Developer Products – Region lead for the Intel® Software tools for South East Asia. With
her team, the group has the charter to drive deep software optimization on all Intel®
architectures with the software development tools. Akanksha’s charter is to grow stronger
and more skillful practice in the software developer community on IA. Akanksha has built
many developer and data scientist related programs like code modernization workshops,
software developer conferences, HPCDEVCONs and since the past 15 years has managed to
drive the message of parallel programming to over 100,000 developers. With her efforts to
grow the ecosystem, her team also works on building solution servicing by training and
incentivizing the channel, SI and ISV community to spread the tools offering and
optimization drive across all developer/ customer pockets of the region. She has been
driving focused strategies to help build HPC, IOT and now AI knowhow on Intel across the
region. Prior to her career at Intel, Akanksha was market evangelist for Microsoft.