Minal Thakkar
Senior Experience Group Manager, Aeronautics Data and Analytics
Lockheed Martin
Minal Thakkar is the senior experience group manager at Lockheed Martin, leading the Aeronautics Data and Analytics group. Her team builds solutions for tools and technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and logical data warehouse.
Minal’s work experience includes leading teams through digital transformation in the manufacturing and transportation industries. Her emphasis is on delivering cutting-edge analytics and data tools to bring agility to business insights and decision making. Minal is a proponent of democratizing data and developing citizen data scientists. She holds a master’s degree in management information systems and has been in the information technology industry for more than 15 years.