BITC 2024 - Program Schedule & Speaker Profiles

Mr. Gautam Ray

Mr. Gautam Ray, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers, graduated in Electrical Engineering from Calcutta University (erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, presently IIEST) in 1981 and completed Post Graduation in Electrical Power System, from the same Institute in 1983. He was, till recently, Executive Director of CESC Limited, age-old power utility serving the city of Kolkata for more than 100 years and also President (HR), Power Group of RPSG. Presently, he is President - Corporate, RPSG Group.

Mr. Ray has an experience of close to 40 years of working in Power System operations and load dispatch, before he migrated to HR & Admin. He was instrumental in working on a collaborative project with Singapore Power for improvement in Distribution Sector. He also established AIPM (Asia Institute of Power Management) under CESC, which imparted training and consultancy services for many power utilities of India and neighbouring countries.

He is currently the President of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is the Chairman of National Safety Council - West Bengal Chapter, Former President - Calcutta Management Association for 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Mr. Arnab Basu

Mr. Arnab Basu is a Partner in PwC India, spearheading the firm's Advisory business, including Consulting, Risk and Deals. He brings rich consulting experience in diverse fields like Business model reinvention, Business Transformation, Operating Model Design, Performance Management, Removing Complexity, and defining Digital Strategy leveraging Enterprise Applications. He sits on PwC's Global Advisory Leadership team and has worked with a range of top tier clients across multiple geographies and industries, including Industrial Manufacturing, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas.

Mr. Basu joined PwC in 2001 post his MBA from IIM Calcutta and specialized in strategy led business transformations using digital platforms and solutions and related Change programs. He is also an Enterprise Apps methodology expert within the global PwC network. Arnab is also responsible for PwC's investments in emerging areas like Climate, Cyber, Gen AI and the corresponding growth strategy and building high performance teams.

Mr. Gopala Ramanan

Mr. Ramanan is a finance leader with 3 decades of experience in corporate finance, controllership, M&A, treasury, taxation, corporate secretarial & legal. He has served on many Corporate Board in the capacity of non-independent director. He has been with Oracle for the last 20+ years and currently the Vice President and JAPAC Controller, managing the financial controllership, US GAAP, local statutory accounting, mergers & acquisitions, treasury for the region, audits ESG risk and compliance. He recently joined the Board of Directors of OFSS, a listed entity. He shares the Oracle success stories and his experience with CFOs to achieve operational excellence.

Prior to joining Oracle, he worked in senior level with Standard Chartered Bank in India and abroad and a software company after starting his career as an investment banker.

He is a regular speaker in professional institutes, business schools and industrial forums on Finance, Technology and Leadership.

By qualification, he is a Cost & Management Accountant (passed with an All India Rank in the Final examinations), Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and successfully completed his Executive MBA from IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Bangalore. His passion for risk and compliance made him to do criminology and forensic science course apart from pursuing his masters in psychology. He is a certified six sigma Green Belt and certified Mentor Coach.

Mr. Rajesh Dhar

Rajesh Dhar is the Senior Director, Sales Head for Industry Verticals at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India - the global edge-to-cloud platform as-a-service company.

In his current role, he is responsible for driving strategy and sales across all industry verticals (FSI, Telecom, MDI & Public Sector) for HPE products, i.e. servers, storage, and DC Networking.

An industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in sales and business management in the IT sector, Rajesh has been associated with Hewlett-Packard for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in direct sales, segment sales, channel management, product marketing, P&L management, media interactions, and IT asset financing.

During his diverse roles at HPE, he has managed large teams successfully and mentored many IT professionals. At present, he's leading the team that looks after HPE's overall practices for Outcome-Based Selling. The team is responsible for driving HPE's Account Management and Industry Vertical penetration for India across all customer segments, specifically for Data and Cloud focused accounts.

In his previous role, Rajesh was responsible for helping customers design & build IT systems to drive aggressive digital transformations & leverage benefits of hybrid cloud architectures. He also led HP Financial Services for India, an in-house NBFC predominantly focused on IT asset leasing.

Rajesh holds bachelor's degree in Engineering (BE) from National Institute of Technology. His Passion and Interests are Technology, Coaching, Travel & Music.

Mr. Vinod Karumampoyil

Vinod Karumampoyil leads the Digital Transformation Offiice (DTO) for Cisco India & SAARC. He is also the Program Execution Leader for Cisco's flagship Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program. Vinod's charter includes, but is not limited to, accelerating the national digitization agenda by building long-term relationships with leaders at the national level as well as in the industry and academia, strengthening mindshare, and increasing our footprint in the market.

