Prashant Tyagi is responsible for enabling the big data strategy at GE Digital for the Industrial Internet that leverages IT and Operational data for predictive analytics. He works with all the P&L verticals (such as oil and gas, power generation, aviation, healthcare, and so on) to enable their IoT use cases on the data and analytics platform. Prior to GE, he was with Cisco, where he was leading the organization, focused on delivering platform solutions for Cisco’s smart services. Before Cisco he co-founded a company focused on delivering intelligent drug discovery data platforms for the biotech and pharma industries. He is on the board of ISSIP, a non-profit cross academia and industry organization, focused on service innovation. He leads a cross-industry special interest group (SIG) on IoT and analytics, and is an advisor to the open source fog computing initiative, ioFog, an Eclipse foundation initiative. Prashant holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, and an MS in Computer Science from Clemson University. He has publications in leading journals and magazines on IoT, analytics, and data strategy. Prashant is a renowned public speaker and panelist at several conferences.
