Kiran Pakkir is a Senior Manager and Enterprise Architect at Altria Group, where he has led the company's technology transformation for over five years. He directed the migration of critical applications from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, and led the consolidation of Altria's data protection landscape into a single platform. Kiran also played a pivotal role in launching Altria's enterprise AI platform, making Altria one of the first in the industry to adopt enterprise AI at scale. He holds an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill and is certified as a Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.