Pugal Janakiraman is the Industry Field CTO for Manufacturing at Snowflake, focused on driving the solution vision for manufacturing by mapping technology components from Snowflake ant the partner ecosystem to build higher order solutions within the manufacturing domain. For the last two decades, Pugal has worked with strategic CXOs at the world’s top automotive, trucking, heavy machinery, and aerospace OEMs, as well as healthcare and oil & natural gas companies, helping them transform traditional industrial processes with the latest technology. He is a sponsor for key digital transformation initiatives and an IEEE contributing member for Digital Twin Standards for manufacturing. Pugal received his education from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the University of Madras.