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Janaki Kumar

VP and Head of Design and Co-Innovation Center, SAP Labs
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Janaki Kumar is the VP and Head of Design and Co-Innovation Center in SAP Labs Palo Alto. She is passionate about delivering innovation by combining business and technology strategy with customer experience design. She is a thought leader in nurturing creative cultures in organizations, and design in the enterprise.

She is an empathetic leader committed to building, coaching and inspiring design teams. Under her leadership, the team has won multiple design awards including the Gold award for Best Enterprise Experience in 2014 and Red Dot award in 2015.

She is the co-author of the book, Gamification at Work – Designing Engaging Business Software. She was a speaker at a TEDx conference in 2014. She has authored 20 intellectual property patent applications of innovative user experiences. Janaki has a Masters in Information Systems from Boston University, and was in the Executive Leadership Program at Stanford University.