Sangeet Paul Choudary

Sangeet Paul Choudary

• One of the top 10 management ideas globally for the year 2016-17
• Bestselling author lauded by the Harvard Business Review
• Appointed to World Economics Global Future Council on Platforms and Systems
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the INSEAD Business School and co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy at the MIT Media Lab

Known as an expert on platform economics and network effects, Sangeet Paul Choudary is a business scholar, entrepreneur, advisor, and author. In this regard, his work on platform economics was selected as one of Harvard Business Review’s top 10 management ideas three times.

The author of several books covering his field of expertise, his book Platform Revolution was ranked an international best-seller and a must-read by Forbes in 2016.

Due to his contributions towards the field of platform economics, Sangeet Paul Choudary was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. This was pre-empted by his appointment to the World Economic Global Future Council on Platforms and Systems in 2016.

Other awards and accolades include his being ranked one of the top 50 business thinkers of Indian origin by Thinkers50 in 2015 which was followed by his ranking among the top 30 management thinkers globally the next year. Sangeet Paul Choudary was also named one of those selected as having the top 10 management ideas by Harvard Business Review in 2017. This was followed, in 2019 and 2020 respectively, as selected as putting forth one of the top 10 publications on business model innovation ever published and as one of the top ten strategy publications ever published.

Sangeet Paul Choudary is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the INSEAD Business School and co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy at the MIT Media Lab. Furthermore, he is a research fellow at the New York-based think tank Global Enterprise.

Sangeet Paul Choudary – Speaker

His career as a conference speaker has seen Sangeet Paul Choudary address high-level delegations at various UN bodies and leading industry summits across the globe. Besides frequently speaking at the World Economic Forum he also frequently addresses board meetings of various Fortune 500 companies.

He currently resides in Singapore and presents in English.

Speaker Topics

• The Platform Revolution: Based on the international best-selling book Platform Revolution and his top 10 ranked HBR article, Sangeet Paul Choudary explains a shift from linear business pipelines to one of networked platforms. His talk touches on the openness of platforms and their decisions concerning governance, both launching and monetisation strategies, and those factors leading to a competitive advantage.
• Platform Disruption: How Platforms Transform Industry Structures: This talk looks at industry transformation to platform models. Aspects such as disruption and factors leading to the rise of platform-based models in various sectors are covered. It also looks at structural inefficiencies across sectors allowing for the creation of alternative business models.
• Winners & Losers in the Platform Economy: In this talk, Sangeet Paul Choudary looks at how companies can incorporate a platform economy. It touches on those aspects of a business that need transformation to become platforms as well as those which should take part in other platforms.
• China: The Next Platform Leader: China is a country that has rapidly emerged as an innovator when it comes to the platform economy. This talk looks at successful strategies incorporated and the market and regulatory aspects that helped various of their platforms meet success while comparing to platforms in Western countries.
• Winner takes all: Understanding the global dominance of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google: Built off Sangeet’s work advising antitrust investigations, this keynote explores the growing antitrust concerns around the GAFA platforms and lays out ways in which such platforms may be regulated. For evidence, the keynote’s content draws inspiration from earlier non-digital platforms including Visa and WinTel as well as regulatory work in the EU on the GAFA platforms.
• Ecosystem Economics: The new rules of collaboration, coordination, and competition in a connected world: Often requested by our healthcare and heavy industry clients, this keynote focuses specifically on the partnership and control choices involved in building B2B platform ecosystems. Unlike consumer platforms, B2B platforms involve careful considerations around openness and partner management. The keynote also focuses on standards as a specific coordination mechanism in B2B ecosystems, and contrasts emerging ecosystem management strategies with traditional B2B franchising models.
• Platforms for social good: A topic often requested by think-tanks and social foundations, this keynote builds off Sangeet’s work in the social impact sector and lays out a framework for creating platforms for social impact. It identifies design choices that make today’s commercial platforms self-serving, at the cost of social good. The keynote highlights the central role played by data in measuring impact and mobilizing an ecosystem of stakeholders to invest further towards it.