Animesh Kishore
Head, Centre of Excellence (CoE), Digital & Analytics
ITC Limited
Session at World AI Summit 2026
Animesh Kishore is a confirmed speaker at World AI Summit 2026, 14-15 October 2026, Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway, Bengaluru, India. Session title, time and hall will be published on this page once the agenda is final.
About Animesh Kishore
Animesh Kishore is Head of the Centre of Excellence for Digital and Analytics at ITC Limited, with the rank of Vice President, based in Bengaluru. Since December 2021 Kishore has led the data and analytics centre of excellence for ITC's FMCG businesses: setting the analytics roadmap, identifying use cases with value estimates, building the data lake, deploying machine-learning solutions in operating processes and measuring business impact.
Kishore has spent more than two decades at ITC, joining in 2000 as Assistant Sales Manager handling FMCG sales and distribution across several states. After a period as Regional Value Chain Manager at Gillette India (2005-2006), Kishore returned to ITC in Kolkata as Divisional Manager, Trade Marketing Information Systems (2006-2010) and then Trade Marketing Information Manager (2010-2021), responsible for channel development, sales technology, process digitisation and business intelligence. Kishore began as an engineer at Tata Motors in Jamshedpur.
Kishore holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA in Marketing and Operations from IIM Lucknow.
About ITC Limited
ITC Limited is one of India's largest private-sector companies, headquartered in Kolkata and founded in 1910, with businesses in FMCG, packaging, paperboards and specialty papers, agri-business and information technology. It reported gross revenue of Rs 73,465 crore and EBITDA of Rs 24,025 crore for the year ended 31 March 2025.