Ashish is an AI/ML leader, a well-known speaker, and an astute technologist with over 20 years of experience in the field. He has a Bachelor's in technology from IIT BHU, and an MBA in marketing from Kellogg School of Management. He is currently the Director of Recommendations at Twitch where he works on building scalable recommendation systems across a variety of product surfaces, connecting content to people. He has worked on recommendation systems at multiple organizations, most notably Twitter where he led Trends and Events recommendations and at Capital One where he worked on B2B and B2C products. Ashish was also a co-founder of GALE Partners, a full-service digital agency in Toronto, and spent over 9 years at SapientNitro, a leading digital agency.