Speakers

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist and politician serving as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014. Sitharaman formerly served as the Defence Minister of India, thereby becoming India's second female Defence Minister and also the first full-time female Finance Minister.

Mrs. Irani is currently serving as the Union Minister for Women & Child Development and Minister for Minority Affairs. She has previously served as the Union Minister for Education, Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Minister for Textiles. She is India’s youngest Union Cabinet Minister in the Government and the first woman to hold office as Minister for Education and as Minister of Textiles. The World Economic Forum has named Mrs. Irani as the Young Global Leader from India for the year 2015. She has also served as the USAID Goodwill Ambassador to India for the WHO-ORS program before her political debut in India.

Narayan Ramachandran is co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. Narayan’s areas of interest span inclusive finance, public policy, entrepreneurship and the environment. He is the Chairman and CEO of KludeIn Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company listed on NASDAQ. Narayan is also the co-Chairman of Unitus Capital, India's largest social enterprise bank and Chairman of Vivriti Asset Management, and UC Inclusive Credit, which are pioneering firms working to bring credit to underserved markets. He is lead independent Director and Chairman of TeamLease Services. He is on the Advisory Council of the Centre for Wildlife Studies. Earlier, Narayan was Chairman of RBL Bank and Country Head of Morgan Stanley India. Narayan received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He writes a fortnightly column titled "A Visible Hand" for The Mint Newspaper.

Shekhar Gupta is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ThePrint, India’s fastest-growing digital news platform known for its non-hyphenated liberalism, which is neither Left nor Right, is liberal on society, and liberal on economy. He is a prolific columnist, with his highly influential weekly column ‘National Interest’ which is translated into five languages. A selection of these columns was collected in the bestselling book, 'Anticipating India.' Shekhar, a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, hosts the ‘Off the Cuff’ – an offering from ThePrint – which sees him in conversation with an eminent guest twice a month. His daily YouTube show ‘Cut The Clutter’ explains and analyses the big news development of the day from India and around the world. Until recently, he also hosted ‘Walk the Talk’ on NDTV 24x7 every week. A collection of these news-making interviews has been published as a book ‘Walk the Talk: Decoding Politicians’.

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Founder, Chairman and Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Narayana Health. Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Shetty and his team have performed over 1,20,000 heart surgeries, 40% of them are on children. Dr. Shetty is recognised for his thought leadership in creating national health policies and developing ingenious solutions for affordable healthcare delivery. He is a regular panelist in discussions with the Government of India, state governments and trade bodies.

Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organizations, including most recently at the World Bank. For the 2018/2019 academic years Augusto Lopez-Claros was on leave from the World Bank as a Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Between 2011 and 2017 he was the Director of the World Bank’s Global Indicators Group, the department responsible for the Bank’s Doing Business report and other international benchmarking studies. Previously he was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was also the Editor of the Global Competitiveness Report, the Forum’s flagship publication, as well as a number of regional economic reports. In May of 2018 Sweden’s Global Challenges Foundation awarded Augusto Lopez-Claros the New Shape Prize for his work (with Arthur Dahl and Maja Groff) “Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century.”

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan was appointed WHO’s first Chief Scientist in March 2019. A paediatrician from India and a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV, she brings with her 30 years of experience in clinical care and research and has worked throughout her career to translate research into impactful programmes. Dr Swaminathan was Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research from 2015 to 2017

Mr. Chadden Hunter has produced some of the world’s most famous wildlife series including Planet Earth 1 & 2 and is a winner of over 20 Emmys. As a wildlife filmmaker he has worked alongside Sir David Attenborough for over 20 years, documenting everything from snow leopards in Pakistan to scuba diving under the Antarctic ice sheet. His anecdotes are as inspirational as they are entertaining. Using a stunning multi-media presentation he shares stories about achieving goals through perseverance, communicating with wider audiences, the importance of team building and creative leadership.

