"Aamod has over 20 years of experience working in silicon valley with global giants like PayPal, Google and Meta (Facebook). Aamod’s area of interest is primarily in the technology space with specific applications of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Aamod is an expert in adtech, fintech and the emerging field of Metaverse and its various applications. Aamod loves to engage early stage startups to help with their product strategy, PMF and data fundamentals."

Addison leads ThinKuvate’s India operations and looks after the deal flow, investments, investor connects and portfolio management across South East Asia. Key sector focus includes HealthTech, FinTech, IoT, Cloud, AI-ML Start-Ups, Deep Tech, AR/VR and InfoTech; ; Led Pre-Series A Investments in (1) Rentickle; (2) LetsMD; (3) SignCatch; ; Has 14+yrs of experience related to Venture Capital, Private Equity Infusion & Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions within the Diversified Sectors. Previously involved in Investment Banking, including M&A, IPO, Private Equity Deals.; Key sectors covered included Automotive, Chemicals, Cement, Infrastructure (Ports, Toll Roads, & Airports), Transportation, Real Estate and Clean-tech (Solar); ; Worked on International Business Development, Structuring of Overseas Direct Investments along with Project & Corporate Finance activities

I am an entrepreneur at heart. ; Started 2 companies - Artflute.com & LetsVing. I was also an early employee at MindMaze. ; Have over 17 years of experience across Corporate Sales, GTM strategies, and building companies.

I have more than 22 years of experience in software industry, currently leading new age technology - cloud, AI CoE for Hughes Systique. I am responsible for designing new offering, get customer buy in for new PoVs and scale the product from PoC to real deployment. I have experience in starting organization from scratch and scale them.

"As the first employee in Milkbasket, I grew the company 4x in 3.5 months. Then as Head Alliances I built relationships with top FMCG companies like Amul, MotherDairy, Nestle, Danone, Reckitt, ITC, Procter & Gamble, HUL, Colgate, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, etc. within 8 months. At Masai as VP of Growth, within 3 months, I grew student acquisition by 10-25% across programs. Samsung Electronics, I was responsible for South East Asia. LG Electronics, accountability of localisation of Korean components. Videocon, I built three businesses: Flat Panel Displays (Plasma Display Panels) International Sourcing and Procurement, d2h vertical and mobile phones division within 5 years, as Executive Assistant to President Videocon. Vedanta, commercially headed the 1.2 Billion USD greenfield turnkey LCD Panel Manufacturing Project in India."

"- Over 20 years experience in executive roles in Engineering and Pre-sales
- Ex VP Global Solution Engineering TIBCO Software. Driving License revenue 100+ million annually. Expertise in Analytics, Integration, Workflows and Enterprise
- Startup experience as Cofounder at sapper.ai (exit via acquihire)
- Currently MD/VP at Productsup (60 mil series B received recently). Heading the India teams as well as global insights and digital shelf analytics"

Anant Sood has 20+ years of experience in Operations, Management consulting. He has worked in North America, India with short stints in M.E, Asia. He has gained startup experience since 2013. He is currently coFounder of worxogo, an Ai+neuroeconomics b2b startup. His role is in expanding worxogo's reach and building channel partnerships.

Ananth Lazarus is the Founder & President of Partner Plexus. His experiences span 30+ years and he has held several senior executive positions at Microsoft, IBM and Compaq among others. He is a technology executive with deep expertise in end-to-end management, P&L, sales and marketing, and has helped burgeoning tech companies break new ground in Asia Pacific and achieve scalable and sustainable growth.; With his rich experiences and learning’s he is now doubling down on helping technology companies land, launch and scale in APAC and worldwide to drive sustainable growth.

"Digital SaaS Platforms Growth Leader | Partner Ecosystem (GSI/BPO/Managed Services) | Global Markets | Startup-2-ScaleUp | Recognized Growth leader to drive new revenue incubation and scale for Digital Transformation leveraging NextGen SaaS Platforms with Top Tier GSI / BPO / Consulting Partners and G2K customers to deliver Enterprise Transformation across Americas, Europe and Asia | Strong business rolodex of established CEO/CXO industry relationships | Recipient of numerous performance excellence awards |"

Have 30 years experience in Media, FMCG and BFSI categories. In diverse roles across Marketing, Product, Analytics, Digital Transformation, IT. Experience in eRly stage business strategy specially to find product market fit and go to market strategies

"Anuj Gupta is a seasoned executive with 18+ yrs of experience in running end-to-end AI efforts at CXO level. He is Founder & CEO of Gradient Advisors, advising/consulting with a bunch of organizations & startups, helping them get AI piece right. He also co-authored a major book in machine learning; endorsed by AI leaders from UCSD, CMU, DeepMind, Google AI, Microsoft Research, Amazon research, Meta, Spotify, Airbnb to name a few. The book is already translated into 4 languages and is being used by over 40 universities around the globe."

My focus is on helping companies to grow by "applying technology innovations that drive tangible business value", by leveraging my more than 35 years of global experience with US and Indian companies in the areas of business consulting, technology licensing and alliances, fund-raising, software research and development, and operations. My recent stint of over 14 years with world’s premier industrial research Lab, IBM Research has further strengthened my skills, that include: Identifying, assessing and deploying advanced technology from idea to business ; - Driving innovation and research programs to address unique cross-industry business problems; - Making investment decisions on new technologies; - Maximizing revenues, optimizing costs and enhancing profitability; - Aligning business development strategy, technology roadmaps, alliances and equity investment plans; - Leveraging collaborative business models to take innovations to market, through enterprises, startups and government agencies in India and globally

Anurag is a global Product, Technology & Business executive whose mission is to build: Purpose-driven organizations, high-impact teams & products that help 100s of Millions of people make better decisions across the world.; ; Currently, he is the Group Chief Product Officer & part of the executive management at Jubilant Foodworks Ltd, that runs Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts & other food brands in India & South Asia.; ; Over the last decade, Anurag has helped build & scale digital businesses, platforms & market-leading products across domains such as Mobility, Health, Education, Used good marketplaces & Food delivery. During this time, he has played leadership roles across fast growing Internet businesses & some of the world’s leading brands such as OLX (Naspers), Microsoft & Nokia.; ; In his spare time, Anurag advises and mentors technology startups.

