Our speakers
Dr. Atul Kapoor, Managing Director, Regency Hospital Ltd.
Dr. Kapoor is the Founder and Managing Director of Regency Hospital Ltd and a qualified Surgeon having done his Masters in General Surgery from GSVM Medical
College, Kanpur. He had an excellent academic career having held numerous positions in MBBS and was awarded honors virtually in every subject with Gold Medals in Physiology, Medicines, Surgery, Obs. & Gynecology, and Ophthalmology. Having special interest in surgery, he joined the Department of Surgery at GSVM Medical College to do his Masters in the subject.
He worked as a Resident Surgeon and demonstrator in the department of Surgery till 1984 and after completing his MS Surgery, left Kanpur to join the prestigious Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital at New Delhi as a Senior Registrar in Surgery. He worked in this hospital for approximately one year and during this period gained wide surgical experience. During his brief stay at Delhi, he decided to establish a multi specialty corporate hospital in Kanpur. An objective of bringing international standard of healthcare within the reach of common man in Uttar Pradesh was achieved with commissioning of Regency Hospital Ltd. in the state industrial capital, Kanpur a few years back. Ever since its establishment, the super specialty corporate hospital never looked back in bringing high quality medical services here.
Dr. Avadhut Parab, Chief Information Officer, Parle Agro
Dr. Avadhut Parab, CIO, Parle Agro Ltd.
Dr. B. S. Ajai Kumar, Founder, Chairman & CEO, HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd
Dr. Ajai is the founder and Chairman of HCG. He completed his M.B.B.S from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore and left for the United States to pursue higher education. He joined the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and did his Residency in Oncology. He did his Fellowship in Radiation Oncology & Medical Oncology from the world renowned M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
With over 35 years of experience in the field of oncology at some of the reputed cancer centers in US., Dr. Ajaikumar had a vision to start a world class cancer care center with the latest technology and best of expertise in India. He joined a group of specialists at Bangalore in 1989 and started the 'Bangalore Institute of Oncology' the only private cancer hospital at that point in time in Bangalore.
Today as chairman of HCG he manages 20 Cancer Care Centers across Asia with dedicated cancer care centers in tier 2 & 3 cities. Under his leadership HCG changed the landscape in oncology by introducing whole body radio-surgery system - CyberKnife in India and also advanced imaging, 128 slice HD- PET, 3 Tesla MRI- Skyra, digital mammogram etc
Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta, Financial Centre Development Associate Director - Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta is the Associate Director of Business Development at ADGM focusing on financial services across emerging markets and Europe. Dr Dasgupta is responsible for overseeing the development of the banking, asset management, private banking sectors including key areas such as Crypto Assets, FinTech, Sustainable Finance, Digital Banking and Digital Investment Management in ADG.
Prior to joining ADGM in 2019, Dr Dasgupta was the Chief Operating Officer of UK Export Finance at the Department of International Trade in the UK Government. His 25 year career included senior level business development and transformation roles in investment banking, transaction banking, technology and consulting in firms such as HSBC, ABN AMRO, Citigroup and PwC.
Dr Dasgupta holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Bhopal, an MBA in Finance from Indore University, a PhD in Financial Modelling & AI from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Politics from Kings College London. He is currently completing a PhD in Food History from Brunel University.
Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh, Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture
Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh is Accenture’s chief strategy officer, with responsibility for all aspects of the company's strategy and investments, including ventures and acquisitions and Accenture Research. He also oversees the development of all assets and offerings across Accenture’s Services. In addition, Bhaskar has management responsibility for Industry X (digital manufacturing and intelligent products and platforms) and driving responsible business and sustainability services. He is a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee.
Before being named to his current position in 2020, Bhaskar was advisor to the CEO on important topics, including growth and investment strategy, business performance, organizational effectiveness and restructuring. Prior to that, he was the group chief executive of Accenture Technology Services with overall responsibility for the Accenture Application and Infrastructure Services business, directing strategy and investments, and leading platforms, products and global technology delivery. In this role, he focused on enabling enterprises to drive growth through innovative technology services designed to reinvent their application strategy and portfolio.