An engineer by training, Karthik is a Fellow and Director, Research Coordination, at The Council. As Director, he has a bird's eye view of CEEW's ongoing and planned research and ensures cross-team coherence for CEEW's research direction and imperatives. He also dons the hat of an internal adviser across research teams, creates institutional platforms that spur innovation and, in partnership with other senior researchers, continues to strengthen CEEW's foundation for world-class research. He has played a pivotal role in conceptualising and executing some of CEEW's biggest successes and collaborative efforts such as the ACCESS and IRES surveys and the associated studies, the GHG Platform Initiative and the first full fledged office programme office based out of Lucknow. He continues to be an active researcher with the power sector and air pollution work programmes.

Maroof Raza is a commentator on military and security issues and is currently the Consulting Editor (for Strategic Affairs) of the Times Television network, where he also hosts the weekend strategic affairs show - Latitude. His documentaries 'Line of Duty' and 'Tales of Valour' have won several awards. He has written and lectured extensively on India's security concerns and challenges, and has edited/co-authored the book 'Confronting Terrorism' & 'Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified' (published by Bloomsbury in 2019). His latest book is 'Contested Lands: India, China And The Boundary Dispute' (published by Westland/Amazon.com).

Amit Kapoor, PhD, is Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness, India; Lecturer at Stanford University and Editor-in-Chief of Thinkers. He is the chair for the Social Progress Imperative & Shared Value Initiative in India and sits on the board of Competitiveness initiatives in Mexico, Netherlands, Italy & France and University of Vermont’s SEMBA Advisory Board. He is an affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses of Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. He has been inducted into the Competitiveness Hall of Fame which is administered by Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School in addition to being the recipient of the Ruth Greene Memorial Award winner for writing the best case of the year, by North American Case Research Association (NACRA). Amit is the author of the Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100 alongside Michael Porter and Christian Ketels the work that was done at the behest of the Prime Minister of India. Amit is the author of bestsellers “Riding the Tiger”, which he has co-authored with Wilfried Aulber and “The Age of Awakening: The Story of the Indian Economy Since Independence” published by Penguin Random House. His recent book “Disrupting Democracies” has been published by Bertelsmann Foundation. His next book on “India’s Competitiveness” that he is co-authoring with Amitabh Kant is to be published in 2023 by Penguin and on “Inequality” with Bibek Debroy in second half of 2023.

Lakshmi Pratury is a business leader, entrepreneur, curator, speaker and former venture capitalist. Her riveting personality and penchant for technological innovation and community building have led her to her current avatar as founder and CEO of INK. Lakshmi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the “Inspirational Icon” recognition at the Audi Ritz Icon Awards in 2015 and Forbes’ list of “Women to Watch in Asia”. She speaks widely on the topic of storytelling, leadership and diversity at work. She is also a keynote speaker at conferences such as TED, DLD, WIRED and C2MTL. In addition, she is the founder and curator of ten major INK events in Asia.

Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla is the Chairman of the Indian multinational Aditya Birla Group, which operates in 36 countries across six continents. Under his stewardship, the Aditya Birla Group enjoys a leadership position in all its major sectors, including cement, chemicals, metals, textiles, fashion and financial services. Anchored by an extraordinary force of 140,000 employees of 100 different nationalities, Mr. Birla has built a highly successful meritocratic organisation over the years. Under his leadership, in 2020, the Aditya Birla Group was recognised among the Forbes World’s Best Employers.

An accomplished Business Leader and a second-generation entrepreneur, Mr. Sajjan Jindal had the foresight to lead the Steel industry and JSW in particular on a transformational journey, contributing significantly to India’s growth philosophy. A mechanical engineer, Mr. Jindal led the JSW Group through some of its most exciting phases, including the public offer announcements of JSW Steel and JSW Energy in 1995 and 2009-10, respectively. Today, the USD 22 Billion Group takes pride in expanding the business landscape across Infrastructure, Sports, Cement and Paints. A firm believer of the “Make in India” philosophy, Mr. Jindal has been awarded on many global platforms for his contribution and commendable work and has been recognized “CEO of the Year 2019” by Business Standard (India’s leading business publication) & “Best CEO Award 2019” by Business Today Magazine. He has also been recognized as “Outstanding Business Leader of the year 2018” by IBLA - CNBC TV18 (India’s leading business news channel). He was also awarded the JRD Tata Award 2017 for “Excellence in Corporate Leadership in Metallurgical industry”, and the “2014 National Metallurgist Award: Industry” instituted by the Ministry of Steel, Government of India.

Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and a global business leader with over four decades of experience in biotechnology. Fueled by her passion, she started her biotech journey in 1978 from her garage in India. Today, that journey is changing lives for the better across the globe. She is regarded as an unconventional thinker with many firsts to her credit. Under her aegis, Biocon delivers on the promise of making medicines accessible and affordable to millions of patients worldwide.

Mr. Vikram Kirloskar is the Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd. He was responsible for partnering with the Toyota group and starting a major automobile manufacturing industry in the state. For this, he has been recognized by the Government and presented with the "Suvarna Karnataka" award. He was involved in opening the import licensing for capital equipment while serving on the Government’s Development Council for Machine Tools in the late 1980’s. He has served as the President of The Central Manufacturing Institute in Bangalore. He also serves on the Govt. of India Development Council for Automobiles and the National Council for Electric Mobility. He was the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) during 2019-20 and is currently the Chairman of CII Manufacturing Council, CII Trade Fair’s council and Chairman of Hydrogen Task Force.

Mr. Rishad Premji is the Executive Chairman of Wipro Limited. Rishad is on the boards of Wipro Enterprises Ltd., a leading player in FMCG and infrastructure engineering, and Wipro GE Healthcare, a joint venture between Wipro and GE. He is also on the board of the Azim Premji Foundation, one of the largest not-for-profit initiatives in the world. In 2014, he was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for his outstanding leadership, professional accomplishments, and commitment to society.

Rajan Bharti Mittal is the Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading conglomerates with diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, agri and food in addition to other ventures. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders: Singtel, AXA, Del Monte, SoftBank and Brightstar. Bharti Airtel, the flagship company of Bharti Enterprises, is a global telecommunications company with operations in 17 countries across South Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top three mobile operators globally and its mobile network covers a population of over two billion people. Airtel is India’s largest integrated telecom provider and the second-largest mobile operator in Africa. Airtel has approx. 492 mn customers across its operations.

Karan Adani is the Chief Executive Officer of Adani Ports and SEZ (APSEZ), the 25 Billion dollar logistics business of the diversified Adani Portfolio. An Economics graduate from Purdue University (USA), Karan joined APSEZ in 2009, to gain expertise in core operations at Mundra port, the flagship port of APSEZ in Gujarat. Ever since, he has been able to rapidly expand the portfolio from just two ports to twelve ports and terminals dotting the entire Indian coastline. Following a series of strategic expansion deals, APSEZ is now India’s largest and fastest growing private sector port developer and operator with a pan-India logistics reach. With his international perspective, Karan now aims to augment the company’s identity around an integrated business model that includes port operations, logistics and SEZ development, a combination that is rapidly transforming the company into an end-to-end logistics solutions provider.

Pratik is spearheading Vedanta group’s key strategic matters. Under his leadership, Sterlite Power has built, financed, and operated close to 19,000 km of cross-country high voltage transmission lines and invested USD ~6 billion for developing 30 projects across India & Brazil. To decarbonize the hard to abate industries, Pratik recently announced a renewable energy platform – Serentica, which has already signed ~600 MW power supply agreements to provide 24/7 round-the-clock renewable power to large industrial consumers in India. Pratik received the Economic Times CEO of the Year Award at the Energy Leadership Summit. In 2018, he also received Economic Times 40 under 40 award, which recognizes young business leaders under the age of forty.

Arundhati Bhattacharya is a retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India. She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She is the only Indian corporate leader listed on Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders list ranked at 26. In 2020, she was hired as the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer for the India division of Salesforce, the global giant in CRM. She is also currently chairperson of SWIFT India, part of a global payments network

Nisaba Godrej has been a key architect of GCPL's strategy and transformation in the last fifteen years. She is also the Chairperson of Teach for India and sits on the board of Godrej Agrovet, Bharti Airtel, Mahindra and Mahindra and VIP Industries. She has a BSc degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Nisaba is passionate about education, the human mind, trekking and equestrian sports.

