Our speakers

Krishanu Chakravarty, CEO, Farmers Fortune India Pvt. Ltd.

Krishanu Chakravarty is a global business leader with 20 years of domestic and international experience in fmcg and agri commodity. He has worked at leadership positions in 3M and Olam International in India and overseas. Currently he is working as CEO of Farmer Fortune India Private Limited spearheading the supply chain of food and agro commodity wing of STAR AGRI.

Krishanu has a strong track record of setting up, turning around and heading business verticals across different phases of business- start up, growth, stability and maturity. During his stint as Business Head Spices for Olam International, he served as Executive Committee member of World Spices Organization.

With his extensive experience of African and Indian markets and customer interface across the globe he has played an instrumental role in formulating innovative strategies to gain competitive advantages through green field projects like building Packaged Food Business from scratch in West Africa for Olam International as well as through Merger & Acquisition route as in case of Spices business.

Krishna Agarwal, Director, Delivery, Affine Analytics

Krishna has a strong belief in the power of analytics to fundamentally alter the way businesses operate. He sees mathematics & common sense as becoming more ‘common’ with India being at the forefront of this upcoming industry.

He is an engineering graduate from IIT Bombay with an MBA from IIM Lucknow. Having nearly a decade of experience servicing clients in multiple geographies, Krishna brings with him a unique blend of technical expertise, mathematics acumen and business domain understanding.

Krishna Bhojkar, Head Production Planning, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Ltd.

An ardent engineering and management professional with 24 years of experience in automotive, 2 years in manufacturing and 2 years in agriculture and sourcing. Rich experience in Projects, Life cycle management of products and plants, having completed 2 greenfield,  2 brownfield, 1 capacity enhancement and several products launches and Factory Digitization.

Currently working as Head Production Planning Vertical, with responsibility for Domains like Body, Paint, Car Assembly, Engine Assembly & Machining, Plant Engineering, Digitization and Industry 4.0, Controlling and Project Management.

Deeply involved in building Plant Strategy, developing Future Factory & Digitization  roadmap, Strategic inputs for upcoming Products for Indian Plant. Significant contributions for rolling out new initiatives like Innovation, Capital invest reduction & technology localization, Technology and Supplier day etc. Implemented digitization in planning department. Under his leadership Indian plant won 2 Innovation awards at Volkswagen Brand level, team India received recognition for frugal innovations. Initiated and developed digital planning team for Volkswagen Group in India. Lead the implementation of largest roof top Solar in Indian Automotive sector.

Passionate about Developing and mentoring people, created the Learning Team concept and established Knowledge sharing through the teams.     
Has lead many improvement initiatives in area of Quality, Product Development, Innovation Awards and Idea Management. Enabled and lead entire production team in merger (between Skoda and Volkswagen).

Krishna Jha, Investor, IAN

In the year 1999, Krishna Jha, then 25, quit his programmer job with Citicorp to co-found ITFinity, one of the first wireless data companies globally. The call was on the adoption of the phone from then expensive talking device to an extended Internet and data screen. Joining as angel investors were folks like Rajat Gupta from McKinsey, Ashish Dhawan from Chryscap, Naren Gupta from Windriver-Nexus etc.

ITFinity went on to create significant innovations in telecom software and consumer services space, with a customer list comprising of top-most telcos and device-manufacturers. The company was highly profitable and ranked among Deloitte Fast 500 tech companies for three years in running.

In early 2007 the company was acquired by OnMobile, the telecom spin-off from Infosys, providing a 10x returns to ITFinity's angel investors.

Krishna now runs TelNet Ventures which is an investor & co-founder to very early stage Mobile & Internet startups in India.

Krishna Kumar, CEO & Founder, Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Krishna Kumar is the founder & CEO of Simplilearn.com, one of the leading players in online education and training for professional certification courses. Krishna Kumar, an engineer by education from NIT, Surathkal, is an extremely energetic and result oriented person with 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He started his new venture Simplilearn.com in 2009, and escalated it to one of the largest players in online education globally. Simplilearn today, in a very short span of time, stands to be the largest player in project management and IT service management area. Almost 75,000 professional across 150+ countries and trainers have used the learning methodology provided by Simplilearn to grow their career, and these numbers are increasing at a rapid speed. It provides self-paced learning content, online tests and remote instructor support at various time zones.