Vinod and his team have been pivotal in providing solutions and driving success across several verticals, especially Smart Cities, Agriculture, Transportation, e-Gov, and Utilities.

Vinod joined Cisco in September 2016 to head Advanced Services Business Development for Collaboration and IoT architectures for the APJC theatre. Prior to this, he was with AGC Networks, Avaya Global Connect, and Servion Global Solutions. Vinod has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, building business operations in India, Europe, and the Middle East.

Vinod was awarded a Bachelor of Technology from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, formerly the Calicut Regional Engineering College, in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is passionate about developing cutting-edge technologies and business solutions for the market while forging long-term strategic customer-partner relationships. He is equally passionate about movies, soccer and food.

You may also connect with Vinod on Linkedln at the following profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinod-karumampoyil-3710522

Mr. Amit Singh

Mr. Singh comes with over 20 years of experience in the telecom and technology sector. He has developed and executed business strategies, and created long-term value for customers and partners. He is passionate about the edge space and its potential to transform the digital ecosystem. He has been instrumental in launching and scaling cloud compute and edge acceleration solutions in India, Middle East, and Africa.

Mr. Takashi SUZUKI

He joined JETRO in 1994. He focuses on business promotion work with Asian countries and has been stationed in Nigeria, Belgium, Bangladesh, India, etc. He is the Chief Director General JETRO India since 2022.

Academic Background:
March 1994, Graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of English and American Languages.

Work experience:
1994-1996: Joined JETRO, Trade Fair Department
1996-1998: Fukushima Office
1998-2000: Japan Overseas Development Corporation (JODC)
2000-2002: Trade Commissioner, JETRO Lagos
2002-2005: Director, JETRO Brussels
2005-2009: Deputy Director, Trade Development Department
2009-2013: Representative, JETRO Dhaka
2013-2015: Director, Trade Development Department
2015-2018: Senior Director for Global Strategy (Southwest Asia), Planning Department 2018-2022: Director General, JETRO Bengaluru
2022- Chief Director General, JETRO India

Shri Rajeev Kumar, IPS

Shri Babul Supriyo

Mr. Ravindra Chamaria

Armed with invaluable life experiences, a passion for enterprise and a desire to create winning collaborations, Mr. Ravindra Chamaria isn't your everyday de rigueur businessman. As a first generation entrepreneur, he has scripted several highly successful businesses both in India and abroad.

Infinity Group under his Chairmanship has been living up to its name and maxim of creating infinite possibilities. It is the Infinity banner which with its main project Think Tank catalyzed Sector V of Kolkata from a dormant suburb into a vibrant and dynamic address.

Deservedly he is also often credited with pioneering a Green Building movement in India. Under his leadership Infinity has delivered path breaking green projects such as Infinity Benchmark, Godrej Waterside, Infinity IT Lagoon & Adventz Infinity.

Deeply passionate about philanthropic causes and making a difference, he has added tremendous value to noteworthy organizations such as Akshaya Patra, The Jaipur Foot, Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharati Shiksha Sansthan, Round Table India, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission to name just a select few and aspires to continuously give back to society.

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Executive Fellow, ISB Hyderabad 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.

Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt Ltd, he has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Chairperson of IT Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Committee, Co-Chairperson of IT Committee & Member of Management Committee and Education Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad 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 has served as a Visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School - Chennai, Indian Institute of Management - Udaipur and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Mr. Sudeep Das

Mr. Sudeep Das is a Cloud & Security technical professional focusing on empowering organizations to protect their business at the speed and scale of cloud.

Most enterprises are faced with daunting security challenges on their journey to cloud, and security insights is frequently spread across different tools, clouds and on-premise IT and OT environments - Mr Das helps organizations to plan a program that can prepare and onboard a journey towards a more trusted environment to operate in.

Mr. Raghavan Kasturirangan

Raghavan Kasturirangan, networking professional with 23 years of experience and is currently Principal Solutions Architect with Cisco Systems.

Focusing on Enterprise Networking with specific interest on Software Defined Networking and Automation across LAN, WAN, DC and multi domain Architecture. He is credited with design and deployment of Software Defined Networks for large Enterprise companies in India.

He is one of the visionaries to propose the concept of Borderless ODC which resulted in Cisco commercializing the solution. Apart from technology, he has good understanding of business and his inputs are highly valued by business leaders as well.

