Business IT Conclave 2022

Mr. Arnab Basu

Mr. Arnab Basu is the Advisory Leader for PwC in India. He has two decades of consulting experience in diverse fields like Digital Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Performance Management, Removing Complexity, and defining the Digital Journey leveraging Enterprise Applications. He is part of our Global Advisory Leadership team and has worked for a range of top tier clients across multiple geographies and industries including Industrial Products, Discrete Manufacturing, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas.

In his previous role, he was the Technology Consulting leader for PwC India for five years. As the Regional Managing Partner of East region, Arnab expanded PwC's footprints across the region including Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

Mr. Basu joined PwC post his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 2001. He has previously done his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. He is closely associated with several Business Chambers.

Lt. Gen. Dr. S.P. Kochhar

Lieutenant General Dr. S. P. Kochhar is the Director General of COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India). He is a decorated military veteran, retired as Signal Officer in Chief, the head of the ICT wing of the Indian Army, where he was responsible for planning, executing and operating all Telecom and IT networks of the Army. Prior to that he was Additional Director General Personnel of the Indian Army, handling HR and Empowerment of the 11 lakh strong Army.

He was the first CEO & was till recently the CEO of Telecom Sector Skill Council. He holds a PhD, MTech, two MPhils and has been a member on the Executive Council of National Board of Accreditation, Jamia Millia Islamia and on the Academic Council of IGNOU, Veltech and others. He was an Adjunct Professor with BITS Pilani and IGNOU for several years. He was a member of interviewing boards of UPSC for Civil Services and Engineering Services.

Ms. Prameela Kalive

Ms. Prameela Kalive has been in the Industry for over three decades. She began her career as a Missile Scientist with the DRDO in the city of Hyderabad and has worked on several mission critical Defense programs for over a decade. She has been a core part of Zensar's amazing growth story for the past 20 yrs, having led multiple leadership portfolios in Zensar - from Software Deliveries and Operations to Global Strategy and Marketing as well as Global HR and Business leadership. She is now the Chief Operating Officer of Zensar and also the senior most woman executive of the RPG Group of Companies.

She is an alumnus of the London School of Economics, the Wharton Business School and the Indian School of Business. Prameela was awarded the Rising CEO award for 2015 and was chosen for the 'Woman in Technology' award by ISG, the Global Tech Research and Advisory firm for 2019.

Prameela is an Adrenaline junkie - she is a Sky Diver, Bungy Jumper and a Scuba Diver.

So here is a missile scientist, a business leader, a technologist and an adventurist, all rolled into one!

Mr. Ravindra Chamaria

Armed with invaluable life experiences, a passion for enterprise and a desire to create winning collaborations, Ravindra Chamaria isn't your everyday de rigueur businessman. As a first generation entrepreneur, he has scripted several highly successful businesses, with the Infinity Group being his banner for sustainable and green real estate. Under his captaincy, Infinity has come to be known as a credible real estate firm that has several pioneering projects to its name: Infinity Think Tank, Infinity Benchmark, Godrej Waterside, Infinity Heights, Infinity IT Lagoon & Adventz Infinity @ 5 are some marquee names.

Mr. Ravindra Chamaria also dons the hat of the Vice Chairman on the advisory board of Akshaya Patra and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees in Akshaya Patra UK, the world's largest NGO-run school meal programme which is now feeding approximately 1.4 million children studying in 10,000+ schools. Another pet project, Anant Education Initiative is a scholarship program that extends merit scholarship to students who are constrained financially but are aspiring for higher education. Currently Anant is extending scholarship to more than 5,000 students.

Krishna Bhumi at Vrindavan along with tallest Krishna Temple in the world, is an initiative straight from the heart and an opportunity to be a part of an iconic residential development. He is also attached to several other social and philanthropic organizations and initiatives such as Institute of Neurosciences - Kolkata, The Jaipur Foot, Udayan Care, India Autism Centre, Round Table India, etc. and aspires to continuously give back to society.

Mr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Mr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya has a unique blend of experience in leading IT systems Integration business, Software business as Well as IT Services and Consulting for Global Corporations like HCL and Oracle and emerging organizations like Wizertech. He has initiated several new businesses, led profit centres consisting of multiple businesses, significantly improved return on Investments and Growth, created enablers for differentiated delivery and business models, expanded into new markets, hired and groomed the best of talent and built winning teams.

