Adri Purkayastha

Global Head of AI and Digital Risk Analytics BNP Paribas

I started and lead two domains -AI and Digital Risk Analytics - for BNP Paribas Group. Topic of current focus are building Responsible AI, Cyber and Privacy Risks, Cloud, Data Management and Governance and focus on best practice application of AI across all business lines and units of BNP Paribas Group. I have been an entrepreneur, product Manager of AIML solutions, Data Scientist. I like building things with smart people. Started and led initiates for Data Science & Financial Machine Learning in various sector of financial services industry. Provided advisory on setting up Data strategy, digital operating model and analytics programs.

EMEA Day - April 29

2:00 PM Winning With AI Through The Enterprise Data Nerve Center

Adri Purkayastha, Global Head of AI and Digital Risk Analytics, BNP Paribas


Any central nervous system works through an integration of internal and external inputs. The elegant dovetailing of internal and external data within the enterprise is key to ensuring a data nerve center for the organization. This session covers:


  • Gaining internal stimuli based on internal data
  • Ensuring external data provides signals of changes or status quo
  • Operating like a central nervous system with real time internal and external data 
  • Democratizing data through a self service data roadmap for citizen data analysts
  • Reducing data at rest and increasing data in motion to ensure data flows through the organization with ease