He is a CCIE in Routing and Switching and has achieved Emeritus Status as well. He is also a certified Business Architect (BA) and has led Performance IT engagement across many customers in India and SAARC.

Mr. Partha Sengupta

Experience:

Feb 2000-Feb 2001: Senior Information Technology Specialist - Microland Limited.
Feb 2001-Dec 2002: Senior Consultant, EY.
Jan 2003-Apr 2006: Manager - IT Security, ITC Limited.
Apr 2006-Apr 2007: Senior Manager - IT Security, ITC Limited.
Apr 2007-Oct 2009: General Manager (I3L) & Head of IT Shared Services.
Oct 2009-Jul 2018: Vice President (I3L) & Head of IT Shared Services.
Jul 2018-Present: Senior Vice President, ITC Infotech & Head of IT Shared Services, ITC Limited.

Mr. Rajesh Goel

Rajesh Goel, a seasoned professional, is Oracle's Solution Consulting Director, with over 33+ years of expertise in driving innovative solutions and strategic consulting in the dynamic realm of Oracle ERP Cloud. His extensive experience shapes Oracle's - ERP Cloud vision for effective problem-solving and client success.

Mr. Manish Ranjan

Manish, an ESG Practitioner and Business Manager for HPE Advisory and Professional Services, acts as a strategic partner to customers. He collaborates with his team to provide advisory-led engagements and leads outcomes-focused sustainable digital transformation journeys.

Manish's enthusiasm extends to Green AI Technologies, Computer Vision, FOSS, IIoT products and organizational change management, particularly in the sustainability domain. He has successfully led multiple teams in bringing about ROI-driven solutions in the domains of Sustainable Digital Transformation and On-Prem Pay-per-use Greenlake cloud.

Remaining abreast about the most recent advancements, he diligently keeps his knowledge and skills up-to-date regarding fast changing sustainability trends and legislation. Additionally, he takes an active role in engaging with sustainability-focused industry groups, panels, committees, and initiatives.

As a thought leader, Manish has an impressive track record of driving unique initiatives across business units. He consistently exceeds assigned KPIs and has earned several certifications (BSI-Expedite NetZero | CFI-Climate Risk | CDP | Wharton ESG Materiality etc ) and accolades including multiple Winners' Summit awards for creating profitable and innovative projects.

Beyond his professional life, Manish pursues personal growth through his pursuit of a Ph.D. focused on how Digital Transformation and Green AI aids in mitigating ESG risk. Additionally, he participates in social activities (United Nations Projects) and enjoys delving into articles related to Climate Tech and Sustainable Agriculture.

Mr. Partha Dasgupta

Mr. Partha Dasgupta is a seasoned professional with 32 years of experience in the IT industry. At Savex he is currently leading as DGM sales and operations for West Bengal for the last 26 years and recently taking care of North East Market sales and operations both. He has a strong academic background, a science graduate, and a proven track record in managing distribution business. He is a firm believer in teamwork and leads from the front, empowering his teams to achieve excellence. Apart from his professional expertise, Partha is a travel enthusiast and a sports lover and a sports person too.

Mr. Kaushik Chatterjee

Kaushik is the Global Delivery Head for the Financial Services, Insurance, Life Sciences & Healthcare verticals. He is a Senior Vice President at Zensar. He has over 25 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. Kaushik has held leadership roles in organizations like Cognizant & Citibank and has significant expertise in incubating competencies and growing them to scale.

Kaushik has done his B.Tech in Electronics & Electrical Engineering and holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from IIM Calcutta.

Mr. Animesh Mukherjee

Animesh heads the Industry Solutions Group for Insurance at Zensar Technologies Ltd. He has over 23 years of experience in IT Consulting working to make insurance companies across the globe successful. He is experienced product manager with a demonstrated history of leading successful business transformations for complex Insurance and Financial Services organizations. Animesh is skilled in Program Management, Domain Consulting, M&A and Strategy. At Zensar, Animesh is a passionate servant leader in an extremely talented team of advisors helping Insurers transform and scale to the future.

Animesh has done his BE in Electronics & Electrical Engineering and holds several certifications and designations across the Insurance domain, technology and program management.

Mr. Partha Sengupta

Experience:

Feb 2000-Feb 2001: Senior Information Technology Specialist - Microland Limited.
Feb 2001-Dec 2002: Senior Consultant, EY.
Jan 2003-Apr 2006: Manager - IT Security, ITC Limited.
Apr 2006-Apr 2007: Senior Manager - IT Security, ITC Limited.
Apr 2007-Oct 2009: General Manager (I3L) & Head of IT Shared Services.
Oct 2009-Jul 2018: Vice President (I3L) & Head of IT Shared Services.
Jul 2018-Present: Senior Vice President, ITC Infotech & Head of IT Shared Services, ITC Limited.

