SAP S/4HANA implementations projects with varied experience in solution, build, and delivery. He is also passionate about automations and has won an SAP Workflow Management Hack2Build.

Yogeendar Rao is a senior SAP S/4HANA technical consultant at IBM India. He has more than 10 years of global SAP consulting experience, with expertise in ABAP development for SAP HANA, SAP Business Workflow, flexible workflows, SAP HR with ABAP, OData, and SAP Conversational AI. He has worked on different enterprise digital transformation projects and delivered technical use cases for various global SAP customers, with his proficiency in ABAP development for SAP HANA and SAP Business Workflow. He is an expert in flexible workflow and its integration with SAP Fiori applications and has designed and extended flexible workflows in many SAP S/4HANA implementations.

Naveen Veshala is a senior SAP application architect and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the SAP technical domain. He has worked at IBM for close to 18 years, where he specializes in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Gateway, SAP Fiori, flexible workflow, ABAP, and SAP ERP> Naveen is an established subject matter expert in IBM's SAP practice, where his focus in SAP S/4HANA, flexible workflow, and OData. He has contributed to the SAP Community, where he publishes blog posts about flexible workflow in SAP S/4HANA. He has led multiple SAP S/4HANA implementations by engaging in end-to-end solution design, development, and support.

Kiran Viswanathan is a technical architect and senior consultant with more than 21 years of extensive experience in sap user experience, mobility, and sap business technology platform. He has played the roles of user experience and extensibility solution consultant, and technical delivery manager for multiple client engagement across industries in their sap s/4hana implementations. He leads and manages the SAP UX, mobility, and SAP BTP practice at the IBM India global delivery center. In addition, he is an architect and the realization lead in IBM's strategic Evolution Program for developing intelligent workflows for several industry use cases.