Zev Siegl is the co-founder of Starbucks Coffee Company, which has now become one of the world’s most recognized brands. Following his departure from Starbucks, Siegl became a serial entrepreneur, founding Quartermaine Coffee Roasters in Washington DC, Peerless Pie in Seattle, and more recently, BuckleUp. He also started his own consulting company that serves owners of small business enterprises and aspiring entrepreneurs with advice regarding funding new companies’ growth needs, financial forecasting, planning, private equity offerings, and applying for bank loans.

Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, and Emmy-nominated tech media personality. She is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, with the mission of supporting current and future entrepreneurs through investment, mentorship, and media. Prior to founding her own company, Randi was an early employee at Facebook, where she is best known for creating Facebook Live, now used by more than a billion people around the world. A Harvard graduate, Randi hosts a weekly business talk radio show, Randi Zuckerberg Means Business on SiriusXM and is the author of four books.

Mr. Hans-Paul Bürkner was president and chief executive officer of The Boston Consulting Group from 2004 to 2012—the company’s fifth CEO. Before taking on that role, he was head of BCG’s global Financial Services practice, the chair of the practice areas, and a member of the Executive Committee. Consulting Magazine named Hans-Paul a Top 25 Consultant in 2003. Under his leadership, BCG established the Public Sector and Sustainability practices, the Social-Impact and Education initiatives, and the Insurance, Marketing and Sales practices.

William (Bill) Blair is a Vice President in Lockheed Martin and joined Lockheed Martin India Private Ltd as Chief Executive on 1 October 2019. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading and developing Lockheed Martin Corporation’s strategy for India and serve as the executive representative for all Lockheed Martin programs, products and services in the country. This is his third appointment in India with a multinational aerospace and defence company. Previously, Mr. Blair was the Vice President of Strategic Solutions and Middle East Executive for Lockheed Martin Space Systems where he was responsible for leading and developing strategic solutions to enterprise-wide challenges and opportunities. He led and developed strategic partnerships to advance space capabilities and services with customers and strategic partners in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in May 2018, Mr. Blair served in a variety of senior roles with defence and aerospace companies.

Mr. Vincent Panzera has been with Lockheed Martin for 24+ years. He is currently serving as a Vice President heading Supply chain and industrial development at Lockheed Martin.

Mr. Adlan Ahmad is the head of the Hydrogen Business at Petronas. Petroliam Nasional Berhad (National Petroleum Limited), commonly known as Petronas, is a Malaysian oil and gas company. Established in 1974 and wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with all oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources.

Mr. Warren Harris is the CEO & Managing Director of Tata Technologies. Mr. Harris is a recognized authority on global manufacturing. His expertise has been leveraged by media organizations including The Economist, BusinessWeek, Crain’s Detroit Business, Automotive News, and Automotive Engineering International. He also has contributed his insights to the book, “Globality – Competing With Everyone From Everywhere For Everything."

Nithin bootstrapped and founded Zerodha in 2010 to overcome the hurdles he faced during his decade-long stint as a trader. Over the last decade, Zerodha has changed the landscape of the Indian broking industry. With 4 million customers and contributing to over 15% of the exchange retail trading volumes, Zerodha is the largest retail brokerage in India today. A tech-first company now, Zerodha offers innovative trading & investing solutions that appeal to a wide audience in a bid to reach those sections of society that have stayed away from the capital market so far. Nithin also started Rainmatter, an R&D fintech incubator and fund that has partnered with some of the best investment-tech startups in India.

Mr. Pierre Dickeli is the CEO of Safran India. Safran S.A. is a French multinational company that designs, develops and manufactures aircraft engines, rocket engines as well as various aerospace and defence-related equipment or their components. Safran has been present in India for more than 65 years and today has 750 employees in eight companies and a training center.