He remains focused on strategic transformation and growing Consulting / Advisory businesses. His areas of interest are business strategy, valuation of a firm, building practices to create sustainable business models, building teams capable of value creation at customer places through consulting based on transformational technologies, and raising capital. Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt LTD, Chiranjib has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Co-Chairperson of IT Committee, a member of the Board and also is a member of the Education & Heritage committee at The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and IIT Kharagpur. He is certified in "Leadership and Profitable Pricing" from Kellogg School of Management, North Western University. He is also certified in "Mergers & Acquisition and Competitive Marketing Strategy" from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and in "Global Strategy & Leadership" from Fundacao Dom Cabral - Brazil. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate Program in Management at ISB Hyderabad. He has served as a visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Ms. Maya Bridgman

Ms. Maya Bridgman is a 17 year old high school student in Dubai who is passionate about eradicating the digital divide globally. She is the founder of the Dubai Artificial Intelligence Society which now has over 700 members globally.

As an ardent advocate of digital equity and reducing barriers to digital skills adoption by disadvantaged youth in developed/developing countries, she empowers students through her accessible online digital literacy, computer science content, accessible online AI content, as well as implementing projects to increase internet infrastructure development through hardware collection and distribution.

She is committed to the diversification of the artificial intelligence and machine learning industry to exponentially increase innovation and applications that are relevant and representative of all populations regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, age and location.

Mr. Niladri Shekhar Dutta

Mr. Niladri Shekhar Dutta is a seasoned Telecom-ICT industry professional with close to 18+ years of experience in ICT (Information-Communication-Technology) strategy, C-Level advisory, Portfolio & product management, Digital and Operational transformation across markets of Europe, Middle East, Africa, A-Pac, India, and New Zealand. He has successfully sold and delivered multiple transformation led ICT/TMT projects till date, which has helped him garner real life experiences, and showcase organizations' capabilities to his end customers. Presently he works with Ericsson AB, in Sweden as a Global Director in their HQ based in Stockholm.

He heads 'AI Ideation, Data Strategy & Technical Sales' for their Managed Services IT & ADM business globally and is instrumental in driving all leading initiatives around Analytics and Data as part of their global portfolio and innovation. Prior to this, Niladri was a Director with Deloitte India, and was leading the Telco & Digital competence for Cyber Risk &TMT advisory where he worked closely with other member firms (Deloitte Middle East & Deloitte Africa) to sell and deliver projects around Digital transformation.

Before this he was the Head of Consulting services for Ericsson in the Middle East and Africa region, where he built the practice from ground zero to a P&L worth 45mUSD.

He is also an avid reader and a regular participant at major industry forums, chat shows, webinars, and other platforms to share in ideas around Digital innovation within the ICT world. Teaching has always been his passion and he is a visiting industry faculty advisor and an active member of the Academic advisory board at Symbiosis (SIDTM) Pune, his alma-mater. In his free time, he loves travelling and is a passionate movie buff and a foodie. He happily lives with his wife Nisha and son Hrehan in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mr. Viswanathan Ramaswamy

Mr. Viswanathan Ramaswamy, commonly knows as 'Vishy', is a telecom industry leader with over 3 decades of experience in the communications industry. He has a vast knowledge about various networking technologies and the associated IT solutions. He has been a thought leader in the areas of technology convergence and industry application of mobile network technologies. He is currently the Vice President for Digital Solutions Incubation in Tata Communications. Prior to this he has worked with companies like Wipro, Vodafone India, AT&T and Crompton Greaves Ltd.

Dr. Radhakrishnan Ganti

Dr. Radhakrishnan Ganti is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

He received his B. Tech. and M. Tech. in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Masters in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. He is a co-author of the monograph Interference in Large Wireless Networks (NOW Publishers, 2008).

He received the 2014 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2014 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize and the 2015 IEEE Communications society young author best paper award. He was also awarded the 2016-2017 Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA) by IIT Madras. In 2019, he was awarded the TSDSI fellow for technical excellence in standardization activities and contribution to LMLC use case in ITU.

He led the technical development of Indigenous BS from IIT Madras in the 5G testbed project.

Mr. David Salam

David is Director of Mobile at BT and is responsible for delivering the Best Mobile Network and leading Mobile innovation services in the UK.

David leads teams across multiple technology disciplines including Mobile radio, core, solutions, devices, innovations labs, testing, wifi, IoT and Analytics.

David has led Technology teams in the Mobile space delivering networks and solutions from the first 2G network to the latest 5G Advanced services, and has led disciplines including Strategy, Design, Operations and Big Data.

