Our speakers

Inderpreet Wadhwa, CEO, Azure Power

Inderpreet is a renewable energy enthusiast and has over 18 years experience building large scale infrastructure projects, patented application products, extremely profitable operations, and raising venture/project finance for startups and fortune 500 companies in energy, retail, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, CPG, and service industries.

In 2007, Inderpreet incorporated Azure power, which is now a leading solar service provider in India, with a vision for creating energy security in rural India through medium scale Solar PV generation.

Inderpreet has relentlessly lobbied generation based incentives in solar sector through Clean Trade initiatives across US and India. He has been instrumental in creating India's first commercial MW scale Solar Power Plant. His work has been highlighted in top tier publications such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Today, and Economic Times. He is passionate about rural electrification and energy security through clean energy sources. He is well respected in the solar sector and has often been invited to speak about sector development and financing at events such as the Solar Power International conference, Inter solar conference, Envirotech and Clean Energy Investor Summit and other leading solar conferences.

Inderpreet graduated from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and has Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from G.N.D.U, Punjab.

Indranil Mitra, Strategic Advisor & SME - DARQ, Digital and Data Science

Indranil Mitra is one of Asia's leading authorities on AI, quantum computing, extended reality and block chain, with over 23 years’ experience at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies and their application to business and governments.  He is an expert "Digital 2.0" (machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain, augmented reality, Internet of Things, cloud robotics, robotic process automation), and has applied these technologies extensively.

Indranil co-founded and transformed a start-up boot-strap venture into a $30 million business which was ultimately acquired (MEC Technologies (M&A in 2008)).  Professionally, he started and established Strategic Design and Digital Transformation Group, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning practice, Predictive Analytics and Smart Grid expertise for Nomura Research Institute, PWC, KPMG, Accenture Consulting and so on. He has also played a lead role in creating, monitoring and evaluating programs for Smart City Digital India.

Indranil is a PhD in Cheminformatics and Data Science, Fellow – Royal Statistical Society and ACM and is on Advisory Board Member Global AI Forum. He is a published author in leading journals including IEEE and teaches in premier Indian institutes including Indian Institute of Management as visiting faculty.

Indranil Pan, Chief Economist, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Indranil Pan is Chief Economist of Kotak Mahindra Bank. He has been with the Kotak Mahindra group for over 12 years.

 

Indranil has varied work experience spanning over 17 years in financial journalism and research. Prior to joining Kotak, Indranil was with the Advisory wing of Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd (CRISIL).

 

Indranil is a post-graduate in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is regularly invited to participate in discussions at various economy related forums as a panel member. His views on economic issues and the financial markets are often carried by print publications, wire media and TV channels.

Indy Banerjee, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Iqbal Khan, Senior Partner - Private Equity, M & A & General Corporate, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas &Co

Iqbal has a J.D. from the Columbia Law School, New York, and an LL.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, England.  After graduating and before moving to India and helping Shardul build the Mumbai office, he worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, and then at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York for approx. 6+ years, respectively.

At SAM, Iqbal represents some of the largest global PE funds, such as TPG, Rise, Apax, Temasek, Varde and Goldman Sachs, and strategics in India, such as L&T, Asian Paints and Sumitomo.  Iqbal has also done the largest LBO deal in India till date (Apax’s PIPE transaction in iGate and the follow-on acquisition of Patni (approx. USD 2.6 billion)), and over the last year he has done one of the: (i) largest direct FDI deals in India (represented L&T in its divestiture of the Electrical and Automation business through a competitive auction process to Schneider (transaction value approx. USD 2.2 Billion)); (ii) largest medical devices transaction in India (represented TPG in its sale of Healthium to Apax (approx. USD 300 million)—India’s first successful dual track exit); and (iii) one of the largest healthcare portfolio acquisitions globally (represented TPG and Rise in its acquisition of Abraaj’s global healthcare portfolio and in the Care Hospital sponsor buy-out).

Ireena Vittal, , Expert (Indian agriculture & urban change)

Ireena Vittal, a former partner with McKinsey & Co, is a recognized thought partner to companies looking to scale profitable businesses in emerging markets. After 24 years in the corporate world, she now works with governments and public institutions to design and implement solutions core to Indias’ development such as inclusive urban development and sustainable rural and Agri growth. She is also an Independent Director on the board ofselect Indian companies (including among others Wipro, Godrej, Titan, Tata Industries and Zomato) and on the global board of Compass and PATH.

She also serves on the boards of NGOs including Janaagraha (urban), Vidhi Legal (rewriting Indian laws) and ideo.org (design to solve poverty. She is co-author of the McKinsey Global Institute report on Indian urbanization (India’s Urban Awakening: Building Inclusive Cities, Sustaining Economic Growth), the first integrated report on Indian agriculture (FAIDA) and on building rural infrastructure & services (Bharat Nirman).

Irfan Khan, Founder and CEO, eBikeGo

Ish Babbar, Co-Founder, and CTO, InsuranceDekho

Ishan Gupta, CEO, EduKart.com

Ishan Gupta is a passionate education entrepreneur, investor, speaker and a published author.

He is the CEO of EduKart.com, India’s largest destination for enrollment into distance and online education courses. Over the last three years, the company has helped thousands of students and working professionals to get access to high quality degree, diploma and certificate courses  in the most convenient manner.

Prior to launching Edukart.com, Ishan was managing the One97 Mobility Fund, a $100 million venture fund. One97 Mobility Fund happens to be the only mobile sector focused fund in India. He has also worked as a General Manager at One97 Communications and was responsible for new product creation at One97.
 
Before working at One97, Ishan was leading the growth and marketing efforts of Facebook in India as its sole representative in the country.

Ishan had earlier founded Appin Knowledge Solutions, an education services company in India. Appin Knowledge Solutions is currently one of the leading players in the field of information security training and consulting.

Ishan has also worked at Helion Venture Partners, an India focused venture fund.

Ishan is a published author - he published the book "Make the Move - Demystifying Entrepreneurship" in 2007. The book has a foreword by Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail and a message from then President of India, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. The book also contains views from some of the leading entrepreneurs from India. Consequently, he was featured on Young Turks, CNBC for his work in the field of education and promoting entrepreneurship. The book has sold more than 10,000 copies till date.  Further, Ishan has spoken at venues like the Stanford University, London Business School, Indian School of Business, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, IIT Roorkee on topics like Leadership and Entrepreneurship. He has also represented education entrepreneurs in a committee formed by Government of India on Implementation of Technology in Higher Education.

Ishan has a MBA from Stanford University, California, USA and a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Delhi, India.

Ishan Gupta, Managing Director, India, Udacity

Ishan Gupta is the Managing Director, Udacity, India his role in Udacity as the Managing Director for India is to build a strong team, launch more India-focused courses and take the Indian business to new heights.

Ishan was until end of 2016, the Vice President(Business) at Paytm (India's largest mobile commerce company, valued at $6Bn). Before that, he was running EduKart in India, which he had founded in 2011. The company went on to become the largest education marketplace of India. The team at EduKart was acqui-hired by Paytm in early 2016.

Ishan has earlier worked at Facebook as a growth manager for India, founded an education company and established a corporate development division for a telco services company. He did his engineering from University of Delhi and MBA from Stanford University, California, USA. Besides that, Ishan has published a book on entrepreneurship titled “Make the Move- Demystifying Entrepreneurship” and has spoken on topics of entrepreneurship and ed-tech at various prestigious venues in India and outside.