Rashmi Gupta is a thought-leader for data and AI, a TEDx speaker, and industry award winner specializing in data management with over 25 years of leadership experience designing innovative data driven solutions. Formerly, Ms. Rashmi Gupta participated in Obama's Entrepreneur program for the US government, serving at Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as Chief Data Architect to solve critical national challenges in Healthcare while redesigning and modernizing their Bio - Surveillance data strategy for public health threats like Zika and Ebola. Today, she is a Partner for Data and Technology Transformation at IBM, leading data platform services in the Data and Technology Transformation team comprising of Healthcare, Life sciences , Education and Government industry/service lines.