Abhinav Dua

SVP, Head of AI & Secondary Productization at Escalent

Speaker

Abhinav Dua is an SVP at Escalent who heads its Center of Excellence on AI and secondary productization. A seasoned strategy consultant and researcher with 16 years of experience, Abhinav has led delivery excellence and consultative insights for Tech-Media-Telecom and Business Process Insights (80+ researchers and consultants) at Escalent. His expertise spans multiple domains (enterprise & consumer tech; media and consumer internet; telecommunications), solutions (unlock growth opportunities; gauge customer pulse; and monetize data/process assets), and methodologies (desk research; social media listening; primary qualitative research; operational analytics; alternative data; and future casting). In his current role, Abhinav is unearthing synergies between human and AI efforts across research and consulting workflows, determining the best use cases and tool bets and ensuring strategic adoption, integration & productization of AI to maximize client and business ROI. Simultaneously, Abhinav is productizing existing and conceptualizing new secondary research solutions, while exploring the inevitable cusp of secondary research and AI. Abhinav holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from NSIT, New Delhi.