Mr. Bhushan Kolleri is the Chief Product and Innovation Officer at ZEE Entertainment Enterprises, India’s largest listed media & entertainment company with a market cap of USD $3 billion. During his career spanning over two decades globally, He has assembled high-performance teams to build and scale industry-leading technology products across media, retail, travel, gaming, and deep tech. He places great importance on nurturing the right organizational culture and mentoring young potential leaders. He holds two patents in Artificial Intelligence, is a mentor to start-up founders and an advisor to business leaders around the world. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, San Jose State University and Stanford University.

Mr. Hasit Trivedi is a seasoned technocrat with 25+ years of experience in the technology business with industry recognition as a leading voice in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He has been awarded as the best AI leader, recognized as a leading AI voice and one of the most influencing voices for enterprise brands. He has been associated with industry associations like Nasscom and various Government initiatives around AI and Data Governance. He has also been associated with the startup ecosystem as a mentor and advisor in his voluntary capacity. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer of Digital Technologies and Global Head of AI for Tech Mahindra. He is responsible for building technology-led businesses and platforms in the space of AI, Analytics and Intelligent Automation, and also help organizations to drive digital transformation.

Mr. Manikantan T is the Senior Vice President Finance and Insurance for Mphasis. He is an accomplished Finance professional with over 25 years of rich, diverse experience in various facets of the finance world. He is a Chartered Accountant and Cost & Management Accountant. He was associated with NDS (Cisco) as the Financial Controller prior to his stint in Mphasis. He was also identified as 100 Next CFO by CFO India and a recipient of Exemplary Business Leader Award. He has mentored start-up companies like SOA Technologies and Zenopsys and is on the CSR Advisory Committee, overseeing investments impacting Education, Livelihood, Inclusion and Sustainability. He has been a speaker at The Confederation of Indian Industry, CFO India, IIM Trichy, ICAI, Christ University amongst many others. During his leisure, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, listening to old Hindi songs, Carnatic music, following Cricket and Tennis, Traveling and Cooking.

Mr. Suresh Chintada is an engineer by training and a technologist by practice and has been serving various roles in the high-tech industry for more than 30 years. An alumnus of Osmania University and a PGSEM degree holder in Software Enterprise Management at IIM Bangalore, he is a Member of Forbes Technology Council and has been a Scientific Advisory Board Associate at Motorola Labs in the past. He has over 15 patent applications to his credit and has authored several peer-reviewed papers in the technology space. His current interests include Responsible and Ethics in AI, AI for Human Good, and Building Trustworthy Digital Systems for the world. He is a marathon runner and believes that the world can be a better place if everyone chooses to run!

Ms. Sushma Bendore is the Chief Learning Officer of Motilal Oswal Group. With over 21 years of experience in Capability Development function, she heads Learning Function across all lines of businesses of Motilal Oswal Financial Services. In her earlier stints, she has worked with organizations like Cipla, Reliance Jio, Aditya Birla and Sutherland. An alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Symbiosis Pune, KJ Somaiya and Dr. Ambedkar Law College, she also holds Psychometric certifications in 35 different tools including Hogan and DISC. She is an active member of the British Psychological Society. With her vast experience of over 2 decades, she is now taking the Motilal Oswal Financial Services group HR learning practices to greater heights.

Mr, Samit Shankar has 25 years of experience in Supply Chain and supplier governance. He has been leading the Supply Chain practice as the Director - Supplier Ecosystem Services for EY Global for the past 3 years. He has previously worked with Diageo Plc, JPMorgan Chase, GE Capital among others. His specializations include building and transforming global functions for large enterprises. He has a degree in Business Administration and is based in Bengaluru. He has been involved in global implementation of supplier relationship and third party risk management functions from the ground up for EY and Diageo. His hobbies include travelling to offbeat places and spending time with Toby, a ShihTzu puppy.

