Dr. Gangopadhyay is known as the country’s best Professor for Organizational behavior & Human Resource; Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer is the Dean with Aegis School of Data Science & Cyber Security, He is also the Founding Dean of Indian Institute of Management(IIM), Indore; Former Dean of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS); Prof. & Dean, School of Management & Labour studies
He was the Director, Central Labour Institute; Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labour Institutes under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India. He served as Professor in Behavioural sciences at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy; Hyderabad; He was Scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.
He also worked as the national expert with International Labour Organization (ILO) and Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Tokyo; hD (Kolkata); PG Dip (IIT, Kharagpur).
Mr. Amitabh Satyam is the Chief Mentor & Chairman at Smart Transformations. He advises government agencies and corporations on deployments of Smart ideas and solutions. He has recently authored the book “The Smart City Transformations’, along with the co-author Dr Igor Calzada of the University of Oxford. Earlier, as the Managing Partner at SAP, he advised top global clients of SAP on digital transformations of their businesses.
At IBM he was the Global Consulting Leader for Telecom for four years. He advised on business strategy, technology architecture, applications framework, and operations methodology for global customers covering all the continents. He also established IoT practice area and the center of competence and led the key global the deals. For two years, prior to this role, Amitabh was the business leader for a large, $1bn telecom contract. His earlier roles include Managing Director at MobiApps, Vice President for Telecom Services at Siemens, National Head of Operations at Reliance Infocomm, and Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
A graduate of IIT Kanpur with an MBA from Fisher College of Business, USA. Mr. Amitabh has taught in the USA for four years – at The Ohio State University where he received the Hazel S. Brown Teaching Excellence award and at Rider University.
Prof. Kumar’s main areas of research interest are VLSI synthesis, embedded systems design methodology and high performance computer architectures and he has published more than 100 research papers in reputed journals and proceedings of refereed international conferences. He has guided 10 Ph.D.’s and more than 80 M.Tech./B.Tech. projects. His research has been supported by the Department of Electronics/ Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Naval Research Board, ANURAG (Defence Lab) and NXP Semiconductors. He has also been a consultant to Gateway Design Automation (now Cadence Design Systems), Technology Parks Ltd, ST Microelectronics and Poseidon Design Systems. ProHe has been a General Co-Chair for the conference in 20f. Kumar has been associated with the annual International Conference on VLSI Design since its inception in 1985 and contributed to its growth in various capacities. 09. He has also contributed professionally through various national level committees including, Working Group on Microelectronics and Advisory Committee for CDAC.
In 2002, along with some colleagues and graduating students of his department, he founded a start-up company called Kritikal Solutions under the Technology Business Incubation Program of IIT Delhi. He has served it in various capacities including Hon. Chairman, Hon. Director and Mentor and helped it grow nearly tenfold. Recently he received the ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 2007 Best Paper Award for a paper coauthored with a colleague and a student.
Mr Arvind Bali CEO of Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC), TSSC is committed to developing world class skilled manpower for the Indian Telecom industry. Established in 2013, TSSC is a not for profit organization set up with funding support of NSDC through Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Industry Associations. Mr. Bali headed Videocon Telecom and is actively involved in Business Development, Project Management & Telecom Infrastructure Development. An accomplished business leader, Mr. Bali has 30+ year’s expertise in management of various business streams ranging from telecom, plant & operations, manufacturing & utilities with globally respected outcomes. He possesses capabilities of transforming under-performing organizations with powerful analytical skills, potent communication capability & strategic vision.
Mr Bhupesh Daheria is known in education reform leader with 20 years experience in the field. His career is focused on eradicating the birth penalty through offering quality education to the masses at affordable cost. He founded Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecommunication in 2002 with the support of Bharti Airtel; India’s top telecom firm for developing the next generation leaders.
Under his guidance in 2011 launched India’s first mMBA on tablet on Mobile University platform which was unveiled by Mr Sachin Pilot, former Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications & IT, Government of India.
Aegis joined hands with IBM which now known as the best program in Data Science and 2017 launched India’s first PGP program in CyberSecurity. Mr. Daheria is founder and Chief Organizer of Aegis Graham Bell Awards In 2013, He launched mUniversity (known as mUni Campus)– An open market place and delivery platform for the masses. His mission to launch mUni Campus is to make education accessible to all by eliminating geographical and financial constraints.
Dr. C. Krishna Mohan is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Dean of Public and Corporate Relations at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad), India.