Accenture Technology Services made outstanding progress to rapidly rotate to the New and enable clients to lead in the New under Bhaskar’s leadership. More than 200,000 Accenture Technology people were trained around the world in New IT, including automation, Agile development and intelligent platforms, and Accenture strengthened New IT offerings around data, cloud, security and Liquid Application Management. In the same period, Accenture opened a ground-breaking Innovation Hub in Bengaluru with a focus on driving innovation at scale, and a network of more than 18 Liquid Studios around the world. He has personally provided leadership to develop cutting-edge technology solutions, including the technology automation platform myWizard, Accenture’s cloud assessment and migration platform, MyNav, and the value-led ERP implementation platform of Accenture myConcerto. As an innovator, Bhaskar has been awarded six patents in the area of software engineering and platform development.
Bhaskar is co-author of Automation Advantage, a guide for technology and business leaders detailing how to drive intelligent enterprise automation at scale while weaving AI into the fabric of the organization.
Bhaskar serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) and is Chairman of its IT Strategy committee and a member of its Risk, Audit & Governance committee.
Before joining Accenture in 2003, Bhaskar was vice president and global head of IT infrastructure management services at Infosys. Earlier in his career, he held several senior positions with Philips in India, where he worked extensively with the consumer electronics industry.
Bhaskar holds a bachelor of science degree and a master’s degree in business administration from Calcutta University and a Ph.D. in business management from Utkal University in India.
Dr. Bhupendra S. Avasthi, Founder & Managing Director, Surya Mother & Childcare
Dr Avasthi founder of Surya Hospitals is a MD in paediatrics and has been a professor and teacher for many years. Currently he runs a 170 bed hospital in Mumbai and 110 bed hospital in Pune catering specifically to woman and child care segment. By March 2017, Surya Hospitals plans to expand further and open up branches in Jaipur and Thane.
Dr Avasthi is actively involved in a PPP project with corporation in Mumbai and heads the largest neonatal centre in the country. He was the founder and chief of department of paediatrics at Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai.
Dr. Bindu Rana, Founder and CEO, Millennium Education Management Pvt. Ltd.
Dr Bindu Rana is the founder and CEO of MEM. She has an illustrious career spanning 30 years in the field of education and has innumerable achievements. She has :
• Been the architect of the largest private sector Research & Development initiative in the field of education in India.
• Built path breaking research based teaching and learning methodologies that have brought about a transformational and defining shift in the way curriculum and pedagogic thoughts have evolved in the industry today.
• Led to the creation of the most valuable research repository of intellectual property, ever created in the history of the education industry in India, across the private and public sector, over the last decade.
• Been instrumental in conceptualizing and creating more than 800 books ranging from Kindergarten to Grade X, 850 concept- based board games that help children learn all the primary concepts, 1,350 application–based projects connected to real life experiences, 4,000 assessments, a question bank with more than 47,550 questions based on different skills and levels, 25,000 lesson plans, both in the written and graphic forms, online content on Parenting Tips, English language enhancement modules and more than 60 award winning training videos for facilitators.
• Created thought defining innovations that include the learning methodologies 'Little Millennium', 'Millennium Learning System' 'E-DAC' and 'Scaffolding Learning System' that were created for different socio-economic audiences and contextualised to align with the needs of the learners in modern times.
• Built a formidable Research and Development team of over 200 exceptionally passionate and motivated individuals and achieved unprecedented benchmarks in productivity, generating one of the largest knowledge banks of educational tools and materials in India.
• Clocked over 75,000 training man-days guiding teachers with innovative teaching learning and pedagogic strategies.
• Led one of the largest chains of private schools in India with the overall responsibility for their P&L growth and success outcomes and managed a team of over 2000 people.
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Dr. BS Ajai Kumar, Chairman & CEO, HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd.
Dr. Ajai is the founder and Chairman of HCG. He completed his M.B.B.S from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore and Residency in Oncology from University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He did his Fellowship in Radiation Oncology & Medical Oncology from the world renowned M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
With over 35 years of experience in the field of oncology at some of the reputed cancer centers in US. Dr. Ajaikumar had a vision to start a world class cancer care center with the latest technology and best of expertise in India. He joined a group of specialists at Bangalore in 1989 and started the 'Bangalore Institute of Oncology' the only private cancer hospital at that point in time in Bangalore.
Today as chairman of HCG he manages 20 Cancer Care Centers across Asia with dedicated cancer care centers in tier 2 & 3 cities. Under his leadership HCG changed the landscape in oncology by introducing whole body radio-surgery system - CyberKnife in India and also advanced imaging, 128 slice HD- PET, 3 Tesla MRI- Skyra, digital mammogram etc.
Dr. C. Jayakumar, Executive Vice President & Head - Corporate Human Resources (CHRO), Larsen & Toubro