Mr. Mainak Bhattacharya

Skilled and successful IT ERP consultant with around 18 years of experience in the delivery of information technology solutions across different industries like: Manufacturing, Process Industry, FMCG, Metal, Automobile, Consumer Packaged Goods, Apparel and Footwear, Retail, Healthcare and Utilities. Mainak has been a part of around 10 SAP Greenfield implementations and around 4 SAP HANA-Migration projects. Mainak has led and delivered multiple assignments on Supply Chain automations (includes vendor portal management, expense management, auto-invoice booking), as solution architect, across notable customers across Globe. He specializes in area of 2D/3D scanning solution across the SCM area with proven SAP integration skills with 3rd Party systems (STAMPLI, Salesforce, COUPA) using RFC, Webservice and Restful APIs.

SAP version he has worked upon: SAP 4/HANA 1510/1709/1810/2020, SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7, SAP ISU/IDEX, SAP.

Mr. Ramyanshu Datta

Mr. Datta holds a dual role of Head of Product Management for Generative AI on Amazon SageMaker and Business General Manager for AWS Human-in-Loop (HIL) AI/ML services. As Head of Product Management for Generative AI on SageMaker,he is pioneering the transformation of SageMaker into the world's best platform for customers to build and operate their Generative AI applications in the most seamless and cost-effective manner, and is responsible for product strategy, roadmap, GTM and revenue for Generative AI workloads on SageMaker. As Business GM for AWS HIL, he leads a team of 300+ full time employees (product management, growth and go-to-market, business operations and P&L management, solution architecture, customer engineering and data operations) helping make Generative AI and bespoke Deep Learning models functional for customers like Krikey AI, Stability, AI21, Workday as well as for Amazon services like Amazon Q, Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Amazon Bedrock.

Prior to this he led product management for SageMaker Training, Feature Management and Data Processing services for 2.5 years and spearheading the transformation of SageMaker from an easy-to-use developer platform to the AI platform of choice for training some of the largest Generative AI models in the world like Bloom GPT, Falcon, AI21 Jurassic and more in the most cost performance effective manner in the cloud. This helped make SageMaker one of the fastest growing services in AWS history.

He has been with AWS for 5.5 years, spending stints in product management in Amazon S3 and AWS Industry Products before SageMaker. Prior to AWS he held product management, finance and business operations roles at IBM and before that he held multiple technical and business leadership roles at Intel, Nvidia and Texas Instruments.

He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and 2006 respectively and MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2012. In addition to his business experience, he continues to innovate technical solutions with his teams and customers, and he is an inventor of 24 issued and 3 pending patents on areas ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Storage to chip design.

Mr. Anil Nama

Mr. Nama brings over 30 years of IT experience in defense and corporate sectors. He was associated with the Indian Armed Forces, was part of Computer Network Defense, and was involved in setting up of CERT team at the Indian Air Force, including cyber forensics. He currently handles solutions and products at CtrlS Datacenters.

Mr. Aloke Majumder

Aloke is an experienced technologist with entrepreneurial vision and technical proficiency. He ensures to leverage technologies that enable the innovation of entire business or elements of the business and operating models. His specific capabilities include OTT, VoD Infrastructure and Product Development, ERP, services for strategy and transformation, Open-Source technologies, Linux, On Premise to Cloud migration, implementation of technology in various aspects of business.

Being the Technology Lead of Hoichoi. Aloke heads all organisational efforts to develop the best-in-class technology and processes designed to position hoichoi as a leading OTT platform through strategic and technology innovation. He translates and streamlines the company vision between the business and technology spheres as well as various stakeholders.

Mr. Rahul Guha

Mr. Guha is Director, Solution Engineering at Oracle India responsible for Cloud Applications presales and solution architecting for India applications business. He specializes in positioning Cloud Applications to Govt/PSU and Large Enterprise customers. Rahul has over 24 years of IT industry experience which includes consulting, presales, solution architecting, implementation, and project management. He has helped numerous Indian and Global customers with ERP adoption, Cloud Applications, digital transformation, EBS implementations and IT strategy. He has rich experience of working in PwC, IBM and in the finance domain of various industries.

