Vice President at Mastek. TEDx speaker. Two decades spent turning AI ambition into transformation that actually lands in boardrooms, on stages, and inside teams.
Ideas that move organisations forward
AI-Led Transformation
01Moving past pilots and proofs of concept to AI that changes how the business actually operates — with owners, budgets and a retired legacy process behind it.
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Leadership in the Age of Machines
02What stays human when the work changes: judgement under ambiguity, trust across distance, and the willingness to make a call the model can only advise on.
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Innovation That Ships
03Building the conditions — teams, incentives, tolerance for risk — where new ideas survive contact with reality instead of dying in a steering committee.
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The Rise of Bharat
04India's next decade as a market, a talent engine and a source of global ideas — what the headline numbers miss, and what it means for how you build teams.
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Two decades between the strategy deck and the shop floor
Vikas leads global transformation programmes at Mastek, where technology decisions meet the messy reality of people, process and P&L. On stage, he brings the same lens: fewer slogans about the future, more of what it takes to get there.
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Four areas, one throughline: making it land
Enterprise AI & data strategy
Choosing the few use cases worth the org's attention and killing the rest early.
Digital transformation at scale
Multi-year, multi-geography programmes where the technology is rarely the hardest part.
Mentoring the next generation
Campus sessions and one-to-one mentoring for students and early career technologists.
Future of work & talent
What changes for teams when the tools get good, and what leaders owe them through it.
On stage, in the room
TEDx talks, conference keynotes, panels, university sessions and closed-door leadership forums.
Keynote
One argument, carried the whole way — built for a room that has to act on it Monday morning.
- Tailored to your industry and audience
- Live case material, not generic AI theory
- Q&A and post-talk notes for attendees
Panel & fireside
A practitioner's view, unscripted — for rooms that want tension and specifics, not consensus.
- Moderated or co-panel formats
- Prep call to sharpen the question set
- Comfortable with hostile or technical rooms
Leadership workshop
Working sessions for leadership teams making real AI, operating-model and talent calls.
- Use-case triage on your own portfolio
- Operating-model and ownership mapping
- A written point of view you keep
AI doesn't transform a business. Leaders
who are willing to change how the work is
done with AI in their hands do.
Writing & perspectives
What people say about Being Curious
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Keynotes, panels
& leadership sessions
Share the event, audience and date. Vikas replies personally to speaking requests, and tailors every talk to the room rather than reusing a deck.