David has worked across several brands from one2one, T-Mobile to EE including time at Deutsche Telekom where he has worked on technology strategy, NGMN standardization, network sharing and M&A.

David lives near London and has a B.Eng in electronic, communications and computer engineering.

Mr. Arindam Sanyal

B.Tech in Radio Physics & Electronics from the University of Calcutta in 1993 and worked in CESC Limited, Reliance Telecom Limited, Loop Telecom Limited and Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited in various capacities.

Presently working as Deputy General Manager (Distribution Automation) and is looking after automation and telecom infrastructure required for power distribution utility.

Mr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Mr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya has a unique blend of experience in leading IT systems Integration business, Software business as Well as IT Services and Consulting for Global Corporations like HCL and Oracle and emerging organizations like Wizertech. He has initiated several new businesses, led profit centres consisting of multiple businesses, significantly improved return on Investments and Growth, created enablers for differentiated delivery and business models, expanded into new markets, hired and groomed the best of talent and built winning teams.

He remains focused on strategic transformation and growing Consulting / Advisory businesses. His areas of interest are business strategy, valuation of a firm, building practices to create sustainable business models, building teams capable of value creation at customer places through consulting based on transformational technologies, and raising capital. Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt LTD, Chiranjib has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Co-Chairperson of IT Committee, a member of the Board and also is a member of the Education & Heritage committee at The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and IIT Kharagpur. He is certified in "Leadership and Profitable Pricing" from Kellogg School of Management, North Western University. He is also certified in "Mergers & Acquisition and Competitive Marketing Strategy" from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and in "Global Strategy & Leadership" from Fundacao Dom Cabral - Brazil. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate Program in Management at ISB Hyderabad. He has served as a visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Mr. Sudhir Kothari

An experienced and successful entrepreneur, dynamic leader, and believer of "always-on" business transformation, Mr. Sudhir Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Embee Software Pvt Ltd. For over 34 years, under his leadership, Embee has been driving successful digital transformations for thousands of organizations, including the likes of GEP, Icertis, Tata Steel, Wonder Cement, Pidilite and more. He stands out for his ability to manage the immediate business landscape while maintaining a long-term vision and thinking ahead of the curve.

Mr. Kothari's style of leadership is best described as 'intrapreneurial', with him constantly inculcating in his team a culture of swift decision-making, ownership and customer-centricity.

Mr. Surjit Singh Sodhi

Mr. Sodhi is a Techno Manager with more than 3 decades of global experience in not only setting up IT infrastructure but also large ERP Implementations, setting up of Greenfield and DR Data Centers and Cloud Migrations.

Mr. Sodhi's IT work experience spans across both Technology Companies and heavy IT Consumer companies.

Presently responsible for Cloud Migration Business Development at AWS wherein he advises companies on Cloud Migration and adoption. Prior to that he has worked as Cloud Enterprise Architect at Oracle India for almost 5 years. He started his career at ONGC participating in one of the largest SAP implementations of that time, later joining Reliance SAP Team and executing large DB Migrations followed by a Oracle ERP Implementation at Iffco/Allanasons.

Dr. Anish Agarwal

Dr. Anish Agarwal is a Senior Analytics innovative leader with over 21 years of experience in the field of Data Strategy, Analytics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and has exceptional expertise of delivering value through innovative use of data across a spectrum of industry verticals. He specialises in integrating analytics and technology teams across organisational lines to improve solution delivery and enabling data driven insight.

Dr. Agarwal is a sought after thought leader with experience of leading and growing world class data science teams. Under his leadership, organizations have made great strides advancing its capabilities around data, reporting and analytics. He is a leader with excellent strategic vision, collaborative approach, and vision to actualize strategic goals in complex environments.

Along with his technical contributions to the field, he is also a leading voice at the national level for advocating for ethics and diversity in AI and STEM and has received numerous awards and recognition for his work. He has been named as Top 50 influential AI Leaders in India and Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists. Dr. Anish also spends time mentoring aspiring Data Scientists has also been recognized as Top Five Data Science mentors in India.

He serves as an academic advisor to various colleges/ universities across India and has authored more than 15 papers on various subjects related to Artificial Intelligence and advanced Data & Analytics. Some of his most well-known work as an AI Leader includes: The interlock between Artificial Intelligence & Quantum Computing; Application of Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications; Boosting Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering Using Content-Metadata and Artificial Intelligence & Ethics (Issues and conversations keep AI experts up at night). He has been a speaker at more than 90 national and international events.

