Devang Patel heads solutions in the Incubation Group of TCS' Research and Innovation (R&I) unit. With over 24 years of experience in the IT Industry, Devang has mastered the art blending technology and business towards successfully incubating an idea into money making products and solutions for TCS. As a practitioner, Devang is responsible for ideating, strategizing, conceptualizing, designing and shaping ideas and leading them to a successful scale-up. Devang holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Mumbai, India, and an MBA from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, India. Devang's current technology interest is in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Information Extraction.