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Roberto is an accomplished technology leader with over 25 years of experience, specialising in top management consulting and multinational organisations, as well as extensive expertise as a goal-driven, forward-thinking Strategy and Operations Director for Compute & Innovation within the Tech & Digital team at NEOM.

ROBERTO FRONGIA

Strategy & Operations Director, Technology and Digital Compute & Innovation

NEOM

Suresh has a remarkable 21 years of work experience in Information Technology domain across Insurance, Manufacturing and Software sectors under his belt. He has worked with organizations like SBI General, ICICI Lombard, & Polaris Software Labs before coming on-board with Kotak General Insurance.

Suresh Sankaranarayanan

Senior EVP & CTO,

Kotak General Insurance

Ekhlaque Bari is a digital transformation leader with expertise across geographies and industries. He is equally passionate about people and business as he is about technology. He also is a NLP practitioner, six sigma black belt and trained life coach.

Ekhlaque Bari

Chief Information Officer,

Jubilant Food Works

Nikunj has deep interest for using technology to solve business problems. In addition to mentoring and developing the future IT leaders in his team, he is in charge of the organization's IT and digital strategy.

Nikunj Jain

CIO and Digital Leader,

Procter & Gamble, India

With a proven track record of building the largest digital bank and driving large scale digital transformations successfully over the past two decades in large Banks and IT giants globally, he is adept at combining an entrepreneurial drive with managerial expertise to optimise technology, processes, resources and delivering compelling value to organizations and customers.

Ankur Varshney

Chief Technology Officer,

SBI Payments

Amajit is credited with creating and implementing Lightstorm’s vision and direction and developing business strategies and new expansion plans, in line with the strategic direction provided by the boards. In addition, he oversees all operations and business activities to ensure they produce results in line with the annual business operating plan of the company.

Amajit Gupta

CEO,

Lightstorm

Business and IT Strategist with over 23 years of expertise in enterprise systems such as SAP across the globe, as well as more than 10 successful life cycle implementation projects in industries such as pharmaceutical, FMCG, semiconductors, and automobiles.

Dr. Avadhut Chandrakant Parab

Chief Information Officer,

Parle Agro

Technology leader with over 20 years of experience across industries with a focus on Digital Technology, Cloud Transformation, Application modernization, setting up Devsecops & Automations, SRE practices, Emerging technologies - AI, ML, NLP, IOT, Data Science, Computer Vision etc.

Abhishek Sukhwal

Head Cloud Centre of Excellence,

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

She has been instrumental in delivering technological solutions in the automation of key processes across different business verticals of BPCL like Retail, LPG, Lubricants, Aviation, HR, Legal, and Refineries. Currently heading the Cloud Security for Project Anubhav – the Digital Transformation initiative, I have been instrumental in setting up the first Cloud project for BPCL.

Nasreen Khan

Head Cloud and Cloud Security,

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd

He has over 20 years of expertise in IT and OT security, covering application and infrastructure security, as well as establishing strategy and operationalizing and implementing security procedures and technologies across a variety of domains such as retail, BFSI, manufacturing, and security consulting.

Harshad Mengle

CISO,

Aditya Birla Group

Prasanna has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with a strong focus on developing next-generation products to help enterprises solve digital transformation challenges with deep knowledge of cloud and enterprise networking.

Prasanna C

Head of Product & Marketing,

Lightstorm

Fintech leader with 18+ years of industry experience in building / nurturing technology and product engineering teams to deliver digital assets (within SME Fintech, GICs, retail banks) for start-ups and enterprises at the cross-roads of change and next level of growth.

Vamsi Krishna Ithamraju

CTO,

Axis Mutual Fund

Technology leader with over 20 years of experience managing people and technology to promote productivity, innovations, and operational efficiency to increase business profitability, and strong industry knowledge in the exchange sector with focus on trading, clearing & settlement, surveillance, and risk management systems.

Viral Davda

CTO,

NCDEX

Sourav has decades of experience in Global MNCs and Indian conglomerates, and a career spanning Functional Consulting, Project & Program Management, Delivery Management, Solution Architecting, and Account Management. He has led several key Business Transformation initiatives, and handled stakeholders globally, primarily in APAC, Europe, and North America.

Sourav Das

CDIO,

Aditya Birla Group Essel Mining

With over 26 years of experience in the Pharmaceuticals, Lifestyle Fashion, Textiles, and Engineering industries, he has led and managed Projects to ensure on-time and smooth Project delivery while achieving desired Business benefits through Business Process Risk Assessment and Process Re-design engagements for major global/domestic organizations.

Dwaipayan Ghosh

VP & CIO,

Welspun India Limited

He is currently the Executive Vice President at Denodo. Prior to Denodo, Suresh worked in executive roles as general manager, and VP of product management and marketing at leading web and enterprise software companies and as a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Suresh Chandrasekaran

Executive Vice President,

Denodo

A seasoned and accomplished IT Professional with over 20 years of diverse experience in Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Business Solutions, Project Management, IT Governance, Systems Development, Vendor Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Team Management in the Consumer Goods, Paint, and Manufacturing Industries.

Rajgopal Nayak

CTO,

Metro Brands

Ninad Raje is a visionary senior leadership specialist in Healthcare, Insurance, Information Technology, and Financial Services with extensive knowledge and 23+ years of experience in successfully leading large enterprises and developing organisations exponentially through radical innovation.

Ninad Raje

Director & CIO,

Health Assure

Mr.Ghancha is a cyber security specialist with extensive experience in the field of information technology, with a primary focus on information & cyber security policies, projects, compliance, risk and audit management, and corporate investigations and forensics

Fal Ghancha

CISO,

DSP Mutual Fund

Ashish has been a key enabler for WW - Nutanix partnership and has helped WW DC to evolve its ecosystem for a cloud-ready operating model. Ashish has a hands-on experience with cloud enabled emerging technologies and has worked with few major DCs and service providers in India for strategic planning and GTM.

Ashish Sharma

Strategy Head Special Projects,

Web Werks

He has worked in multiple organizations in the past and is part of Zoho for more than a decade. He has played a strategic role in architecting multiple products from scratch across Zoho. He is one of the earliest members of the Site24x7 and loves solving hard DevOps problems at scale.

Ananth Kumar

Engineering Leader,

Site24x7

Manish is heading Global Operations for Wockhardt’s technology initiatives and handling a large portfolio of Digital health including setting up of center of excellence for IT operations, SAP, Analytics, Start-up Innovation, GxP & Manufacturing Excellence.

Manish Kishore

Global CIO,

Wockhardt Limited

He has over 15 years of experience in designing, developing and delivering successful cost-effective, high-performance technology and information security solution, with focus on planning, strategy and implementation of Cyber Security policy, process and technology.

Basil Dange

CISO,

Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd

Vinod has more than two decades of senior management experience in technology and Information Security roles in Banking, BPO, Media and Telecommunications industry. He has In-depth knowledge of various Enterprise Technology Systems and a proven track record of business solutions delivery.

Vinod Kumar

EVP & Chief Information Officer,

Fino Payments Bank