Mr Nitin Raj

Nitin has over 20+ years of experience in analytics consulting and delivering high-impact data science-based solutions. He specializes in advanced analytics (AI-ML, Generative AI and Operations Research). Nitin leads Artificial Intelligence Center-of-Excellence at PwC, a team of 250+ highly skilled data scientists, AI engineers and Gen AI specialists. He has cross-sectoral experience across Power & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Mining, Aviation, E-commerce, Healthcare etc. Nitin has worked with several public and private sector enterprises, policy makers, central and state governments. He has rich experience working across multiple geographies such as US, Middle East and Africa apart from India.

Nitin is B. Tech from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy and completed Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian School of Business - Hyderabad. He is pursuing in PhD in Decision Sciences from IIM Lucknow.

Mr. Jaideep S Kalra

Banker with rich experience of building high growth SME & Large Corporates banking franchise across India and UK and currently heading the Business Banking segment for HSBC North & East India. He & his team have been actively supporting the MSME & IT/ ITEs ecosystem along with a full suite of Corporate and Beyond Banking solutions.

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya

Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Executive Fellow, ISB Hyderabad 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.

Currently, CEO & Director of Wizertech Informatics Pvt Ltd, he has earlier served as Country Director at Oracle and Associate Vice President at HCL. A Chairperson of IT Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Committee, Co-Chairperson of IT Committee & Member of Management Committee and Education Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad 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 has served as a Visiting Professor of Strategy at Great Lakes Business School - Chennai, Indian Institute of Management - Udaipur and B2B Marketing at Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Shri Dibyendu Roy

An e-commerce professional with more than 20 years of domain expertise, Shri Dibyendu Roy has been working in different verticals of MSTC for the last 27 years. He has headed teams for development of MSTC's flagship projects such as the EXIM portal for petroleum products, Coal Block Auction portal for commercial mining, Enterprise Procurement System platform revamp and multiple other customized platforms and modules for an industry wise range of customers. He also led the team to successfully implement the auctioning of Iron Ore in Karnataka, under the aegis of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India.

As the coordinating officer to the CMD of MSTC, Shri Roy has had a bird's eye view of the company's overall operational and strategic functioning.

Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel

Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel, a serial technopreneur, has over 2 decades of experience in technology, finance and management as a software architect, consultant, mentor and entrepreneur. He is involved in the software business in different countries. During his extensive career, he was involved in the development, implementation, and commercialization of several products, like DreamApps ERP, ERM Anywhere, Core Integrated Business Systems, ERP in a Box, Brand Manager and Dream Apps Work Space. Currently, he is working on several multi-tenanted hosted SAAS initiatives, Robotic Process Automation, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and IOT technology.

Mr. Mostafizur Rahman Sohel is one of the pioneers of the Bangladesh ICT industry who has made Enterprise Resource solutions popular in the country. He took a challenging and adventurous career path by opting to come back to his native land after finishing higher studies abroad. His company, Advanced ERP BD Ltd, along with other pioneers of the industry, literally made people understand the importance of automation. It is their combined effort that has been instrumental in the ICT revolution in Bangladesh. Mr. Mostafizur Rahman Sohel has kept himself engaged in the continuous development of the ICT industry and ecosystem. He has been a key contributor in developing GRP, the first ever E-Government ERP Project initiated by Government of Bangladesh.

Mr. Sohel is very much active in international ICT circuit to represent Bangladesh and has been playing a significant role for ICT Development. He is a board member of 'Business for eTrade Development' - the premier private sector voice for optimizing public policies and aid allocations for ecommerce development and fuelling cross-border ecommerce worldwide that was launched alongside the UNCTAD-led 'eTrade for All' initiative.He is a Director at BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services), the apex body for ITES industry in Bangladesh. He was the Joint Secretary General of BASIS for the term 2014-2016 and as a Director of BASIS for the term 2016-2018. Mr. Sohel has performed as the Head Judge for BASIS National ICT Award for year 2018 and 2019. He has also been judging as a Head Judge in Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) since 2016.

Mr. Sidharth Prashar

Associated with Tally from the last 13 years, fulfilling the responsibilities that include developing and executing Sales strategies, identifying new business opportunities, building relationships with key stakeholders, negotiating contracts, managing the sale pipeline and responsible for driving sales growth within the enterprise segment.

Mr. Charly Graf

A Versatile Leader in Cyber Security With 30+ years in Technology, HR, Product Marketing, Project Management, and Cyber Security, Charly excels at leading security orchestration for global enterprises. His passion for protecting sensitive data from unwanted disclosure or loss ensures safeguard assurance.

