Manoj Prasanna Kumar, CTO, Singtel Digital InfraCo

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Manoj Prasanna Kumar
CTO, Singtel Digital InfraCo

Speaker Profile

Manoj is the Chief Technology Officer of Singtel Digital InfraCo and leads software architecture and cyber security of all software and hardware systems across all business units of Singtel Digital InfraCo. DigitalInfraCo is Singtel’s growth company that incorporates the Group’s regional data center business, subsea cable, satellite carrier businesses, AI cloud business as well as Paragon – Singtel’s unified platform for 5G, edge computing and multi cloud orchestration. Manoj leads the design, development and roll out of Digital InfraCo’s Network Fabric as well as Singtel’s AI cloud to offer GPU as a service to Enterprises and public sector customers. Manoj’s charter is to transform every business under Singtel Digital InfraCo with a software defined digital customer experience that will enhance operational efficiency, customer experience and unlock new value for Digital InfraCo. 

 

Prior to his role as CTO, Manoj was the Head of Enterprise platforms, the software product house under Singtel Digital InfraCo where he lead the design, engineering and delivery of award winning Singtel’s Paragon platform which is Industry’s first all-in-one orchestration platform that unifies network, compute and applications in a single platform for Enterprise customers. Singtel Paragon platform also powers the Enterprise 5G and MEC offering for Singtel’s enterprise business. Singtel also utilizes Paragon platform to deploy 5G and MEC for all enterprise customers in Singapore and the region through Singtel’s associates. Manoj has also spearheaded the 5G and MEC deployment for all the Singtel customers including public sector customers and large enterprises. He has lead numerous collaboration initiatives for Singtel Group with hyper scalars like AWS and Microsoft to design an infrastructure agnostic MEC solution that is compliant with hyper scalar stack (Azure and AWS) to ensure seamless adoption of MEC and 5G for Enterprise customers. 

 

Manoj is a data scientist by background with deep domain experience in Telecom industry. His expertise is in Distributed Systems, Big Data, and Machine Learning. He holds over 25 international patents in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and telecom networks, including the first patent of Singtel for Paragon platform that was awarded in multiple countries including Singapore, Australia, USA, South Korea and China.

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