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Balaji Prasad

Founding Strategic Advisor

Balaji Prasad is currently Chief Architect and Director of Technology & Architecture at Cognizant Technology Solutions.  He has 25+ years of experience in the technology industry.  He has innovated at large global technology services companies and served as CTO/Chief Architect for large enterprise clients. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on a variety of subjects that include emerging technologies, business/IT alignment and architecture, sensors, nanotechnology, innovation and knowledge management.  Prasad has been on the advisory committee of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), holds patents and is a published author including in Leading with Knowledge: Knowledge Management Practices in Global Infotech companies, published by Tata McGraw-Hill. He has a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.