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Vipul Gupta, Vice President – Data and Analytics and Sustainability, Baker Hughes

Describe your career to date

I have been fortunate to work with organizations in a multi-cultural environment that encouraged collaboration and execution mindset. I started my career with startup organizations in management consulting and data and analytics domains and got exposure to a data-driven solution approach that maximized the impact of human capital.

Following this, I worked for large multi-national organizations like Accenture and General Electric to establish and lead data and analytics practices. The change from external facing to internal facing positions helped me learn key skills like long term technology strategy planning, IT governance, enterprise architecture and strategic sourcing.

I am currently leading the data and analytics capability for Baker Hughes, responsible for technology strategy, platforms, and end-user data and analytics applications. In addition, I am supporting the digital enablement of sustainability information and disclosures for my organization.

How are you developing the data literacy of your organization, including the skills of your data teams and of your business stakeholders?

We have executed multiple programs to improve data literacy and technology skills in our organization. For data teams, we have followed an early-training approach with scheduled and on-demand training, through which the teams learn new technologies six months to one year before implementation. These initiatives helped ensure reduction in risk and timeline of execution, as well as reduced implementation and sustenance spend.

For business stakeholders, on-demand training on business intelligence technologies along with establishing a community of practice has helped tremendously.

Additionally, self-service enablement has helped reduction in dependency of business stakeholders on central IT organizations for reporting and analytics.

What role do you play in building and delivering conventional artificial intelligence solutions, including machine learning models? Are you also involved in your organization’s adoption of generative AI? 

The data and analytics organization provides the data foundation in the form of certified data sets and reliable data pipelines for conventional artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. As opposed to a service delivery model for AI and machine learning, we follow a federated approach wherein the data scientists are embedded within digital teams of our business segments. This helps ensure development of functional domain expertise and closer collaboration with business stakeholders.

We are in the early stages of adopting generative AI and would follow a similar approach with central teams focused on technology enablement and governance.

 

Have you set out a vision for data? If so, what is it aiming for and does it embrace the whole organization or just the data function?

 

We have developed a long-term vision for data, with priorities across Technology transformation (to improve quality, reliability, and availability of data, and more), leveraging data to address business priorities (Net Zero goal by 2050), reducing risk (governance and controls), and embedding data in key operational processes.

Vipul Gupta
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