After a 20-year career at design software company Autodesk, Prakash “PK” Kota felt an urge for a career change, in part because he didn’t want to end his career having worked for only one employer.
Upon ending his time at Autodesk with a seven-year stint as chief information officer, Kota made the leap to human resources software company UKG, where he has held the same role since April 2025. He quickly consolidated software vendors, oversaw the launch of 387 internal AI applications from more than 1,400 employee-submitted ideas, and spearheaded the internal creation of more than 12,000 AI agents across Microsoft, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