An efficient leader and Information Security professional with proven experience of 16 years in Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Data Loss Prevention, Internal audits, Endpoint Detection & Response, Security Operation Center, Risk assessment, Risk Remediation Services. Certified with Industry standard certifications as ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Project Management Professional and Information security certifications as C.E.H, CCSA, CCNA.; I would like to provide solutions to improvise security posture and strengthen businesses.

Computer scientist trained at IIT, MIT & Google. Serial Entrepreneur with experience across technology & impact. Now heading Engineering / Software at a Computer vision / AI startup.

UCLA Anderson alumni | Serving Digital, Emerging tech sectors from 17+ years in leading MNCs | Member - Toastmasters International (TI), Internet Society (ISOC), IVY Plus

- I am a deep tech professional with vast industry experience in both startups and high tech MNCs. Have worked in both USA and India for many years.; ; - I help companies build cutting edge technology products leveraging cutting edge technology and low cost, high skill engineering talent.; ; - I am an advisor and mentor for startups. I am deeply involved in helping startups build their products and scale them (from ideation to building MVP/EVP to commercial grade release). ; ; - I help companies build timeless software that is scalable and delivers high performance.; ; Summary: Software Development Services, Architecture Solutions, Product Design and Strategy, SDLC, Building Scalable Systems, Mentoring Engineering and Management teams, Improving Organisational Efficiency, Corporate Training (technical and non-technical), Marketing and Pre-sales.

Bhargav Sri Prakash is an Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, & Inventor of Digital Vaccines. He is the founding research translation partner of the digital vaccine project at Carnegie Mellon University.

I am a Founder & CEO of a B2B cyber security product company “Progist” which serves 150+ customers across industry verticals. Have managed a sustained growth of 35% CAGR since our inception (5+ years) through direct sales and channels partners in India and Middle-East. Have acquired for “Progist Email Secure Suite”, our country leading SaaS platform, clients including Fortune 500s, Industry leading Banks, Insurers, NBFCs, Stock Exchanges, Telcos, Health Care, E-commerce platforms, Manufactures, Conglomerates etc. Prior to setting up Progist, was a Deputy CISO for India’s leading private sector Bank by virtue of which I have a hands-on experience of 20+ years for cyber security strategy, implementation and monitoring.

Based in Bengaluru, Bipin is a Doctoral Scholar at the Swiss School of Business & Management, and pursuing his master's in Business Law at NLSIU, Bengaluru. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Global NXT University, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Bengaluru University. He is currently managing the India operations of CData Software and had been responsible for setting these grounds up. Bipin is currently overseeing product engineering, Customer Success, Technical Support, Strategic Partnerships, and Sales for most of our product lines in India, APAC, and middle-east. Prior to CData India that he incubated in 2018, bipin had a wonderful 17+ years of industry experience in Product Engineering, Enterprise & Engineering Mobility, Telecom & Media, Education & Publishing domains managing leading edge product development for key customers.

Chandrashekhar Bhide is a Co-founder at LithionPower (Real-time, intelligent energy management for Electric Vehicles); Advisor/mentor with multiple startups & consultant (esp. Banking/Financial Services/Payments/Fintech). He has rich experience across energy management for Electric Vehicles, Banking, Financial services, Payments, Telecom & IT in ; •Consulting, startup advisory, new business setup; • Product management, go-to-market planning, strategic alliances, merchant acquisitions, marketing; • Corporate strategy, financial planning, business viability study; • Regulatory liaising & compliance, legal contracts, commercial negotiation.

Dharmendra Singh is Senior executive with 24+ yrs of extensive global experience in area of Corporate M&A development and software product development mainly in India,US and Europe. Dharmendra lead the India R&D center and build a global team of 1000 employees company.He build several complex global software products and solution capabilities in india center. ; ; Extensive experience in formulating and articulating vision and strategy, building leadership teams .He serve as a Chairman of the board of MergerWare and a regular speaker and panelist on VC, PE, and M&A topics at industry conferences & other events sponsored by internationally recognised association worldwide.

20+ years global experience in Retail/CPG tech space across products and services. Launched a boutique venture dotkonnekt in 2020 to help scale Retail CPG B2B tech startups globally.

Seasoned Information Security leader with 15 years of strong experience in efficiently managing Information; security services for diverse business functions and leading transformation across enterprises specialised in cyber security services

A well-rounded professional spanning over 34 years focused on contribution towards IP assets creation demonstrated through proven expertise in developing & implementing Transformation Models, architecting, building & implementing enterprise class Platforms/ products, Business Process Reengineering & Consulting, and Opns Mgmt. Passionate to innovate and build next generation software solutions and transformation models that help companies/institutions “Measure-Monitor-Manage-Analyze-Plan–Optimize” their information flow to gain and sustain distinct competitive advantage. First class Mechanical Engineer followed by PG in Industrial Engineering from one of the premier Indian Management Institutes viz., NITIE with specialization in Operations & Systems and a Ph.D. with core concentration on Business Intelligence

I'm a Senior Analytics innovative leader with over 21 years of experience in the field of Data Strategy, Analytics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence. I'm a sought after thought leader with experience of leading and growing world class data science teams. Along with my technical contributions to the field, I'm also a leading voice at a global level for advocating for ethics and diversity in AI and STEM and have received numerous awards and recognition for my work. I have been He named as Top 50 influential AI Leaders in India and Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists. I also spend time mentoring aspiring Data Scientists and have also been recognised as Top Five Data Science mentors in India. I also serve as an academic advisor to various colleges/ universities across India and have authored more than 15 papers on various subjects related to Artificial Intelligence and advanced Data & Analytics. I have delivered expert talks at more than 100 national and international events."

