Sean Moffitt
Partner & Managing Director
Wikibrands
Sean Moffitt is globally recognized as a business thought leader, strategy advisor, digital innovator, keynote speaker and author. After a number of executive strategy and marketing positions at Fortune 500 firms Procter & Gamble, Molson Coors and Diageo, he founded Wikibrands in 2011 and Agent Wildfire in 2005 to deliver consultancy services in a fast-changing digital marketplace.
Sean has worked with hundreds of companies on digital strategy, culture and marketing challenges and acts as an executive advisor on a number of boards. As one of Canada’s leading thinkers and practitioners on the digital marketplace, Sean keynotes and delivers workshops at 45+ events annually, and has spoken in over 20+ countries.
Sean has written an award-winning and globally-acclaimed book published by McGrawhill titled “Wikibrands – Reinventing Your Business in a Customer-Controlled Marketplace,” and also authors eight annual studies on business, technology and cultural trends ((The Digital Periscope© , The Blockchain Benchmark© , The Customer Zeitgeist© , The Digital Periscope© , Changemaker Labs© ). He makes frequent appearances in media, and is highly active in social media and Canada’s startup community. He has also authored an annual research report on Canadian marketing and media “The Buzz Report,” and a number of critically acclaimed white papers on new media topics.
Sean is an adjunct or visiting lecturer at a number of business schools and universities, including the Schulich School of Business, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Wilfrid Laurier University, McMaster University, Mount Royal University, Brock University, Sheridan College, University of Nebraska, Humber College and George Brown College. Sean is also an executive consultant to Don Tapscott’s firm Moxie Insight , and an executive counsel to Canada’s largest business incubator MaRS.
Dr. Harri Ketamo
Founder & Chairman
HeadAI
Dr. Harri Ketamo is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in learning sciences, data sciences and artificial intelligence. Currently, he is the founder & chairman of Headai, a company developing natural language based cognitive artificial intelligence, and advisor for Edunation (higher education), BrainQuake (serious games) and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (higher education). Furthermore, he is as an adjunct professor at Tampere University of Technology and a senior fellow at University of Turku.
He has published ~100 international peer-reviewed research articles and has more than 200 presentations in international forums. He has developed educational products and platforms (games, MOOCs, adaptive learning, learning analytics, artificial intelligence) that are used in more than 100 countries all over the world.
Ketamo has received several international awards and nominations related to his work, including Nordic Serious Games Award 2008, European Innovative Games Award 2009 & World Summit Award 2010 with GameMiner, Microsoft App Awards 2014, European EdTech Awards & BETT Awards 2014 with SkillPixels and Alibaba Cloud Contest 2017, Future of Work Challenge 2017 & Challenge Finland 2017 with Headai. He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2017.
Andy Stevenson
Vice President & Head of Middle East
Turkey & India, MD of India
Fujitsu
Mr. Andy Stevenson has been Head of Middle
East & India and Managing Director for India at
Fujitsu Limited since September 2014 and
based out of Bangalore. Mr. Stevenson is a
Senior Executive with in-depth international
experience, focus on realizing Fujitsu's
ambitious growth plans in India. Mr. Stevenson
served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu
Telecommunications Europe Limited. Mr.
Stevenson serves as the Executive Director of
Hosting & Network Services Group at Fujitsu
Services Holdings PLC (Fujitsu UK & Ireland).
He has been with Fujitsu for over twenty years
and has played a leading role in guiding Fujitsu
to its position as a key telecommunications
products & technology provider and leader in
UK & Ireland IT services. He grew up in Zambia
and Qatar and also spent his early career with
Alcatel in Paris and Stuttgart.
Deepak Sharma
Chief Digital Officer
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
Deepak Sharma heads Kotak Mahindra Bank’s digital initiatives where he drives digital
transformation, business model innovation & future ready initiatives of the bank. He is
responsible for efficiency, productivity, customer experience & growth of business through
digital intervention across digital channels, lending, payments, investments, insurance, trade &
forex, across Consumer, SME, Private Wealth & Institutional banking segments. Deepak also
leads the Innovation Lab, Design Studio, Fintech partnerships and Start-up ecosystem
participation for the bank.