Prof Krishna Mohan heads Visual Learning and Intelligence Lab (VIGIL) at IIT Hyderabad working in the research areas of video content analysis, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning. He is a recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award, in recognition of distinguished teaching in the year 2018 at IIT Hyderabad. He has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences proceedings. He has guided several Ph.D., Masters, and Undergraduate students.
Former Deputy Director General in Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). He had been the main architect for creation of 08 Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) in Public Private Partnership mode for Industry led research in IITs and IIM with the support of Telecom Operators and Department of Telecom; and had managed these centres as Director of TCOE India for over eight years. He was also the promoter and founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telecom Sector Skill Council that works towards adequate availability of skilled manpower to boost growth of telecom sector. He has substantial contribution in development of the Indian telecom ecosystem and has to his credit formation of 17 Start-Ups.
Dr. Jena holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Eng., Three Master degrees – one each in Telecommunications (IIT Kgp), International Business (Symbiosis) and Defense Strategy (Madras University) – and a PhD from IIT Delhi.
He had three decades of rich experience in Indian Defense in the field of R&D, Policy Making, Project Management and Indigenous Development of Electronics, Communication &; Weapon Systems before stepping into the Telecom sector.
David has worked in mobile network engineering for 35 years, his experience includes standards, rollout and optimization, networking and security, analytics, and machine learning. He began his career at the Mobile Systems Division, British Telecom Research Laboratories in Martlesham Heath, UK, and worked in the UK, Europe, the US and Hong Kong and around Asia. At GSMA he is responsible for coordinating various mobile industry technology initiatives, including 5G, AI and IoT in the APAC region. David is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer.
Dr. Debapriya Dutta completed his Ph.D from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and joined the National Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). He served as Scientist in the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Dehradun. He was appointed as the Counselor (Science and Technology) in the Embassy of India, Washington D.C.during 2008-2012. Currently, he is serving as Head and Adviser/Scientist ‘G’ in the Science for Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED) division of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Mr. Dilip is the Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He leads the permanent secretariat of the industry chamber, which is the largest and oldest apex business organization in India, and a potent voice for policy change. FICCI represents over 2,50,000 members through Member Bodies covering all the States of India.
Before joining FICCI, He served as Managing Director & CEO of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). NSDC fosters private sector investment and initiatives in training and skill development.
He has also worked in several key industry organizations, including SIAM as its Director General. He was a member of the Harvard Business School project under Professor Michael Porter that worked on the competitiveness of Indian industry. With varied experiences of working in the private sector, he advices start-ups including organizations in the digital, education, skills and livelihood space. He has also served as Chairman of an Engineering Institute.
A fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science (WAPS), he was awarded the Indian Achievers Award in 2018, The Game Changer Award in 2015 and the Rashtriya Media Ratan Award in 2013.
Prof. D. Janakiram is presently the Director of Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an Institute established by the Reserve Bank of India. A Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, he was awarded the Boyscast Fellowship in 1997, the IBM
Faculty Award in 2007 and Yahoo Faculty Grant in 2009. He is a Board Member of IIIT Kurnool and Senate Member of IIIT Trichy. He has
served as Board of Studies member in several Universities including VIT University, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Anna University, Gujarat Technical University, Andhra University, SV University, JNTU, Hyderabad, JNTU, Kakinada and Academic Council member of Hindustan University. Having authored over 150 research papers, Prof. Janakiram is the editor of six books. His books on Grid Computing (2005); Building Large Scale Software Systems (2013), and Grid and Cloud Computing (2016) are very well received. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, editor of CSI Journal of Computing, Executive Council member of Cloud Innovation Council, and a fellow of Computer Society of India. He was involved in starting several conferences including the IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM) and Urban Data Science (UDS). He has guided 14 Ph.D., over 36 M.S (Research), and 70 M.Tech. students. He has steered many nationally-important research projects with success. He was the principal investigator for a number of projects including MobiTel: Mobile Telemedicine for rural India (Indo-German Project), Peer-to-peer Concept Search (Indo-Italian collaborative project), Service Oriented Architecture for Linux Kernel (DIT) and Cloud Bursting Architecture for Document Workflow (Xerox) and has incubated two companies in the cloud computing space.
He worked as a Scientist in CARE, IIT Delhi from 1977 to 1985 where he was involved in designing and implementing real-time DSP systems. For the last 32 years, he is involved in teaching and research in the areas of digital systems design, electronic design automation and embedded systems. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students, 4 MSR students, 216 M.Tech/B.Tech projects and published nearly 137 conference and journal papers. Further, he has held visiting positions in universities in Canada, USA and Germany. At IIT Delhi, he has been the Philips Chair Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dean of Post Graduate Studies & Research, Deputy Director (Faculty) and Deputy Director
He has been a recipient of three National awards, ACM Eugene L Lawler award and very recently IIT Delhi’s Life Time award for his work in the disability space. He also served briefly as the Vice Chancellor of a Greenfield Institution of Eminence named Satya Bharti Institute of Technology.
