I am the founder and CEO of a leading IT consulting company that has been providing innovative and customized solutions to clients since 2000. I have extensive experience and expertise in Microsoft products and technologies such as SharePoint, Exchange, Data systems, AI and others domains. I work as a technology advisor and mentor for many organizations, helping them take their digital transformation journey ahead.

I have been recognized as the Microsoft Regional Director for North India since 2001 for my outstanding contributions to the Microsoft community. You can read more about this title at https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/rd/.

I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and insights with others. I am always eager to learn new skills and explore new challenges in the IT industry. In addition to my IT consulting and community activities, I am also a prolific and sought-after speaker in various technology seminars and events across the country/region. I have delivered engaging and informative presentations on topics such as Microsoft Azure, Power BI, AI, IoT, and more at large industry conferences as well as private events of many management & technical institutes and organizations. I also offer trainings, both online and on-site, for users and tech teams who want to learn and master the latest technologies and best practices in the IT field.

Director and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Dev Information Technology Ltd (DEV IT) and leading the company’s Technology and Innovation ecosystem. I am responsible for managing DEV IT’s innovation portfolio and creating new growth drivers for the company. In addition to planning and executing DEV IT’s technology roadmap and strategy, I also am fanatic about driving innovation through Research & Development activities in DEVLabs (internal R&D division). I also provide technical direction across the company in areas of managed services, architecture designs, software technology, and cybersecurity supporting project development and business growth. Along with this, I also lead the Information Technology function at DEV IT, including its infrastructure, systems, processes, and security.

Prior to joining DEV IT, I was the Founder Director of Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd., a company, specializing in delivering solutions and services in Infrastructure Management Services. Post the merger in 2010, Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd., is now a subsidiary of DEV IT.

When I am not wearing my CTO hat, you can find me speaking at public events and forums, writing and publishing articles or blogging. When the boredom strikes I'm out doing road trips and photographing Wildlife.

Vivek Kejriwal is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of OneWay Cab, a one-way inter-city taxi service. He is responsible for enunciating the overall vision for the company and propagates new service definitions. Vivek handles market analysis and charts out the market expansion plans for OneWay Cab, managing operations, finance and supply chain with deft hands.

A technology graduate from Fergusson College, Pune and MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines and Vivek has over eight years of experience in handling the nuances of information technology and management.

As a techno-sales professional, Vivek looked after relationship management for global customers in large companies like HCL where he handled a $10 million portfolio. At heart however, he nurtured the dream of becoming an entrepreneur and this motivated him to return to India in 2013, leaving behind a cushy, well-paying job at USA. The same year he successfully launched Baroda Cabs Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara's first radio taxi cab service.

As Vivek navigated through the transportation industry, what continued to irk him was the unfair manner in which commuters were forced to cough up a return fare for an untraveled return journey. He convinced himself to be the change he wanted to see and in January 2015, OneWay.Cab kick-started operations. It charges only one-way of travel and considers return fare, not fair.

A Bachelors degree in Life Sciences & Post graduation in Journalism from Bombay University, Wilma Rodrigues spent many years as a journalist in Mumbai with Times of India and Business World Magazine. She set up Saahas in 2001 which evolved to Saahas Waste Management Pvt. Ltd. She has 13 years of deep experience in the waste sector and has pioneered the concept of a zero waste campus which is now disrupting the concept of centralised waste systemsA key member of the Solid Waste Management Round Table, she was awarded best Social Entrepreneur by the Namma Bengaluru Foundation.

My passion is to build complex applications with simple design. I strive to improve myself, my code and my knowledge of the tech industry on a daily basis, and I long for projects that have never been done before.

I am currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Haptik. Haptik is one of the world's largest chatbot platforms, building applications for consumers, publishers, and enterprises. The company has been at the forefront of the paradigm shift from apps to bots, having worked across various chatbot use cases such as commerce, customer service, utility and lead generation. Haptik's partners and clients in India include Coca-Cola, HDFC Life, Samsung, Sharekhan, Edelweiss Tokio, Goibibo, Amazon Pay among others.

In April 2016, Times Internet led a Series B round of investment in Haptik, making it one of the most well funded independent chatbot companies in the world.

With over a decade of experience, I excel in team leadership, business development, operations, and strategy planning. My expertise lies in launching businesses from inception to expansion across multiple cities nationwide. I've forged strategic partnerships with major retailers, driving ancillary service growth. Recently, I've spearheaded B2B and B2C initiatives, focusing on sales, operations, and disruptive market strategies. My approach involves meticulous project analysis, strategic planning, and resourceful execution for successful outcomes. Ready for new challenges and opportunities, I thrive in dynamic environments, delivering impactful results with precision and innovation

I am the Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice-Chairman of Fractal, a global leader in AI and analytics solutions for Fortune 500® companies. For over 20 years, I have been passionate about powering better decisions with data and AI at Fortune 500® sized organizations and building a culture of excellence, learning, and trust at Fractal.