Under his leadership, Kotak launched several innovative and global first products like 811, Jifi,
Hashtag banking, Bharat Banking, M-Store, Whatsapp banking & Kaypay, apart from new
initiatives like API & Open Banking, BYOD Biometric Banking, Cross border remittance on
Blockchain & Robotic Process Automation. Deepak believes in constant innovation and focuses
on building business models which are customer centric, value accretive and disruptive.
Deepak has worked across various international markets and brings global perspective to his
business. Prior to this, he was responsible for setting up the Bank’s highly successful Non
Resident Indian (NRI) & International Remittance business. Deepak also played a key role in
launching the Bank’s affluent banking programme - Privy League.
With over 24 years of experience, Deepak’s professional tenure spans across the banking,
telecom and consumer service verticals. Prior to joining Kotak, he was part of the leadership
team of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered bank from 2003 to 2008. As National Head
for Corporate Business, he was responsible for building the corporate payroll and Wealth
Management business.
Deepak has completed an advanced programme in Strategy from IIM Calcutta & Lead Certified
in Corporate Innovation from Stanford GSB. He is a member of the FICCI National Committee on
Fintech, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) apart from participating at various trade
& Government initiatives on Digital India Roadmap. He is also associated with the NASSCOM
Startup 10K program and mentors fintech & start-up ecosystems on an ongoing basis.
Lalit Popli
Head IT
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund
Lalit Popli spearheads Technology and Information Security for ICICI Prudential AMC. His role
encompasses the use of technology in an optimal way so that it enhances the customer
experience, increase the digital usage, improve productivity and ensure security of company’s
intangible assets i.e. data.
He has played multiple roles and taken various responsibilities across functions and in various
industries and geographies over last 22 years, handling Sales, being a Business Head, Providing
Consultancy / Training and Handling Technology with aplomb.
In addition of being an author and writing on various topics related to Technology and Finance
which is published in various magazines, websites and blogs, he is also an avid reader and is
constantly invited to discuss, participate and train on various topics in many forums and
institutions.
R Radhakrishnan
Executive Director-Information Systems (Functional)
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
Mr Radhakrishnan, has rich experience of over 36 years in downstream Petroleum Marketing both at operating and strategic Senior Levels. In his present role as a head of IS (Functional), he has successfully implemented Business Intelligence System which has been recognized with several awards. A case study on BI implementation in HPCL has been written by the Prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in the year 2017. Mr R Radhakrishnan holds Masters degree in Applied Statistics, as well as Masters degree in Foreign Trade, besides Post Graduate diplomas in Management studies, Operations Research, and Training and Development.
Piyush Chowhan
VP and CIO
Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd.
Piyush Kumar Chowhan is responsible for IT Strategy and Execution of Technology for all its
brands business. He reports to CEO of Arvind Brands, Suresh J.
He has over 20+ years of experience in setting up new center of excellence functions in retail
business operations and analytics. He possesses a strong domain knowledge in Retail, E-
commerce & Supply Chain Management through working for global retailers like Walmart,
Target, Circuit City, Tesco and Best Buy.
In addition, he has been also instrumental in leading the deployment of state-of-art, award
winning supply chain replenishment program; defining road-map for Future Ready Retail Stores
and Artificial Intelligence for Analytics
He is a winner of Economic Times CIO Conclave Awards 2018; Analytics Top 50 Leaders in India
and is a part of Steering Committee of the Analytics and Data Science COE (jointly started by
Govt of Karnataka and NASSCOM in Bangalore)
Anand Raman
GM & Chief of Staff for Microsoft AI
Microsoft India
Anand Raman is the GM & Chief of Staff for Microsoft AI. Previously he was the Chief of Staff for Microsoft Azure Data Group covering Data Platforms and Machine Learning. In the last decade, he ran the product management and the development teams at Azure Data Services, Visual Studio and Windows Server User Experience teams at Microsoft. Anand holds a PhD in Computational fluid mechanics and worked several years as researcher before joining Microsoft.
Rajeev Seoni
Chief Information Officer
Ernst & Young Services
Rajeev joined as the Chief Information Officer of EY India in April 2007 and is now
responsible for Middle East and Africa also.