Dwarka Srinath is a business focused IT Leader responsible for all aspects of IT and digital platforms as CIO for Tata Sky DTH . He has overall 23 years of experience comprising - delivering strategic IT programs, setting up Greenfield IT Stacks/functions, building digital platforms of use, building IT Roadmaps, Enterprise Architecture, Program management & IT Budget management. Strong believer of simple and sustainable architecture at right cost, IT as a huge business differentiator, team empowerment, active talent management and capability reuse. ICMG Digital CIO Award winner 2019, ETCIO Award 2018, CIO 100 Power List 2018-Core Media, CIO 100 2018 Digital Innovators Award CIO 100, 2017 Award Winner for Digital Innovation-IDG.; Conceptualize, build, fund and own Digital platforms of value to Business. He has a successful track record of Building Huge digital platforms with new age partners to create business value at Right cost. Technical interest and know how to see big picture and execute at development/operations team levels. Brief areas of past delivery and success :-; 1 - Mobile sales force automation & Lead management– 260 k+ dealers, 80 % new Acquisitions; 2. Analytics - Customer viewership analytics, Text Analytics & Visualization - Big data & Data Lake – 7 m Subscribers, Customer 360 View – 7 Million Subscribers, Tableau visualization.; 3. Omni channel Bots & WhatsApp Business Enterprise – Customer Interactions – 4 Mn+ subscribers; 4. AI/ ML Based Microsoft Image recognition – Field Service – Quality control, Sales PoS Material management – Live with 30k + Partners, Sentiment analysis; 5. Social CRM and Brand listening – Live since 2016; 6. Built and delivered java based services to ensure minimal cost, high agility and a new set of agile hi speed partners; 7. High scale resilient B2C Systems: - Delivered Service oriented – 17 millions subs, Microservices architecture for huge scale – 1 million orders, 3 million orders per day – Using Opensource; 8. B2B and B2C Cloud lead management – 500+ acquisitions per day; 9. Chatbots for customer interactions and processes – Facebook Messenger; 10. RPA – UI Path – Corporate customers setup automation, 10 Bots/Processes Live; 11. Microservices based Portals with > 11 million subs on Cloud and Opensource; 12. Omni channel Offer and products platform – Extremely High GTM, build once and deploy at Huge scale – No Contact Centre Model, > 82% Self Service for all critical transactions via digital channels 3 million orders/day; 13 - Tata sky labs with 7 sustainable startups to build projects of business value and scale (listed above)

Ganesh Chandrasekaran has 25 years of experience in digital transformation with vast experience in Product Management, introducing New Product & Services, Product Marketing and Marcom, Content Strategy, Management and Operations, building Strategic Partnerships & Alliances and introducing analytics based personalized product and services for local and global markets including conceptualization of new products ideas in emerging tech that includes UWB, AR/VR, Drone, Mobility space as well. Create and manage Communication related process for organization both external and internal public, Web and Mobile, Marcom, provide Analytics based Insights, Social media, Start-ups and help build Communities across various domains that includes 5G, Communication Services, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Web and Mobile Services, Intelligent Services, IoT, Analytics and emerging tech.

Gaurav is a successful entrepreneur and a product management leader with 20+ years of industry experience. Besides his own start-up, he has done extensive work in product strategy, discovering unresolved customer problems, identifying customer patterns, leveraging customer insights into product decision-making, value engineering and customer advocacy. He is a coach, advisor and speaker on topics such as lean entrepreneurship, product market fit, establishing hard to copy competitive barriers and building products that provide persistent differential returns. He holds close to 30 patents.; ; Gaurav holds Bachelor’s degree from Delhi University and Master’s from Ahmedabad. His interest towards linking industry and academia took him to pursue his doctoral studies in Strategic Management and Marketing from University of Tampere, Finland during his time with Nokia.

Gayatri is a Manager at Capgemini, and is currently a Product Owner and Business Analyst for Financial Services clients across Insights and Data Practice at Capgemini.; ; She comes with several years of industry experience in Enterprise products with background in Design, Development ,Requirements analysis, Product backlog creation and management.; ; She has previous experience in Asset management, Reference Data (Investment Banking), Broker Dealers and Reinsurance.; ; Gayatri is a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) by the Scrum Alliance. She has lived in US and India and is fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil and Marathi.

Results-oriented, product management executive with 25+ years of B2C, B2B and International experience including 15+ years of SaaS, 6+ years of B2C and 8+ years of online marketplace experience. Passionate about building product teams and mentoring the broader product management community.

Juby Jose is Senior Manager with Intel Corporation and has 20 years of industry experience spanning Embedded Software Engineering and Product Management. Juby is a product expert in AI solutions for Natural Language processing & Video Analytics. Her expertise areas also include Embedded SW and IoT applications. Juby is a speaker at global AI forums, and has authored multiple technical publications. Juby has completed her MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Kaustubh Patekar founded The ProdZen in 2016 and has helped several startups and IT services companies scale their product business. He was VP of Product and Design at Manthan where he led the transformation to SaaS and helped accelerate the business. Prior to this, he held leadership roles in product, strategy and engineering management at companies like Oracle and MicroStrategy in the US. He has a US patent for his work on database and subscription technology.; He enjoys working with entrepreneurs and mentors AI startups as part of NASSCOM DeepTech Club. He regularly writes about product building, scaling and leadership.; Kaustubh is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied Aerospace Engineering. He enjoys running marathons, reading and spending time with his family.