I also lead the Fractal group of companies, which includes Fractal.ai, our core business of AI and analytics services, and Fractal Alpha, a group of companies that we have incubated, acquired or invested in, such as Qure.ai, Eugenie.ai, FinalMile, Crux Intelligence, Neal Analytics, Theremin.ai and Asper.ai.

Additionally, I serve as an Independent Director at Metro Brands, BARC India & NIIT Ltd., and as a Non-Executive Chairman at ideaForge, leveraging my expertise and network to support the growth and innovation of these organizations.

I am also a founder & trustee of Plaksha University.

I have served as a Executive Council member of NASSCOM for the last five years.

I’m from ‘Rayachoti’, a small town in Andhra Pradesh, India.

I’ve done my Bachelors and Master’s from IIT Bombay in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Computer Aided Manufacturing(CAM). My thesis was on “Using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in turbine engine failure prediction" where I was evaluating multiple activation functions.

In College – I was a published author of two books (Is she the one? & ‘The ark and the aroma of the peril’) in my first two years, received a runner up award for my research project from ISHRAE and worked EdTech startup, Spaneda.com.

All of this changed, once I started my master’s thesis in 2012/13. The sheer complexity and inefficiency of STEM research made me realize the knowledge explosion problem. Tools we used were very basic and didn’t guarantee the distillation required to find the right information and invest years of research.

I started InvenZone.com along with Deekshith in an apartment outside IIT Bombay. The idea was to create a platform for researchers and build a STEM research assistant. We raised our first round in 2013 to hire a research team. Our initial approach was to train RNNs on research papers corpus on web and use that as the background for our assistant, do intelligent search and lot more. While we launched our first alpha in 2014/15, we realized the search was enormously better as compared to Google scholar but the answers from the assistant were not human enough and memory management was an issue.

Nipun is a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he leads the BCGX India practice and advises clients on strategy, digital, and innovation. He has over 17 years of consulting experience across India, South East Asia, and Europe, working with financial institutions, insurers, healthcare cos., auto cos. and telcos. He is also a recipient of the Economic Times 40 under 40 award, which recognizes India's top young leaders.

Nipun is passionate about using digital and data to create step change in business trajectories through digital business builds, disruptive customer journeys, hyper personalization, smart operations, and scaling up digital acquisitions. He is driven by the mission of helping his clients achieve sustainable growth and competitive advantage in the digital era.

Govind has 20+ years of experience in leading large scale digital transformation engagements across the TMT and FS industry sectors. The transformation engagements largely focused on enhancing customer experience and driving operational efficiency across business processes. He has worked extensively with global Deloitte clients in the US, UK, Japan, Singapore, UAE and India.

Govind is a functional consultant having a deep understanding of technology enablers, with expertise in enterprise architecture, process design, leading global teams on digital transformation engagements, planning and executing large scale multi year programs. Govind has extensively managed System Integrators like Cognizant, TechM, TCS, Wipro and others to deliver business outcomes.

Technology professional with experience in advising organisations on risks aspects while enabling business through technology components, including the security aspects. Varied experience in providing services to large oranisations across different sectors - banking & finance, technology, telecom, manufacturing & retail, life-sciences with specialized experience in the Telecom & Media.
With transformations around, technology capability enriched to digital enablers - IOT, RPA, Analytics, Digital Identity etc. Supporting organisations on Digital - business and emerging risk aspects (data protection, resilience, privacy).

Specialties: Telecom technologies, Digital Risk, Crisis Management, Business Resilience, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity,

I am a Design Thinker by Profession, Digital by Blood, but above all, an Entrepreneur by Passion.
My core strength lies in transforming businesses and getting them ready for this digital era, by leveraging new-age tech.

My 3 half-decade avatars have been about building Scalable Consumer Internet Products, Innovation & Change Management, & Creating Differentiated Monetization Business Models.
i) my 2 times Canny Co-founder avatar enables him to decode the end game clearly and with know-how, to break it into piecemeal achievable targets.
ii) my Digital Desi (‘native’ with a glocal context) avatar empowers him to think from a creative disruption lens and craft experiences that are compelling, persuasive, and meaningful.
iii) my recent Brave Big 4 Consulting spell points to the valor in transformation battles across industries, helping brands create high-impact products, services, systems, and spaces – that people love.

Partner with Deloitte Digital driving large scale digital transformation initiatives and programs for clients.

