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Manjunatha Gurulingaiah Kukkuru

Associate Vice President and Principal Research Analyst of the Infosys Center for Emerging Technology Solutions (iCETS).

­­­­Manjunatha is an Associate Vice President and Principal Research Analyst of the Infosys Center for Emerging Technology Solutions (iCETS). He is an entrepreneur incubating emerging technology led offerings for Infosys. He leads the development of new offerings across Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), autonomous systems and automation. He is also responsible for Go-To-Market of emerging technology offerings.

Manjunatha leads and support several aspects of co-creating innovation between Infosys and its clients. As a founding member of this approach and enabling teams, he inspires investments for innovative products and services, designs and build innovation capabilities, institutionalize new ideas from concept to reality, develops innovation process, tools, techniques, systems and ecosystems, and research on companies, industries and technologies.

Manjunatha has experience across trends research, valuation and costing, mentoring startups, strategy and IT consulting, and aerospace research with aircraft research and design center. Manjunatha has been a key contributor in creating a culture of innovation and innovation infrastructure for Infosys and clients. His other interests include the larger context of societal change, economy, politics and history.