ChandraKumar R Pillai

ChandraKumar R Pillai is an enterprise architect working with the European Commission as an external consultant to DG TAXUD, and was an independent reviewer during the formation of the EU AI Act. He holds a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA, with executive education from MIT Sloan, and brings over two decades across banking, telecommunications and public-sector IT, including roles at ACI Worldwide, Tata Consultancy Services and IBM.

He works on the gap between AI as a branding exercise and AI as something a large institution actually integrates: what regulation means once it reaches an architecture diagram, how sector-specific rules land differently in healthcare or financial services, and where governance either enables adoption or quietly blocks it. Based in Brussels, he writes a widely read daily commentary on AI policy and adoption, and volunteers with Women in Digital on bias and representation in AI systems.

His perspective is especially relevant for audiences interested in the EU AI Act, AI governance in practice, and enterprise architecture inside regulated organisations.