Dr Manoj is the head & Adviser, National Council for Science & Technology Communication. (NCSTC), Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC)Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India; Director of the CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (CSIR-NISCAIR), New Delhi. A well accomplished scientist and science communicator, Dr. Patairiya has served as Adviser/Scientist ‘G’ in the DST. He was a Visiting Professor of Global Communication in Science & Technology at the Chungnam National University of the Republic of Korea and serves on Editorial Boards of different research journals in India and abroad. Recently he has been elected as the Vice Chair of the International Inter-Academy Group on Science Communication which is a recognition of India’s leadership position in science communication at the global level.
Prof Madaswamy Moni is the former director general of the National Informatics Centre, which is a principal Indian government institute for e-governance and informatics development, and former vice-president of the Asian Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture. Prof Moni is Professor Emeritus and Chairman; Shobit Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed University)
Dr. Neelesh recently moved to Academia as Director, Symbiosis Centre for Alumni Engagement (SCAE), established across the Symbiosis International University to focus on creating a connected world of alumni for new possibilities.
Before, in a career spanning over 22 years, he has gained an extensive global experience in creating IP, wining and managing large international business in various engagement models, domains and technologies. Dr. Neelesh has created and managed competencies such as Cloud, Application Performance Management and Modelling and Simulation, and contributed to make them super-sized. He was leading a team of strategic consultants. He had set up 3 Customer experience and technology centers and made them profitable. As a member of Specialist Cadre – he was responsible to enable multi-fold growth for the organization in disruptive technologies.
Soumya K. Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he worked as a scientist in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India, in the area of satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. He has been awarded the National Geospatial Chair Professorship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He has more than 300 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include spatial data science, machine learning, cloud computing, and IoT. Dr. Ghosh is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Mr Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay is an Indian Telecommunications Service (ITS) 1975 batch officer who was the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). A graduate of IIT, BHU, Varanasi in Electronics Engineering, he is also a graduate of Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) Wellington. He has obtained MSc (DS) degree from Madras University and is a MBA from IGNOU. He served telecommunications sector for more than 40 years in India and abroad and held important positions in the Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Government of India, Telecommunications Consultants of India (TCIL) and BSNL, both leading Indian Public Sector Companies-PSUs.
He successfully led these two PSUs as their Chairman and Managing Director (CMD). He served as country in-charge Republic of Yemen (ROY) and People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria for TCIL. A widely travelled person, he headed and also was member of important Government delegations visiting foreign countries, delivering keynote addresses in many international conferences.
Dr. Sanjay is a though leader for telecom technologies. He has a unique blend of Technology, Advocacy, Education, Defence and Management. He has 30+ years of experience (including 11 Yrs in India Air Force in Tele Communication stream as a Short Service Commissioned officer) in Telecom domain in Wireless technologies like IoT, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, CDMA, GSM, Microwave, UHF/VHF. He has also worked in Infrastructure security, safety as in Smart cities, Wireline networks, Broadband Networks etc. in different roles such as Practice Head, BU Head, Delivery Head etc. He also has PMP & CWNA certifications.
Dr Sanjay has worked with various companies like TCS, Wipro, Tata Teleservices, Tata Infotech, Amdocs (Comverse), Nelco, Hinduja Group, India Satcom, apart from his Air Force tenure. He is also a member of Board of Studies for Dept. of IT at NMIMS Mumbai. He has done his Ph.D. from Mumbai Univ in Management (Thesis on ‘Study of Customer Experience in mobile telecom networks and its impact on Operator’s financials’). He has done his BE & ME in Electronics & Power engg from VNIT Nagpur. He has also done ICWA (I), MDBA (Finance) from Symbiosis Pune, and Armed Forces Program (Full time 6 months) in General Management at IIM, Ahmedabad. Dr Sanjay has acquired PG Diploma in Big Data and Business Analytics from Aegis School of Big Data, Data Science and Cyber security, Mumbai in 2017. He also has UGC-NET (Management). He had completed LL.B. from Mumbai University and currently is a practicing Advocate in Bombay High Court and other Mumbai courts.