Mr. Anitosh Halder

Mr. Anitosh has over 18 years of diverse experience in the field of business development, client management, new product launches, and channels/ partner management in leading IT companies such as Accenture, HPE, and now Sify.

At Sify, he is responsible for driving business across Data Center and Cloud portfolio of Services. He continues to help customers plan and execute their cloud and digital transformation initiatives in the most efficient manner.

Mr. Kalyan Kar

Mr. Kalyan Kar is the Co-Founder & Director of InQube Innoventures, which incubates "Innovative Inclusive Initiatives". He firmly believes that innovative and effective utilization of technology can lead to Equitable, Inclusive & Sustainable growth for the society at large.

Currently, he is involved in incubating several start-ups in the areas of Technology, Education, BPO, Skill Development, Data Analytics and Agriculture.

Earlier, he Co-Founded an US based Healthcare Services company which was finally acquired by the World's largest employee benefits organization.

His ventures have won "Great Place to Work" award in India for 3 continuous years, as well as "Exciting Emerging Companies to Work for" by NASSCOM and was the All India Finalist for "NASSCOM Innovation Awards".

He graduated from St. Xavier's College and is a Chartered Accountant as well as a Cost Accountant by Profession.

Mr. Kar is currently in the National Education, HR & Skill Development Expert Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce as well as the Executive Committee of Bengal Chamber and Innovation & IT Sub-Committee of CII. He is also the Vice President of the Sector V Stakeholders' Association. He has been part of Government and Business Delegates to overseas countries promoting the "Make in India" initiative.

Mr. Kamal Ajitsaria

Mr. Kamal Ajitsaria is currently leading the Adani AI Labs to solve some of the toughest business problems using artificial intelligence.

Prior to this role, he was leading the development of Adani Industry Cloud - a cloud-based data & analytics platform for industrial operations management. Kamal joined Adani as Operational Technology leader for Energy Businesses of Adani.

Kamal has 25 years of experience. In the past, he has worked with AVEVA, Schneider Electric, Invensys Operations Management, Cognizant Technology Solutions, MESA International, TCS etc. Kamal is a chemical engineer from IIT Bombay. He also has an MS in Environmental engineering from University of Iowa.

Mr. Anil Joshi

Mr. Anil Joshi is the Founder and Managing Partner at Unicorn India Ventures, a leading Venture Capital Fund focusing on early-stage investments in tech companies. With over two decades of experience in the field, Anil pioneered angel investments in India as the head of operations and President at Mumbai Angels, one of the most reputable and prolific Angel Investment forums in India. As an early mover in early 2000 in this segment, Anil was investing in budding companies even before venture investment had taken any formal shape in India.

Within the start-up ecosystem, Anil has been at the helm of over 100 venture-financing deals. He serves on the board of several companies in the field of Fintech, Robotic, Meditech, IOT, Bigdata, SaaS and is involved with multiple incubation centres as a board member and mentor in India as well as internationally. Additionally, he also advices the government and industry bodies on start-ups regarding policy. Young entrepreneurs draw upon his vast experience for guidance and strategic direction for their own start-ups.

As an accomplished public speaker with informed opinions about the sector, he is much sought after at start-up events both in the domestic and the international circuit. His speaking engagements have taken him to countries like Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Canada, China, France, Australia and the Middle East.

Anil's corporate experience includes management functions in medium and large organizations, project management, joint ventures and business development. Prior to joining Mumbai Angels, he was heading new projects and investment in start-ups with Artheon Group, a Telecom, IT & Energy group. His early career started as the head of a branch office at Century Rayon, a leading Indian textile conglomerate, after which he moved to Business Access India Pvt. Ltd., providing consulting services to Scandinavian companies from diverse sectors establishing their presence in the Asian markets. He then moved to Transasia Biomedical Ltd., India's largest manufacturer and exporter of bio-medical equipment.

Anil graduated in Engineering and Post-Graduation in Management (Marketing) and PGDBM in Strategic Finance and Control.

Mr. Sarbajit Das

Mr. Sarbajit Das specializes in solving digital challenges for brands across the globe.

An entrepreneur with a fierce drive to craft next-generation tech solutions with brilliant aesthetics, Mr. Das also heads an Aviation Tech, Data Security and a Food tech start up across Europe.

He is also the Tech Division Head for a growing Home Warranty and Insurance Business in New York City.

Dr. Soumyajit Roy

Co-Founder, Solaire Initiative Pvt. Ltd.

Prof. Dr. Soumyajit Roy, Co-Founded Solaire. He is a Professor at IISER Kolkata and has 100 research papers and 15 patents filed to his credit. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and The RSA, UK (FRSA).

