Dr. Vishnu Nanduri is Head of AI and Innovation, ASEAN and Korea at Kyndryl, where he leads the ASEAN AI Innovation Lab in Singapore. He takes agentic AI from pilot to production for enterprises and governments across the region. He has led AI strategy and analytics teams at Munich Re, Prudential, Accenture, and IBM, and built AI products in insurance. A former tenure-track professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he holds a PhD in industrial engineering from the University of South Florida, focused on reinforcement learning and game theory. He is an adjunct lecturer at NUS.