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Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of Artificial Intelligence at the Mahindra Group. A double IIT alumnus with a PhD in AI from IIT Madras, he built mAIna.ai, an enterprise conversational-AI platform credited with ₹120+ crore in attributed business impact. He has won awards from ET Edge, UBS Forums and Analytics India Magazine and speaks on enterprise AI.
Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of Artificial Intelligence (GenAI Solutions) at the Mahindra Group, where he sets group-wide AI strategy, governance and responsible-AI frameworks across eight group businesses. He is a double IIT alumnus (IIT Madras PhD, IIT Patna M.Tech) with thirteen years in AI. He built mAIna.ai, an enterprise conversational-AI platform that has handled 1,000,000+ customer calls and is credited with ₹120+ crore in attributed revenue. At IndiGo he co-founded the airline's AI lab (Lab37) and led 6Eskai, a GPT-4 airline chatbot. He has spoken at the Microsoft AI Tour and ET Edge AI Summit and has six first-author papers in IEEE, Elsevier and CVF venues.
Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of Artificial Intelligence (GenAI Solutions) at the Mahindra Group, a $29 billion conglomerate founded in 1945. He reports to the CEO of Mahindra's AI Division and runs the group-wide generative-AI strategy across eight group businesses, with responsible-AI governance and risk frameworks aligned to ISO 42001, ISO 27001, DPDPA and SOC 2. The remit is enterprise-wide, equivalent to a Chief AI Officer mandate. He is a double IIT alumnus (a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from IIT Madras and an M.Tech from IIT Patna) with thirteen years in AI: seven in research and six leading enterprise AI in industry.
At Mahindra, he built mAIna.ai, an enterprise conversational-AI platform across voice, chat, WhatsApp and web. It has handled 1,000,000+ customer calls and is credited with ₹120+ crore in attributed revenue. As Principal Data Scientist (Associate Director) at IndiGo, he co-founded the airline's AI Centre of Excellence, Lab37, and led 6Eskai, a GPT-4 airline chatbot. Earlier roles were at Cloud4C / 8bit.ai, G42 & Bayanat (UAE) and Amazon, alongside research at IIT Madras and IIT Patna.
Recognition includes Power List 2026: India's Top IT Leaders and The AI Sovereigns (CXO Lanes); four awards at the ET Edge AI Awards & Summit 2026 (AI Visionary of the Year, GenAI Innovation Leader of the Year, AI Research & Innovation Leader of the Year, AI for Revenue Growth Leader of the Year); GenAI Leader of the Year (UBS Forums); AI Innovator of the Year and AI Power Player (ET Edge 2025); 40 Under 40 Data Scientist (Analytics India Magazine); and Top 1% Leader in AI & Digital Transformation (Flexi Round Tables). CTO of the Year at the Minsky Awards for Excellence in AI 2026 (Analytics India Magazine) was conferred on 8 October 2026. He has spoken at the Microsoft AI Tour (Singapore), ET Edge AI Summit and Databricks Data & AI World Tour, and is a first-author researcher with peer-reviewed publications in IEEE, Elsevier (CVIU) and IEEE/CVF (WACV).
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- Role: Head of AI (GenAI Solutions), Mahindra Group, since April 2025. Sets group-wide AI strategy & governance across eight group businesses; reports to the CEO of Mahindra's AI Division.
- mAIna.ai: enterprise conversational-AI platform. 1,000,000+ customer calls handled; 50,000+ dormant leads re-engaged; 1,700+ XUV 7XO enquiries within six weeks of launch; ₹120+ crore in attributed business impact.
- 6Eskai (IndiGo): GPT-4 airline chatbot; live-agent dependency cut from about 14% to 2%. Co-founded IndiGo's AI lab, Lab37.
- Education: PhD in AI, IIT Madras · M.Tech, IIT Patna · double IIT alumnus.
- Research: 6 first-author peer-reviewed papers (IEEE, Elsevier CVIU, IEEE/CVF WACV, ACL SemEval).
- Experience: Mahindra Group · Cloud4C / 8bit.ai · IndiGo · Cynax Labs · G42 & Bayanat (UAE) · Amazon.
- Speaking: BE in SABAH 2027 (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia; panelist, 28–29 Jan 2027), Microsoft AI Tour (Singapore), ET Edge AI Summit, Databricks Data & AI World Tour, Gen & Agentic AI Conclave, Cypher 2026 closed-door roundtable (Bengaluru), ET CIO AI Vision Conclave, IIM Udaipur.
Speaking topics
- Enterprise AI strategy & governance for the boardroom
- Agentic AI in the enterprise: from pilot to production
- Building conversational & voice AI with measurable ROI
- From research to revenue: lessons from mAIna.ai and 6Eskai
- Responsible AI, risk, and the future of work
Selected recognition & features
- CTO of the Year, Minsky Awards for Excellence in AI 2026: Analytics India Magazine, Cypher 2026 (conferred 8 Oct 2026)
- Power List 2026, India's Top IT Leaders: CXO Lanes (Jul 2026)
- Quarterly Excellence Award: Mahindra AI (Jul 2026)
- Quarterly Excellence Award: Mahindra Group (Feb 2026)
- AI Visionary of the Year, Enterprise Leadership: ET Edge AI Awards & Summit 2026 (Jun 2026)
- GenAI Innovation Leader of the Year: ET Edge AI Awards & Summit 2026 (Jun 2026)
- AI Research & Innovation Leader of the Year: ET Edge AI Awards & Summit 2026 (Jun 2026)
- AI for Revenue Growth Leader of the Year: ET Edge AI Awards & Summit 2026 (Jun 2026)
- The AI Sovereigns: CXO Lanes (Apr 2026)
- Top 1% Leader, AI & Digital Transformation: Flexi Round Tables (2026)
- GenAI Leader of the Year: UBS Forums (2025)
- AI Innovator of the Year & AI Power Player: ET Edge (2025)
- 40 Under 40 Data Scientist: Analytics India Magazine / MLDS (2025)
- Microsoft AI Frontier Pinnacle: nominated & participated (Redmond, 2025)
- Featured in Satya Nadella's coffee-table book (2024 & 2025)
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