Mr. Raghavendra Rao Krishnamurthy graduated in Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication and later acquired an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In his 25+ years of career, he has held various leadership positions in large MNCs, been an entrepreneur and has had opportunities to work with multi-linguistic, multi-cultural global teams. He has regularly consulted and advised corporate C-Suite decision makers as well as City Administrators across US, Japan, the UK, Germany, Nordics countries, Turkey, Russia etc., on the topics of Digital transformation, Investment Strategies on emerging technologies such as IoT, AI-ML, Blockchain, Hyper Automation, Robotics etc. Mr. Raghavendra is a steering committee member on Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, leads large Cultural Transformation projects at Bosch and also a nominated expert on the Skill Advisory Committee for Emerging Technologies for the IT-BT ministry of the Government of Karnataka.

Mr Paneesh Rao is a senior leader with more than three decades of experience in managing Human Resources across industries and geographies. In his current role, he drives LTIMindtree’s ESG commitment, vital to the company’s vision of balancing growth and sustainability in building long-term stakeholder value. He also leads the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program. Prior to his current role, He was the company’s Chief People Officer, heading a large team of 200+ HR professionals. Globally, he drove significant initiatives for creating an organizational climate that fosters innovation, high energy culture, and making the company an ‘Employer Of Choice’. A creative thinker, problem solver & decision maker, he effectively balances employee needs with the mission of the organization.

Mr. Garga Majumdar is a seasoned industry leader with more than a decade and a half of experience in working with organizations like Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Facebook and Amazon. He is a Computer Science graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and has an MBA from IIM Indore. He is a value creator, enabling global organizations to innovate and scale their products and services through the right mix of technology and human intelligence. He has led global teams, incubated new functions and streamlined processes and systems to enable large organizations in their journey from new ideas to multibillion dollar products and services. He is also passionate about Diversity & Inclusion. Currently he is serving as the Senior Director, Solution Delivery at Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Pawan Kesarwani has a track record in managing finance and scaling businesses as the CFO of multiple Technology and New Age businesses. Over the course of his career, he has spearheaded Mergers & Acquisition strategies, secured multi-million-dollar funding rounds, and built high-performing finance teams. He has led the acquisition and scaling of over 20 businesses, implemented effective M&A strategies, led due diligence processes, and driven revenue growth. He is a Chartered Accountant and has completed his MBA in Finance Strategy & Operation Management from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He has led finance operations across eight countries, overseeing strategic planning, reporting, forecasting, and compliance. He has also provided financial guidance to entrepreneurs, assisting in business planning, fundraising, and strategy development. Additionally, he co-founded a paper manufacturing business, where he managed the overall strategy and finance functions, successfully raising funds and driving growth..

Mr. Sukesh Soman has around 21 years of experience in the IT industry and currently works as the VP at Deutsche Bank. He is the product owner for a global automation platform used to manage the stability of applications using AI & ML. He has worked across the IT services and products industries and has firsthand experience in delivering niche capabilities to MNCs. Today he is on the other side and has multiple vendor teams delivering IT services into his area and sees quite a few challenges & opportunities in this area. Apart from being a technologist, he is also a keen advocate of Design Thinking and is also a trainee coach.

Ms. Swati Biswas is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce & was bestowed the Distinguished Alumni 2019 for "Best CFO" & "Fine Arts" by the Honourable Late Shri Arun Jaitley ji. She is a seasoned Finance Leader with more than 2 decades of experience in various finance roles across multiple industries in India & the Middle East, with companies like GlaxoSmithKline, J&J, Vodafone, Landmark Group & now in Flipkart. She is also a Bharatanatyam exponent and is spreading the art form across the globe. She works with children with Special Needs to inculcate creative communication. She is an active public speaker on multiple topics in multiple forums & engages in Mentoring. She also works with start ups for mentoring, value creation and is an Investor in new age Phygital start up.

Mr. Ashish Sharma is an alumnus of DY Patil Institute, affiliated to the University of Pune, where he completed his Masters in Business Administration. His career spans an illustrious 26+ years in Indian Logistics Industry while working across most of the leading MNC Logistics Companies. He is currently working as the Head of Operation - Contract Logistics with Ceva Logistics, India leading a large team of 2000 plus manpower deployment on a daily basis. Prior to his current role, he had held leadership positions in companies such as Toll Logistics, Agility, UPS, UTi Logistics and Damco (Maersk Grp) India. During his long-spanning career developed expertise in various aspects of Supply Chain Management such as Product Design & Development, Solution Design, Operations and Procurement. He is currently leading the Industry 4.0 implementation in Ceva and is also extensively working on driving the Sustainability initiatives of the company.

