Guest: Apratim Purakayastha
Apratim Purakayastha (AP), Chief Technology Officer
AP is responsible for engineering, product management, cloud operations, and IT across all products in the Skillsoft group of companies. He has extensive experience in supporting rapidly growing technology companies including General Manager and SVP of SaaS at SevOne where he was responsible for its on-demand/SaaS business segment, after holding the position of SVP Engineering. Prior to SevOne, AP held senior technology positions including Group President in ACI Worldwide and Director of Software at IBM. AP has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke University, an MS in Computer Science from Washington State University and a BS in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, India.
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Topics and questions include:
- Emerging trends to watch, including sustainability and new technology
- The role of VR
- Sustainability and productivity
- What’s ahead for leadership development, talent acquisition and retention
- The democratization of leadership development
- Scaling and accelerating leadership
- Digital leaders
- Recruiting strategies
- Power skill
- Which academic degrees are most import
- Empathy and long-term relationships
- Leveraging optimism and humility
- The continuing importance of diversity and inclusion
- And more!
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