He is a Member of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, USA, Member, West-Faelia Lippe University Society, Germany and a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT) and Indian Chemical Society (FICS).

He studied in Hindu School, St. Xavier's College Kolkata, IIT Delhi and at present leads a research program at IISER Kolkata. His research aims to understand creation of complexity and emergence of life. Within the framework of Solaire he is trying to toy and test the idea of micro-nucleating wealth-knowledge synergy with Deep Science Innovation with a worm's eye view aspiring to zoom out to a bird's eye view on knowledge-wealth landscape emerging in this part of the world with his friends and team at Solaire and beyond.

Prof. Dr. Pei Liang

COO, Solaire Initiative Pvt. Ltd.

Prof. Dr. Pei Liang is COO of Solaire Initiative Pvt Ltd. She finished MBBS in a leading University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China and later gained Master and PhD in Neuroscience at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is Director of Brain and Cognitive Research Centre, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University.

She is Deputy Director of Brain Imaging Research Center, Changshu No. 2 Hospital, China. Her research area includes perceptual cognitive processing, with eye tracking, EEG and functional imaging technologies to study the cross-modal neural mechanism of multi-sensory integration. She has been selected as CIM Returning Expert from the German Federal Ministry of International Migration and Development, Suzhou Excellence, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and Member of American Psychology Association (APA).

Dr. Tapan Misra

4 decades of experience in Space-Tech and Radar Systems. One of the world's foremost experts in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology. Father of RISAT - India's first cutting edge SAR-based reconnaissance satellite.

- Former Director, Space Applications Centre (ISRO)
- Former Director, Physical Research Laboratory
- Adjunct Professor, IIT Jodhpur
- Former Adjunct Professor, IIT Kharagpur
- Pioneered Development of Indigenous SAR Technology and Processing
- Built SAR payloads in L, S, C, X bands for both Airborne and Space-borne SAR
- Led RISAT series, Chandrayaan-2 DF SAR, NISAR, Hyperspectral Imaging Technology Development, HTS Communication Satellite
- 8 granted patents (SAR systems, SAR Processing, NF Measurement, MW Measurement, Hyperspectral compression cum single pixel Classification)
- 5 copyrights (SAR Processing, MW Measurement ) and 36 papers

Mr. Manjit Nayak

Director, STPI - West Bengal

Mr. Manjit Nayak, Director - STPI, West Bengal Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, an Engineering Graduate from Utkal University and MBA from Sambalpur University, In-charge of Software Technology Parks of India - Kolkata center along with other four sub centers in West Bengal.

He has more than 25 years of association with Government Sector as well as Corporate and 20 years experience in policy making and statutory services for IT & ITES industries. He has served in STPI in various capacities and at several location places throughout the country. His active support and decisive actions have created many opportunities for SMEs to avail maximum benefits of policies and services.

Earlier he was also looking after simultaneously the IT/ITES SEZs in the State of West Bengal for three years. He has been playing a key role jointly working with the State Government and different industries associations and chambers for various policy formations, IT/ Electronics promotional activities and key decisions with regard to development of IT sector and infrastructure. His leadership quality fulfilled to the expectations of the IT/ITES industries by providing efficient and timely support.

Mr. Deepak Daftari

Mr. Deepak Daftari is the CEO of eSiksha.com, an active Domain Investor & Angel Investor. Currently, he is the Chairman for the Entrepreneurship Committee at the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

He is an expert in Domain Brand Consulting and Internet Branding. He buys and sells very valuable Domain Names and web based online business. He has bought and sold multiple six figure names in the last few years.

He is a pioneer in India in the Domaining space. Mr. Daftari has invested in multiple Start-ups in India and has had successful exit too from his investments. In his spare time, he mentors a lot of start-ups and helps them in their growth journey and raising funds.

Prof. Pulak Ghosh

Prof. Pulak Ghosh is a Professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). His main research and teaching interest are in Big data, Machine learning, AI, Fintech Economics, and Public Policy. Prof. Ghosh serves as a senior fellow at Niti Ayoog (Govt of India's highest policy making body) and has been in the Advisory group of Big Data at the United Nations (UN) Global Pulse, a big data initiative by UN. He is member of National Statistics Commission.

Mr. Mihir Gandhi

Mr. Mihir Gandhi is a Partner in the Consulting practice of PwC India and leads the Payments Transformation practice. With over 18 years of consulting experience, he has developed a strong business and technology consulting exposure in India and few international markets like Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

He is passionate about helping clients in the Financial Services, Government and other industries build and grow payments businesses.

