• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Shankar Krishnamurthy

S&P Global

Global Head of EssentialTECH & Innovation

Shankar heads the EssentialTech & Innovation team at S&P Global and is responsible for establishing the vision, strategy and impact measures for the company's technology capability development and enable innovation at scale. Shankar and his team identify emerging technologies that are critical to S&P's Future of work and incubate technologies by providing platforms for experimentation and innovation. In addition to this, Shankar also works closely with the Chief AI Officer for the company to help integrate AI into our technology & data fabric that delivers Essential Intelligence & insights to the customers. Shankar is the Executive Sponsor for the Digital Technology track at the S&P Global Research Council and helps create & publish cross-divisional research on the impact of Digital Technology on the economy, enterprise and the individual. 

Shankar has 15+ years driving Digital Transformation across the financial services industry, including Cloud transformation, Data Engineering and AI. As a part of the S&P Global Research Council, Shankar has co-authored articles that were published in the company's flagship Look Forward Journal. He has deep interest in understanding the impact of digital technologies, especially AI, on one of the key imperatives of the future - Energy Transition and Sustainability. 

Sessions With Shankar Krishnamurthy

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 10:00 pm

    The New Role of Digital Technology in Reducing Emissions
    Policy & Regulatory

    For many years, digital transformation has been identified as a cornerstone to the solution for enabling operational efficiencies in oil & gas and across all energy assets, which in turn help lower carbon intensity. Now, emissions management programs require that a variety of low-carbon technologies are part of energy operations, including electrification, monitoring systems, CCS, use of renewables, etc. What are the most effective ways to harness digital solutions in this new era? How are companies prioritizing their efforts to steer their digital programs toward achieving their emissions reduction goals? Which new digital and AI technologies offer most potential impact?