Our speakers

RaviKiran S Avvaru, Head IT - Digitalisation & Automation (Asia Pacific Middle-East & Africa), Apollo Tyres Ltd.

Ravinder Pal Singh, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, TATA SIA Airlines Limited

Ravindra Bandhakavi, Partner, Trilegal

Ravindra Bandhakavi is Partner, Trilegal, and part of the corporate practice group with a focus on M&A and private equity transactions. An experienced practitioner in corporate law, Ravindra has been associated with a number of large M&A and private equity deals.

Ravindra has been ranked as one of the leading lawyers in India by Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Guide 2015. As per Chambers & Partners 2014 he is considered by fund managers to be a "go-to guy for any legal, regulatory or structural advice." He acts for a number of high-profile international funds, and is praised for being "very commercial, much focused, and a lawyer who always demonstrates a very positive approach". Ravindra is an alumnus of National Law School, Bangalore and London Business School, UK. He is a member of Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, India.

Ravindra Baviskar, Director - Sales Engineering (India & SAARC), Sophos

Mr. Ravindra Baviskar currently is the Director - Presales (Cyber Security) – India & SAARC for Sophos. He has over 17+ years of Experience in IT Security and has been with Sophos for more than 14+ years now. He has extensively worked in the Presales department of Sophos and has helped not only to develop his own region of Western India but also has supported a lot of National / International projects.

His current profile involves solving the presales / technical queries and closely working with the development team in evolving the product by incorporating market feedback. With his vast experience and technical background, he has been vital in identifying and solving the needs of Customers from the defense, BFSI, Education verticals amongst many others.

Mr. Baviskar has done his BE in Computers and has successfully completed the CCNA and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications. He has trained and certified 500 plus engineers on Sophos/Cyberoam Security product. He has been an eminent speaker in various forums, seminars & conferences on IT Security Events, Defense Expositions and IT and had been conducting various webinars, trainings and informative sessions.

Ravindra Pai, MD, Century Real Estate Holdings Pvt. Ltd

Mr.P Ravindra Pai serves as the Managing Director of Century Real Estate Holdings Pvt. Ltd., an integrated, full-service real estate development company headquartered in Bangalore, India with a rich history of developing premier projects and landmark buildings that spans three decades. Century Real Estate is today, the largest owner of real estate in Bangalore with a land bank in excess of 3000 acres representing more than USD 2 billion in asset value, and a development portfolio of over 10 million square feet comprising hotels, office buildings, residences, educational institutions and integrated townships.

With significant experience in the Real Estate and Construction industry to his credit, Mr. Pai oversees all activities of the Company including sourcing of land, project conceptualisation, execution and delivery.

His initiatives in establishing a world class company with emphasis on corporate governance together with robust systems and processes have attracted blue chip companies such as Goldman Sachs, Fortress Investment Group and Kotak Realty Fund to partner with Century Real Estate thereby reinforcing Century Real Estate as one of India’s leading real estate developers.

Mr. Pai brought to the company his rich experience spanning diverse roles including software programming, business process migration and sales with reputed companies such as Tata Infotech and GE Capital.

In his last assignment Mr. Pai was responsible for sales in South and West of India for Oracle Corporation. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the very prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Ravindra Pandey, Deputy Managing Director & Chief Information Officer, State Bank of India

Shri Ravindra Pandey, a post graduate in Chemistry, joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1985.

Shri Pandey has held various assignments in the Bank, both India as well as abroad in his career spanning 36 years.
He has extensive knowledge and leadership experience in Digital Transformation, Digital Banking, Payment Solutions, Retail, Corporate and International Banking.

In his current assignment, as the Deputy Managing Director & Chief Information Officer of the Bank, he is leading the entire IT Ecosystem of the Bank including running of the Bank’s Core Banking System, Digital Channels as well as more than 400+ applications. He is further making the Bank future proof by implementing emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics, Robotics, Blockchain etc.

Shri Pandey has held the post of DMD (Strategy) & Chief Digital Officer of the Bank and has headed the Bank’s Jaipur Circle in his previous assignments. His international experience includes CEO, SBI Paris (France) operations.

Ravindra Rao, Executive Director & CEO, Reliance ARC

Ravishankar Gopalakrishnan, Whole-Time Director and Group COO, Medikabazaar

Rebecca Fannin, Author, Startup Asia

Rebecca A. Fannin is author of Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (Wiley, 2011), a contributor to Forbes, and a consultant and public speaker. Her news and events group, Silicon Asia, publishes e-newsletters for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, and develops conferences in the world’s tech hotspots.

Her consulting work includes a KPMG white paper on China outsourcing, Sony research projects, and Econsultancy editorial content. She has partnered with NASDAQ OMX, Morrison & Foerster, KPMG, SVB Financial Group, O’Melveny & Myers, Sidley Austin, Deloitte, K&L Gates, DLA Piper, InvestHK, SecondMarket, and Wells Fargo on China and India business events. Rebecca has testified as an expert witness on China’s Internet before a U.S.-China Commission in Washington, D.C.

Reeba Chacko, Partner, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.

Having completed her B.A., LL.B (Hons) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and LL.M from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Reeba Chacko is a partner of Amarchand Mangaldas, presently at the Bangalore office, and has been with the Firm since 1999 (starting her career at the Delhi office of the Firm). Reeba specializes in private equity/venture capital investments, and mergers/takeovers/acquisitions, and focuses primarily on the Firm South practice.

Reeba has been involved in various types of transactions in her practice area including structured investments, PIPEs, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, inbound as well as outbound acquisitions, corporate restructuring, entry strategies in restricted sectors such as retail, defence, structuring complicated quasi equity and debt investment structures across various sectors and is also an expert in foreign investment laws particularly in some key sectors like retail, real estate, education and defence.

Being known as a leading private equity and venture capital investments lawyer, she advises several domestic as well as foreign funds on their India investments besides assisting several start ups and growth stage companies as well as public listed companies in receiving financial and strategic investments. As part of her wide ranging transactional and advisory experience, Reeba also closely interacts with government departments and other regulatory authorities including the Foreign Investment Promotion Board and the Reserve Bank of India.