A career bureaucrat for 24 years from West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) cadre who had earlier served
as an Intelligence Officer for 4 years whilst remaining in charge of various high value government
installations, among other assignments in the North-East. I
Alma Mater of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur, Mr. Das has a Master’s in law,
specialising in Constitutional Law from Kakatiya University; another Master’s in Business Administration
from ICFAI University; Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from Calcutta University along with
Post Graduation Diploma in Rural Development; Cyber Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Training &
Development from various institutions of repute. Recently, he topped the first National Cyber Security
Scholar Programme organised by ISAC, MDI Gurgaon and NCIIPC, Govt of India. He has also been
trained as a Cyber Security Strategist by DSCI and CrowdStrike. He is a Certified Lead Implementer
Professional in ISO 27701 and GDPR by BSI.
Mr. Sudhir Gupta was the Secretary Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He worked as Principal Advisor Network, Spectrum and Licensing (NSL) he was dealing with the issues relating to license conditions of mobile operators, spectrum Management for 2G, 3G and future technologies like LTE and Broadband Wireless Access, spectrum refarming and liberalization, Mobile Number Portability, matters related to Universal Service Obligation (USO) etc. During the course of his tenure in TRAI, he has authored a number of Consultation Paper / Recommendation / Regulation on subjects like Quality of service for Mobile and Fixed Network, Mobile number portability, Spectrum for 3G and Broadband Wireless Access, Do Not Call Registry (DNC) for curbing Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC), Review of license terms & conditions and capping of number of access providers, Spectrum Management and Licensing framework etc.
Mr. Sudhir Gupta has done his B.E (Electronics) in 1979 from the University of Indore and Post Graduate Diploma in IT & Management in 1999 from the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
Vidyadhar is a diversified professional. He founded LeadCap Trust which empowered more than 10 million youth between 2007 and 2012 and LeadCap Ventures which consults for national governments and international institutions like UN, World Economic Forum. He is the Founding Curator of Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum and Fellow of UN and Ford Foundation. An alumnus of Thunderbird and Aegis, he shares board seats on institutions such as International Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development, Harvard Business Review, Dalham Foundation. He is also a member of Principal Scientific Advisor’s Consultative Group, Mentor of Change, NITI Aayog and Ambassador of Jagriti Yatra. He is also a signatory with Living My Promise where he has pledged to give away more than half of his wealth for philanthropic causes.
Mr. Vimal Wakhlu is the former President, Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) and Former Chairman & Managing Director, Telecommunications Consultants India Limited, TCIL (Government of India Enterprise). A Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar 1977, and MBA Marketing from IGNOU, he has more than 40 years of experience in the field of Telecom and Information Technology, including e-Networks, Mobile, Satellite, Microwave, Troposcatter, Co-axial, Optical Communications, Maritime Communications, International Telephony, Data and Multimedia Transmission. Starting his career with NHPC in 1977, followed by Overseas Communications Services (later VSNL and now Tata Communications Ltd.) till 1983, he held various positions in DOT (Department of Telecom) from 1983 to 2000 and BSNL from 2000 to 2006, including Director Satellite Maintenance, Western Telecom Region, and General Manager Mobile Services in Maharashtra and the North East Circles. He has been instrumental in the successful implementation of the prestigious Government of India’s Pan African e-Network Project, a project envisioned by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the Former President of India, providing a platform to 48 nations in Africa to India for Education and Health Services.
Dr. Singh is a Scientist and heads Division of Biomedical Informatics at the Indian Council of Medical Research. The Indian Council of Medical Research, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest and largest medical research bodies in the world; He has been the Co-Ordinator for ICMR’s task force which established 20 Biomedical Informatics Centers of ICMR in leading medical research institutes and medical colleges with a mandate to nucleate and support informatics in medical research through training programs and services established .
He is a technical professional with 17 years of experience in data management and analysis. He is leading a team providing data analysis services to ICMR programs like ICMR Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network, implementation research in mental health and further.
Dr. Singh has extensive experience in handling and analyzing next generation sequence data, genotyping by sequencing and epitope prediction.
Professor Olayinka David-West is an Information Systems professional with over two decades experience in the IT and financial services industries and is a passionate advocate for digital transformation and inclusive finance. Her research and practice engagements involve policy and strategic management interventions towards digitally transformed businesses and society.
Professor David-West is the Academic Director at the Lagos Business School (LBS), the premier business school in Nigeria and sits on the school’s Management Board. She leads the Sustainable and Inclusive Digital Financial Services (SIDFS) initiative, a research and advocacy department dedicated to enhancing financial inclusion in Nigeria. She is also a member of the Pan-Atlantic University senate and a governing council member of the Fintech Association of Nigeria.
She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), and the academic advocate to the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). She is also a qualified practitioner of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA).
Professor David-West frequently participates in global events providing African insights and expertise through keynote addresses, panel discussions and technical moderation.
