Pradeep Khanna is Executive Director of Integrating Australia with Asia - a Hub of academia, consulting & industry from Australia, India & other Asian countries focused on globalisation, digitisation and services intensification. He is also Managing Director of GLOBAL MINDSET, thought leading research and consulting company heavily involved in all aspects of virtual & global services & global sourcing.
With over 25 years of executive and management experience across number of industries, Pradeep was till recently the Global Delivery Leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) leveraging India, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Egypt, Romania, Brazil and Argentina for A/NZ . He has worked on assignments involving leading global organisations including IBM, Australian Trade Commission, Optus, Westpac, Qantas, ING, Crompton Greaves and many more.
Other events in Integrating Australia with Asia series:
FUTURE OF OUTSOURCING & OFFSHORING IN AUSTRALIA (02 Aug 2012)
Presented by Pradeep Khanna, Executive Director Integrating Australia with Asia and CEO GLOBAL MINDSET, hosted by Ernst & Young Sydney
- Finding the right balance between low prices and maintaining jobs in a globalised economy
- Panel speakers included Ross Mckenzie ( Westpac), David Fincher(Ernst & Young), Vijay Gopal (IBM GPS), Venki Prathivadi (Mahindra Satyam), Samit Kumar (Infosys), Vivek Kumar (Deputy Consul General of India , Sydney), Prof Aditya Ghose ( University of Wollongong), Prof Eng Chew (University of Technology, Sydney ), and Prof Oscar Hauptman (University of Western Sydney).
- For more info see ABC TV's Ticky Fullerton on Lateline Business http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-02/wheres-the-balance/4173608 - (see transcripts).
DIGITAL AUSTRALIA & EMERGENT ASIA (01 Nov 2012)
Presented by Pradeep Khanna, Executive Director Integrating Australia with Asia and CEO GLOBAL MINDSET, hosted by PwC Sydney and supported by Asialink
- How will Australia's digital economy co-exist with some of the digital/ real/ blended economies of Asian countries?
- Key note speech by Matt Barrie, CEO & Founder of Freelancer.com
- Panel Speakers included Trent Lund (Lead Partner PwC), Ian Birks (CEO of Australian Services Roundtable), Prof Aditya Ghose (Professor at University of Wollongong), Bob Hayward (Chief Technology Officer, CSC Australia & Asia), Brad Howarth (Distinguished commentator, Author & Speaker), Dr Dean Economou (Technology Strategist NICTA), Keith Besgrove (First Assistant Secretary, DBCDE), Lindley Edwards (Group CEO AFG Venture)
- Business Spectator - http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Australia-digitaleconomy- innovation-Asia-pd20121105-ZQVWK
SERVICES INNOVATION (19 Nov 2012)
- Presented by Pradeep Khanna, Executive Director Integrating Australia with Asia and CEO GLOBAL MINDSET, hosted by University of Sydney
- Presented an Industry panel on Services Innovation at services innovation symposium for Tier 1 Universities of Australia including a group of C -level executives from 70% of global ICT companies operating in Australia including David Kaspari (Managing Director of HP), Greg Stone (CTO of Microsoft, CTO) Craig Baity (CTO of Fujitsu), Bob Hayward (CTO of CSC), Andrew Thomson (Executive Director of CISCO), John Brand (Vice President) of Forrester. http://www.servicesciencesociety.org.au/symposium
