Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based outChennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise wide applications. He also leads the digital transformation initiatives at the Apollo Hospitals Groups.
Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership , Professional excellence and Community contribution.
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Responsible for information technology strategy, which includes information, communications, IT operations, IT compliance and has been instrumental in the Business Transformation Projects and adoption of competitive technologies.He has nearly two decades of combined experience in the Finance, Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain and IT services sectors. Prior to his current role, he was working with Raymond Ltd, Foodland Supply chain for McDonalds, Eurest of Compass Group and had started his career with Datamatics where he developed and managed software solutions for multinational companies.
Suhrid is the Chief Technology Officer at WNS Global Services (NYSE: WNS) and he leads WNS Technology Services as well as Enterprise Applications teams that are focused on delivering Technology-led solutions for WNS’ customers and the enterprise itself. He works closely with the business unit leaders in creating and delivering solutions based on WNS IP and Partner platforms. WNS Technology group has launched multiple industry-specific solutions and cross-industry solutions as part of WNS TRACTM suite. These solutions combine industry / domain knowledge together with multiple technology options to drive the desired level of outcomes for WNS’ customers. Prior to WNS, Suhrid worked with PwC, GE / Genpact, Deloitte and Wipro. He has been a speaker at multiple industry conferences including Gartner BPM Summit and other Analyst / Advisor events.
As the Head of Platform Engineering, Sudheer oversees the entire Cloud Infrastructure & Data Platforms portfolio for Myntra. His team is responsible for the maintenance and up-keep of the entire Cloud infrastructure footprint and PaaS services purpose built for Myntra engineering to scale and leverage across all teams. The Myntra Data Platform serves as the foundation for business insights, reporting and machine learning driven personalization.
Prior to Myntra, Sudheer worked at Flipkart as Head of InfoSec and also on Flipkart Cloud Platform Storage Engineering. Before Flipkart, Sudheer worked in various tech companies for 15yrs in various technical leadership positions in the US, in the Seattle area. Most recent was at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, where he owned and managed a public web service called AWS Data Pipeline used for analytics.
Sudheer is passionate about cloud and all things distributed and large-scale and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida.
With more than 15+ years of experience in the infrastructure and security space, Prithvi is a trusted professional in the industry. He is a strong Devops and Cloud Architect, and has a strategic mind coupled with detailed operational expertise.Prithvi takes pride in working with different organisations, from start-ups to large organisations, throughout his career. At Darwinbox, Prithvi leads the engineering teams to make sure the systems and processes are secure.
Serial entrepreneur whose AI powered platform, Builder.ai, raised $29.6m in 2018 tomake building software as easy as ordering pizza for every company and entrepreneuron the planet.
Sachin started his career at the age of 14 building PCs, and by 17, he’d built one of theworld’s first automatic currency arbitrage trading systems for Deutsche Bank. He startedcloud computing company, Nivio, when he was 21 and still at Imperial College, taking itto just under $100m in valuation before exiting (he still holds a trademark for the wordcloud in India!).
Sachin was the World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer in 2009, Entrepreneur.com’s SerialEntrepreneur of the Year and a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
He also founded the ‘Geek’s Dinner’, a diverse community of personalities from tech tofilm, who come together once a year to discuss the most pressing issues challenginghumanity. Along with his co-founder and best friend Saurabh, they’re aiming to bringeducation to 100 million children within the next 50 years.
Prabhu Rangarajan co-founded M2P Fintech in 2015 along with Madhu & Muthu. Prabhu has more than 16 years of experience as an IT professional. At M2P Fintech, Prabhu leads the Operations, Infrastructure, Infosec, HR & Admin, Marketing, and Design. He believes in creating and nourishing thriving work environments where the motivation to excel comes from within for every member without external stimuli. He plays a big part in bringing employee-friendly HR practices to M2P Fintech. His vision is to provide a launchpad for future entrepreneurs through M2P Fintech, where they can learn from peers and industry leaders.
Prabhu was associated with IT giants like Verizon, Cognizant, and iGATE-Patni before co-founding M2P Fintech. He holds a Master's degree in Information Technology from the University of Madras.
Lalit Bhise is a software engineer turned entrepreneur with over 20 years of professional experience. He embarked on the journey of entrepreneurship driven by his passion for creating and solving problems.
