Ashish Jadhav

Ashish Jadhav is a senior technology leader with 25 years of experience in companies that thrived on technology, architecture, and solution innovations. A dynamic and innovative technology professional experienced in designing, implementing & supporting large-scale Enterprise IT projects. He has acquired broad and deep expertise in defining a technology vision, building digital platforms, defining enterprise architectures, solving IT challenges related to huge workloads, expertise in cloud-native technologies, setting the digital strategy, and manage technology roadmap and governance.

He is presently working as Senior Vice President of Technology and heading Enterprise Applications Development for (Integrated Systems Organization) with Jio Platforms Limited (Reliance Industries Limited Group Company).

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Ayan De

Ayan is a technology strategist with over two decades of experience in the Insurance industry. He has specialties in technology-based process transformation, business process management, risk analysis and business continuity management. He has managed turnkey technology projects aimed at business transformation at some of the major insurance players across the South Asia geography.

Dhaval Pandya

Dhaval Pandya is the Corporate Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Piramal Enterprises Limited. He is responsible for strategizing and implementing end-to-end technologies for Corporate Functions and Corporate Applications for the Group as well as Pharma businesses. Dhaval will also drive technology team’s vision for the group, strengthening technology Culture in the organization.

In his prior assignment, he was the CIO & CDO at JSW Paints Private Limited, Mumbai – a startup within the billion-dollar JSW business conglomerate. As a part of the Core Leadership Team, he was involved in all the strategic initiatives and discussions across the functions. Being a startup, he developed the complete digital & information technology backbone grounds up across the entire value chain – spanning across Internal Customers, Operations & Supply Chain, Channel, Field, Influencers and Consumers.

He comes from a consulting background and his vision is to deploy technology that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage in the long run & enable business of the future. He adopts a KPI driven approach for identification of technology & levers of change to drive business outcomes & increase user adoption. Some of the key considerations include leveraging Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI & ML), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Industry 4.0 & IoT, Blockchain, AR, VR, Chabot / Digital Assistant, Cloud, Analytics, Mobility and Social (CAMS) among others

He participates as an expert, speaker & panelist at various forums to deliver thought leadership around providing a point of view, evaluation, applicability & futuristic potential of various levers in information technology and digital.

Kartik Prabhakar

Kartik Prabhakar is Head of General Enterprise Business for Slack and a technology industry executive with over 12 years of experience in building and scaling businesses. Extensive background in PLG companies & general management, Kartik has spent the last couple of his career scaling SaaS organisations by helping them achieve their scaled revenue targets. Before joining Slack, Kartik held leadership positions at MongoDB & Oracle.

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Paromesh Chatterjee

Paromesh has about 18+ years of rich technical leadership experience in various technology domains viz. Enterprise IT; Service Delivery; Program/Project management; IT Transformation; Presales & Consulting; Solution Architecture and Customer Advocacy & Support;

He is currently deputed as Head of IT for IDFC First Bharat Limited, which is a subsidiary of IDFC First Bank.

Previous and notable assignments have been:-
1. DVP and Functional Head of IT Infrastructure, ATM & Switch Operations, IT Projects, Application Support.
2. Senior Project Manager heading Enterprise Platform Engineering portfolio for Royal Bank of Scotland in India.
3. Microsoft - In Technology Consulting space
4. Hewlett-Packard - In Presales and Solution Architecture/Capacity Planning space

Prasad Tilve

Prasad brings over 25+ years of experience in Sales and business development, focusing on large technology services in Data Center, Cloud, Managed Services, Managed Security services, and Solution Sales across all verticals.

Prasad currently Heads Business Development & Strategy for CapitaLand India Data Centre Group, and his role entails Sales, Strategic Partnerships, New Product Development and P&L.

His prior stint of 10+ years with NTT Global Datacenters and Cloud services has diverse 
expertise in Sales, Strategic Alliances, Channel Partners Ecosystem, Government & PSU vertical. 

Before managing Datacenter sales, Prasad has spent 5 years at ADC Krone (TYCO) with P&L responsibility as Regional Manager and Datacenter Specialist. Other rich start up experiences, including TVS Interconnect, WQ Systems, and Online Netsys, make him the perfect Go to market individual. Innovative thinker with broad-based expertise in Start-up operations, with a sound understanding of IT practices and the underlying framework of IT products and services.

Shalil Gupta

Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.

Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.

A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.

Sridhar Pachigolla

An astute professional with over 30+ years of experience in Heading Information Systems, Global IT Program Management, Enterprise Architecture, Implementation of ERP, CRM, HCM, BI Systems, AI/ML solutions and App modernization with reputed organisations. Having proven experience in building and deploying several cross-industry solutions for Finance, HR and Quality functions. Currently associated with WNS Global Services (www.wns.com), Mumbai as Corporate Senior Vice President -IT and supporting it's 55,000+ Global Workforce with high impact and innovative IT Solutions.

Developed IT Systems road maps for large-scale organisations and supported all-round growth in terms of revenue, margins and productivity of the organisation. Proven success in migrating business processes from legacy systems to modern ERP systems leveraging Cloud technologies. Designed and deployed complex and advanced analytics solutions.

Sumedha Bose

Sumedha is the Product Lead of Sales Edge, India’s only Growth Acceleration Platform. She is also responsible for c-suite research programs such as CFO research, CEO Research, and other CXO research conducted to understand the technology landscape of India. She is well established as a sought-out advisor to many industry technology provider leaders across multiple functions such as marketing, sales and product solution development helping them understand the nuances and deal with the dynamism of the market at large.