Yogesh Rao is the Chief Data Scientist at TCS with over 26 years of experience driving Business and IT transformation with AI across 15+ industry sectors and 25+ countries.

He has extensive expertise across the full spectrum of Information Technology—Strategy, Consulting, Sales, Solutions, and Delivery. Yogesh is a thought leader in harnessing data for AI (including GenAI, guardian models, and ambient agents) and Digital Transformation, addressing complex business challenges, shaping strategy, formulating AI policies, and ensuring governance and compliance. He also serves as a P&L owner for very large delivery accounts.

An advisor, speaker, writer, and tutor, he has been instrumental in enabling digital transformation in Banking, Finance, Capital Markets, Retail, CPG, Telecom, Media, and Government sectors. His expertise spans AI, ML, DL, Robotics, IoT, Big Data (including image and geospatial data), and the adoption of cutting-edge business use cases built over robust on-premise and cloud architectures.

Over the years, Yogesh has successfully solutioned, won, and delivered numerous large-scale Data, AI, and Cognitive projects globally.