In India, he has been part of the digital payments growth story of India. He has managed the core team to set up the domestic card scheme of India - RuPay from 2011-2013. Additionally, he has been at the forefront of setting up country level payment infrastructure for 4-5 countries.

He works with fintechs and payment companies to develop the strategic roadmap, assist in regulatory compliance, deal advisory and provide technology advise.

He is also part of PwC's Global Payments Leadership Council who regularly discuss matters of interest across the world in the digital payments industry.

Mr. Anupam Dutta

Mr. Anupam Dutta is a Partner in PwC India and focuses on Data & Analytics competency. He has more than 17 years of experience in Tax Technology, Analytics on Pharma, Healthcare, Airlines, Oil & Gas sectors. He has been focusing on BI Strategy and roadmap, Corporate and Business unit growth strategy and go to market initiatives in the Pharma & Healthcare sector.

He has done Graduation from Kalyani University and Postgraduate Leadership Programme from INSEAD Singapore.

Mr. Santanu Mukherjee

Mr. Santanu Mukherjee is currently playing a role of Head of Blockchain Practice & Principal Architect in Mindtree Ltd. He has demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry for last one and half decades with IBM, TCS, TCG, RS Software etc. Skilled in plethora of technologies and dialect, has good capability of requirements Analysis, knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and Agile Methodologies. He has completed Master of Computer Application (MCA) from UP Technical University and Bachelor of Statistics from RKM Narendrapur. He has completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Sikkim Manipal University and advance courses from IIM Bangalore.

Mr. Somnath Chatterjee

Mr. Somnath Chatterjee is the Global Domain Advisory & Solutions Lead for Hospitality, Cruises and Real Estate sectors within Mindtree's TTH (Travel, Transportation & Hospitality) Industry Group. He comes with 16+ years of Retail, Travel & Hospitality (T&H) and Real Estate (RE) consulting experience during which he had led several complex advisory programs for various Retail, T&H and RE global majors across multiple geographies, namely - US, UK, ME and APAC. Somnath completed his PGDM from T. A. Pai Management Institute and is a B.Tech in Textile Technology from Govt. College of Engineering & Textile Technology, Berhampore under University of Calcutta.

Mr. Karthikeyan Dhayalamani

Mr. Karthikeyan is the Head of Metaverse Practice and AR/VR COE. He is responsible for incubation of new platforms/products, roadmap, GTM strategy and scale. He has extensive experience driving multiple large scale digital transformations and high impact product launches across geographies.

Karthik completed his M.Tech (Master of Technology) from BMS college of Engineering Bangalore and Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication. He has 19 years of experience in the IT Industry.

Mr. Subho Samanta

Mr. Samanta has over 30 years of experience in leading and integrating very large Delivery Centers across the globe with more than 13,000 associates. He is currently the Mentor and Chief Delivery Officer at Exavalu. A true strategic thinker and a recognized leader, he has managed P&L over a billion dollars and built CRM practices for global consulting companies such as Cognizant Technology Solutions and Atos. Subho has built teams from scratch that grew globally and was recognized as Leader in the Garner Magic Quadrant. He thrives on creating an engaging environment for colleagues by embracing opportunities created through operational efficiencies using the latest technology, including robotics and automation.

Mr. Pedro Jordäo

Mr. Pedro Jordäo has an international experience as CEO, board member, consultant, professor, researcher, author and speaker.

His academic background and his professional activity comprise apparently different fields, like global business strategy, international politics and security, next-generation technologies, globalization, global economics and disruptive innovation.

His intervention over this varied range of areas, in a combined way and in an international context, has evolved into an interdisciplinary perception of the emerging world transformations, including Globalization and "World 4.0".

Mr. Subrata Bhattacharyya

Mr. Subrata Bhattacharyya is the CEO of PharmaQuant and a Health Economist by profession. Subrata started his health economic modelling journey in Novartis. He has developed and managed teams in India and internationally. He works with several leading global pharmaceutical companies to put a robust evidence generation plan in place for a successful launch of new innovative drugs. He specialises in translating the clinical value of a drug into its economic value across drug development phases.

