Ramya Yellapragada is a 25-year-old tech entrepreneur on a mission to transform brain health with her startup, Marbles Health. With a degree in Computer Science and Computational Biology from IIIT, she has a passion for leveraging neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning to create effective and efficient solutions for mental health.
Rashi Gupta is the Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Rezo.ai, a conversational AI platform that helps enterprises automate their customer engagement using natural language processing and machine learning. With over a decade of experience as an educator, researcher, and data analyst, Rashi co-founded Rezo.ai to help businesses harness the power of conversational AI to enhance customer experiences.
From navigating the challenges of the start-up ecosystem to fostering a culture of innovation. With a background in law and a natural flair for entrepreneurship, Aanchal has disrupted the retail industry in India with her tech-driven and customer-centric approach. Her expertise in dispute resolution laws has helped her navigate the challenges of scaling a successful startup, making her a leader to watch in the tech space.
Snigdha discusses her more than two-decade-long career journey in the tech industry, which includes leadership roles at ADP and PayPal. She shares major inflection points, challenges, and risks she faced along the way, and how she navigated through them to reach where she is today. She also talks about her experience in leading geographically diverse product teams and large organizations in a high maturity global delivery model, and how she manages communication and collaboration across different teams and time zones to ensure everyone is aligned towards the same goals.
The interview focused on the journey of Priya Mantri Ajmera, a versatile leader with a background in mathematics, business strategy, and tech for social impact. She shared about her inflection points, motivations, and how she managed personal finances and family expectations when transitioning to the non-profit world. Her mantra to make impossible possible is to ask "Why not?" when faced with naysayers. The rapid-fire round covered her preferences for work environment, schedule, team collaboration, problem-solving, focus, technology, risk-taking, and expertise.
Chandralika Hazarika shares her inspiring journey from a non-tech background to becoming a co-founder of a fashion technology company. After studying architecture and completing an MBA, she worked as a strategy and branding manager in Singapore, where she gained valuable skills in understanding customers, cultures, and running businesses. She later became a startup mentor and developed a passion for technology and its impact. With her diverse background in branding, marketing, and architecture, she paved her path to entrepreneurship.
Dipika's journey from being a Technical Program Manager at Amazon to a Product Leader now at Flipkart, is defined by the bold decisions she made throughout her career. She emphasizes that even if someone comes from a non-technical background, they can still learn what is needed of them if they collaborate well with their stakeholders. She talks about how learning from the strengths of others, particularly in areas that were new to them helped her excel in areas that were new to her. Realization of your own strengths and what you bring to table is the key.
