Bengaluru Tech Summit 2023

Bhaskar Verma, Regional Head Karnataka, Nasscom

Patrick Peisker, Vice President R&D, International Development Labs, Mitel

Kaushik Das, Vice President and Managing Director, JCPenney

Aparna Rao, Country Head and Board Member, Cargill Business Services

Panel discussion 2
Customer Centricity and preparing for the future

Moderator

Mohammed Faraz Khan,Partner & Head, Zinnov

Latha Chembrakalam,Head of Technical Center India, Continental

Arvind Vaishnav,Head of Philips Innovation Campus, Philips

Manu Saale, Managing Director and CEO, MBRDI

Fireside Chat - Evolution of Leadership role Speakers

Amit Kalra, MD & Head, Swiss Re Global Business Solution Centres India

John Dawber, Corporate Vice President & Managing Director, Novo Nordisk Global Business Services Ltd

Bharat Biomanufacturing Initiative (Keynote Talk)
Introduction by

G.S. Krishnan, President, ABLE

(02.00 PM - 02.30 PM)

Opening Partnership Keynote

Shri H. K Patil , Hon’ble Minister of Law, Parliamentary Affairs & Legislation and Tourism of Karnataka

Speaker

Prashanth Prakash, Partner, Accel Partners

(02.00 PM - 02.15 PM)

Pad-up with DPGs to Super – Scale your Start-Up Moderator

Sanjay Jain , Partner, Bharat Fund

Sharad Sharma , Co-Founder, iSPIRT Foundation

Panelist

Sheetal Lalwani , Co-founder & COO , JusPay Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Kedar Kulkarni , Co - Founder & CEO, Hyperverge

Munish Bhatia , CEO, Finvu

Sujith Nair , CEO & Co-Founder, FIDE / Beckn Protocol

Abhinav Lal , Co-Founder, Practo

Bhavik Vasa , Founder & CEO, GetVantage

Virendra Gupta , Co-founder, DailyHunt

Shachindra Nath , Vice Chairman and Managing Director, UGRO Capital

Sanjeev Barnwal , Founder & CTO, Meesho

(02.15 PM - 03.50 PM)

Australia - Transcontinental Technology Collaboration - Bridging Borders for Equity, Equality & Sustainability

NRW - Greening the Future: How Digital Transformation and Sustainability Merge - Insights from and opportunities in Düsseldorf and NRW

03.00 PM - 03.50 PM

BioTechnology for a Fossil Carbon-free Future Chair

Dr. Ezhil Subbian, CEO & Co-Founder, String Bio

Dr. Mansi Vora, Head- Bio-inspired materials, Reliance

Dr. Preeti Jain, Global Director, LanzaTech

Gomatam Ravi, EVP-Design & Engineering, GPS Renewables

Dr. Jitendra Joshi , Head Carbon to Products and Alternate Fuels, New Energy, Woodside Energy Ltd.

(02.30 PM - 03.50 PM)

Finland - Use of AI in Sustainability

India USA Tech Conclave : Opening Session

04.00 PM - 04.50 PM

AI Unleashed - At the Cross-Section of innovation, Regulation and Society
Keynote

Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, MeitY

Dr Subi Chaturvedi, Global SVP, Chief Corporate Affairs and Public Policy Officer, InMobi

Arvind Jayaprakash, Maker of scalable software, Glance

Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti, IIT Chennai, CSE Head & Chair, India AI Policy committee, NITI Aayog

Sanjay Gupta , VP & Country Manager , Google India Pvt Ltd

Mahaveer Singhvi, IFS , Joint Secretary , NEST, MEA

Dr Sailesh Kumar , Chief Data Scientist , RIL

Jyoti Pawar , GC and Head Corporate External and Legal Affairs, India and South Asia , Microsoft

Prithvijit Roy , Managing Director & Lead-Global Al Hub , Accenture

Synthetic Biology and Next Generation Biotechnology Chair

Dr. Mahesh Bhalgat, Chief Operating Officer, Syngene International Ltd.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Managing Director, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Dept. of Biotech, Govt. of India

Dr. Ramaswamy Subramanian, Professor, Purdue University

Dr. Shriram Raghavan, Senior Vice President, Jananom & Co-Founder, EliveBio Inc.