- Digital transformation specialist.
- Works with CxOs to ideate and conceptualize digital initiatives, new business models & value chains.
- Blueprints technology architecture stitching next-gen tools and platforms.
- Experienced in delivering complex, cross-platform, multi-geo technology initiatives.
- Leads Low-Code/No-Code CoE for Deloitte India.
- Part of Deloitte AP Consulting Strategy Office.

Prior to this, as CTO and Global Head of Innovation for Insights & Data, lead IP/Product #890byCapgemini and #IDEAbyCapgemini one of its kind products in #AIML in the industry.

An Techno-Biz Leader with 28+yrs experience leading multinational organizations (13yrs MICROSOFT, JIO, NICE & VFS Global) in Digital Transformation, Product Engineering, Large-Scale Development, Big Data Analytics, AI, IoT, HR Analytics, Blockchain, Chatbots, Advertising, FinTech, MarTech, Social, Media, Cloud, SaaS, Mobility, Product Quality, setting up & managing Large GIC in India and leading business globally & delivering innovative results.

As the Chief Digital Officer at Essar, I formulate and drive the digital transformation strategy for Essar Capital and its portfolio companies, introducing technology innovations and delivering digital solutions. I also foster a culture of embracing digital technologies across the organization to achieve business objectives.

With over 30 years of IT experience in various domains and countries, I have led several large-scale and complex projects, such as a merger and integration, an e-commerce P&L setup, and a major divestiture, leveraging my expertise in IT solutions, process improvement, CRM, and decision technology. I have also demonstrated the ability to innovate across domains by bringing in best practices and new ideas from one industry to another. I am passionate about transforming business digitally and enabling growth, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Professor Sadagopan is currently the Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore (a PhD granting University). IIIT's represent a set of new generation universities started in India in late 90's with special focus on IT; IIIT-Bangalore is one of the first such Institutes; as the first Director of IIIT-Bangalore he is involved in the visioning, planning and executing the growth of this Institute that is counted as one of the premier Institutes in India.

He obtained his MS & PhD Degree from Purdue University, USA in 1979 and BE (Hon) Degree from Madras University, India in 1973. He had taught at IIT Kanpur (1979 to 95) and IIM Bangalore (1995-99).

His research interests include OR, Multi-criteria optimization, Simulation and Enterprise computing.

An acclaimed author, thought leader and SME in all things about data and Analytics, IoT, AI and Automation space. Over 25 years of expertise in the data and analytics area at the convergence of digital and physical.

At PayPal since 2009, before that with a startup Spark Capital from 2005-2009, and at American Express from 2003-2005. Had a almost year stint at TTK Prestige Group from 1995 - 1996.

My academic focus has been both on Statistics (UG to PhD) and Computer Science. Proud Loyola, Bowling Green, and Wharton Alumni.

Senior AI executive, evangelist with more than 25years of experience around establishing AI platforms both on sell-side and buy-side of business across multiple geographies. Functional expertise in business development, strategy, product management and proficient in executing projects within large and complex organizations. Building capability and leading offering creation through innovation (>5 patents). Proven track record of driving growth and profitability leveraging strong leadership and influence skills.

Scribble Data focuses on Pension Risk Transfer and Asset Management segments of Insurance vertical in our products and workflows. Scribble's Hasper engine enables customers to build ML and LLM/GenAI data products quickly and with high degree of confidence. Our approach is opinionated, grounded, and reflects what we have learnt over the past few years about what creates value for organizations. Both Scribble and its customers are global. If you are a happening company or a talented individual, talk to us!

I am an academic turned entrepreneur working at the intersection of ML, data and systems. I enjoy solving messy real-world problems that require learning by doing, strong technical understanding, and analytical thinking.

Business leader with more than 21 years of diverse learning across industrial, consumer durable, telecom, automotive, analytics & IT hardware. A keen planner with demonstrated success in Revenue Growth, Channel Sales & Distribution, Sales Operations, Digital Transformation, Business Analytics, Trade Marketing, Business Development & Go to Market Strategy.

Expertise : Nurturing & Building High Performance Teams, CXO Level Stakeholder Management, Executive Storytelling, Sales Operations, Business Consulting & Analytics, Revenue Growth, P&L Management, GTM Strategy, Digital Transformation Initiatives, Channel Sales and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

Bhaskar is a seasoned digital transformation professional, recognized as a thought leader and influencer in different industry forums. He is driving digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients across industry verticals, leveraging the combined power of AI and Cloud. Through his career, Bhaskar has led several large-scale transformation programs, incubating new capability areas (industrial IoT work for Automotive, Utilities, Manufacturing, etc.), starting new industry practices and new geography development. He has helped stabalize operations, and diversify the skill-mix and industry coverage, at newly acquired near-shore center in eastern Europe.

