Karthik
Iyer

Karthik Iyer is Group Vice President of Intelligent Merchandising at Albertsons, with 25+ years of experience driving global transformation across retail and banking. He leads enterprise pricing and promotion intelligence, bringing together model-ready data, Explainable AI, statistical machine learning, deep learning, and agentic AI into a unified decisioning system. His work focuses on orchestrating the full AI lifecycle-from data to prediction to reasoning to action-enabling real-time decisions at scale. Previously, he pioneered CNN-based digital onboarding at NAB, widely covered in Australian media. He is pursuing doctoral research in AI focused on world models, latent representation learning, and explainability using JEPA.