Ajay Bhargava has more than 25 years of industry, research, and teaching experience in the areas relating to databases, enterprise data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, advanced analytics, and Big Data. He has also contributed to SQL, ODBC and IDAPI database standards. Over the years, he has provided business and technology oriented strategic thinking, advising, management consulting, and built customer-centric solutions for large multi-M$ initiatives for global Fortune 1000 customers across multiple industries.Ajay built the Global Analytics & Big Data practice for TCS Insurance & Healthcare customers, and is based in Austin, Texas. His primary role is to build analytics-driven organizations and solutions for TCS Customers to derive actionable value and outcomes from analytics and big data. In addition to his role at TCS, Ajay is an Adjunct Faculty of CS Department at The University of Texas (UT), Austin, and continues to actively teach and give back to the community.