Anil speaks at B-schools and is available for guest sessions, industry interactions and workshops. Sessions can connect course concepts with practical trade-offs in media, data and technology.
FOR LEADERSHIP & INDUSTRY AUDIENCES
Make the conversation useful.
Keynotes, panels and executive learning sessions built around the audience’s decisions, experience and current challenges.
PRACTITIONER EXPERIENCE / ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
24+ years in the industry. 10+ years engaging with management education.
Anil’s experience spans digital media, programmatic advertising, data strategy, AI, privacy, measurement and commerce media, across India and international markets.
Selected academic engagements
Guest and visiting-faculty sessions and speaking engagements have included IIM Bangalore Executive Programmes, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI New Delhi and SIMC.
Programmes can be shaped for MBA and PGDM students, executive-education cohorts, faculty development and corporate leadership teams.
FOR ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
Industry practice belongs in the programme, not only the guest slot.
Anil is open to Professor of Practice, adjunct and visiting-faculty conversations alongside guest lectures and executive education. The shape of the role depends on your institution’s requirements, teaching objectives and the contribution you want from industry.
Anil speaking about the decisions connecting modern advertising, media, data, technology and measurement. A short stage excerpt and photographs offer a closer look at his presentation style.
ANIL PANDIT / THINK PLATFORMS ’26
23 seconds from the stage. The clip shows Anil presenting work from his previous role at Publicis Media. Playback begins only when you press play.
EARLIER GOOGLE SPEAKING SESSION
Explaining the SCOPE model: bringing a wider view of media and technology into a practical planning discussion.
IN THE CLASSROOM
Connecting industry practice with the questions students ask.
IN DISCUSSION
Bringing a practitioner’s perspective to the conversation.
SIGNATURE SESSIONS & LEARNING THEMES
AI & the future of advertising
What AI changes across planning, creative, media and measurement—and where automation is being mistaken for transformation.
Agentic advertising
How agents could change planning, buying, optimisation and evaluation, and what marketers still need to govern.
Programmatic advertising, unpacked
Auctions, DSPs, supply paths, data and incentives: how media buying works behind the dashboard.
AdTech & MarTech for future CMOs
Understanding the technology landscape to ask better commercial, data and governance questions.
Data, identity & privacy
First-party data, consent, identity, clean rooms and the practical trade-offs behind personalisation.
Retail & commerce media
Why retailers are becoming media owners and how commerce data changes targeting and measurement.
Measurement, attribution & attention
Moving from platform-reported metrics to incrementality, attention and evidence of business outcomes.
AEO, GEO & AI-mediated discovery
How AI answers, comparisons and recommendations change brand discovery, content and authority.
Building AI & data capabilities
What to build, buy or partner for; assessing readiness and turning experiments into useful capabilities.
What marketing textbooks don’t tell you
A candid discussion of platform economics, incentives, organisational silos and the operational realities behind marketing decisions.
A format that fits your audience.
Guest lecture + discussion
A focused introduction to a topic, followed by questions and a discussion of its implications.
Applied workshop
A practical exercise or framework that helps participants work through a real marketing decision.
Keynote or panel
A perspective on industry change for conferences, student forums and leadership events.
Additional formats include masterclasses, half- and full-day workshops, executive education, faculty development, visiting or adjunct teaching, Professor of Practice conversations (subject to institutional requirements), curriculum advisory, student mentoring and capstone evaluation.
Academic engagements are available now, in India and internationally, in person or virtually. Topic, duration, travel and fees are agreed around your programme.
Case-led. Decision-oriented. Discussion-driven.
Sessions bring industry situations into the room, give participants frameworks for deciding what to question and measure, and make space for debate and practical examples.
EXPLORE THE THINKING FIRST
A perspective your audience can engage with.
Read Anil’s articles and original frameworks to find a starting point for your programme.
Include your institution or organisation, audience and approximate group size, topic, preferred dates, duration, and whether the session is online or in person. For in-person sessions, include the city.
An invitation starts a conversation; availability and scope are confirmed separately.