Mahesh Babu is Chief Executive Officer of Switch India and Chief Operating Officer of Switch Global. He has a rich experience of over 25 years in mobility. In his current role, Mahesh has been instrumental in setting up Switch Mobility India, the electric vehicle subsidiary of Ashok Leyland, in launching the next generation electric bus platform Switch EiV 12 for the Indian market, and the country’s first electric double-decker bus, Switch EiV 22. Mahesh has been featured in LinkedIn power profiles for 2018, in India and has received the India’s Greatest CEO award for 2017-18 from Asia One. Prior to joining Switch, Mahesh was Managing Director and CEO at Mahindra Electric. Under his leadership, he launched six new electric vehicles which includes 3-wheeler, 4-wheeler commercial as well as passenger car and mobility software platform NEMO. He has been instrumental in shaping policy in India by bringing Electric TCO solutions of the future mobility through path breaking initiatives in the 4W passenger, commercial fleet, last mile mobility.

Chetan Maini, entrepreneur and technologist, is passionate about renewable energy and clean mobility. He is currently the Chairman and Co-founder of SUN Mobility, an organization that aims to be the leading provider of universal energy infrastructure and services to accelerate mass electric vehicle usage. He founded Reva Electric Car Company (now Mahindra Reva) in 1995 and has been globally acknowledged as a pioneer in the domain of electric vehicles. Under his leadership, the company sold thousands of vehicles in 24 countries, and was ranked as one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by Fast company magazine. Chetan has over 20 years’ experience in electric, hybrid and solar vehicles and has applied for and been granted over 30 global patents. Chetan played an instrumental role in advising the Government of India on EV policy. This comprises his work with India’s National Board of Electric Mobility, Technology Advisory Group (TAG) on Electric Mobility, and the committee of Jt. Secretaries.

Irina Ghose is the Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft India, with the responsibility to drive end-to-end operations. Irina focuses on the go-to-market strategy for Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions in India to deliver on core business parameters and create new growth engines for the future. A Microsoft veteran of over two decades, Irina has held a variety of Strategy and Sales leadership roles across Enterprise, Solution Sales, Partner Solutions, and Education segments, focusing on Business management, Operations, Partnerships and New business initiatives. In her previous role as the leader of Cloud Solutions in India, she was focused on empowering Cloud Transformation by engaging with customers and partners to envision and architect their digital growth strategy.

Venu Nuguri is Managing Director & CEO of Hitachi Energy in India and South Asia. He has been the Managing Director of India since December 2019 and head of the South Asia region since Jan 2016. Venu joined Hitachi Energy’s predecessor in 1995 and accumulated over 25 years of experience across Business Units in the company. This has included several leadership positions in sales, marketing, account management, business development, customer relations and operations. He is also an active champion of industries in Karnataka as a member of CII’s Karnataka State Council. A member of the Global Executive Team, Venu is shaping the way Hitachi Energy advances a sustainable energy future for all whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Leveraging his experience and network to collaborate with customers to plan, build, operate and maintain the electricity backbone and future power systems.

Mr. Nana Murugesan is the current Vice President of International & Business Development at Coinbase. Prior to joining Coinbase, Murugesan held several positions at Snap Inc., Samsung Electronics, and The Boston Consulting Group. Nana Murugesan has an MBA from The Wharton School, a Samsung Global Executive Course (GEC) from Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BE in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Madras.

Mr. Asim Kumar Mukhopadhyay started his career in 1983 in Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL). He joined Tata Motors group in 2001 and was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of HV Axles Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors and held various positions in Tata Motors from 2005 including the position of Head- Group Performance Management. He has since led various projects in India and overseas markets and has held Board positions as a Non-Executive Director and has served on Audit and other Committees of the Board of various Tata Group companies like Tata Hitachi, Tata Cummins, Tata Daewoo, Tata Marcopolo Motors, TML Smart city Mobility solutions (J & K) private Limited . He is also the non-Executive Chairman of Tata Motors CV Mobility Solutions Ltd. He had led Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles division to achieve exemplary rating in TCM by CII in 2012, 2015 & 2019 and has anchored the preparation of a case study on Tata Motors Ltd, the first ever case study of an Indian organization to be published in the ‘International Federation of Accountants’ (IFAC). Being associated with the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) since 1995, he has been a key presenter at the various international conferences organized by them.

Mr. Kapil Maheshwari is a visionary leader, sales and business development, technical and project management professional with 15+ years of experience in Solar PV, Storage Technologies and Power Electronics. He is currently the leader for Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen Development at Reliance Industries Limited.