Engineering Leader, Mentor, seasoned Software Engineer and Programmer with 19+ years of experience in different domains. Currently Head of Engineering at Sentry AI. Experienced in Cloud, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Embedded Systems.

"Tulasi is CEO, INCeNSE, a speciality incubator focused on nano, semi-conductor and other deep tech startup as well as leads the Industry Interface of Center for Nanoscience & Engineering (CeNSE), IISc. She has been actively engaged in the 'deep sciecne' based startup ecosystem activities in India. Together with her colleagues, she is also working to find ways & means to effectively translate CeNSE research & technology into the industry either by means of licensing or collaborative projects leveraging CeNSE capabilities both in terms of usage of existing infrastructure and expertise amongst the CeNSE people. Prior to this, Tulasi worked in Infosys, GE & Shell for more than 20 years in research, technology development and patent analysis after a PhD in chemical engineering from IISc. Bangalore. She also got a PG diploma in IP Law from National Law School India University, Bangalore. She enjoys problem solving, learning, and interacting with people from diverse backgrounds."

I am a leader in the Indian Army, Information Security, Consulting, Program Management & Information Technology domains, excelling at building teams & solving challenges. ; ; As a Mentor & Consultant, I have coached individuals, teams & firms on Leadership, Information Security, Careers & Financial Planning. I help individuals structure their personal finances to ensure a sustainable future. I also volunteer at & am a Trustee of a school in Bangalore.

Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a Designer. She is the Founder of La Legal and Co-Founder of FIL. She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her first book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deeptech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals. She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India."

I lead the data science and engineering for Oracle's flagship product in the marketing space, Unity. An engineer, MBA and a Doctorate from IIM Bangalore, I bring different flavours of experience from across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors and start-up sector. ; In my current corporate avatar,I have been involved in data science and deep tech, software development, functional consulting across the product/market lifecycle, in creating and delivering vision and roadmap with high impact features. I work with customers, product partners and sales folks on vision alignment, organisation building and communication of customer outcomes. My areas of research include privacy-preserving and ethically aware enterprise-scale systems in intelligent behavioural prediction, trend detection from streaming data and hyper-personalisation. ; In my academic stint, I have been a policy researcher leveraging large data sets to solve real world problems. I have been involved in policy studies and impact analysis for affordable housing initiatives, land market reforms and in insolvency reforms. I actively engage with students across management and tech disciplines.; I firmly believe in equity and diversity and have been volunteering my time with women in tech organisations both internally within Oracle and externally. I invest my time with ML meet-ups and as organiser/ reviewer with various ML/deep learning conferences like the ODSC. ; Outside of work, I am involved with various universities as a visiting faculty, mentor/ advisor for PhD candidates and also as an advisor for the VC fund Arali Ventures in their DeepTech investments.

Malthi is a seasoned product leader and has led several global enterprise and consumer products from concept to launch. She comes with 2 decades of industry experience and has worked across Fintech, Content Management and ERP domain.; ; Malthi has extensively worked on Problem discovery using Design Thinking Methodologies, built technology products and PoCs in emerging technologies. She has led high performance teams across her stint at SAP, Intuit and Soceiete Generale GSC. She works closely with Start-Ups to mentor them on their business and product strategy. ; ; She also mentors product managers and is an industry speaker at various forums.She is a reviewer for Design and Product track at Grace Hopper Conference and closely works with Nasscom at various initiatives.

"As Global Head of Cognitive Technologies at Wipro Digital, Manoj thrives at the forefront of disruption, applying innovations in Advanced AI, Human Intelligence Automation to real-world business challenges. He operates at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, exploring the ways machine learning can drive workers’ innovation and productivity. Manoj focuses on revenue enhancement for customers using three themes, namely: Outcome Shaping, Behavior Inference, and Design for Behavior Change. Manoj is always keen to delve into the nitty gritty, whether he's solving problems for a customer or tinkering away on projects at home. A true engineer at heart, his personal interests include astrophysics, quantum physics, carpentry and long-distance running."

"Milind is a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay. Before his PhD, Milind obtained a B.Tech and an M. Tech also from IIT Bombay. His thesis was on Abstract Interpretation of Functional Programming Languages. Milind also has a Diploma in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France. Milind's primary research interests are AI (Natural Language Processing, Mathematical Logic, Hardware acceleration for AI at the Edge) and Interaction between Society and Technology. Prior to joining IIITB, Milind has 26 years of experience in the corporate sector, first with Sasken Communication Technologies and most recently with Tata Elxsi as the head of the Systems Business Unit. Milind has lead projects in Semiconductor, Automotive, Communications and Smart Home verticals"

As the Chief Technology Officer at Eugenie.ai, Narayanan’s mission is to leverage AI-based SaaS solutions that enable humanity to “Thrive Sustainably”, in the face of the accelerating Climate Crisis. This includes technologies for carbon emissions reduction, and end-to-end process efficiencies across the energy, manufacturing, and mining industries. Narayanan has spent 28+ years in Technology Leadership spanning SaaS, IoT, Electric Vehicles, Data Center Infrastructure, Networking, and Telecommunications. As a Senior Member of IEEE, Narayanan focuses on mentoring students and early-to-mid-career professionals on product excellence. He is a passionate advocate of sustainable product development in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At his previous organizations, he had had the opportunity to implement many key technology developments, innovations, and disruptions, at Nutanix, Sun Mobility (Electric Vehicles), Cisco, Infinera, and DELL. He is the holder of 10 US Patents.

Naveen Mamgain is Co-Founder & Design Head at Quick Ride. With tech/design/digital first thought process, scaled Quick Ride rapidly in the last 5 years. He is hands on professional and takes care of end-to-end product design & digital services. He loves to work with startups, mentor and learn from them. He is a strong advocate of user-centric designs and focus on processes. Previously he worked with RailYatri, Happiest Minds, CenturyLink & Hughes. ; ; He is certified CUA from HFI and his interests include psychology, fitness & cooking.