Dr. Malvika Verma, Head- Synthetic Biology, BCG Consulting

Prof. Sanjay Ghosh, Senior Asst. Professor, IBAB

Hitting the Fastest Century – Journey from Ideas to IPO Keynote

Ananth Narayanan, Founder & CEO , Mensa Brands,

Srikanth Iyer, Co-founder & CEO, Homelane

Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture

Dr. Akshay Singhal , Founder and CEO, Log9 Materials

Nishchay AG, Co-founder & CEO, Jar

Rohith Bhat, Founder and CEO, 99Games

Syna Dehnugara, Head - Family Office Practice, trica capital

Nakul Saxena , President, Early Stage, LetsVenture

Pranav Mahajani , President, trica capital

Dr. Dipesh Shah, Executive Director, IFSCA

Deepak Kaushik, Group Head, Equity Capital Markets, SBI Capital Markets Limited

Neha Singh, Co-founder and CEO, Tracxn

Dr. Harish K Ahuja, Sr Vice President, NSE

Netherlands - Women in Space

India USA Tech Conclave :Shaping the Commercial Space Frontier

05.00 PM - 05.50 PM

Sustainable Food & Agri-Systems Chair

Dr. K.K. Narayanan, Founder and Chairman, Kottaram Agro Foods Pvt. Ltd.

Prof A K Singh, Director, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi

Prof. Avraham A. Levy, The Weizmann Institute of Science

Q&A

South Korea - Exploring Collaboration between Karnataka and South Korea

India USA Tech Conclave :eCommerce, Supply Chain & Logistics

06.00 PM - 07.00 PM

Fireside Chat with Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys
Moderated by Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder, Zerodha
[Main Stage]

07.30 PM Onwards

Global Leaders Dinner (By Invitation Only)

Day 2 | Thursday | 30th November 2023

Time

J.C. Bose Hall - 1
ITE & Deeptech Track

G.N. Ramachandran Hall - 2
Biotech Track

C. V. Raman Hall- 3
Startup Track

M.S. Swaminathan Hall - 4
GIA (I) Track

Vikram Sarabhai Hall - 5
GIA (II) Track

10.00 AM - 10.50 AM

Tech interventions for a sustainable future Keynote

Jonathan Ledgard, Founder, Interspecies Movement

Guruprakash Sastry, Head - Climate Action, Infosys

Santosh Subramanian, Regional CIO – SA, SEA & Oceania, Veolia

Prof. Claudio J Tessone , University of Zurich

11.00 AM - 11.50 AM

The C.A.S.E. for Future Mobility Moderator

Ritu Singh, Associate Editor & Anchor, CNBC TV18

Prasanna Patwardhan, Prasanna Purple Mobility Solutions Pvt. Ltd. CMD, Zinnov

Blake Opsahl, Director of Business Development & Strategy, BETA Technologies

Anjum Parwez, IAS, Managing Director, BMRCL

Basic Research to High-Impact Innovation
A Fireside Chat with Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & Nobel Laureate Dr. H. Robert Horvitz Fireside Chat

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , Executive Chairperson – Biocon Limited, & Chairperson, Vision Group on Biotechnology, GoK

Dr. H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel Laureate & American biologist

Get Ready for a Quantum Spin Bowling – The Future of Quantum Computing Moderator

Naganand Doraswamy, Founding Partner, Ideaspring Capital

Dr. Krishna Palem, Founder & CEO, Accelequant

Dr. Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy,Quantum Innovation Center Lead , IBM Research

Prof Anil Prabhakar ,Professor, IIT Madras

Israel - From Idea to Impact: Israel's Innovation Odyssey

TCS Rural IT Quiz National Finals

12.00 Noon - 12.50 PM

Navigating the Digital Frontier: Internet Governance, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Warfare Moderator

Pankaj Doval ,National Editor, tech and telecom, Times of India

Dr Subi Chaturvedi ,Global SVP, Chief Corporate Affairs and Public Policy Officer, InMobi

Rajiv Chetwani , Chief Information Security Officer, ISRO

Major Vineet Kumar , Founder & Global President, CyberPeace Foundation

G. Narendra Nath, ITS , Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS)

Suhas Gopinath , Chief Executive Officer, Globals Inc

Dr Devesh Tyagi , Chief Executive Officer, NIXI

Dr Sanjay Bahl , Director General , CERT-IN

Preventing Tomorrow's Illnesses Chair

Dr. Vishal Rao U.S., Dean - Centre of Academics & Research, HCG Cancer Centre

Dr. Anurag Mairal, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and the Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Shriram Nene, , Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgeon

Louise Sevel Lundstrøm, Counsellor, Health/ Political & Economic section, Royal Embassy of Denmark in India, New Delhi

Dr. Reety Arora , Head, R&D CRISPRBITS Pvt Ltd

Prof. Deepak K Saini , Professor, Developmental Biology & Genetics/ Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Understanding the AI Power Play – the Rapid Evolution of Gen AI Moderator

