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Entrepreneurial Impact on Sustainable Digital Transformation

Mrs. Sruthi Kannan

Moderator

Head - Cisco for Startups

Mrs. Sruthi Kannan

Spearheading engagements with deep tech startup founders on fine tuning their business strategies, co-creating end-to-end digital solutions and opening up joint go-to-market opportunities as well as instrumenting follow on funding. In 2021, Sruthi has been recognised as one of the top 10 innovators in India.

Mr. Muralikrishnan G

Key note Speaker

CEO, Ramaiah Evolute

Mr. MuraliKrishnan G

Is a pioneer in the Indian Technology Products industry with great passion for building successful products and IP-from-India. In his career spanning nearly four decades in the Semiconductor, Communications and Embedded product industries, he has incubated and driven multiple technology products to success.

Mr. Sundara Nagarajan

Speaker

Managing Director at Innovation ScaleUp Advisor

Mr. Sundara Nagarajan

Is Passionately helps technologists develop and scale their innovation to a thriving business and positively impact the world. He is the Managing Director of Innovation Scaleup Advisors (ISA), an enterprise development firm that helps technology-led companies scale globally. ISA serves startups and incubators, providing venture assistance, investors to assess startups, and mature enterprises to adopt digital technologies.

Mr. Srinivas Ramanujam

Speaker

CEO of Villgro

Mr. Srinivas Ramanujam

Is passionate about social entrepreneurship and for-profit models that are innovative, scalable, and financially self-sustaining. He believes that this route of democratizing innovation and technology can reduce poverty and involve the community in a sustainable manner.

Startup Showcase

Mr. Mallesh

Speaker

Founder and CEO of Cultyvate

Mr. Mallesh

Mallesh Tigali hails from the Mandya district known as the Sugar city of Karnataka. He is an engineer by education & profession, while he is a farmer by passion. Mallesh has extensively worked across the US, Europe and India geographies helping companies solve complex issues using IT and data science.

Dr. Suruchi Rao

Speaker

CEO and co-founder of Ossus Biorenewables, Bangalore

Dr. Suruchi Rao

Is the CEO and co-founder of Ossus Biorenewables, a Bangalore based bioenergy company providing hydrogen recovery as a service during wastewater treatment for process industries across US and India. Ossus is currently producing hydrogen gas for steel, FMCG chemical and pharmaceutical industries via their proprietary product, the OB HydraCel device.

Mr. Chandrasekar Bhat M

Speaker

Founder & CEO, Trashin

Mr. Chandrasekar Bhat M

Trashin is a technology startup based out of Bengaluru, founded in 2016 to empower the informal recycling industry. Being obsessed about solving this global crisis of waste, Chandrashekar turned down a placement offer to launch TrashIn as a fresh graduate out of college. They are now a fantastic group of 25+ Mafiosos scaling up their cutting-edge mobile app to buy and sell recyclables with ease.

Ms. Ranjita Ravi

Speaker

Co-Founder, Orxa Energies

Ms. Ranjita Ravi

Conceived its flagship product – Mantis, a zero emission electric performance motorcycle. She is responsible for scaling the business within the company’s India, South Asia and Southeast Asia operations, and also oversees other organizational affairs. An accomplished leader, Ranjita has over 14 years of experience working in the pharma and biotechnology industry, in countries such as France, South Africa, Iran and Chaina, to name a few. Ranjita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biotech from MVIT Bangalore and an MBA from ESSEC Business School, Paris, France. She is an avid biker and travel enthusiast.

Getting Innovation to Scale - The Art and Science of Innovation Leadership

Dr. Kumudhini Ravindra

Moderator

Principal - Strategy & Innovation - Innomantra Consulting Private Limited

Dr. Kumudhini Ravindra

Is an lnnovation Expert, Coach and Design Thinker with over two decades of multidisciplinary, multi domain experience. At Innomantra, she leads its Innovation Research efforts and consults clients on strategic Innovation along with evangelizing lnnovation Management Standards and Circular Innovation.

Mr. Lokesh Venkataswamy

Key note Speaker

CEO & Managing Director - Innomantra Consulting Private Limited

Mr. Lokesh Venkataswamy

Is a Design Thinker. He brings with him more than 25 years of professional experience in Digital, Innovation, lntellectual Property, and New Product Management. Prior to lnnorrantra, he rnanaged innovation, new product development, and lntellectual Property at Larsen & Toubro (L&T), lndia.

