Shobhit Varshney

Mr. Varshney is a VP & Senior Partner in IBM Consulting, and leads the AI, Generative AI & IoT business in US, Canada & LaTAM cross-industry. He was awarded the “Technology Leader of the Year” by Applied Intelligence. He is a trusted advisor to c-suites and a recognized global leader in selling and delivering cross-industry solutions leveraging the transformative power of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He has 13 years proven track record of partnering with fortune 100 clients across industries and geographies to realize value by linking strategic thinking, cognitive, digital and cloud to deliberate, practical, and sustainable enterprise transformation.

Across various roles at IBM, Mr. Varshney has had the privilege of working with and building world class talent, curriculum, assets and methods. As part of IBM's Chief Analytics Office, he leveraged analytics to transform various aspects of IBM's own business. Having driven real world transformation across a global enterprise, he gained deep understanding of the organizational challenges and what it takes to drive adoption of analytics.

Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Varshney gained experience in strategy consulting and deploying analytics in various domains ranging from bio-medicine, financial services and technology at Bain & Co, Bloomberg LP and Intel Corporation. Shobhit earned an MBA with distinction from Johnson at Cornell, MS in Computer Science (focus: Bio Medicine) from Cornell University and BS in Computer Engineering and Math with summa cum laude from University of Arkansas.

Mr. Varshney has driven innovation across multiple industries and has been the co-inventor for 4 Patents.

He lives in Dallas, with his wife and 2 young kids. In his personal life, he is passionate about photography, is am tech geek and loves to brew beer.