RAJEEV RONANKI is an executive and technologist in the healthcare space. Senior vice president and chief digital officer at Anthem—an innovation leader dedicated to improving health and probably best known for its affiliated health plans—Ronanki is transforming Anthem into an “AI-first” digital company that can better serve its forty million members. Prior to joining Anthem, Rajeev was a partner at Deloitte Consulting, where he led various technology innovation initiatives related to healthcare.Ronanki holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Osmania University in India and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous whitepapers and news articles on exponential technology in an effort to evangelize disruptive technologies. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Kelly, and puppy, Rigley.

Rajeev Ronanki has always been interested in technology. As a child in India, he was fascinated by the futuristic technology in science fiction. But now that modern technology has delivered affordable cell phones that are indistinguishable if not superior to the once-futuristic handheld communicators featured in Star Trek, as well as other technological marvels, far-fetched technology no longer seems quite so speculative or out of reach. The march of innovative technology has been accelerating for decades. Exponential technologies are now transforming science fiction into science fact.Innovative enterprises, and not just tech companies, are developing and deploying tomorrow’s innovations today. Nowhere is this needed more than in the healthcare industry, where forward-thinking digital-first companies can use AI, blockchain, big data processing, and other exponential technologies to solve the problems of today as well as those of tomorrow.

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