Our speakers

Smita Negi, Head of Country Cluster IT for South Asia, Bayer

Smita Sircar, Innovations Director - edLABS and Ecosystem, Gray Matters Capital

Smita leads Gray Matters Capital’s education focused innovation and ecosystem building work out of India. She currently helms edLABS that provides very early stage funding to ‘visionary edu-preneurs’ to build disruptive solutions to education problems. She also builds collaboration with wider ecosystem players towards finding affordable and relevant solutions to quality education.

Prior to Gray Matters Capital, Smita has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and US. She headed the Research and Performance Management for Community Banking with Standard Bank (South Africa). She was in the start-up team of transformational consultancy Volans(UK) and held multiple roles with India’s largest private sector bank ICICI Bank.

Smitesh Valanju, CISO, Tata CLiQ

Smrithi Menon, VP and Solutions Head, India, Tata Communications

Smriti Tomar, Founder & CEO, Stack Finance

Smriti is CEO and Founder of Stack Finance, where she is building an extraordinary product that will revolutionize personal finance in India. Stack is India’s first smart app made exclusively for young earners to help them to stop wasting money and start making better financial decisions. Stack is a data-driven money management platform that automates savings, investments and financial planning while targeting lifestyle and customer-centric offerings keeping in mind the needs of young professionals.

Smriti is an avid public speaker and has given numerous key note speeches at some of the most prestigious institutions and organizations across India like Economic Times, Amity University, Indian Institute of Technology Allahabad, BIT Mesra etc., which are mostly aimed at creating financial awareness and knowledge on fintech and emerging technologies.

She has been recognized by YourStory as top 5 young women entrepreneurs and also selected under $2Mn pledge by Tinder as top 10 women led startups, and recently got profiled by Fintech Finance (UK’s leading publication) alongside Anne Boden founder of Starling Bank- link

At Stack Finance, Smriti is envisioning a personal finance experience that’s never been seen before. She is a B.tech graduate from National Institute of Technology Bhopal and has had experience in data analytics field while working for Citibank Banamex, one of the largest commercial banks in Latin America to build risk strategies. She is also a blockchain developer and expert certified by IBM and The Hong Kong University. She holds proclivity for project development and management at large. She has also authored a patent on a system for secure exchange of traded securities and method thereof. She has been an avid investor since her teenage. She believes in value investing, and is a follower of John Bogle principles. Prior to this venture, she has worked as a data analyst at EXL services, focused in overseas finance and banking industry, particularly Citibank, Latin America.

Before joining EXL, she had worked at a SaaS based B2B company, Appointy Software Inc. that provides a booking platform for all professionals spread across 110 countries. She worked as a business development associate, her projects involved analyzing and designing marketing campaign (inbound) to get insights for better lead qualification, creating landing pages and CRM system, designing models for user research and feedback.

She is devoted to and excel in three areas—each area strengthening the others: marketing and product management; creating a financial investment venture that better serves customers profitably; women’s business success.

She has also gained huge media recognition, not only in India but also in China, Japan, Hong Kong and
other parts of Asia.

Sneha Shanti kumar Shah, Senior Assistant Editor, VCCircle (Moderator)

Snehasish Dutta, , Persistent Systems

Snehita Nukalapati, Investment Team, Bharat Innovation Fund

Snigdhaneel Satpathy, Partner, Saraf and Partners

Sofi Bergkvist, Senior Researcher, Center for Emerging Markets Solutions, ISB

Sofi Bergkvist is the Managing Director of ACCESS Health International, India. An economist with a focus on efficient health care delivery, Sofi has a Master of Science degree in International Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and has studied at the MBA program at McGill in Montreal.

She manages the health care initiative collaborating with the Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS) has a special interest in health finance. Prior to this, Sofi was a health care analyst for a private equity firm with investments in India. She has also worked in management consulting on outsourcing of public sector services, with UNFPA in Malawi and carried out a cost-effectiveness study of the national Road Map for reduced maternal mortality.

Sofi has also worked as an advisor to the European Commission's Delegation to the United Nations on sustainable development issues.