Dr. Harrick Vin is the Global Head of Digitate, a Tata Consultancy Services Venture. Prior to this role, he was the Vice President and Chief Scientist of the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He was also the Global Head for Innovation and Transformation for IT Infrastructure Services at TCS. Prior to joining TCS, he was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin for 15 years. At UT Austin, he was the founder of the Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory and the co-founder of the laboratory for Advanced Systems Research.