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Current title & affiliation

NamePrashant Akhawat
TitleChief Technology & AI Officer
OrganizationNinestars
EducationBITS Pilani · IMI Delhi
Based inBengaluru, India
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/prashantakhawat

One‑line descriptor

Prashant Akhawat is Chief Technology & AI Officer at Ninestars and the author of the AI‑SAFE framework — an AWS Summit keynote speaker with 25+ years building and scaling enterprise AI platforms.

Short bio

Prashant Akhawat is Chief Technology & AI Officer at Ninestars and the author of AI‑SAFE — a framework for treating AI as enterprise substrate rather than a tool. With over 25 years building and scaling enterprise technology and AI platforms, he focuses on moving AI from experimentation to governed, production‑scale capability across regulated industries. He is an AWS Summit keynote speaker and is writing a forthcoming book on the substrate transition.

Long bio

Prashant Akhawat is a technology and AI practitioner with over 25 years building and scaling enterprise technology platforms. An alumnus of BITS Pilani and IMI Delhi, he has spent the last decade designing and operating AI platforms inside regulated and operationally complex enterprises — helping organizations move AI from experimentation to production‑scale, governed business capability.

The platform work he leads delivers foundation‑model and domain‑model inference at enterprise scale across life sciences, pharmaceuticals, financial services, media, and government. His focus is turning AI into a repeatable, scalable, business‑aligned capability that drives operational leverage, growth, and durable competitive advantage.

He is the author of AI‑SAFE (the AI Substrate Architecture Framework for Enterprises), published under Creative Commons, and is writing a forthcoming book on the substrate transition. He is Chief Technology & AI Officer at Ninestars, an AWS Summit keynote speaker, and writes the CXO Intelligence newsletter on leadership in the age of AI.

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Notable talks

  • AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026 — keynote co-presented with AWS on hybrid inference strategies using Amazon Bedrock and AOTM LIFE. Speaking →
  • AWS Summit Mumbai 2025 — enterprise AI platform session on moving AI from experimentation to governed, production-scale capability.
  • NASSCOM Xperience AI 2019, Bengaluru — invited talk on applying AI to medical imaging and catalyzing the AI ecosystem.

Awards

  • Best AI-Driven Media Content Transformation — Bharat Gen AI & Analytics Summit & Awards 2024, Bengaluru (for the AOTM platform led at Ninestars).

Selected coverage

  • AI Execution: The New Frontier in Enterprise Technology — ET CIO, 2026. Read →
  • “AI is a major opportunity and an ideal tool to improve patient care” — ETHealthworld, 2018. Read →
  • Using AI and image analytics to enhance patient care — Elets eHealth, 2019. Read →
  • Artificial intelligence all set to virtualize radiology brains — Mint, 2019. Read →

Contact

Press, interviews, and speaking: akhawats@isecol.com · contact form →