Lekshmy Sasidharan

Lekshmy Sasidharan is a Consulting Partner with the CTO Office of TCS’ Communications, Media and Information Services business group. With more than two decades of consulting experience in Business & IT Strategy, Lekshmy brings depth of experience driving consulting engagements and industry advisory in, Business-IT strategy, digital transformation, ecosystems strategy, and enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries.

In her current role of Consulting Partner for Media and Entertainment in the TCS CMI CTO team, Lekshmy’s major area of focus is at the intersection of Media and Entertainment and AI strategy & transformation. She drives strategy, thought leadership, and AI solutions conceptualization and POCs for media and entertainment customers of TCS, leading build of TCS’s AI offerings across the Media value chain leveraging NVIDIA, AWS and other AI partner technologies. She is also involved in curating a AI partner innovation ecosystem for the specific market needs of M&E customers in Sports, Media, Entertainment and Broadcasting.

Lekshmy has been part of the IBC Accelerator ‘Stamping Your Content (C2PA Content Provenance)’project in 2025, where TCS has played a key role as participant in building the C2PA toolset with leading Media champions and vendors. She was integral in driving the ongoing co-creation and collaboration between IBC Accelerator ‘A Generative AI Framework for Media’ project team, and the TCS team to build a Responsible AI Framework laying our considerations applicable in AI based scenarios in media & entertainment. Lekshmy is also a co-chair of TM Forum’s Digital Ecosystem Management collaboration project, driving thought leadership on Digital Ecosystem business models across Telcos and their multi-industry partners.