With over 35 years of rich experience in technology services, Rajeev has managed the
Technology function in varied industries like telecom software (Hughes Software / Aricent),
electronics manufacturing (HCL Infosystems) and stock exchanges (Delhi Stock Exchange).
He started his career in the Indian Navy, was holding the rank of Commander at the time of
leaving, with significant contributions in the area of warship design and software engineering.
His educational qualifications include M.Tech. (Computers) from IIT Kanpur, MBA (IGNOU),
and B.Tech. (Electronics) from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. Rajeev has been invited to speak at
various national and international seminars and has won several industry awards.
Nirita Bose
Senior VP and Head IT
Axis Mutual Fund
Nirita Bose is Senior VP and Head IT, Axis AMC. She is a seasoned IT leader with proven track
record of setting up green field IT function in several large organizations – Axis AMC, IDBI
Federal and Kotak Life Insurance. Prior to joining Axis AMC, she has been part of Teradata,
which is a global leader in analytics solutions. She has served in India, SE Asia and Australia in
industry and consulting roles.
In Axis AMC, she has led the IT function through an ambitious journey to support rapid and
aggressive business expansion that has seen the company’s industry ranking move up from 23
to 10. Having been in a CTO role for over 7 years, she has now broadened her focus to
encompass IT, Digital and Analytics.
She is a graduate in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata and a Chartered Accountant
from PwC. She lives in Mumbai with her husband and two daughters.
Mehul Doshi
Head - Products & Solution Business
Fujitsu India
Mehul Doshi, an Industry veteran with over 24 years of IT experience. He heads the Products & Solution Business for Fujitsu India and is based out of Mumbai. He has been with Fujitsu for nine years.
Mehul holds a First Class First Engineering Degree from Mumbai University back in 90’s and have worked in past with organization like Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystem and few other IT companies. Most of the years, he has worked on Datacenter Solution business line. He builds on his proven record of success in building new businesses, development and implementation of business strategies for multinational companies. A creative and entrepreneurial business and technology professional with many transnational & international awards & strongly believes in hyper growth environment. Mehul is an avid traveler & holds great amount of passion for art, music & films.
Mohan Nagle
Head - Manufacturing Vertical Sales
Fujitsu India
Mohan is Engineering graduate and has more than 25 years of cross-Industry experience in various leadership positions. He has worked in various industry sectors like Pharmaceuticals, engineering, auto, media-print and services. He has 10 years Pharmaceutical Industry experience in engineering function as responsible for Projects, engineering and procurement as a Chief engineer in Multinational Pharma Company. Mohan worked as General Manager for business consulting and transformation projects for large multinational IT company. He also has worked in top 4 IT companies for couple of years driving business and IT transformation projects. He was MD of multinational IT start-up in India in solution design and business consulting.
Arindam Mukherjee
Regional CEO
SIFY Technologies
In his current assignment as Regional CEO at SIFY Technologies, Arindam leads overall market
success of Sify in the region. Arindam is driving Sify’s transition as an integrated ICT provider with in
India winning customer trust across industry segments. He was earlier heading Enterprise Business
at CISCO Systems, having spent over 11 years in leading multiple teams in Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Automotive and Ecommerce business in India. He was responsible for identifying
and leveraging market transitions, building strong customer franchise, collaborating with partners
and driving localized innovation in the region.
Arindam has overall 22 years of industry experience having had led high performing teams across
Sales, Architectures, Channels and Country Strategy. Prior to Cisco, Arindam has worked with
organizations like INTEL, HCL, and VOLTAS etc where he held multiple industry positions across
Enterprise, Telecom, and Communications end of the business.
Mayank Srivastav
Country Head - Data Center Practice
Schneider Electric
Mayank Srivastav is Country head for IT and IT enabled Services Segment at
Schneider Electric. He focuses on enabling IT companies to build Energy
efficient ,Modular Infrastructure for utilities and Data Centers .
He Comes with a rich experience in Data Center offerings having held
Service/Product/Program management positions for Infosys/APC/Schneider. He
was involved in driving various Programs for Data Center infrastructure services
offerings; in different stages of the Data Center infrastructure lifecycle (Design,
Build, and Assessment & Audits).
