The Ripple Effect of Digital Transformation with Sai Allavarpu

Sai Allavarpu, Xylem’s Chief Digital Officer, shares his vast knowledge of how other industries have made the digital transformation and how the water sector can learn from that prior experience. Sai also elaborates on how digital solutions can solve utility challenges that analog attempts simply cannot solve and much, much more.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

• Sai’s background in digital transformations from the financial, telecom, aerospace, health and other sectors
• Sai’s observations on what the water sector can learn from other sectors digital transformations
• How other highly regulated industries successfully navigated digital transformations
• Sai’s perspective on why the health care sector took the digital leap before the water sector
• The challenges facing the water market that only digital solutions can solve
• Why digital solutions can solve those challenges
• How digital solutions can aid talent attraction and retention
• What challenges water utilities need to overcome to adopt digital solutions
• How utilities can start down the road to digital transformation
• Why avoiding silos of data, IT infrastructure and applications is so important
• Concrete examples of how digital solutions have helped utilities save money
• How different sized utilities can take advantage of digitalization

Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:

• Sai’s LinkedIn page
• Xylem’s website

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