 

Krishna, started his career with Infosys as a software engineer, but soon his entrepreneurial spirit inspired him to start his own venture - Tech Unified. Krishna was the Co-founder & COO of TechUnified, which was acquired by a public listed company in February, 2007.  Tech Unified, prior to its acquisition, was known for its gamut of world class products in areas of mobile banking, voice banking and telecom self-care. Krishna is known for his entrepreneurial achievements with a positive track record of establishing new ventures in the field of IT and nurturing it to new heights.

Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, Simplilearn

A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Mr. Kumar has a successful track record of building new ventures. He imagined the need for constant reskilling and lifelong learning way before it got established as the only way for professional advancement.

Simplilearn’s humble beginning as a blog to one of the largest global player in professional certification training is a testimony of his vision, grit and execution.
It is his passion for learning and doing things differently that honored him as one of the most influential business leaders. He was awarded the CEO of the year in 2016 by The CEO Magazine and was identified as Fortune 40 Under 40 leader three years in a row. He was also part of Economic Times 40 under 40 business leader.

Before Simplilearn, he was Co-founder & COO of TechUnified that got acquired by a public listed company, Org informatics Ltd, in Feb 2007.

Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, CropIn Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd. | @CropInTech

Mr. Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO at CropIn Technology Solutions has a strong technical background and has worked extensively with technology all through his illustrious career in the corporate world. He has had a distinguished graph of growth while working with GE where he began with a profile in technology and went to take a role of leadership in Information Management Leadership Program. This tech whiz had an epiphany when he saw the plight the farmers have been facing due to lack of information and changing climatic conditions. It is this conscientious effort that led him to cut short his remarkable corporate career at GE and embark on a startup journey of his own.

A natural ability to lead, a sensitivity and sense of responsibility towards the society directed him to venture into a startup where he used his technical prowess and people skills to develop CropIn.

At CropIn, Mr. Krishna Kumar has made it possible to help the farmers connect to technology in one of the simplest ways and monitor their farms with data collected through this platform. His six sigma green belt certification only fortifies his efforts in this direction.

In his moments of leisure, he enjoys reading, travelling and interacting with people from different fields.

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Krishna Mehra, Co-founder & Vice President – Products & Services, Capillary Technologies

Krishna Mehra, an accomplished and avid technology enthusiast, is Co-founder of Capillary Technologies wherein he defines the Services Matrix and the Product Vision and Strategy for the company. Having noteworthy experience in research and development, Krishna is passionate about the incredible potential of technology changing the way we live and use services.

 

Krishna is also closely involved in sales and client relations and has been instrumental in expanding the Capillary business in key international markets.

Krishna Raghavan, Chief people officer, Flipkart

Krishna Raghavan is the Chief People Officer at Flipkart. He and his team are responsible for designing and driving initiatives to attract and retain world-class talent, build competencies for the workforce while also strengthening Flipkart’s culture.

Krishna took over the role at a crucial juncture for Flipkart - to shape the organizations' people charter for the long-term. He laid out Flipkart's commitment to being inclusive, entrepreneurial & sustainable while focusing on employee experience.

Amidst a raging pandemic that hit the globe almost as soon as he took over, Krishna was faced with the unprecedented challenge of balancing a keen focus on the well being of employees while also ensuring that the country's wheels of commerce continue to stay in motion.

His leadership in steering the company through this time has been nothing short of exemplary and has earned him the respect of leaders across the organization as well as the larger HR community. Prior to his current role, Krishna has been the Technology Head for Flipkart’s Fulfilment and Services, and Customer Experience Groups. In the course of his tenure at Flipkart, he has also spearheaded the launch of the marketplace platform and has led multiple strategic technology initiatives for Ekart. Aside from his strong technical expertise, he is also known to be a people’s leader. A leader who brings with him the right blend of technical and people skills, he has built exemplary engineering teams from scratch with his intuitive people management and sound organisational planning.

With a career spanning over two decades, Krishna is adept at managing cross-functional teams. He has worked across diverse geographies and work cultures and is known to be an active champion of driving a people-first culture in organisations.

Krishna Srinivasan, Vice Chairman & CEO, ISGN Technologies Ltd

Krishna Srinivasan is Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ISGN, the second largest provider of mortgage solutions to the $3 Trillion US residential lending industry.

Prior to joining ISGN, Krishna ran his own venture, Neptune Technologies - a premier technologies, services and systems architecture consulting service company until it was sold to a 3i ventures’ company, Sandhill.

Krishna has a Masters in Computer science from St.Joseph’s College, India. Keenly interested in studying political sciences, he is a scholar at the Princeton University.