Bhaskar holds patents in the areas of predictive analytics and optimization. He mentors early stage start-ups through engagements with various IITs, Incubation Centers, and different Angel Networks. He is passionate about driving an impact for society at large, with specific interest in driving efforts related to Healthcare and Sustainability, leveraging data as a core asset.

I have enjoyed a interesting career so far with two fantastic companies, i-flex and ThoughtWorks.

I started my career in i-flex solutions, one of India's most successful product companies. I was part of the early teams at i-flex which built it's flagship banking product Flexcube . I played key roles in the conceptualization / development of multiple products and managing the development and implementations of the same. I had an opportunity to work with clients in South East Asia , Middle East , Africa and Europe.

Prior to my current role, I was the VP of Global Operations at TW Studios and one of it's founding members. Our team helped take the company from 0 products and 0 customers to 3 products and 400+ customers in 30 countries

Shalini is the Office Managing Partner, responsible for the Bangalore market for the Firm, representing KPMG in the Market, overseeing key Client Accounts and working with the wider ecosystem.
She is part of the India Leadership team and a member of Board for a few KPMG entities.

Shalini also leads the Global Capability Centers (GCC) market for KPMG in India, working with global organisations and their GCC's as they evolve and optimise the global service delivery model. This entails working across aspects ranging from the strategy and operating model, to enabling the transformation and optimisation in the context of evolving market forces.

23 years including 15 years of Sr management role in Technology and operations leadership roles

Recipient of CIO100, World CIO , Innovative CIO , Dataquest Digital leadership, and many other CIO leadership award

Have played various key roles in Sr leadership, technology innovations, operational excellence, business strategy, business development & strategic partnerships, large scale transformation and business outcome initiatives .Recognized for leadership , people skills, analytical and strategic thinking.

With two decades of multi-national experiences spanning a broad variety of business functions and industry verticals in both the public and private sectors. I have a recognized track record of tackling diverse organizational challenges, while creating untapped commercial development strategies. Passionate to apply technology and talent solutions to turnaround organizations. I have built high performance teams, while keeping a sharp focus on strategy, innovation, and equity.

Senior Technology Leader backed by 20+ yrs of rich leadership experience across Cloud IT Infrastructure, Automation, Cloud Operations & Security, Modernization, Blockchain & IOT integration.

Senior Banking Technology Leader with 23+ years experience. Managed large-scale global technology implementations & transformation initiatives across Institutional & Consumer Banking, Capital Markets, Private Bank, Content Management, Business Intelligence, Credit Risk & Financial Services.

Founder & Managing Partner, StartupXseed Ventures LLP | Founder & Managing Director, The GAIN | Chairman, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission.

With 30 years in experience in entrepreneurship and mentoring, Naidu has been playing pivotal in India's IT sector growth for decades. As STPI Director, he boosted software exports from $8 million to $12 billion, involving over 1800 companies. He co-founded StartupXseed, contributes to KITVEN Fund, and influences through leadership in IESA, Vision Group, and other key policy groups, driving industry growth across India.

Sreyssha has over 15+ years of experience in supporting senior leaders in technology, financial services, and growth tech industries. As a Strategic Consultant of Technology & Financial Services, she helps clients transform their businesses by strengthening their people, technology, and data capabilities, and by aligning their strategies with their ESG (environmental, social, and governance) ambitions. She also led the topic of Shared Services / Global Capability Centers for the region. I believe in creating sustainable value and impact for my clients and society.

Vaibhav has over 28+ years of experience, and has experience of identifying early Industry trends, building robust businesses ground-up and providing employment to 10K+ people so far. Actively involved in Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs and senior executives, also serve as a Board of Director, Adviser and Mentor for many fast growing companies. Have been a guest lecturer at many leading Institutions like IIMs, ISB, IMT etc.

As Senior Vice President at Mashreq Bank, Ganesan leads Technology Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), and the Technology Management Office. Boasting 18 years of expertise in IT GRC, Information Security, and Digital Forensics across sectors like Banking and Telecom, he manages IT control, risk, compliance, and vendor governance. Certified in CISSP, CISM, CDPSE, and ISO 27001:2013 LA, Ramani is a renowned educator and mentor in IT Governance and Cybersecurity, enhancing Mashreq Bank's IT GRC framework and supporting its digital transformation.

Manav is a distinguished leader in IT innovation and product strategy with over 23+ years of experience. Known for blending strategic vision with operational expertise, he excels in developing digital products that are at the cutting edge of market demands and technological advancements. His success stems from a deep understanding of user needs, market trends, and competitive dynamics, enabling him to drive products from conception to market leadership with precision and innovation. Ranendra's commitment to excellence has made him a pivotal figure in propelling ANZ's product offerings to new heights, solidifying his reputation as a visionary in the IT industry.