Prashant Kelker

Partner, Americas Consulting, and Chief Strategy Officer

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  • AI at Scale
  • AI Strategy
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  • Sourcing

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Prashant Kelker is Chief Strategy Officer at ISG, where he also leads technology strategy and sourcing across the Americas and the German-speaking regions. He also plays a key role in shaping ISG’s own strategic blueprint and guiding its technology investments.

Prashant has led ISG’s consulting work for some of the world’s largest enterprises. He has designed program strategy and sourcing for the self-driving initiatives of two leading automotive firms, directed digital and IT strategy for many multibillion-dollar global portfolios, and structured AI strategies for major banks in the Americas.

Equally adept across the Americas and Europe, Prashant identifies common strategic threads while accounting for regional nuances, helping enterprises cut through hype on biz-tech adoption and embrace innovation with confidence.


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Prashant’s keynotes span the frontiers of enterprise change: from AI at scale, to technology-led industry transformation, to the new economics of buying technology services.

  1. AI Without Illusions: Scaling Intelligence Across the Enterprise
    AI at scale requires more than pilots and proofs of concept - it demands architectures, governance, and smart sourcing. This talk cuts through the hype, using real-world examples from banking, automotive, and consumer industries to show how enterprises are embedding AI into their core - and where others are failing.
  2. The Next Five Years of Buying Tech: From Services to Outcomes
    The old playbook of buying technology services is broken. Contracts, providers, and pricing are all shifting toward outcomes, not hours. With examples from large-scale cloud deals, AI-driven BPO, and digital infrastructure sourcing, this talk explores how enterprises are redefining value - and rewriting the rules of procurement.
  3. Industries Rewired: Technology as the New Value Chain
    Technology isn’t supporting industries anymore - it’s rewriting them. From autonomous driving in automotive, to digital sovereignty in banking, to platform-driven healthcare, this keynote shows how technology is becoming the new value chain itself - and what leaders must do to compete in transformed industries.
  4. The Enterprise Stack Reimagined: Competing in the Intelligence Economy
    The traditional enterprise stack is collapsing. In its place: a new architecture built on AI, data, and automation. Through examples from global manufacturers, financial services leaders, and tech-native firms, this keynote shows how winners are rebuilding their enterprise stack - and competing on intelligence, not infrastructure.

 

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About Prashant Kelker

Prashant Kelker is Partner, Americas Consulting, and Chief Strategy Officer. A globally recognized thought leader in AI and technology-led transformation, Prashant is shaping the firm’s strategic blueprint and bringing together all advisory capabilities to guide clients through the convergence of AI, digital technology and enterprise operating models.

He led the effort to make ISG the first sourcing advisory firm to establish a reference architecture for applied Generative AI with the 2023 ISG State of Applied Generative AI Market Report and played a key role in the development of our highly successful ISG NEXT operating model in 2020. Prashant joined ISG in 2012.

Before joining ISG, Prashant was a Technology Director at Accenture, where he won and established several new accounts and created digital offerings on mobility and predictive analytics. He earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and a BE in Electronics from Bangalore University in India.