Our speakers
Dr. Ir. Ng Thiaw Seng, Head of Network Solutions - Strategic Network Evolution Market Area South East Asia, Oceania & India, Ericsson
Thiaw Seng has more than 20 years of experience in Radio Access Technology working in both operator and vendor environment. He is currently the Regional Head of Network Solutions – Strategic Network Evolution in Ericsson Market Area South East Asia, Oceania and India (MOAI). He specializes in spectrum and network evolution strategy. His main scope of work is mainly dealing with analyzing operators’ network and suggests the best network evolution approach in achieving best network performance in fulfilling upcoming service requirements while ensuring the lower total cost of ownership in network evolution strategy. He is also the current Ericsson RAN Specialist Point of Contact (SPOC) in the Ericsson User Group Asia Pacific (EUGAP), driving operators’ requirement into Ericsson Solution. Thiaw Seng received his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Multimedia University in 2013 and published several international peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Jayasankar Prasad C , CEO, Kerala Startup Mission | @startup_mission
A Management Professional with a technical background and two decades of experience in Industry/Infrastructure consulting, Public private partnerships and project/venture financing. Experienced in IT Industry, especially in the e-governance domain.
Has handled senior management portfolios in government as well as private organizations. Currently the CEO of KSUM and Director of ICFOSS and formerly the Special officer for IDZ , IIITK Pala and ICT Academy Kerala . Was the Director of Kerala State IT Mission and prior to that worked as the Chief operating officer of Vizhinjam port and Vice President and Head, PPP & Project Advisory of INKEL. Has handled varied roles like Deputy to Global head, Initial Learning Program, PMO Global ILP, Risk Officer, Quality manager, Audit &Compliance Manager and BDM - Kerala at Tata Consultancy Services.
Has worked as Assistant Director, Project Advisory in Opus Financial Services (investment Bank) and Vice President Projects in ICICI KINFRA Ltd. Has worked as District manager Bongeigaon , in FCI.
Education
Holds a PhD in Project management from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Kerala, and Masters in Business Administration from Institute of management in Kerala and Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum.
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Certified Professional on Business Excellence Leadership Program (TQMS), ISO procedures, Lateral & systems thinking tools & Financing of Projects.
Awarded Young Innovator at Tata Consultancy Services on Innovation Day 2006 for process innovations.
Dr. K Ganapathy, Director, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation
An Emeritus University Professor, Dr. Ganapathy has played an instrumental role in the growth and development of Telehealth in India. Past President of the Telemedicine Society of India, Former Secretary and Past President Neurological Society of India, Dr. Ganapathy is a DIGITAL HEALTH EXPERT for WHO. He has been well published for over the last 45 years and made more than 700 presentations at national and international conferences.
Dr. K Madan Gopal, Advisor-PHA, NHSRC
Dr. Kanav Kahol, Founder, Swasthya Slate
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Dr. Karim El Solh, Co-founder and CEO, Gulf Capital
Dr. Karthik Narayan R , Founder & MD, Athulya Senior Care
Dr. Karthik Narayan R is a distinguished healthcare leader with over 15 years of experience in geriatric care and hospital management. As the founder of Athulya Senior Care, he has revolutionized eldercare in India, combining clinical expertise with innovative management practices.
Dr. Keyur Parikh, Founder & Chairman, Care Institute of Medical Science
- He was awarded the Order of William Harvey by American College of Cardiology in 1991 and Prestigious “Distinguished International Service Award” by the American College of Cardiology in 2004.
- Received the “Special Award to Dr. Keyur Parikh” for contributions to cardiology, awarded by AACOI- American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin), March 2015Faculty of International Conferences- ACC, Euro-PCR, ESC, TCT, CSI, ICI, C3, etc.
- Awarded by the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada– “Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiovascular Science, Medicine And Surgery” and 'IMA (Indian Medical Association) Dr. K. Sharan Cardiology
- Excellence Award‘ by IMA.
- Dr. Parikh received AAPI “Global Leadership Award” at the Hands of Honorable Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India (then Chief Minister of Gujarat)
Chairman, CIMS Hospital. One of the senior-most Interventional Cardiologists of India associated with pioneering invasive and interventional cardiology work in India, triple diplomats of Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology (having lived in USA from 1982-1995). An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Owner/President Management (OPM Program-48) in 2014-2016.