Mayank also comes with a strong background with respect to Data Center
technologies with respect to Power, Cooling and Management software having
held Program Management positions in APC by Schneider Electric for Data
Center Solutions and related product lines (Racks and Power distribution
systems, High Density cooling systems, etc).
Mr Mayank Srivastav has also has also worked with Godrej-GE under various
sales and Service profile which enabled him with rich experience of handling
Consumer and Enterprise customers and understanding there needs.
He is MBA from Jamanalal Baja Institute of Management-Mumbai University and
an Engineer from Saurashtra University by Education.
Aparna Gupta
General Manager
Commercial Software Engineering (CSE), Microsoft
Aparna Gupta is the General Manager, India for Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) at Microsoft.
CSE enables high-impact organizations and developer communities to achieve more and drive the value
of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud and edge. She and her team engage with customers to envision use
cases, partner on “code-with” engagements focusing on Advanced Workloads (including Open Source)
to drive value.
Prior to this, Aparna Gupta was Vice President, Product Development & Managing Director, India at
FirstRain Inc. During her 15+ years at FirstRain, she played a variety of leadership roles over the years
spanning Software engineering, Release & QA, building a Content & Analytics Practice and Product
Management. Early in her career and before moving into software, Aparna worked at a biotechnology
research lab focusing on protein sequencing and developing a vaccine for Malaria.
Aparna is passionate about her volunteering work with different associations and non-profits with focus
on innovation/entrepreneurship and promoting women in technology. Some related organizations that
she has been associated with respectively are NASSCOM/10,000 Start-Ups, Anita Borg Institute and BD
(Beyond Diversity) Foundation.
Aparna holds a master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Mumbai.
Vijendra Katiyar
National Sales Manager - India & SAARC
Trend Micro.
Vijendra leads the India sales team for Enterprise business at Trend Micro
He is a seasoned Information Technology and Cyber Security specialist who has gathered knowledge and expertise of Hybrid Cloud Security and Advanced Persistent Threats while working with Trend Micro India Pvt Ltd for more than 6 years.
Vijendra brings with him more than decade of Cyber Security experience.
Bhaskar Basu
Director, Product Marketing, Modern Workplace
Microsoft India
As Director, Product Marketing in the Modern Workplace Business Group at Microsoft India, Bhaskar is responsible for marketing and positioning mobility & cloud based solutions in the Microsoft 365 suite for firstline workers in the Enterprise segment. Amongst others, he is responsible for the product marketing of Microsoft Kaizala – a mobile platform for large group communications and work management, and Office 365.
A gold medalist from IIM Bangalore, Bhaskar carries a wide ranging experience in the information technology and high-tech industry, with a blend of technology, consulting, sales leadership, business development & product marketing expertise, having previously worked at leading tech multinationals such as Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
He is deeply passionate about leveraging the latest and best of technology available such as AI to help enterprises connect and collaborate with the workforce of today to drive better and real business outcomes.
Gaurav Agrawal
Product Head- Cloud and Managed Services
Sify Technologies
Gaurav has over 19+ years of experience spanning various roles and functions in the IT / Cloud / Telecom industry, including over 13+ years in Product Management Function.
Gaurav has hands-on experience in Product Marketing and Life Cycle Management in Managed IT Services domain; covering Hybrid Cloud, Data Center, Software+Service (SaaS offerings), Mobility and Professional Support Stack.
He is driven by passion to ideate, build and groom customer focused, value driven products and services. In his current capacity as Product Head- Cloud and Managed Services, at Sify Technologies, Gaurav is driving Sify’s strategy on Cloud and Managed Services. He is also instrumental in steering the partnerships for Cloud stack with leading global OEM partners. Gaurav is also an active speaker on the latest enterprise computing trends.
Surajit Chaudhuri
Head - Manufacturing, Retail & Distribution
Sify Technologies
24 years of cumulative experience in IT industry comprising hardware , infrastructure and enterprise software solutions while working in transnational organizations like Computer Associates , HCL Technologies , Oracle and so on. Prime flavour of his experience is around enterprise grade business applications and currently focuses on leading edge technology trends in manufacturing industry. He has held leadership positions handling Pan India and South Asia Geographies and led several transformative business initiatives in blue chip client organizations.
