Our speakers

Asutosh Upadhyay, Chief Product Officer, TranServ Pvt. Ltd

A veteran in developing consumer-driven technology solutions, Asutosh Upadhyay is the Chief Product & Marketing Officer at TranServ. He is responsible for spearheading the product development as well as marketing divisions of the company.

A Bachelor of Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Asutosh has worked across several industries and industry verticals. He started his career at TVS Motor Company before founding his own venture, TechUnified Consulting. He then headed Business Development at MindHive Labs before moving onto OnMobile in 2010. He joined TranServ in April 2015.

Having started his career in a product role in an unconventional industry – automobile – Asutosh moved into the online gaming and mobile space. This allowed him to garner insights, a problem-solving approach and outlooks across different domains. It led him to imbibe a unique, flexible perspective aiding his development into a complete product person.

Asutosh is perpetually interested in the amalgamation of consumer services and mobile, and tackles every problem from a technology powered angle. Where others would see a gap in services, Asutosh would already be devising digital solutions to bridge it. He has worked on developing consumer proposition and business roles, and has taken up key marketing responsibilities in the organisations he has been involved in.

He has handled digital marketing for OnMobile through various new-age digital platforms. It was his interest in moving on to a more consumer facing role that made him lead Marketing at TranServ before taking on the joint ownership of Product and Marketing. Given his varied interests and ever-curious outlook, Asutosh’s transition from product to marketing was seamless and synergistic. This has given him a 360 degree view on things, which enables him to be aware of the nitty-gritties of his role at TranServ and helps him to contribute significantly towards the organisation’s future growth.

Atanu Kumar Pramanic , CIO, Hindalco Industries Ltd

30 years industry experience with 20 years in Technology Solutions

Currently, CIO for HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LTD, responsible for IT Strategy & Operations, Technology ingestion, Oracle ERP re-implementation, supporting Digital business enablement using latest technology.

Previously, 
CIO for L&T Construction, 
Head for IT Strategy and Global Operations @ Petrofac, 
Global Leader - Professional Services (IT Products & Tools) @ Genpact

Technology evangelist, ever green learner, favourite of Business Leaders, challenges status quo, facilitates innovative but seamless business disruption

SMP from IIM – Calcutta, Masters in Engineering (BITS-Pilani), MIE, BME, 
Chartered Engineer, Oracle Masters, Green Belt in Six Sigma

Speaker in various national and international industrial forums

Atanu Pramanic, Joint President & CIO, HINDALCO Industries - An ABG Group Company

Atanu Roy, Group CIO, Biocon Group

Mr Atanu Roy is Group CIO at the Biocon Group, India's best known global biopharmaceutical company that is changing patients’ lives in over 120 countries by finding new and affordable ways to treat diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases. He has been one of India's most respected pharma sector CIOs for over 10 years driving digital transformation resulting in significant business outcomes and before that spent 14+ years in the consulting space.  Earlier, Atanu held leadership positions in Hewlett Packard and Price Waterhouse Coopers, driving business transformation across global Manufacturing companies, innovatively leveraging technology. He is an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from IIM Calcutta. Atanu is also a certified Yoga instructor and a marathon runner.

Atindriya Bose, CEO, Trringo

Atindriya Bose is leading Trringo.com Limited, a digital business enterprise in the area of Farm Mechanization through a ‘Pay-per-use” platform approach. Trringo.com is a Digital organization which is part of the $ 19 billion Mahindra Group.

He has 22 years of experience in Consumer Products & Digital businesses spanning Consumer Electronics, Beverage Alcohol, e-Commerce and Digital media. He has been involved in Digital commerce businesses since 2003 and have helped establish a range of businesses in India with Rediff.com and Sony PlayStation.

With Trringo.com, he envisages to introduce Digital Innovation into a high impact area of Indian Agriculture. He leads the technology development strategy as well as business operations to establish Trringo.com to enhance access to Farm Mechanization by Indian farmers.

Atreyi Chaudhuri, Partner and Group Head - Strategic Design & Digital Transformation, NRI Consulting & Solutions India

Atreyi heads the Strategic Design & Digital Transformation group at NRI India. She has 16 years of experience in Business Consulting, Digital Transformation and Post-Merger Integration. She helps organizations enhance Customer Experience, build & implement Supply Chain strategy and identify diversification opportunities.

Having started her career in the UK with a London-City financial institution, her client portfolio encompasses Consumer Durables, FMCG, Luxury, Construction, Auto-Ancillary, Power & Energy and Technology sectors. She has worked in Europe, North America and South Asia.

