Our speakers

Deepan Dasgupta, Partner, Deloitte

Deepan has in depth experience and expertise in providing customized solutions to private and public sector clients in the areas of organization design and change management, digital operating model design and mindset activation, workforce planning and optimization and creating a high-performance organization. Deepan has delivered more than 35 large scale assignments across India, Middle East, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, Canada and Mauritius.

Deepesh Agarwal, Co-founder, CEO, MoveInSync

He has worked for 10 years in wireless communication and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). His last job was with Motorola, India as Engineering Manager. He was instrumental in the design of MOTODRIVE, a futuristic vehicle to infrastructure (road network) integration for US Department of Transportation. He played an important role in bringing Location Based Services on Motorola handsets in India.

Deepesh has an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), majoring in Entrepreneurship. and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University Varanasi.

Deepesh Garg, Managing Director, o3 Capital

Deepesh Garg has over 17 years of deal-making experience. He co-founded o3 Capital in 2007 and has been a key strategic leader and financial advisor to a range of companies in the Consumer and Internet & Digital Technology practice. Deepesh is a B.S. graduate from Rajasthan University and holds an MBA degree from K.J. Somaiya. 

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Deepesh Nanda, CEO, GE Gas Power, South Asia President & CEO, GE Asia, Aero Business

Deepit Purkayastha, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Inshorts

Deepit Purkayastha is Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Inshorts, erstwhile, News in Shorts. In his capacity as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible to oversee the business and strategic roadmap for the enterprise. In his 4th year of IIT Kharagpur, Deepit teamed up with Azhar Iqubal and Anunay Pandey to build Inshorts the pioneer of short form content in India. 

In his leisure time, Deepit is fond of playing musical instruments. 

Deepthi Reddy, Head, IFMR Ventures

Ms. Deepthi Reddy is the Head, IFMR Ventures, Asset Management Company managing its first equity fund, the Network Enterprises Fund (NEF). NEF intends making investments in the missing links identified in the Indian rural/remote supply chains. The sponsor, IFMR Trust is a private trust with a mission to ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services. IFMR Trust is one of the enterprises mentored by ICICI Foundation.

She is responsible for Incubation, Fund structuring and investments into early stage, India focused private equity investments in the rural supply chain of the NEF focus sectors. Ms. Reddy has versatile operational exposure to investments and legal areas of the venture capital investment. She has been involved in screening the proposals, due diligence, investments, structuring the deal and monitoring activities of the Investee Undertakings. In addition, she has worked on legal functions of the venture capital process such as investor reports, contribution agreements, term sheets and share subscription agreements for Investee undertakings. She was instrumental in building relationships with research institutes that helped to accomplish synergistic partnerships as well as manpower for portfolio companies.

Ms. Reddy's academic background combines technology, legal and managerial subjects that have been critical in decision making and investments in VC/PE industry. She holds dual Bachelors degree in Science and Law from Osmania University, India. She is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in 'Intellectual property' from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University, India. She underwent a professional development programs on venture capital industry conducted by the UTI Institute of Capital Markets, IVCJ and IIM, Bangalore, India.

Deobrat Singh, Co-founder & CEO, Gazemetrix

Deobrat is the CEO and Co-founder of Gazemetrix which is disrupting the way brands interact with user generated photos in social media. Over the past several years he’s worked with startups and big corporations alike building scalable systems along the way.

Dev Khare, Principal, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Dev joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2011 and invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors, including areas such as business software & services, commerce, financial services, location, marketing and social media.

Previously, Dev was at Venrock, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture firm, where he served on the boards of Aha Mobile (acquired by Harman), Appia, Lavante, Slideshare (acquired by LinkedIn) and Turnhere. He also was board observer and supported investments in Aria Systems, Asoka, BillFloat, CoreTrace, FutureDial, INRIX and Redbeacon (acquired by Home Depot).

Prior to Venrock, Dev led market development at Symbol Technologies’ Mobile Software Division (now part of Motorola). In 2003, Symbol acquired Covigo, a Silicon Valley-based mobile application software company that Dev co-founded in 1999. Prior to Covigo, Dev worked in product management at CrossWorlds Software and Aditi Technologies as well as in corporate finance and private equity at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Jefferies & Company.

Dev has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in Economics from Wharton and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Wireless Communications Alliance.

Dev Lall, MD, Bakers Circle (India) Pvt Ltd

Dev Lall is Managing Director & CEO of Bakers Circle (India) Pvt Ltd. The company specializes in reverse manufacturing and R&D that enables clients to reduce costs using the frozen route.

It currently serves 1200 outlets across the country with expansion plans in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to founding Bakers Circle, Dev was with Hyatt International, New Delhi where he was in charge of pre-opening operations of Hyatt properties and was also overseeing operations of 8 points of sales at their different properties, service procedures, training and development of man power.Dev completed his Bsc. Institutional management & MBA in International Business from Johnson & Wales University, USA

Dev Lall, CEO & MD, Bakers Circle (India) Pvt Ltd

Dev Lall is Managing Director & CEO of Bakers Circle (India) Pvt Ltd. The company specializes in reverse manufacturing and R&D that enables clients to reduce costs using the frozen route.

It currently serves 1200 outlets across the country with expansion plans in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to founding Bakers Circle, Dev was with Hyatt International, New Delhi where he was in charge of pre-opening operations of Hyatt properties and was also overseeing operations of 8 points of sales at their different properties, service procedures, training and development of man power.Dev completed his Bsc. Institutional management & MBA in International Business from Johnson & Wales University, USA