Neelesh Salgaonkar is extremely passionate about product development and solving complex problems. He is a accomplished engineering leader with experience working for early stage startup, Series A,D funded companies and large global enterprises. Proven track record of building massively scalable, highly robust and secure systems as well as setting up and growing mid to large size teams that delivered business value (top and bottom line) with agility and scale. He possesses excellent leadership and people management skills and have successfully led teams to achieve challenging targets. I am co-leading Product skills development track at NASSCOM with a mission to make India world class product development hub.

I have close to 3 decades of experience building product and services businesses in the High Tech industry. I have a mix of startup and fortune 1000 experience in product as well as services. I have spent some of my formative years working in a silicon valley startup (Arraycomm) on smart antenna based broadband wireless (iBurst standardized as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.20), as well as in the streaming video/OTT TV space at Motorola Mobility (acquired by Google). I have since held partner level positions at a consulting organisation helping them incubate practices in media, IoT/ML and Industrial space. Of late I have joined the advisory board of some startups helping them scale and also fund raise by leveraging my knowledge base and network from the Industry as well as my alma-mater network (graduated CSE from IIT-Kanpur). I believe I can add value to the Deep Tech Club at NASSCOM by mentoring appropriate mentees that can not only benefit from what I bring to the table but also help me unlearn and learn some things.

Deep biz-prod-tech acumen of building global organisation capabilities in a Deep-Tech context in AI, Blockchain, Cloud & Digital in a FinTech & FinOps context . Experience of driving world class products including experience with running Global P&L and Sales in several complex domains. Successfully been involved as Angel Investor/advisors for Global Startup’s in the past 2 years.

With 22 years of varied experience in corporate and government sectors working in technology, engineering, digital, electronics, consumer products, and international trade, I am currently with Maker Village, India's largest deeptech incubator, supporting innovative and transformational startups, collaborating with entrepreneurs, industry, academia, local and global incubator network, R&D organisations, and governmental agencies to grow and sustain a vibrant startup ecosystem.

"Prabin is the Chief Financial officer of Goods & Service Tax Network (GSTN), the technology backbone of India’s biggest tax reform. He is an award winner CFO, seasoned professional equipped with India's best financial qualifications i.e. CA, ICWA, CS and DISA. He is an active member of various Industry chambers and bodies, and contributor in various policies frameworks mainly in Finance and strategy. He is a thought leader and speaks is various forum in future of finance, digital economy and other related topic of finance, strategy and innovation. He is active investor in Startups have around 25 startups in his portfolio. Prabin is a mentor for startups and ATL lab set up Niti Ayog. He has been awarded CFO of the year in 2017 by The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India, awarded CFO Power list of 2019 in Technology by google could , recognized as top 100 CFO by CFO India ."

Pramod Jajoo is the senior vice president at Flipkart, where he leads product/tech for Flipkart's supply chain. He was former CTO of Bigbasket and led product and technology from Bigbasket's inception to market leadership scale. He was a venture partner at Kalaari Capital, a premier VC firm. He is passionate about conceiving and building world class technology and products and building and scaling high-performance organizations. He has actively mentored and advised many startups, including being a lead mentor to the DTC cohort 2 and 3.

Jagan Mohan is passionate about building great products with a well-rounded business, domain and technology experience across various functions including product management, consulting and pre-sales, Jagan has managed complex, organization-wide projects for large businesses across the globe, created new product lines, multi-million dollar revenue streams and loyal clients for Algonomy. ; In Jagan’s leadership of over a decade, Algonomy has created world-class products that are used by over 400 brands. ; Prior to Algonomy, Jagan was with Iflex solutions. He is an alumnus of NIT Warangal and IIM Bangalore. He has varied interests from robotics and terrace gardening, to marathon running.

Passionate to learn and share from the journey of learnings across my investments and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Over 13 years of total experience, I've worked extensively with enterprise customers, and I know how needs can widely vary. Conceptualised, defined, launched new product features based on research, data insights, customer feedback, and co-innovated with partners which increased the product adoption and helped managed customer expectations. I'm good at managing relationships with customers, forming a product strategy that takes their needs into account while building a product that makes sense for the business. I'm good at teaming up with a diverse bunch of stakeholders. When there's a complex project at hand, I'm skilled in bringing people together, forming a shared consensus and working as a powerful pod to achieve outcomes. Co-creating & working at intersections of multiple disciplines & innovators from diverse backgrounds makes me feel more powerful and gets the best out of me.

Interested in building technology software products and learning from the challenges of other leaders. Strategy-Product-Technology leader with more than 17 yrs experience in Fortune500 and startup firms
- Deep product and business expertise in B2C (e-Commerce, retail, travel) & B2B SaaS
- Define & launch products, formulate GTM roadmaps, close partnerships & grow businesses
- Passionate about solving complex problems and helping firms figure out scaling, international expansion and org. building
- Incubating & growing businesses from scratch, delivering results with lean teams
Speaker @ Nasscom, Product Camp, Unpluggd conference and Jury @ Facebook Developer Circles. Holds an MBA from Indian School of Business and an MS in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. Awarded '25 Most Talented e-Commerce Professionals of India 2015' by Asia Retail Congress."

Rajesh Srivathsa manages the technology businesses and investments at Nadathur, a mid-size Family office. Prior to this, He founded Ojas Ventures which invested in Seed and Series A startups in India and the US. He has also been a co-founder in 3 startups (2 successful and 1 failed) as well as worked at a few Fortune 500 companies.

Raj is high-energy product and customer-oriented research and engineering executive with 25 years of deep technical experience in building enterprise products in the area of Location Technology, Systems, Telecom, Mapping, and Unified communication across multiple domains, technologies and geographies crossing multiple organisations. As an engineer and technologist, I embarked on a journey to build the automated systems without human touch using technologies like AI/ML to serve the long term business needs and growth.

