Harsha Vardhan

VP Software Engineering, Optum Global Advantage

Harsha Vardhan is a Vice President Software Engineering, Optum Global Advantage. In his current role, he is responsible for product delivery for OptumHealth and Enterprise Clinical Technology. He is Agile evangelist, helped build product development organizations and successfully implemented scaled agile in distributed teams. Harsha has 22+ yrs. of IT experience in Application/Product development. In the past, he worked with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Ford Technologies with a diversified culture team in North America, Latin America, Ireland and The Philippines. He has been contributing to Agile and DevOps communities in India and speaking to conferences such as Agile NCR, Agile Network India, Agile Mumbai, Agile Gurugram, Lean Kanban India and various meetups.

Session Title

H2E - Hack to Embrace Innovation


Session Overview

Digital transformation and technology advancement are pivotal in solving business problems and managing change at a higher speed than ever. One of the paradigm shifts is to create value rather than creating assets. So , the next obvious question is how to measure value ? In this session, we will talk about value levers starting from differentiating customer Vs consumer to value realization. Will talk about how B2B and B2C are becoming commodity and H2H (human-to-human) touch is a way to enable experiences . Moreover, how to embrace Innovation to bring transformation change as software engineering culture.


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