Prof. Dr. Abhirup Sarkar

Prof. Abhirup Sarkar obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta and a Master's from the University of Calcutta. He did his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and has spent most of his academic career at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta from where he has recently retired. He has taught and researched in several other institutions including the University of Florida, USA, Brigham Young University, USA, Concordia University, Canada, International Centre for Economic Research, Italy and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was the Chairman of the Fourth State Finance Commission and the Sixth Pay Commission of West Bengal. He currently chairs the Fifth State Finance Commission of West Bengal, West Bengal Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation as well as West Bengal Financial Corporation. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee (Surveys) of the Reserve Bank of India and the Group of Advisors to the Union Finance Minister on G20 matters.

Mr. Deepak Jain

Mr. Deepak Jain is Founder of FlexiLoans.com, one of the market leaders in Digital SME Lending. FlexiLoans is a technology-based online financing platform started with an endeavour to solve the problems that small businesses face in accessing quick, flexible and adequate funds for growing their businesses. FlexiLoans is a market leader in ecosystem-based digital lending for small businesses in India. Disbursed over 50,000 loans worth Rs. 2000 Crs to small businesses across 1,500+ cities without having a single branch! The company has raised over USD 100 Mn in Capital since inception from an excellent pool of Investors.

Deepak's key responsibilities at Flexiloans.com include Business Development, Strategic Alliances, Fund Raise - Equity & Debt and Corporate Strategy. Deepak has over 15 Years of experience across investment banking, management consulting and corporate finance & strategy roles. Raised over USD 10 Bn across 35 deals across sectors with over 10 deals in BFSI sector. Strong relationships with top Indian Corporates, Private Equity and Capital Markets investors.

Deepak was chosen as 40 under 40 by Fortune India in 2022.

Deepak is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad with a specialisation in Strategy and Finance. He is a commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai.

Deepak is part of Executive Committee of Digital Lenders Association of India (DLAI) and is Co-Chair for DLAI Events committee 2019-21, Charter Member & part of Fintech SIG for Tie Mumbai and have led Finance Initiatives for Indian School of Business, Alumni Association in the past.

Regular speaker at various conferences, Deepak have spoken on various events including events for Tie-Con Mumbai, Nasscom Fintech Day, ISB Conclaves, DLAI Annual Conference, Fintegrate, Conferences of leading Investment Banking firms like CLSA, EY, Kotak etc.

Mr. Arnab Basu

Mr. Arnab Basu is the Advisory Leader for PwC in India. He has two decades of consulting experience in diverse fields like Digital Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Performance Management, Removing Complexity, and defining the Digital Journey leveraging Enterprise Applications. He is part of our Global Advisory Leadership team and has worked for a range of top tier clients across multiple geographies and industries including Industrial Products, Discrete Manufacturing, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas.

In his previous role, he was the Technology Consulting leader for PwC India for five years. As the Regional Managing Partner of East region, Arnab expanded PwC's footprints across the region including Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

Mr. Basu joined PwC post his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 2001. He has previously done his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. He is closely associated with several Business Chambers.

Mr. Kaushik Chatterjee

Mr. Kaushik Chatterjee is the Global Delivery Head for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance and is a Senior Vice President at Zensar. He has over 23 years of rich experience in IT Services cutting across business, applications and infrastructure and has played leadership roles in P&L management, service delivery, consulting and practice development.

Dr. Puneet Agarwal

Dr. Puneet Agarwal is the Chief Technology Officer at Zensar Technologies Ltd. He is responsible for innovation charter of Zensar, manages ZenLabs, the applied research centres of the company and is also responsible for AI/ ML and Blockchain related business.

Dr. Agarwal has worked in the IT Services industry for 24+ years, and has published 50+ research papers in the area of Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Time-Series, and Software Engineering. He has also filed 30+ unique patents, which resulted in 200+ patents when replicated worldwide. He has served on the program committee of reputed conferences such as ACM-KDD in recent past.

He has a Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi, in the area of Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, Distributed Parallel Processing, and Deep Learning, and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Trichy.

Mr. Rajesh Dhuddu

Mr. Rajesh Dhuddu leads Blockchain & Metaverse practice for Tech Mahindra. He is responsible for establishing and driving Tech Mahindra's Metaverse practice, TechMVerse, and is also leading corporate strategies for creating metaverse ecosystems and B2B use cases. He works closely with global CTOs and CISOs, advises them on industry best practices, and helps them leverage professional services around design, content, as well as low code plug and play NFT and Blockchain platforms.

Rajesh has played a key role in establishing Blockchain practice at Tech Mahindra that made Blockchain real and valuable for several global customers. He is also responsible for making Blockchain relevant and valuable for common man in India by spearheading the implementation of solutions to block spam calls and text in partnership with 3 leading Telcos and also Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Under his able leadership many award winning and transformative Blockchain solutions have been internalized by Fortune 500 and Global Clients in BFSI, Healthcare, Telecom, Payments, Manufacturing, Travel & Transportation verticals.