Lalit is a tech enthusiast and has invented hybrid mobile programming. He also holds a patent in visual merchandising using image recognition. Lalit has built more than 150 products over 17 years and knows the FMCG industry in and out by working globally with 500+ brands for five years.
With a strong belief in leveraging human-centered technology for enhancing userexperience, Akash is at helm of defining WorkInSync's technology strategy. With his insights and prowess, he has been leading all product & technology development for WorkInSync.
With a decade of experience with technology giant – Microsoft, Akash co-foundedWorkInSync in 2009. He has been instrumental in charting the company’s technology roadmap as it has grown from a startup to a market leader.
Akash earned his B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT – BHU,Varanasi, India.
Gaurav Sharma is the founder & CEO of SaaS Labs, a fast-growing product company that he bootstrapped to millions in ARR profitably. Previously, he built & sold two businesses in analytics and ad tech space in the US. He is also an active angel investor in early-stage SaaS startups.
Girish Rowjee is a co-founder & CEO of Greytip Software. Girish has guided Greytip into the position of a premier HR & Payroll solutions provider that today enables processing of 13 Lakhs+ employee records on a monthly basis. One of the early movers in the Cloud B2B space in India, he’s been instrumental in positioning Greytip as a market leader in the cloud Payroll & HR space with around 10,000+ paying businesses in India and GCC countries. Girish has done his Engineering from SJCE Mysore. He is one of the founding members of iSPIRT (Indian Software Product Industry Round Table) and is a Mentor at the Founder's Institute, India.
Sashi has over 27 years of experience in the software and services domain with exposure to a wide variety of management functions. Sashi was the CEO and MD of Happiest Minds Technologies Private Ltd, where he led the business transformation of traditional services to cloud and digital. Sashi held leadership roles in CSC where he was heading India operations across six cities with a 22,000 member team and in SAP where he was responsible for Global Delivery of SAP Consulting Services across India, China and LATAM. Sashi in the past, spent over 14 years across multiple leadership roles including General Manager - Premier Field Engineering, APAC, China & Japan, Head - Global Technical Support Center, India and Director - Industry Verticals, India. On the personal front, outside of work, Sashi is a keen wildlife photography and automobile enthusiast. He is also the co-founder of Cardiac Design Labs that was rated Top 2 in Medical Innovations 2017 by ICMR and the recipient of the grand jury award in Startup India 2016. Apart from this, he is actively involved in a non-profit that delivers palliative care to the economically backward in Kerala.
Dahnesh Dilkhush is CTO, Azure for Microsoft India. He also leads the Customer Success Unit team for Azure. Dahnesh has over 21 years of IT Experience and has worked in various technology leadership roles at Microsoft India.
With over 24 years of experience in IT consulting, solution sales and channel development, Rajnish Malik is responsible for developing and managing a team of high-performing Azure AppDev & SAP specialists. At Microsoft, Rajnish and his team drive solution opportunity revenue and market share by executing the Migrate and Innovate sales priorities. Rajnish has significant experience in incubating and building new businesses from conceptualizing strategy to the execution at scale.
Vijayant is the Country Leader for Microsoft India’s Banking & Finance Industry segment. In this role he has overall responsibility of Microsoft’s business from the segment in the country & carries the India charter of partnering with Financial Services Organizations in their Digital Transformation journey. Vijayant is passionate about helping businesses digitally transform with the right strategy, support and technology to unlock new ways of working, new business models and new revenue streams. With customers and employees expecting more, Vijayant advocates the strategic implementation of intelligent cloud services to maintain competitive edge.
A leader with over 27 years of experience with Global Technology companies he has a strong background in building & running high performance businesses with a track record of delivering Customer Success & Innovation. Prior to Microsoft, Vijayant was with Salesforce where he was the Regional Vice President heading the Enterprise business for the country. Before that he held various Senior Leadership roles including Regional Director @ SAP & Country Head for CA Technologies Data Management Business.