Ms. Shalini Sankar is a Senior Sales Professional with around 20 years of rich experience in diverse industries like Advertising and Media, Insurance, Banking, Recruitment, Events, EdTech and many more. She is a dynamic entrepreneur and a strategic sales and marketing leader who has delivered success in setting up robust distribution channels, repeatedly produced sustained revenue growth & spearheaded retail operations with focus on top-line & bottom-line growth. She is a recipient of various accolades such as the Women Entrepreneurship Award by BNI-2016 and has been named as the “Top 25 Influential Women" in India by “The CEO Magazine” for the year 2017. She has also received the Corporate Excellence Award 2019 & 2020, International Inspirational Women Award 2020 and has received several awards from BNI for contribution towards the growth of small entrepreneurs. Her mission entails sharing the learnings of her sales and marketing journey to empower teams to meet their business objectives using focussed growth strategies.

Mr. Shubham Kataruka is an alumnus of Symbiosis BBA and a Chartered Accountant and currently is the Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer for Alstom, India. He has a rich and diverse experience in finance management and transformation within the APAC region having previously led the Finance function for South East Asia and navigating Alstom’s acquisition and integration of Bombardier Transportation in the region. He has worked extensively on organization and footprint restructuring, cross-border transactions, growth strategies, price modeling, cost optimization and other related actions. He has also been associated with Alstom for over 11 years and worked at their offices in Paris, Singapore and Bangalore.

Mr. Bhaskar Banerjee is a seasoned finance leader with 19 years of experience in the Indian and International markets. He is an ardent believer that education & capability building is a key element to leapfrog India into its next phase of growth trajectory. He has led various Learning & Development initiatives in his career journey and mentored people on career conversations. He has a keen interest in transformation agenda with strategy and people as key levers and technology augmenting synergy to this impactful cohort.

Mr. Prem Kiran Udayavarma is a seasoned Information Technology leader with global experience and an exemplary track record of setting the Digitization strategy and roadmap, delivering large scale Digitization, Automation and Simplification programs for global enterprises. Having helmed IT leadership roles at FANUC CORP, GE Appliances, GE Aviation, etc, he brings on board over 22 years of Technology led transformation & Global Business Enablement experience. He has been recognized as an expert and the “Go-to” person for improving organizational efficiency and performance.

Mr. Jagdish Narayanan is the Chief Information Officer at Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services. With an experience of nearly 3 decades in BFSI and FinTech, he has led technology at digital fintechs such as Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services and Aditya Birla Payments Bank, as well as been a senior technology leader with large multi-national financial institutions such as Citi, Barclays, Bank of America. He has deep knowledge of global businesses in the domains of digital wallets, digital payments, paperless and friction-free e-commerce, Treasury and Cash Management, Trade Finance, by virtue of experience in heading large global technology portfolios across regions such as North America, EMEA, and Africa.

Mr. Akilur Rahman is the Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi Energy, India, leading technology, digitalization and innovation towards the market and customers in India and supporting market innovation in South Asia. He has more than 33 years of experience in research, technology management, automation and digital technologies and has held various international and global roles in India, Germany and Switzerland. He is an expert in global collaborative production management, engineering, and cyber security in process/industrial automation. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and had previously held the position of Chief Technology Officer at ABB.

Mr. Shashank Agrawal is an execution-focused technology leader with over 20 years of FinTech experience with robust software engineering and product management skills. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was the Co-founder & CTO of the FinTech venture “Upwardly”, a B2C Robo-advisory platform built to democratize personal finance for millennials. He has also held leadership positions with global investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital & ANZ, where he was instrumental in building multi-disciplinary technology teams & enterprise-grade platforms. He currently serves as the CTO of HDFC Credila where he is driving an aspirational digital transformation program. His other interests include off-beat travel and dramatics.