Rakesh Bhardwaj has 28 years of experience across multiple industries and multiple roles. Global Digital and Information Technology leader accomplished in Driving Business - Transforming Operations - Leveraging Technology, having stints with global technology providers & diversified business conglomerate. He has worked in following industries - IT Services, Healthcare, Aviation, Locomotives and Financial Services. In addition to Information Technology, I have done cross-functional roles in Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Quality to gain more understanding about other aspects of the business. His experience spans across Cognizant, Microland and GE is 8 years. He has held executive leadership roles in IT Services companies, namely Microland and Cognizant.

My natural inclination to look for answers related to "Whys" resonates with my work as a Design Strategist in Security Business at Cisco. My current focus is looking ahead to inform our decisions today. To me Identifying the right problem is extremely important. I enjoy the space at the cusp of Design, Viability, and Process. And aspire to use design in structuring and informing our decisions today for the future. My experience has been constantly enriched with varied opportunities including discovering, exploring, conceptualizing, and executing a different range of products and programs.

Ravi Padaki is a seasoned Technology Products leader with a global experience of more than 2 decades. Ravi has built and led product and marketing teams in US and India across multiple sectors including Health Tech, Agri Tech, Retail, and Technology Platforms. Currently, Ravi is the Chief Operating Officer at a AI based, sleep technology company, where he created a new market category and took the company from inception to revenue generation. Ravi is into Running, Reading, and is a budding Horologist of late.

Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is Harvard Alumni, Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot, Angel Investor, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Global speaker with several hundred global recognition and patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world is making difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world's top 10 Robotics Designer, #1 Artificial Intelligence Leader in Asia and world's top 25 CIO. Ravi is active in India, USA, Singapore, Scotland, Mexico and Africa thru advisory, co-creation, hackathons and innovation funding to create mass-entrepreneurship at grassroots across rural, towns and cities. Over a decade as investor he has mentored and managed successes and failure with a net portfolio gain of over 22X ROI. Ravi continues to serve various international agencies by flying several hundred hours as emergency response expeditions ranging from covid to floods to earthquakes. In past Ravi has been changemaker C-level leader, inventive Innovator and creative Engineer with global fortune institutions of the likes Arthur Andersen, Wipro, Microsoft, Accenture, AirWorks Group, Tata Singapore Airlines and so on. His impactful body of work in the area of Robotics, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Satellites, Intelligent Networks, Industrial Cloud, Adaptive manufacturing and Cognitive computing has unlocked value across 5 continents in improving civilization by helping various governments towards fiscal prudence & citizen services, while simultaneously encouraging compassionate capitalism thru brands and institutions like Nike, Micron Technologies, Weyerhaeuser, Bestbuy, Albertsons, Carrefour, Cognizant, General Electric (GE) and many more.

Global R&D, Technology & Business Leader offering rich experience of over two decades in driving Technology Innovation, Product Development, Large-Scale Deployments and Revenue Growth strategies by managing Global Customers in Fortune 500 MNC’s. Worked in leadership capacity at Schneider Electric L&T and Endurance Technologies, as a senior leader and a technology evangelist with a fine mix of business acumen. Experience in creating solutions through Design & Development of Connected & Industrial Products leveraging the futuristic & emerging technologies IoT, AI, ML, Industry Communication Protocols, Wired and wireless, Industry 4.0, Digital, Digital Twins, Telematics, for Edge, Analytics, Cloud based applications for Switchgear, Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Energy Management & Automotive Electronics. Managed global teams across from India, France, USA, China & Australia. International Advisory Board Member of IIoT India, IEEE ExCom Member.

I have 21+ years of successful career, started my journey with start-up in Digitization and is now working with 3i Infotech as Global Delivery Head of AAA (Application, Automation and Analytics). In my previous engagements, I have built the Digital delivery unit, managed P&L, and has grown the team from 40 people to 350, with niche business solutions. I have lead the Digital Capabilities COE for Operations Transformation and Consulting delivery leveraging RPA, AI, ML, BPM, Analytics and custom development with the best of Technology platforms and industry’s best practices. I have led the consulting and solutions delivery with worldwide organizations like JPMC, World Bank, AIG, GE, FedEx, along with large Indian Organizations. He has lived and worked in the USA, UK, Italy, UAE and India to manage and deliver Digital, IT and Process Transformation engagements. I am an Engineering and Management graduate and member of leading knowledge forums e.g. Forbs Technology Forum, CIOKlub etc.

Ritesh is a techno-functional leader with years of experience in setting the Analytics Centre of Excellence. With over a decade of experience in advanced analytics, he has been responsible for new AI product launches and deliveries across multiple domains. An avid programmer in Python & R, a Kaggle Expert, and an MBA in finance from India's topmost B-School (ISB, Hyderabad), Ritesh brings unique blend of domain, technology and business strategy.

A Thought Leader, AI and Digital Revolutionary, Entrepreneurial Visionary, Inspirational Leader and Sustainability Evangelist. Introducing Rohit Adlakha, ex Chief Digital and Information Officer at Wipro Limited and Business Head at HOLMES™ (Wipro's Artificial Intelligence platform). With over 15 years of leadership experience, he is a Board member at School of Inspired Leadership, a vanguard of change in shaping the future of India through education. Rohit has also pioneered CXO as a Service; he is a trusted advisor to Vector Center, a company that harnesses the power of AI to deliver real-time, decision grade water intelligence where he serves as an environmental, social and governance champion through technology. For Data Neuron, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning platform, he is focusing on Go-To-Market and business acceleration strategies. At Vaasara, the number 1 Beauty Marketplace in the UAE, he is driving business acceleration strategies.