As the Startup Ecosystem Lead, Sangeeta Bavi, supports and empowers the new-age startups and entrepreneurs in India to help grow their business by enabling them with the right products, solutions and programs. With a wide breadth and depth of experience across different areas - startup ecosystem, GTM programs, developer marketing, consumer insights, solution and product management, E2E software creation - Sangeeta helps startups engage deeply with Microsoft. Having worked in whitespace initiatives: UID, developer evangelism, apps co-marketing, GTM for B2B SaaS ISVs in India, Sangeeta is passionate about startups and the developer ecosystem as well as product development, innovation and technology.
Yusuf Rangwala is a Principal Specialist - Global Black Belt Asia with more than 10 years of experience on designing, migrating and building a wide variety of enterprise applications on the Azure platform.
He has an overall 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and has helped Fortune 100 organizations move out of Mainframes into the new age web platforms, building mission critical Cloud Native solutions.
As part of Global Black Belt, Yusuf is responsible for providing architecture consulting for modernizing applications and providing innovative solutions to Microsoft's customers using Azure features and services in order to solve some of their most intricate and complex challenges.
Srikanth Sridhar, Senior Specialist at Microsoft, heads sales for Cosmos DB in APAC and India. Srikanth is a passionate technologist, with over 15 years of industry experience. He has led various digital transformation programs utilizing multi-cloud architectures and cutting-edge technologies like Big Data & AI.
As a senior cloud advocate, Rory works in the developer relations team at Microsoft using his deep research skills to help professional cloud developers discover and successfully use Microsoft’s platforms.
A seasoned speaker, Rory speaks around the world empowering developers to achieve more.
Patrik has 20+ years experience in the IT Industry in regional and local roles across APAC, Australia, the UK and Europe with Microsoft, HPE and IDC spanning technical, marketing and business leadership roles. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Computer Science and Marketing. He is a personable and results oriented business leader, empowering our customers and partners to transform and achieve more through digital and cloud transformation leveraging the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Sadagopan Rajaram is a Senior Director Engineering co-owning the Data pillar in GitHub. He has spent all his career in Developer Tools and Services starting with writing compilers, building Visual Studio tools for Phone, running a portfolio of Azure Devops Services and now in GitHub. Sadagopan is passionate about developer and team productivity and looking at data as the next frontier that will impact engineering.
As Director, Global GitHub Advanced Security Sales at GitHub, Niroshan is responsible for working with Enterprise customers on their application security programs. Prior to GitHub, Niroshan led growth at Semmle, the company behind the CodeQL semantic code analysis engine which powers GitHub’s Advanced Security code scanning capability. Niroshan brings more than 20 years of experience working at BAE Systems & Lockheed Martin in the design and development of safety-critical and fault-tolerant systems. In recent years, he has collaborated in the development of pioneering innovations in the field of DevOps and cyber security. This includes technologies such as application security testing, change-based testing, code fuzzing, and variant analysis for the hunting of 0-days in Enterprise Software.
Based in Seattle, USA, Tamer Shabani is a Program Manager at Microsoft’s Azure Communication Services, a platform that enables organizations and developers to securely build communications features and connected user experiences across applications and devices. This includes video, voice, chat, SMS, and PSTN. He holds engineering degrees (BS, MS) from Stanford University and has accumulated professional experience in product management; business development and strategy; and agile development frameworks (Scrum).
Clarence is based out of Melbourne, Australia, and has enjoyed a career in ICT over the past two decades as a software developer, agile delivery consultant and technical pre-sales specialist.
In this current role as Application Innovation Specialist in the Microsoft Global Black Asia team, Clarence is helping customers to be successful in their digital transformation journeys through building new solutions and modernising legacy apps using Microsoft Azure and open-source technologies.
With strong cloud and software background, Hin Lam has a wealth of knowledge and experience to drive enterprise transformation and guide organisations through the large number of options in the tech stack. Prior to VMWare and Pivotal, Hin Lam worked for Amazon Web Service and in various start-ups taking roles in Solution Architect, pre-sales and DevOps.
As Channel Partnership Manager at Verizon Edgecast, Sunil helps digital businesses with unique capabilities that accommodate modern content delivery and video distribution needs. He also helps businesses with next industry transition, viewer reach with intelligently curated and flawlessly delivered, individually directed services and content. Sunil has over a decade of experience in empowering hundreds of global businesses to make the right decisions when choosing a CDN, streaming and cloud security. His previous stints were at Akamai & Webscale Networks.