Guru Vaidya
Creative Evangelist
Adobe
Systems India Pvt Ltd.
Guru Vaidya is a Creative Evangelist for Digital Media and Document Cloud at Adobe
Systems India Pvt Ltd. In his 15-year industry experience Guru has worked across
various functions from computer graphics to online finishing to technical rollout. His role
included providing consultancy to clients and helping them gear up for production. He
has also been a part of the VFX team at Pixion Studios (Mumbai) and worked on several
key national and international projects. He is also an Autodesk Certified Instructor and
an Adobe Certified Expert.
Meenakshi Vajpai
Chief Information Officer
Vodafone India Ltd.
Ms Meenakshi Vajpai has more than 25 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, core
telecom and enterprise IT operations. She has envisioned and led various organisations
from diverse sectors in their efforts of organizational transformation through the use of
technology spanning internal functions, customer experience as well as innovation for
revenue.
She has held a number of senior management positions across industries wherein she has
driven strategy and execution of new business initiatives. Her initiatives have won her
several awards, including CIO 100, Digital transformation Icon and at international forums.
At Vodafone, Meenakshi leads IT strategy and policies across all businesses and partners.
Nandeshwar Kumar Singh
Senior Business Development Director
Uptime Institute
Nandeshwar Kumar Singh is Senior Business Development Director of Uptime Institute based out of Delhi NCR and
responsible for complete business of Uptime Institute in India & Neighbouring Countries. He
is a graduate in electrical engineering with over 25+ years of experience in all the Data
Center Layers & Managed IT Services domain. He has worked in geographies like South
Asia, Middle East & Africa Region in above said domain and sectors like BFSI, Government,
PSU, Telco/Colo & Manufacturing.
NK has special interest in guiding customers throughout Data Center Life Cycle to align IT &
Facility for best business value.
Rahul Krishna Gupta
Sr. Specialist, Global SI Alliance
SUSE
Rahul Krishna Gupta is an Open Source Technology evangelist working with SUSE. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Technologies for more than 18 years, and has been with SUSE for more than 14 years.
In his current role as Solution Architect with the Global System Integrators Alliance team, Rahul works with the Global SI partners to develop unique joing solutions involving emerging Open Source technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph and Cloud Foundry.
During his career with SUSE, Rahul has helped customers and partners adopt open source technologies and deploy them successfull to achieve their business goals.
Anil Bhasin
Regional Vice President – India & SAARC
Palo Alto Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
Anil Bhasin is an industry veteran with over 27 years of experience in global markets such as Middle East
and Asia Pacific besides covering India and SAARC region. He is currently the Regional Vice President of
Palo Alto Networks for India and SAARC and as part of his mandate, Anil is responsible for driving
profitable growth across the Service provider, Enterprise and Commercial Lines of Businesses through a
highly leveraged channels partnership model.
Since joining Palo Alto Networks about 5 years ago, Anil has accelerated Palo Alto Networks' technology
footprint in India across customer segments, creating strategic channel and go-to-market alliances,
whilst building a highly experienced and talented team covering all geographies in India and SAARC. Palo
Alto Networks, has pioneered the next generation of enterprise security and is leading a new era in
cybersecurity by safely enabling all applications and preventing advanced threats from achieving their
objectives for thousands of organizations around the world. It is the fastest growing security company in
the market and with its game-changing security platform, organizations can confidently pursue a digital-
first strategy as they implement key technology initiatives within the cloud and increasingly mobile
networks, while maintaining complete visibility and control, to protect their most valued data assets and
critical control systems. It has again been designated as a Leader in the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant
for Enterprise Network Firewalls, now 6 years in a row.
Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Anil Bhasin was with Cisco Systems in India for over 12 years in various
leadership roles which included leading Cisco’s Financial Services business in India, as Head of their
Enterprise business segment, leading the Financial Services business vertical for Cisco in APJC Theater. In
his last assignment at Cisco India, he was the Country Manager for the Services business, responsible for
driving Cisco’s professional, technical and advanced services, creating new go-to-market strategies for
increasing Cisco’s relevance and mindshare through a Services-led approach in Enterprise, Public Sector,
Service Provider and Commercial segments.