A strong believer in Digital Transformation & Commercial Insights, I have 20+ years of x–functional experience with specialisation in Business & Geo expansion. I specialise in encouraging people to challenge conventional wisdom and am a strong believer in creating an empowered ecosystem which takes control of client conversations.; ; This exposure to Startups & the competence to open new markets for Tech companies, led to starting my own venture - Network Science – where we are on a mission to build Unicorns. As a Global Market Accelerators, we work with B2B Deep-Tech startups and take them global.

Satish Gaekwad have been in Technology Sales & Marketing for nearly 19 years (having worked for ITO, BPO firms & Startups) developing & selling Enterprise Software, Solutions & Professional Services to essentially the Banking & Financial Services sector. His Sales deal sizes have ranged between $0.5M to over $20M, & he has led teams varying between 30 to 300 people. His last corporate role was the Sales Head/UK for a Fortune-500 BPO firm, & his last sale was as an Advisor for a SaaS startup was to help close a $1M intelligent document management deal just over a month ago. Satish is a former civil servant who led large operations & executed complex turnkey programs for public sector firms & the government sector in the Telecom & Transportation industry for about 9 years. Areas of Expertise: ; • Developing & executing Go-to-Market strategies for Sales & Marketing; o Penetrating new buying-centres using various growth strategies; o Insights from Sales best practices & solution accelerators; o Crafting creative Commercial models; • Driving Partnerships & Alliances; • Guiding on Product management and ; • Helping shape the startups for availing funding; • Enterprise Software Sales & Marketing (Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, HR etc.); • Digital (AI: RPA - ML - NLP - Analytics) Solutions & Services; • Outsourcing “Business Process Consulting & Systems Integration” Services; • Deep Domain / Industry knowledge of Financial Services, ITO & B P S / B P O market

"24 years of experience in tech industry with 22.5 years in Cisco Systems. A Sr Director of engineering responsible for Cisco's Optical engineering and Routing infrastructure business catering to service providers and web providers globally. Led many projects specifically for Indian and APAC customers for their internet access and aggregation space by building new products for 4G/5G backbone. Recently led the design & development of 5G fronthaul gateway which won the Nasscom innovation award in 2021. An ICF certified leadership / life coach & an organizational strategy expert, I mentor & coach internal start-up initiatives and leaders for maximizing their effectiveness."

Product and Technology enthusiast, with a proven track record of building high-quality products and engineering teams from scratch. Co-Founded one of the earliest private car ride-sharing startups in India and got acquired by one of the largest car rental firms in India. Built large-scale distributed products in IOT, Transportation, SAAS, Fintech, E-Commerce, and Enterprise systems.

Subramanian (Mani) leads Azure supply chain capacity management and decision sciences functions in the Azure Core organization at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience in Consulting and Analytics working with organizations such as bigbasket.com, Dell, McKinsey and Infosys. He studied at University of Madras, IIM-Ahmedabad and MIT. Mani invests, advises and mentors start-ups in the DeepTech space.

Sunil Haridas is a senior leader with more than 25 years of technology and management expertise in Strategy, Leadership and People Management. He is an ex Infosys, ex IBM with global delivery experience in US, Australia, Thailand and Singapore. Sunil is the co-founder of Kerala Startup Network (KSN-Global) and member of CII Kerala Startup Panel. He was a coordinator of the National Working Group on AI technology standardisation. Sunil is an engineer, MBA and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta.

Product leader with over 15 years of experience in building high-tech products, influencing decision makers, incubating new businesses including building and launching V1 products as well as managing the complete lifecycle of the product.
# At Microsoft, currently I am responsible for portfolio of offerings in FSI across Blockchain and AI/ML
# Previously, at Microsoft built & launched new product line Azure Data Box
# At Vizury (Ad Tech), built and launched new products in the area of Analytics, marketing attribution and Seller Ads platform for e-commerce marketplace.
# At Flipkart (E-commerce), I was tasked to build new products & platforms.
# At Unisys (Mobile & cloud), I incubated new products & solutions in a start up environment from idea to concept to product.
Specialties: Incubation, New Product development, V1, global launch, Storytelling

Tanu Mithal is currently Head of technology at the Social Enterprise - The/Nudge Foundation. The Foundation is working towards alleviating poverty scalably and sustainably during our lifetime with livelihood as the vehicle.; Prior to this Tanu has around 19+ years of Experience majorly in Information technology Industry starting from Infosys and subsequently covering the whole spectrum of SAP Enterprise solutions - defining and developing products at the SAP Development center, Implementing SAP at one of the largest Banks - JP Morgan Chase and leading the CoE for one of the leading service provider for SAP - Capgemini. ; ; She is an IIT Roorkee alumni and has done her Executive Management Diploma from IIM Kozhikode in Strategy and Operations.

Trivikram Prasad has previously worked in Intel, Intuit, and Dell and have extensive enterprise-scale experience in eCommerce, CRM, ERP, SCM, Digital & Technology Transformation, Mobile Development, Software Engineering, Design Thinking, Thought Leadership, Mentoring, Coaching, and University Teaching. He is an academic advisor to universities and technology mentor to deep-tech startups in NASSCOM. He also lead the Red Hat Market Place team in IBM India.