Ranjani Mani , Global Data Science and Analytics Leader, Atlassian

Dr. Ullas Nambiar , Managing Director – AI, Accenture

Amoghavarsha JS , CEO & Founder, Mudskipper

Ganesh Gopalan , CEO, Gnani.ai

Madhurima Agarwal , Managing Director, Microsoft for startup's - India

Austria- The Future of Austria -India Technology and Innovation Partnership

01.00 PM - 02.00 PM

Expo Visit and Lunch Break

02.00 PM- 02.50 PM

5G Adoption and Future Wireless Technologies Keynote

Sanjay Nayak, Founder, Tejas Networks

Kumar N Sivarajan, CTO, Tejas Networks

Vinay Ravuri, CEO, Edgeq

Satish Jamdagni ,Sr Vice President - Global Standards, technology development , Reliance Jio

Keeping Epidemics at Bay Chair

Prof. L.S. Shashidhara, Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences

Co-Chair

Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO and Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)

Dr. Richard Lawson, Senior Project Manager, CARB-X (Virtual)

Dr. T. S. Balganesh, President, GangaGen Biotechnologies Private Ltd.

Dr. Maneesh Paul, CEO, Microvioma Pvt Ltd

Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO, ARTPARK

Q&A,

Winning the Toss of the Coin in the Game of Fintech Moderator

Ravindra Krishnappa, General Partner, July Ventures

Sandhya Vasudevan , TiE Board member & FinTech Chair, TiE Bangalore

Chitresh Sharma , CEO & Cofounder , Refyne

CM Subramanya S, V , TiE Board member

Sheenam Ohrie , Managing Director, Broadridge Financial Solutions India Pvt ltd.

Sandeeep Dharwar , Deputy General Manager, NABARD

Nipun Mehrotra , Founder, The Agri Collaboratory

Timmanna Gouda D , Founder & CEO, Whatsloan

Dr. Manoj Rajan , CEO, Government Of Karnataka, Agriculture & Horticulture Department

Arjun Ahluwalia , Founder & CEO, Jai Kisan

France - Open innovation across borders: fostering successful corporate-startups collaboration

Switzerland - Startup Showdown: Swiss Precision & Indian Ingenuity

03.00 PM - 03.50 PM

Electronics : The Backbone of Digital Economy
(03.00 PM - 04.50 PM)
Part I: Electronics : The Backbone of Digital Economy
Moderator

Ashok Chandak, President, IESA

Dr. Sreeram Srinivasan , Executive Director, Syrma SGS Technology & Engg services

Gaurab Basu , Vice President - Business Dev, VVDN

A. Gururaj , MD , Optimus Electronics

Enablers: Early and Growth Stage Capital Chair

Dr. PM Murali, Chairman & Managing Director, Jananom Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Prasun Mishra, Chair, WISE: World Investors and Entrepreneurs SocietyFounding Partner, WISE Capitals

Rema Subramanian, Co Founder, Managing Partner, Ankur Capital

Chintan Kothari, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures India

Venkat Raju , Global CEO & Founding Partner, TS Global

Panelist from Novo Holdings

UK - Partnering to prosper : a free, peaceful and secure cyberspace

India USA Tech Conclave : Innovative technologies defining the future of healthcare

04.00 PM - 04.50 PM

Part II: Semiconductor : Making India a Semiconductor Nation
Moderator

Dr. Satya Gupta, President , VLSI Society of India

Dr. Suraj Rengarajan, CTO, Applied Materials

Hitesh Garg, Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors

Sanjay Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Spark Minda (Chairman, IESA)

Nishit Gupta, Director, Technology , MeitY

Enablers: Skill Development Chair & Moderator

Narayanan Suresh, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE)

Dr H S Subramanya, Director, IBAB, Bengaluru

Dr Goutam Bhattacharya, CEO, Life Sciences Skill Development Council (LSSDC), New Delhi

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi, Associate Professor ( Computational Biology), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi

Karthik S M,, Global Hiring Lead, Biocon Biologics

Archana Arunachalam, GM-HR, Sea6 Energy

Watering the Green Pitch – Riding the Agritech Waves Moderator

C.M.Patil , CEO, Krishikalpa

Dr. Basavaraj Girennavar (BG) , Founder & MD, Criyagen Agri & Biotech Pvt. Ltd

Sunil Jain , CTO, AgroStar

Ravi Sajjan , Founder & Director, Hunnugdna FPO

Rajesh Ranjan ,CEO, Nab Ventures

Ganesh Shankar, Founder & CEO, FluxGen Technologies

C.M.Patil , CEO, Krishikalpa

Tharun Kumar , Founder & CEO, ECOSTP Technologies

Japan - India and Japan: Co-creating Solutions for the Digital World

India USA Tech Conclave :Women leaders in Healthcare

05.00 PM - 05.50 PM

Cell & Gene Therapy Chair

Dr. Vijay Chandru, Co-Founder & Director, Strand Life Sciences

Dr. Vikram Mathews, Professor of Hematology, Christian Medical College

Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO and Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)

