His current areas of specialization include enterprise architecture, enterprise integration, service oriented architecture and business process management. He has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry in various capacities as a researcher, academic faculty member and industry consultant. Venky has designed and delivered professional courses for governments and industries in areas such as enterprise architecture, technical architecture, enterprise integration and business process management. Venky also worked as a faculty member at several universities in the UK and Singapore, where he was actively involved in teaching and research in the areas of intelligent systems and distributed systems. He has published over 50 papers in academic journals and conferences. [Editor]