As part of S&P Global’s strategy of Powering the Markets of the Future, two of the key foundational capabilities are People and Technology. Introduced in 2017, the award-winning EssentialTECH program is the result of S&P Global’s commitment to elevate its people by providing blended learning opportunities to expand technology fluency and skills across seven core focus areas: Agile, Cloud, DevOps, Cyber Security, Data Science, Automation and Innovation. It is essential that our people have every opportunity to grow in a dynamic technology environment to prepare for future roles and support the future of the organization.In this session, we’ll learn how the EssentialTECH program has addressed the corporate tech upskilling challenge through a blended learning approach. The award-winning “blend” includes a collection of tech communities delivering formal, social, and experiential opportunities across all levels of the company.
During this session, we’ll explore:
How to invest in new programs and resources for increasing tech fluency and skills that impact entire and targeted employee populations.
How to embed learning within a company culture to drive transformation at both the company and the individual level.
Why successful retention and application of skills requires not only well-built training but social and experiential reinforcement as well.
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Award: Gold winner
‘Best use of blended learning – international commercial sector’
“Innovative, transformational and truly impactful, S&P Global’s modern blended learning programme was a clear demonstration of how to embed learning within a company culture to drive transformation at both the company and the individual level. A true learning organisation, S&P Global shared a culturally mature submission backed up with strong ROI metrics that made them the clear choice for gold. All the judges were inspired and heartened that company learning can make such a huge difference to the individual employee, empowering them to shape their own careers, while at the same time creating clear efficiencies for the business. Just wow!”
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About your presenters:
Swamy Kocherlakota EVP, Chief Information Officer Executive Sponsor, EssentialTECH
Swamy Kocherlakota is Chief Information Officer for S&P Global, responsible for driving the digital transformation and delivering productivity improvements for our people and customers.
Prior to S&P Global, he was SVP, Global Head of Technology Operations & Infrastructure at Visa, Inc. where he oversaw global infrastructure and applications that processed over 130 billion transactions annually. Before VISA, Swamy was head of Global Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture at BNY Mellon. He holds the recognition of being a distinguished engineer at Lucent Bell Labs, where he managed technology for Lucent and its ventures.
Swamy is an NASD registered representative and has a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan
Dushyanth lead Automation, Digital Transformation & Lean efforts within S&P Global’s Market Intelligence division. He’s been with the company for over 9 years – 5 years in S&P Ratings and 4 years in Market Intelligence. Previously, he was Senior Director, Center for Automation Robotics & Extraction (C.A.R.E), Operations Enablement in Digital Technology Infrastructure, working across all four S&P Global divisions (S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Platts and S&P Dow Jones Indices).
Dushyanth holds a Bachelors in Commence (Madurai Kamaraj university), a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, and continues to engage in Machine Learning and Data science upskilling activities to further deepen his expertise.
Dushyanth Sekar, Head of Data
Transformation Market Intelligence, S&P Global
Nupur Sood, Automation Expert
Market Intelligence, S&P Global
Nupur is an automation expert and is involved in strategizing and developing automation solutions for teams across Ratings division of the organization.
She joined S&P right after her post-graduation as a data associate and worked towards learning automation tools by leveraging the in-house learning modules and now is pursuing a career in automation.
She did her Masters in Numerical Techniques in Finance from University of Nottingham.
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