Hitesh Dholakia is the Head of Platform at Petuum. Hitesh joined Petuum from Blackwood Seven, an AI marketing platform company. There he was their Chief Product Officer and led the team that built Hamilton AI, the world’s first in-silicon data scientist. Hitesh also worked on building successful Machine Learning and Data Science products for several companies including Sysomos, eBay, and Yahoo. Hitesh earned his BS in Computer Science, followed by an MS in Artificial Intelligence from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

In the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI), has mostly been in the research realm. AI adoption is moving from labs and pilots into production. Businesses generally start on the path to AI adoption through pilots and looking at ways AI can help them supercharge their enterprise intelligence.

The industrial vertical is changing, and more so now than in recent history, The World Economic Forum has long heralded that “Manufacturing has experienced a decade of productivity stagnation and demand fragmentation; innovation is long overdue.”