Mr C. B. Ananthakrishnan has over 35 years of work experience in both public and private sectors with stints in merchant banking, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and Aerospace Industries. During his stints in Helicopter Division as Head of the Finance, he was instrumental in developing financial strategies and policies for pricing, cost control and profit planning for achieving overall goals of the Company and also secured one of the largest Helicopter Contracts for the Company valuing in excess of Rs. 14000 Crore. He was instrumental for Conclusion of prices for Repair & Overhaul and Supply of Spares by 3rd Pricing Policy Review Committee (PPRC), Conclusion of 73 ALH Contracts for Army and IN & ICG and Implementation of Ind AS etc.

Prashanth Prakash joined Accel in 2008. Prashanth began investing in Indian technology start-ups in 2004, well before they acquired global attention. He started his investing career as a co-founder of Erasmic, one of India’s first early-stage funds. Prior to that, he founded two enterprises in the Internet and multimedia publishing domains. As a key member of Accel’s India team, Prashanth focuses on consumer Internet services, online marketplaces, and SaaS. He has led investments in Agrostar, BlueStone, BookMyShow, Clevertap, FabHotels, Glowroad, HolidayMe, HomeLane, InfraMarket, PropTiger, QwikCilver (acquired by Pine Labs), Rentomojo, TeaBox, and other early-stage companies. Prashanth is from Bangalore and holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Delaware and an undergraduate degree in computer science.

Santhosh Kumar is the President & MD of TI India, a position he has held since 2013. Prior to this, Santhosh was Business Manager responsible for growing TI's embedded business in ADAS (Autonomous Driver Assistance Systems) and Video, based out of Dallas, Texas, USA. Santhosh has over 20 years of product development expertise over multiple roles in TI. TI in India does end-to-end product development including conceptualization, architecture, design and development, spanning multiple markets including industrial, automotive, communication, personal electronics among others.

As leader of GE’s India Technology Centre, Alok inspires multi-disciplinary GE technology teams to see, move, and create the future of flight, precision health, and the energy transition. He leads GE’s contemporary research innovation in India, maximizing value creation through strategic deployment of intellectual property. Alok collaborates with GE’s internal and external partners and ensure India’s prominent role in industrializing GE’s solutions. He stimulates an inclusive work environment for the organization, propagates a culture of innovation, and works to ensure best-in-class talent. Alok has been with GE for more than 21 years and has held engineering and technical leadership positions across GE Aviation, GE Power, and GE Research.

Udayant Malhoutra is the CEO & Managing Director of Dynamatic Technologies Limited, an engineering and manufacturing company which caters to hydraulic pump, aerospace and automotive industries. He is the Chairman of the National Sector Skills Council for Strategic Manufacturing. He is also a member of CII National Council, and has chaired the CII National Committees on Design and Technology. He has also served on the Board of Governors, at IIT Kanpur.

A thought leader with two decades of experience in executive roles across multiple geos– US, India, Mexico & Canada, JC has vast experience in developing and driving robust growth of R&D organizations in intensely competitive global markets. He has held leadership roles in IT, Intel CIO office, marketing, and ramped up two critical R&D organizations for Intel (India & Mexico). He was Senior Director, Strategy and Operations of Intel India, Intel’s largest design center outside the US. JC was also instrumental in creating the hardware startup ecosystem in India and led the formation of Intel India Maker Lab program. He is also a founding member of India’s first fabless startup initiative called SFAL (Semiconductor Fabless Accelerator Lab), and is a past chairman of IESA (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association). Till recently, Jitendra Chaddah was Country Manager for Intel’s Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization in India where he created/ executed long-term plan for org growth, people development, adding new supply chain capabilities to create most value from the India tech eco-system. In addition he lead the Geo-Mix strategy, and conceptualized programs for skills development & strengthening diversity 'BeingWise' in the work place.

A Harvard MBA, Aerospace Engineer, Serial entrepreneur & investor Abhishek brings to the table a multitude of competencies backed by a sound foundation in emerging technologies (with specific reference to blockchain), aerospace and private equity.