Mr. Sumanth Sood

Speaker

Head of Innovation - Titan Company Limited, Bengaluru

Mr. Sumanth Sood

Is a Science graduate from Delhi University. He subsequently acquired modern jewellery manufacturing techniques in Pforzheim, Germany, Problem Solving Tools and Techniques from AOTS, Diploma in Sustainability Management from Swedish Institute, USA, Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise from IIM Bangalore, Digital Branding and Engagement from Curtin University, Australia, Design Thinking from University of Virginia and Innovation Management from Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Mr. R Lakshminarayanan

Speaker

Director & Head – Intellectual Property & Innovation Mgmt. Samsung R&D India - Bangalore

Mr R Lakshminarayanan

Is responsible for championing systematic invention creation, securing an enforceable patent protection & building of a high-quality patent portfolio for Samsung in India.

Start-ups for Sustainability

Prof. Avvari V. Mohan

Moderator

Dy Head of School (Engagement & Impact), Monash Univ., Malaysia

Prof. Avvari V. Mohan

Is received his doctorate in Management of Innovation from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore following which he visited South Korea on a Research Fellowship at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Prior to joining Monash, he served as an Associate Professor and Director of Research at Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia. His teaching and research interests are in broadly in strategy and Innovation with special interests in sustainability related / responsible business strategies.

Ms. Bian Li

Key note Speaker

Founder, Hungry Lab

Ms. Bian Li

Is an entrepreneur, futurist and former investment banker at the intersection of finance, operations, technology and social innovation. With 15+ years of experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs of all sizes across 30 countries, she is now the co-founder of The Hungry Lab, where she specializes in building startups and designing the collaborative value networks and "glocal" ecosystems needed to grow them.

Vikesh Sharma

Speaker

Founder & Managing Director, PowerMitra Cleantech

Vikesh Sharma

Is a battle hardened serial Entrepreneur and technology manager in corporate avatar with experiences spanning multiple domains such as Real Estate, Banking, Insurance & now Climate-Tech. These varied experiences have not only stretched his domain acumen but also the ability to handle and resolve complex real world issues. Helped 35 industry owners to move towards afuture by helping them put Solar on their roof.

Ms. Ashwathy Venugopal

Speaker

CEO and Co-founder of Avasarshala

Ms. Ashwathy Venugopal

Is a TEDx Speaker, Social Entrepreneur, Leadership Board Member of KECTIL International Youth Leadership- Atlanta USA, OFormer Curator of Global Shaper Community- Hub (World Economic Forum) and Cohort member at Cherie Blair Foundation Mentoring Women in Business 2021. She was featured as one of 75 Women Entrepreneurs by Atal Innovation Mission in 2022.

Mr. Ankit Bagaria

Speaker

LoopWorm, Hungry Lab

Mr. Ankit Bagaria

Ankit is a Dual Degree (IDD) graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee with a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering and an M.Tech specialisation in Computer Aided Process Plant Design (CAPPD). He is a state level Table Tennis player and enjoy playing other Indoor sports like Chess, Carrom, & Snooker in his leisure time.

Mr. Dev Aditya

Speaker

Managing Director, Otermans Institute, UK

Mr. Dev Aditya

Is the co-founder of Otermans Institute (OI), that upskills underserved and unserved learners across 13+countries from UNHCR refugee camps in Iraq, with governments in Afghanistan, UK, India, with foundations in Palestine and Lebanon and recently children of war victims in Sri Lanka. He is an under-30 social entrepreneur a technology leader in the field of AI. Dev is the architect of OIAI; an AI-powered human-like virtual teacher that can teach anyone via a smartphone. This has been used to upskill learners in UN-backed refugee camps in countries like Iraq and is paving the way for OI to serve millions instead of the tens of thousands it serves every year today.

Dr. Pauldy Otermans

Speaker

Global Educationalist, Brunel University, London

Dr. Pauldy Otermans

Set up the international organisation, Otermans Institute (OI), that upskills underserved and unserved learners across 13+ countries from UNHCR refugee camps in Iraq, with governments in Afghanistan, UK, and India, with foundations in Palestine and Lebanon and recently children of war victims in Sri Lanka. She is an inspiration in the industry and has paved the way for women founders and researchers to create a global impact just in 2-years. She is also a female technology leader in the field of AI and has led the research to develop OIAI; an AI-powered human-like virtual teacher that can teach (personalized) anyone via a smartphone.