Sharath Prasad is AVP in Cognizant’s IoT & Engineering Practice, and is the Global Offering Leader for Cognizant’s Intelligent Operations portfolio of solutions, which includes Smart Manufacturing, Smart Warehouses and Smart Utilities. Sharath’s experience over the last 27 years has been around IoT, Product Engineering and Digital technologies across manufacturing, consumer processed goods, food & beverage and life sciences/pharma sectors. 

In his current role at Cognizant as an Offering leader, he drives definition of strategy, solutions and growth across Smart Manufacturing solutions and looks at enabling clients to integrate IT & OT systems with IoT, extract the right kind of data to build applications and derive insights that drive the highest value for production metric improvements.