In her current role, Atreyi advises clients on growth strategy and cost-optimization initiatives by using both traditional management consulting and cutting edge technology (especially Data Science). Her team’s work includes:

1. Digital Transformation: Supply Chain Network Design & implementation, Customer Insights, Productivity Improvement, Industry 4.0 strategy, Data monetization strategy
2. Business Feasibility: Business Diversification, Market Assessments
3. Business Planning & Sales Strategy: Expansion support in new geographies, Roadmap into Digital and non-Digital domains

Atreyi holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands and a graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Greenwich, UK.

Atul Bal, Protech Systems, ,

Atul Batra, CTO, Manthan Software Services Pvt. Ltd.

Atul is CTO for Manthan Systems which serves as the Chief Analytics Officer for several of the fastest growing retailers around the world.

Previously Atul was Sr. Director Engineering at Yahoo!, where he built a team that delivered vertical intent search products used by Yahoo!’s global user audience. Prior to Yahoo!, Atul was in the Bay Area at Good Technology Inc, a leader in multi-platform enterprise mobility with products adopted by 40 of the Fortune 100. He also headed engineering during Good's divestiture from Motorola where he was Sr. Director for mobile messaging, management and security products.

Earlier, Atul spent nearly 11 years at Sun Microsystems where he helped build middleware products, led the open sourcing of the portal server product line, represented Sun at OASIS, led the Sun-Yahoo! alliance, and helped craft company strategy around SOA. He was also part of the iPlanet alliance with Netscape that created an e-commerce platform, having earlier spent a few years as part of Sun's internal architecture group building business applications using the initial wave of enterprise java.

Atul Bhatnagar, Chief Operating officer, National Skill Development Corporation

Atul is a quintessential banker with over two decades experience in the global banking business. As a Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious IIT-Kanpur, Atul’s first stint in the corporate world however was in Tata Motors (then known as Telco) in 1985.  After a two year stint in Telco as graduate trainee engineer, he went to IIM, Calcutta for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management majoring in Finance and Marketing.  Atul’s career in banking started in 1989 when he joined Citibank in Chennai, where he was part of the team which launched the bank’s credit card business in India. After 8 fruitful years, with his last two years in Mumbai in Custodial Services as Assistant Vice President in Citibank, Atul took up his first foreign assignment when he joined HSBC’s Regional Card Centre in Dubai in 1997. Before he left HSBC in 2006, he had implemented a complete suite of systems for early fraud detection, credit and behavioural scorecards and initiating new Card systems for the British bank covering 8 countries in the Middle East and Africa.  In 2006 he joined Dubai First - the first NBFC in the country, as one of its founding team member.

In 2008 Atul joined UK-based Barclays as Chief Operating Officer in Kenya where he spent the next four years.  During his stint in Kenya, Atul won the ‘Male Diversity Champion’ award picked from among 1500 nominees from the bank’s global pool. Amongst all his achievements, he considers this as the most important one and in his own words the ‘Oscar among corporate awards’. The award recognised by the bank’s female employees as the champion male colleague who strived to bring gender diversity at workplace for the bank globally. During his stint in Barclays he also bagged an award for the best COO in Africa and also helped his bank bag the Best IT Bank given by Business Journal Africa, which also featured him on the cover of the magazine’s July 2011 issue.

After spending nearly a decade and half outside India, Atul found his ‘home calling’ when the opportunity to work of NSDC came up in March of 2013.  “Having been exposed to international standards in education and training, it was only a natural progression for me to bring home my learning to such a crucial sector like skilling,” he says. His heart is in quality and standards of what NSDC does. Operational leadership he says to him is about managing people who are in operations and his focus will be on elevating processes to new heights.

Atul now lives in Gurgaon and married with two children. His wife, Jaya, is a qualified Media Planner who worked in JWT but preferred to be a homemaker once the kids came along. He unwinds by meditation and watching TV during the weekends.

Atul Chaturvedi, Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry | @DIPPGOI

Mr. Atul Chaturvedi, aged 52 years, holds Master’s Degree in Zoology from University of Delhi, India. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1986 - Assam Meghalaya cadre. Since then he has held several important positions in Government of India and Government of Assam. The major previous assignments in Government of Assam included tenures with State Electricity Board, Department of Tourism, Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Department of Agriculture and Department of Disaster Management. The major assignments in Government of India included tenures with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Planning Commission, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Sports.

Presently Mr. Chaturvedi holds the position of Joint Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry at New Delhi. He is looking after formulation of Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Promotion, approval and facilitation of FDI, Investment Promotion and International Cooperation related to Europe, Development of Leather in India. He is also in-charge of ‘Make-in-India’ publicity initiatives in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion recently launched by Prime Minister of India on 25th September 2014.

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