Awards & accomplishments:
Dr. Kirit s Parikh, Chairman - IRADe, Former Member, Planning Commission
Dr Kirit S. Parikh has a Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master's Degree in Economics from MIT, USA. He has been a Professor of Economics since 1967.
Widely recognized as architect of India's Integrated Energy Policy Committee. He was a Member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of five Prime Ministers of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar, V.P.Singh and Rajiv Gandhi.
Honoured with Padma Bhushan by the President of India in March 2009. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and honorary life member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (on an average given to two persons a year in the world).
He was honoured as the most distinguished and illustrious alumni of the decade from India by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in September, 2007. He was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in September, 2007.
In 1978 he was given the "Vikram Sarabhai Award" for Systems Analysis and Management. In 1999 he was given the "Visveswaraya Award" by the Engineers' Foundation in Kolhapur. He is also a recipient of "Nayudamma Award" for contribution to the welfare of mankind through developments in the fields of Economics & Energy in February 2005.
Dr. Krishna M Ella, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Biotech International Limited
- Former Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C), Government of India
- Member, Governing Body of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Member, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
- Member, Research Council of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
- Member, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)
- Member of Governing Body Council, ILS, Bhubaneswar
- Former Chairman, Board of Governors, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
- ET Now Special Recognition for Healthcare Industry Award
- Best Innovative Company of the year by Bio Spectrum
- Business Leader of the Year, Pharma Bio World – 2011
- Best Technology and Innovation Award, Prime Minister of India – 2008
- Life Time Achievement Award, TANA, USA ? 2019
- Biospectrum Award, Under Top 20 BioPharma Companies ? 2019
- Company of the Year Award, Zee Business – Dare to Dream Awards ? 2019
- Best Innovation Award, ‘Man’Exe, CII & Govt. of Telangana ? 2019
- Industry Excellence Award, IPA ? 2019
- Biospectrum Product of the year Award for Rotavac5D - 2021
- BioAsia Genome Valley Excellence Award – 2021
- India Today Healthgiri Award-2021
Dr. Krishna Ella, a graduate from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, moved to the US for his MS from the University of Hawaii and Ph.D., from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before taking a faculty position at the Medical University of South Carolina-Charleston.
Driven by a vision to develop innovative remedies for developing world healthcare challenges, Dr. Ella returned to India with his wife Suchitra in 1996 to establish Bharat Biotech International Limited, a company that has delivered over 4 billion vaccine doses to the poorest and most underserved in over 116 developing countries through UNICEF, GAVI and other distribution channels.
With over 160 patents, the company has over 16 vaccines in its portfolio and employs around 2600+ people. The company has also received direct and indirect grants of over $165 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $ 4 million from the Wellcome Trust, and other grants from Governments of UK, Norway and India.
Partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and various agencies since 2001, Dr. Ella ensured that Bharat Biotech successfully developed Rotavac®, India’s first new molecule and the world’s most affordable vaccine against Rotavirus induced diarrhoeal infections and death, with the Honourable Prime Minister of India launching the same to save the lives of many children. Under his leadership, the company also developed and launched Typbar TCV®, the world’s 1st clinically proven and WHO pre-qualified Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) and becoming the first company to have proven the efficacy of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine through human challenge studies conducted at Oxford University in 2018.
COVAXIN® another recent feather in Dr. Ella’s cap, India's indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV). The indigenous, inactivated vaccine is developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech's BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3) high containment facility in record time. The vaccine is developed using Whole-Virion Inactivated Vero Cell derived platform technology. Inactivated vaccines do not replicate and are therefore unlikely to revert and cause pathological effects. They contain dead virus, incapable of infecting people but still able to instruct the immune system to mount a defensive reaction against an infection.
Dr. Ella’s contributions to the development of biotechnology in India has been through his association with several technical committees of the Government such as:
He is also a recipient of more than 100 National and International awards, of which few are mentioned below:
JRD TATA Best Entrepreneur of the year
Accolades received