Dr. Jogin Desai, CEO, Eyestem

Lalit Pai, CEO, Nkure

Arkasubhra Ghosh, PhD , Molecular Signalling and Gene Therapy,Director, GROW laboratory, Narayana Nethralaya Foundation

Sweden - Smart Mobility

India USA Tech Conclave : Media and Entertainment, AVCG-XR and IP within US- India Partnership

06.00 PM - 06.30 PM

Fireside Chat with Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India, Moderated by Ms. Jaya Jagadish, Country Head, Senior Vice President, Silicon Design Engineering, AMD India [Main Stage]

06.30 PM - 08.00 PM

STPI IT Export Awards (By Invitation Only) [Main Stage]

Day 3 | Friday | 1st December 2023

10.00 AM - 11.00 AM

Plenary Address: Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Former Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) [Main Stage]

Time

J.C. Bose Hall - 1
ITE & Deeptech Track

G.N. Ramachandran Hall - 2
Biotech Track

C. V. Raman Hall- 3
Startup Track

M.S. Swaminathan Hall - 4
GIA (I) Track

Vikram Sarabhai Hall - 5
GIA (II) Track

11.00 AM - 11.50 AM

From the Moon to the Sun- The Dawn of the India Story Moderator

N Sudheer Kumar,Director, Capacity Building & Public Outreach, ISRO

Prateep Basu, Founder & CEO, SatSure

Tanveer Ahmed, CTO, Digantara

R Prakash, Executive Vice President, Global Insurance Brokers

Prakash Rao, Former Director, Space Infrastructure Programme Office, ISRO

Victor Joseph, Associate Scientific Secretary, ISRO

Sreeram Ananthsayanam, Partner, Delloite

Dr. Vinod Kumar, Director, Promotion, IN-SPACe

Vinod Chippalkatti, President, Centum

Enablers: Regulators Speakers

Narayanan Suresh, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE)

Dr S Balasubramanya, General Manager, Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE)

Opening Partnerships for the Grand Tour – Exploring Opportunities in Tourism Opening Remarks

Prashanth Prakash, Partner, Accel Partners

Speaker

V. Ravichander, Former member of Karnataka Tourism Vision Group

Meera Iyer, Convenor, INTACH Bengaluru Chapter

Satish Shekar,Founder, Takshay Labs

Vivek Jain ,CEO, FlippAR

Anup Pai , Open Network for Travel Experiences

Germany Berlin - A Launchpad to Europe

Europe - India Tech and Innovation collaboration opportunities

12 Noon - 12.50 PM

Biotech Future Forward Chair

Dr. Vijay Chandru, Co-Founder & Director Strand Life Sciences

Keynote

John Dawber, Corporate VP & MD- Global Business Services, Novo Nordisk

Dr. Panna Sharma, CEO, Lantern Pharma

Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Former Principal Scientific Adviser; Faculty Member, NCBS

Rattling the Audible Ball in Assistive Tech Moderator

Prateek Madhav, Co- Founder and CEO, AssisTech Foundation (ATF)

Manohar Swaminathan, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Jonas Brunschwig, CEO & Consul General, Swissnex In India

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan ,Director, IIM Bangalore

Taha Haaziq ,Secretary, Office of the Commission for Persons with Disabilities, Goa

Akshita Sachdeva , Co- Founder and CEO, Trestle Labs

Pranav Savla , Founding Member, Vidyadrishti & Phoenix Digital Media

Shashaank Vshesh , Co founder, Ally Venture Capital and v-shesh

Denmark - Commercialising Innovation for the Future

Thailand: Business and Innovation Opportunities

01.00 PM - 02.00 PM

Expo Visit and Lunch Break

02.00 PM- 02.50 PM

Imagining the Future of AVGC, XR - Karnataka Leading the way Keynote

Biren Ghose, Country Head in India, Technicolor Creative Services

Biren Ghose, Country Head in India, Technicolor Creative Services

Sai Srinivas, Co- Founder & CEO, Mobile Premier League

Greg Mandel, Executive Director, Mikros Animation - A Technicolor Creative Studio

Mike Yatham, Founder, Rotomaker

Nitish Mittersain, Joint Managing Director & CEO, Nazara

Manish Agarwal, Partner, Kratos Studios, a Web3 gaming venture/ IndiGG

Anurrag Saxena, Chief Executive Officer, EGF - E gaming Federation

Bio Quiz
Poster Awards Ceremony

Finding Boundary Hitters – Beyond Bengaluru
Speakers

Sanjeev Gupta, CEO, KDEM

Shriram Kulkarni, Student

Arushi, Student

Kiriti Kapavari, Student

Suresh Narasimha , Managing Partner