Kartick Kalaimani

Vice President, Global Contract to Cash Value Stream Lead Dentsu

Kartick Kalaimani serves as Vice President at Dentsu, leading global digital transformation initiatives across media, creative, and customer experience management practices. With over two decades of experience, he has driven impactful change across industries such as media, healthcare, oil and gas, and consumer goods. Kartick excels in crafting and executing innovative strategies that streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and deliver measurable outcomes. An expert in process transformation, automation, and organizational change management, Kartick is a trusted partner in addressing complex business challenges. Before joining Dentsu, Kartick held leadership roles at Genpact, delivering multimillion-dollar outcomes for Fortune 500 clients across diverse industries. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification, and an executive certification in Digital Transformation from MIT. With his deep operational expertise and passion for innovation, Kartick continues to lead transformative change for global enterprises.

Main Conference Day One - Wednesday, June 11, 2025

1:40 PM Mastering Fit for Purpose – Identifying the Right Opportunities for Automation to Improve Processes in a World of Opportunity

We live in a rapidly advancing digital era, with new tools popping up constantly. Resisting the urge to force fit a problem into a new, shiny technology isn’t easy – how do we identify the right opportunity and not hammer looking for nails but instead lead with improvement opportunities?  

  • Explore strategic approaches to identify process improvement opportunities and use a fit for purpose approach  
  • Hear use cases where RPA, IDP, AI and GenAI have been retrofitted to solve business problems 

4:00 PM Panel Discussion: Translate Success Stories into Value Delivery – Drive Increased Productivity, ROI and Savings for Strategic Contribution

Automation leaders have been engrained to understand the value of a transformation, however translating value of automation to the greater organization can be a challenge. Value is not just shown by FTE count, but includes so many other savings and benefits that can enhance the overall business. Together, join leaders to strategize how to connect the dots and tell the right story.  

  • Explore how to find a healthy balance of productivity, ROI and soft savings in your value realization 
  • Calculate the value of automation and what factors are critical to consider including technical debt, legacy systems, hard/soft savings, etc. 
  • Hear real life use strategies of how leaders found the right approach, built their transformation, justified it and translated efforts into value delivery  

Main Conference Day Two -Thursday, June 12, 2025

11:30 AM Fireside Chat: Building an AI Literate Organization – Changing the Mindset to Create Digital Advocates

With the fear around AI still apparent amongst the workforce, prioritizing an automation first mindset within the organization will be key to keeping your automation timelines on track. Aside from tech training, there is so much more that can be done to navigate the fear and change the mindset.  

  • Consider how the tone at the top sets’ precedent across the organization 
  • Create a commitment to exploration and a safe zone to enable leaders who want to innovate the space to 
  • Communicate the benefits of innovation and direct impact/benefit it has on human work  
  • Offer rewards and recognition to those willing to learn and make impact  

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Kartick.

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