Forbes Magazine has listed Rajesh Dhuddu as a key leader in Blockchain in 2021 and Tech Mahindra emerged as the only Indian company and Global IT services company in the Forbes' Blockchain 50 list in 2021 and 2022.

Lattice80 has listed Rajesh as one of the top 100 Blockchain Influencers in the world in recognition of his contributions over the last 5 years. Thinkers360 has recognized him in Top 5 Global list of Blockchain influencers.

He is also a member of Blockchain Steering Committee at IIM Ahmedabad, part of World Economic Forum Expert Network (comprising only select 5000 people in the world on emerging technologies) for both Cybersecurity and Blockchain and is founding chairman of Blockchain Special Interest Group at Nasscom.

Mr. Navin Manaswi

Mr. Navin Manaswi is a serial entrepreneur and one among global top 10 thought leaders on Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality. He is a Chief Metaverse Officer at WoWExp - India's 1st Metaverse company.

He is a published author of two books on Artificial Intelligence. For last 3 years, he is building AR VR Metaverse products and games. He was an adjunct faculty at IIT Kharagpur for AI courses. He is a graduate from IIT Kanpur. He is a Google Developer Expert on Machine Learning as a Google community. He executed more than 25 Enterprise Products and Solutions by using Artificial Intelligence, AR & VR and cloud computing across the globe across the industries.

Mr. Roberto Hernandez

Over twenty years of experience in financial services, customer experience and innovation. Roberto is the co-founder of PwC's Consumer Lending Innovation Center. Roberto has authored whitepapers on the Metaverse, Embedded Finance, Digitization, Customer Experience, Bionic Lending and the future of the consumer lending ecosystem. Roberto holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Work Experience PwC Partner - US Metaverse Leader (2012- Present)
Metaverse and Digital Assets, Customer Experience, Innovation Embedded Finance, Consumer Lending, Retail Banking, Mortgage Banking

Senior Manager - Consumer Finance Group (2004-2012)
Provide advice to clients on strategic planning, process improvement, risk and profitability analysis, loan accounting, customer retention, and emerging markets lending strategies

Associate - (May 2003- Aug 2003)
Goldman Sachs

Senior Specialist/Equity Trading (1998-2002)
Merrill Lynch.

Mr. N. K. Ghosal

Mr. N.K.Ghosal is currently working as an independent Consultant and conducting Information Systems Audits and Consulting for various Financial Institutions. Prior to this he was based in Bangalore working for Societe Generale heading their security for Asia Infrastructure.

He is currently putting together solutions based on ZTA (Zero Trust Architecture) which is important in this current situation of WFH(work from home ) & WFA (work from anywhere) .

Apart from this N. K. Ghosal has in his approximate 20 years of experience worked for various IT companies like IBM, HCL , Computer Associates - TCG in India and for HCL Malaysia and SVOA plc in Thailand.

He is CISA & CEH certified & recently qualified as ISO27001:2013 LA. He is on the Board of ISACA Kolkata Chapter, Member of the IT Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCC&I), Life member of Computer Society of India (CSI) and member of The Agri-Horticultural Society of India.

Mr. Sudeep Kumar Das

Mr. Sudeep has over 22 years of Security industry experience and has been leading Technology teams that help companies achieve business benefits through comprehensive security programs. His specialisation is Program architecture for large scale security deployments around Security Operations Centre, Identity and Data Security frameworks.

Prior to joining Tenable, Sudeep led the Pre-Sales function for IBM Security for India, South Asia. Before that he was the managing RSA Pre-Sales team and prior to that he was working as a consultant for Tata Consultancy services for 10 years.

Mr. Charly Graf

Defining and implementing security architectures based on different security solutions. The main objectives are to create a secure and relatively framework of orchestrated security solutions. Charly is in charge of defining the process chains, defining the security logic and technical rulesets of the selected components.

He's a holder of a MSc in HRM and has more than 25 years of professional experience as a Consultant in various projects and roles.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish.

Mr. Konstantin Stassinakis

Main focus area is to define and prepare the required infrastructure components with the customer to get a reliable and scalable security infrastructure. Additionally Konstantin is in charge of the basic installation and system configuration of the security solutions provided by Defendeer.

He's a holder of a BBA and MBA and has more than 25 years of professional experience in management positions in national and international enterprises.

Languages: German, English, French, Greek.