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Gaurav Verma
System Architect
Exxonmobil
Speaker Bio
Gaurav Verma is an Architect and Technical Leader at ExxonMobil India. He and his teams build the data foundations and data products that power a range of AI-ready and AI-native solutions. With over 20 years of experience, his expertise spans Databricks, Azure, Power BI, and FinOps, along with hands-on work in data products, cloud solutions, analytics platforms, enterprise cloud cost management, and data engineering operations. His work cuts across data platforms, data products, analytics tools like Power BI, agentic AI, Gen AI, and AI-enabled spec-driven software development. Beyond his technical role, Gaurav is also an IT people leader at ExxonMobil India, where he focuses on upskilling teams and growing the next generation of technical leaders.
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Session
Monday, 21 September, 2026 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM IST
Executive Story: Beyond the Dashboard: Giving Data Meaning to Build Trustworthy AI
Lokesh Singh,
Solution Architect, Exxonmobil
Gaurav Verma,
System Architect, Exxonmobil
Most enterprises don't have a data problem — they have a connection problem. Precise numbers live in tables, meaning lives in documents, and the relationships that tie them together are invisible to both. That gap is why AI answers sound confident but can't be trusted or explained. This session shows how to move from managing data as static, siloed inventory to orchestrating it as a connected, context-aware foundation: what "metadata by design" looks like when business context is required at creation time instead of enriched after the fact, how knowledge graphs make relationships explicit for GraphRAG and agentic workflows, and why production benchmarks show 60-80% reductions in hallucination when semantic structure is in place. You'll walk away with a concrete playbook — not another dashboard, but a blueprint for turning fragmented data into answers your business can actually act on.
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