MANISH GOYAL
Director and Global Leader for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) practice, IBM

Manish Goyal is the Director and Global Leader for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) practice in IBM’s Global Business Services group. In this role, Manish’s consulting practice is responsible for bringing the best AI solutions to help enterprises transform their businesses and capture the tremendous value from the disruption AI offers. Manish is responsible for the AI offerings, practice management and Global P&L.

Prior to this role, Manish held various product management roles in IBM’s Watson businesses. Most recently he was the Director of Product Management for the Machine Learning and Data Science platform that helped enterprises simplify their Data Science/AI workflows improving the productivity of their Data Scientists and AI developers. Prior to that he led the team that created the Watson Platform offering that provides developers access to cognitive services (APIs) for Natural Language Processing, Speech, Vision, Conversation and Discovery. He also led the creation of Watson products for the healthcare industry – Watson Oncology and Watson Clinical Trial Matching – working closely with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic.

Manish holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and B.S in Computer Science from Pune University, India.