Digital Transformation
of Brick-and-Mortar Universities

Get to Know Our Panelists
Priyanka is an IT professional with an immense passion for pedagogics. She firmly believes in learning throughout life and desires to bring a productive positive transformation in the society, with education blended with technology. She is technically inclined to data science and analytics and skilled in visual analytics, remote sensing, AI and ML, software engineering, and software project management. She currently leads the Academics vertical at Xebia Academic Alliance, the higher education wing of Xebia Academy and the education arm of Xebia.
Matthew is a Higher Ed Futurist and Strategist who has been deeply involved in the industry since 1991. At Beyond Academics, he oversees Future of Work and Digital Transformation practices. Previously, he led the Student Technology and Transformation practice as a Partner at Deloitte. He was named among GFEL’s Top 100 Leaders in Education and is an EdTech Awards Trendsetter for 2021. He has guided dozens of institutions in their journey to navigate the frontier of what is technologically and pedagogically possible. He also holds a Master of Education degree from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Ahmed is a Professor at the American Public University System’s School of STEM. After spending a decade working in Engineering and Management roles, he moved to the higher education industry. He has been serving as a Dean, Faculty Member, and Managing Principal for educational and other organizations like the University of Minnesota, Walden University, and DeVry University for 40 years. He has revised and strengthened existing programs and launched new degree programs in Computer Science, Data Science, and Computer Technology. He holds two patents and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Meet Your Host
A passionate EdTech professional with over 15 years of experience in the education & training industry in India and abroad, to include K12, Higher Ed and Skilling segments. Expertise in the education and technology domains with qualifications from IIT, XLRI and Symbiosis. Some of the brands worked with are Canon, SAP, MindTree, Persistent, Forum, VIT. Currently with Harbinger as a full time Senior Director – Business Consulting.
Harbinger Systems is a global company providing software technology services for independent software vendors and enterprises. Since its inception in 1990, Harbinger has developed a strong customer base of organizations worldwide that includes high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, multi-national product companies, and in-house IT teams of large organizations.
Harbinger helps product vendors to build and accelerate cloud-based services with robust engineering, CloudOps, managed services, and migration capabilities