Swamy Kocherlakota is the Chief Information Officer for S&P
Global and is responsible for driving the digital transformation and
delivering productivity improvements for our customers and
employees.
Prior to S&P Global, Mr. Kocherlakota 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, he was at BNY
Mellon as the head of Global Infrastructure Engineering and
Architecture and led their infrastructure transformation. Mr.
Kocherlakota holds the recognition of being a distinguished
engineer at Lucent Bell Labs where he managed technology for
Lucent and its ventures.
Mr. Kocherlakota is a NASD registered representative and has a
PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

Eric Hanselman is the chief analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of technology, media and telecommunications research disciplines, with an extensive, hands-on understanding of a range of subject areas, including information security, networks and semiconductors and their intersection in areas such as AI, 5G and edge computing. Eric helps S&P Global’s clients navigate these turbulent waters and capitalize on potential outcomes. He is a member of the IEEE, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional. He is also a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and hosts the Next in Tech technology podcast.

Tsvi has over 25 years of technology and operations experience mostly in financial services, media and telecom and is known across the industry for his technology leadership, innovation and business acumen.

At MSKCC, Tsvi leads technology services as well as the High performance Computing technology enabling AI, genomic sequencing as well as major transformation using EPIC, divisional Agile & DevOps transformation and the changes to the ways of work in technology, workforce strategy, and front-to-back initiative.

Prior to MSKCC, Tsvi served as CTO of Morgan Stanley’s shared services (infrastructure & data), Tsvi had been responsible for transforming the bank into a modern, efficient and effective organization. He completed a hundreds of million net cost reduction initiative while productivity and satisfaction improved.

Working collaboratively with the leaders of business technology, Tsvi led the creation and implementation of Morgan Stanley’s multi-year strategy and target state architecture along with the standards, guidelines, blueprints and use patterns that made it actionable to the engineering and development communities, broke the silo mentality and aggressively reduced technology debt.

Tsvi’s work helped position the bank as a leader in algorithmic trading/ ultra-low latency, migration to public cloud and containers, AI & machine learning, cyber security, mainframe optimization, data center consolidation, modern client experience, global network and near-fault tolerant operations.

Tsvi also oversaw the governance and regulatory compliance work with internal and external auditors and examiners.

Tsvi is the winner of the Einstein Award for technology excellence and known as a provider of strategic thought leadership and excellence in execution and transformation.
His experience ranges from traditional (server, storage, networks, operations, mainframes) to modern (public and private cloud, containers, cyber security) infrastructure as well as application development and Agile/DevOps transformation, with the focus on creating business value.

Greatest achievements are rooted from understanding and enabling the business to deliver both existing and new offerings in a combination of efficiency (cost), delivery focus (execution) and future-proofing (innovation).