Mr. Aninda Das

Mr. Das is currently Vice President Marketing of Infinity Group. In Kolkata, Infinity has catalyzed the growth of Salt Lake Sector V, which is the one of the largest tech-commercial hubs of Eastern India. More than 450 plus corporates are housed in Infinity spaces. Mr. Das is an ecosystem enabler and have been helping to draw investments in Kolkata. He is currently in the various committees of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, CII and NASSCOM. He is also the secretary of Salt Lake Sector V Stakeholders' Association. He is associated with not-for-profit organizations such as Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan and Sri Aurobindo Society.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Das

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Das is a Socio-Development Administrator from 1996 batch of West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) cadre.

Presently, Mr. Das is Additional Secretary, IT & Electronics Department, Government of West Bengal and Managing Director, West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited.

As Joint Secretary at IT & Electronics Department, he set up Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (https://cscoe.itewb.gov.in) in 2017; conducted first Online Survey to assess Employment status in IT/ITeS sector; organized International conference on Blockchain (https://gbck.nltr.org); launched Karmo Bhumi (https://karmobhumi.nltr.org) - a Skill Registry platform for IT/ITeS professionals; launched Self Scan (https://selfscan.nltr.org ) - a scanning app in android and IOS; Launched Cyber Assurance Programme to up-skill civilians, academia, police and Government employees; as Administrator of Society for Natural Language Technology Research (https://nltr.itewb.gov.in), digitised Charyapad, oldest Bengali literature.

He has held different administrative positions in General, Revenue, Executive & Election Administration in West Bengal; managed Asiatic Society, Kolkata as Administrative Officer; as Administrative Officer in State Archives initiated large-scale digitization of archives; Launched online counselling system in engineering entrance examinations for West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board while in Higher Education Department; As Additional District Magistrate, Land & Land Reforms, Coochbehar, led 'Chitmahal transfer with Bangladesh' as Project Director, District Rural Development Centre, Coochbehar, designed and launched 'BIMA BHAROSA' - a general insurance policy for members of Women Self Help Groups; Served as Joint Director of State Disaster Management wherein undertook process re-engineering of State Relief Supply Chain management with Deloitte and UNICEF, Upgraded warehouses and created online inventory and organized scores of Disaster Response Mock Drills across the State - reducing thereby 'Incident Response Time;' Supported IIT-Kharagpur, NIT-Durgapur and Government Engineering College, Kalyani to test-launch 'Information Drop Box' to support First Incident Responders.

Mr. Amit Srivastava

Key responsibilities: Joined BT Group in April 2015. Lead Global delivery centre (UK/India/Europe). Member of India management Board, site representative of Kolkata with operational responsibility of B2B and HR shared service. As a member of India management group, policy making and alignment to the group is a key priority. As a Site lead Kolkata, accountable for brand building, employee value preposition, local govt & compliance issues, property & facility etc.

Strategic leader with proficiency in setting up highly diverse organisation. Creating a space for intelligent failure and driving large transformational goals. Accelerating employees' strengths, building powerful teams within different cultures & geographies with a basic philosophy of personal allyship.

During his tenure, Kolkata has grown from +1000 people, to strong 4000+ employee base with the aggressive pitch of quality of talent pool, cost benefit, innovation and great engagement.

Prior Experience: Prior to joining BT Group, Amit has an opportunity to set up, transform and lead diverse & complex businesses in organizations like Infosys and HCL managing large operation in UK & US market.

Education: Amit holds an executive education in Business Management from IIM-A, Digital transformation from ISB-Hyderabad and Transformational Leadership from XLRI- Jamshedpur.

Mr. Chandrakirti Roy

Mr. Roy has over two decades dedicated to facility management with comprehensive skill set that spans the entire lifecycle of managing facilities across diverse industries. From Telecom to IT/ITES industry a journey defined by a commitment to optimizing operational efficiency, ensuring regulatory compliance, and creating safe and productive environments for occupants.

Mr. Santanu Ghosh

Mr. Ghosh has joined Cushman & Wakefield as Head-East from 24th June 2024. In his previous role, he led the office leasing, retail, and emerging markets initiative for JLL in East. He provides strategic inputs into transactions, supervises the team, and develops business plans. Credited with a keen acumen, he is one of the top professionals in the Eastern India Region in terms of vintage, quantum of space leased under his supervision, and the number of transactions concluded in the past decade. Santanu maintains exceptional relationships with his clients and has the skills to add new clients to the portfolio. He also has significant influence with the supply side and works closely with all developers in Kolkata.