Professor Olinga Ta’eed PhD FIoD is Visiting Professor in Blockchain at Birmingham City University and since April 2019 appointed to 7-person Chinese Ministry of Commerce ‘China E-Commerce Blockchain Committee’ with oversight of 70% of US$ 103 trillion global market. He is Founder and Director of the not-for-profit Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance – world’s leading think tank on movement of value with 170,000 members. He is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchain, the peer reviewed academic journal with 475 editors. In 2017 carried out the UK’s first and only official ICO (Initial Coin Offering) with FCA guidance. Currently he is launching in the Middle East the world’s first £210m Seratio DLT Open Bank, the TTP Procurement 4IR Foundation leading 2700 multination consortium HQ in Nairobi, and an international community charging Electric Vehicle project using blockchain.
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012-2016. He has authored over 625 publications and seven text books including “Mastering Cloud Computing” published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide. Microsoft Academic Search Index ranked Dr. Buyya as #1 author in the world (2005-2016) for both field rating and citations evaluations in the area of Distributed and Parallel Computing. “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World’s Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World’s Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a “2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters, a Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier for his outstanding contributions to Cloud computing.
Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya’s leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 50+ countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. Dr. Buyya received “Mahatma Gandhi Award” along with Gold Medals for his outstanding and extraordinary achievements in Information Technology field and services rendered to promote greater friendship and India-International cooperation. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established over 45 years ago.
As the CEO of TASK, his major role is enhancing the employability for the youth in Telangana under the Department of ITE&C, Government of Telangana. He has been responsible for on boarding Govt. degree colleges and polytechnics, multiple industry partners as well enhanced the offerings at TASK. his priority has been to increase focus on the rural areas of the state as well as to promote skilling and placement of girls and the underserved communities. With the onset of the COVID pandemic, he has been spearheading the transition of conventional training programs to virtual (online and blended) mode, and initiated several webinar series on various subjects.
He was part of the Program Review & Support Group (PRSG) for PMGDISHA, was also part of the two-member committee which has provided guidelines to be followed for all Govt. of India Websites & apps (GIGW). He served as a member of various Govt of India’s working group like ‘IT for Masses’; ‘Technology Development for Indian Languages Program’; part of the content, assessment for NDLM & PMGDISHA. An eminent speaker at national and international forums, he is also part of the Technology Advisory Group for ‘Girls in IT’, A champion of Social & Grassroot innovations and inclusive India, his passion got him to join the advisory board of the Nagrik Foundation & Action Aid India.
Prior to joining TASK, he was the CEO of NASSCOM Foundation, the social development arm of the Indian IT-BPM industry body – NASSCOM, where he led the ‘tech 4 good’ movement in the country for little over 4 years. Prior to joining NASSCOM Foundation, he was based out of Malaysia, working as Head Corporate learning, APAC and MENA, at GlobalNxt University (formerly U21Global), a leading Online Graduate School, helping thousands of people working in corporates across the Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and North African regions with limited or no access to good quality academic opportunities.
Through his unique perspective and diverse and rich experience spanning over 32+ years, he helped take NASSCOM Foundation to newer heights and helped create much larger impact. He has also been championing the cause of collaborative CSR, where corporates can join hands for a common cause, with government and non-government entities to solve social issues and create large scale impact. As a respected leader in the space, A student of Computer Applications & Physics from Delhi university, earlier in his career, Shrikant has played a pivotal role in the success of APTECH in India, in Latin America & the Middle East.
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).
Entrepreneurial and results-driven IT professional offering 20+ years of cross-platform experience in strategic planning, consulting, P&L management and revenue generation across diverse industry verticals including Telecom, Banking, BPO and MNC. Currently working as Director with Trust 2 Serv Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, and Maharashtra, India, developing market plans, architecting solutions and establishing markets for various products for India, Middle East and Africa.
Well versed in Business Transformation Services, Solution Sales, Managed Services, Enterprise Applications, System Integration, Information Security, Software Development, IoT, Remote Infrastructure Management, SoC, ITO and LTO. Extensive working exposure across the globe including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Nepal, China, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, KSA, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Kenya, RSA, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, UK, Ireland, Germany & France.
Dr Vinay Kulkarni has completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Ph.D. in Computer-aided Manufacturing from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is currently the Director of Aegis School of Data Science, Faculty for Statistics and Probability, Apache Hadoop at Aegis School of Data Science and also an former Adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay In the past he has worked as a Vice President – Innovation and Incubation, Geometric Ltd, Strategic Advisor for Mindmap IT Solutions.