Utkarsh Rai is Leadership coach (ICF certified) and Consultant. He is the former head for Infinera India and China, a leading global provider of disruptive optical networking systems. He was a founding head of Infinera India, and led the team that delivered significant technology innovation, resulting in a successful IPO on Nasdaq and establishing them as a global player with a multi billion $ valuation over fifteen years. In doing so, he built the team to over 800 software professionals. He is a successful global business executive known for his skills in strategic planning and execution excellence. He believes that developing leaders is key to success and his greatest joy is in nurturing leadership talents around the world and being the catalyst that inspires career growth for his people. His walk the talk management style is supported by a commitment to developing strong cultures and high performing teams and he has translated his experience into multiple popular books on career management. He shares stories for professionals in his YouTube channel named "Professional growth stories and talks". He is a proud recipient of the Udyog Rattan award, as well as a committed fitness freak, angel investor and actor. He is constantly learning, and travels the globe to learn more about cultures and world history. He has touched many lives and hopes that he has been an inspiration to many. You can know more about him on www.utkarshrai.com

Varchas R Subrahmanya is the head of products at Soroco. His vision is to enable every employee and enterprises to be at their best. He was briefly the chief of products at Factoreal, a marketing automation startup incubated at Comviva. He previously was in Comviva technologies for a little less than 10 years building platforms for mobile operators that can help them monetize. Platforms include mobile data, messaging, security and customer experience. His early work life was predominantly in IISc and an IISc startup Esqube, he worked on VoIP and communication technologies - competing against Skype. He engages with product community, is a part of Product Leaders Forum (PLF), and guide for students at Institute of Product Leadership. He is very passionate about leadership and product management, especially the following.; Culture. To be emphatic and an empathetic leader. Know my workplace folks, respect each one of them, know what they want and to help them achieve their goals.; - Learn my Customers. Understand their journey and experience, watch them and listen to them and more importantly, what they aren't. Deliver and drive value for them.; - Communicate. Love to talk to everyone with no prejudice, do listen to others more often than I speak, say “Thank you” and appreciate as often as possible.; - Think Different. How do we build it bigger, better, faster? It cannot happen if we think the same, I like to think different and do things different.; - Team Work. Firm believer of “team > sum of all individuals” and the concepts of “Ubuntu” and “Tribal Leadership” - by Dave Logan.; - Getting things done: Tremendous focus on getting things done - try to use tools that help me to achieve this. Fan of Asana, Perdoo, Trello, and MS Planner.

Varij Saurabh has worked as a product manager for close to 2 decades focused on B2B SaaS products, & Data products. He understands data management, ML, analytics domains. He is now working with climateTech startup to help setup Go-to-Market and drive business growth. He enjoys working with early stage to mid stage startups and can help across product management, business planning, sales and Go-to-market.

I'm a results oriented Software, Data Science, Business, Web & Marketing Analytics leader with over 12 years experience in ML engineering, Data science, Business Analytics, Digital Media Analytics and Web Marketing optimization with leading inter- nationally recognized corporations, additional 10 years software engineering experience and a top business school MBA. Well-developed communications skills, management of onshore and offshore teams as well as leadership experience ranging from Director to Manager at Fortune 100 companies including marketing agencies. Improved ad performance to the tune of $10M at Unity Technologies & $7M at Oracle leveraging spark MLIB and Tensorflow operating on big data. Drove improvements in business & online marketing outcomes to the tunes of several million dollars at Oracle, Unity technologies, eBay, Conversant (Alliance Data), AT&T (Cricket Wireless) and crunched several terabytes of data at Apple Corporation.

Vibhore Sharma is a technology leader with 20 years in the internet industry, he has significant ability to understand technologies in this space and their impact on platforms, markets & consumers with proven ability to build and scale products. He can help companies to build, evolve and scale their products, technology and teams. Enthusiastic about emerging Science & Technology ideas to invest in.

"1. Been a CTO of startups from 2015 1. With prior corporate experience as a developer and engineering leader at Oracle, McAfee, Intuit and Unilever 2. Been Hands-on all through my career 3. Women-In-Tech cheerleader 2. Prior experience of being Mentor at IIIT-B and IIMA-CIIE 1. Mentored 14 startups and 3 of them got funding 2. Angel investor for Deep tech companies 3. Tech expertise in Backend, Performance design, Marketing Tech and Information Security 1. Design review and code review 2. SaaS based Unit Metrics 3. Low cost Tech development 4. Click Analytics"

Vineet Govil is a seasoned coach and mentor with more than twenty five years of experience in mobile, telecommunication and media & entertainment industry (successfully running captive centre of MNC, startups).; In the last stint - as Head and VP of Sling Media India (100% own subsidiary of Dish Network Inc USA), was responsible for operations, engineering, strategy and growth - with a focus towards creating culture of innovation, technology and product development. ; Have extensive experience on technical aspects as well as leadership skills, which are practical and applicable in day to day life.; ; Area of interests include next generation of content generation & consumption, OTT, streaming, cloud computing, AI/ML, consumer electronics, IoT, and automative segments.; ; Very passionate about upcoming technology and product development. More importantly, how to take a product/technology from concept to market and monetise it.; Have a good understanding about these market segments and understands multiple facet of complex design of new generation products pretty well.

Experienced Products Strategy and Business Leader with a demonstrated history of working in various eCommerce segments like Logistics, Travel, mCommerce and product startup industries. Global experience in leading large teams into managing multiple product portfolios from concept to launch. Strong product management professional skilled in Analytics, data driven development, Go-to-market Strategy, Mobile Applications, Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Product Marketing.

A multidisciplinary business leader with a passion for lifelong learning, Vybhav is a trusted strategist and utilizes his business acumen to make strategic, growth-oriented decisions. He also has in-depth experience setting up and scaling facilities in India. His vision is to put 'care' back into healthcare by leveraging leading technologies.; ; With a Postgraduate Degree in Data Science and a prospective Master's Degree in the same, he is constantly seeking out new and innovative ways to improve the effectiveness of various business processes through the use of technology. ; ; Every step of the way, he focuses on building forward-leaning teams that adapt to and overcome cross-industry obstacles.; ; His past experiences extend beyond healthcare and include setting up and spearheading the growth of India's first flight simulator company (Flight4Fantasy) and a decade-plus stint at PwC, working with some of the world's largest businesses.; ; Today, Vybhav plays a pivotal role in building and managing teams, cultivating client relationships, growing successful businesses, and streamlining processes.