BTS 2026

TRENDS

Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS

Director, National Testing Agency, Ministry of Education, Government of India

Shri Sanjeev Sanyal

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India, Chancellor, Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics

Debjani Ghosh

Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Government of India

Xerxes Cooper

Global Leader, Kyndryl Delivery

Prof. Emmanuel Bacry

Research Director, CNRS (France)

Gary Oliver

CEO, Hypergrowth Global

Vivek Mahajan

Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Ltd.

Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Chief Executive Officer, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Dr. Vivek Raghavan

Co-founder, Sarvam AI

Shri Sivasubramanian Ramann

Chairperson, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)

Mohandas Pai

Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners

Dheemanth Nagaraj

Co-Founder & CEO, Agrani Labs

Naganand Doraswamy

Founder & Managing Partner, Ideaspring Capital

Manasvi Sharma

Senior Vice President, Technology, Gracenote

Navin Bishnoi

Vice President and India Country Manager, Marvell India Pvt Ltd

Pranav Pai

Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, 3one4 Capital

Ragunathan Balaji

Chief Technology & Digital Officer, ICICI Securities

Sandeep Alur

CTO, Microsoft Innovation Hub - India, Microsoft Corporation India

Sandeep Sahai

Chief Executive Officer, Clearwater Analytics

Sateesh Andra

Managing Director, Endiya Partners

Prof. V. Kamakoti

Director, IIT Madras

Venk Krishnan

President, TiE Bangalore

CIRCUIT

Dr. Abhilasha Gaur

CEO, SSC NASSCOM

Alejandro Sinekoff

Vice President and Global Head of Strategic Alliances, Partnerships, and Marketing Communications, L&T Semiconductor Technologies

Amajit Gupta

MD & CEO, Lightstorm

Amith Kumar

VP, Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd

Ankit Mehta

Co-founder and CEO, Ideaforge Technologies

Arnob Roy

MD & CEO, Tejas Network

Dr. B.K. Das

Director General, DRDO-ECS

Deepak Shapeti

Co-Founder & CEO, Morphing Machines

Deepti Sagar

Chief People and Experience Officer, Deloitte

Dheemanth Nagaraj

Co-Founder & CEO, Agrani Labs

Diganta Sharma

Head – Strategy & Business Development, INOX Air Products

Dr. G. Ganesh Das

Chief - Collaboration & Innovation, Tata Power

Ganapathy Subramaniam

Founding Managing Partner, Yali Capital

Gokul V. Subramaniam

President, Intel India, Vice President, Intel Corporation

Hari Kumar R.

Director (R&D), BEL

Dr. Hemang Shah

Senior Director Government Affairs and Business Development, Applied Materials India

Jatin Bhandari

Sales Director, Texas Instruments India

Jitendra Chaddah

Former MD & India Country Head, GlobalFoundries

K. Sridhar

CEO, SFAL

Madhavendra Singh

CEO, ESSCI

Nandini Balasubramanian

Director, Tescom Private Limited

Niju Vijayan

Partner, Avanteum Advisors

Nikhil Mallavarapu

Joint Managing Director, Centum Electronics Ltd.

Nishit Gupta

Scientist E, MeitY

Pradeep Vajram

Co-founder and General Partner, 7Rays Ventures

Pranay Kotasthane

Deputy Director, Takshashila Institute

Radhika Vishwanathan

COO, Applied Materials

Rangesh Raghavan

Corporate Vice President & MD, Lam research

Prof. Ranjan Bose

Professor, IIT Delhi

Ranjani Mani

Director and Country Head – Generative AI, Microsoft

Ravi Bhola

Managing Partner, K&S partners

Sangeeta Roy

Director, Global Partner Business, Intel Solutions & Services India Pvt Ld

Sanjeev Kumar Gupta

CEO, KDEM

Santosh Gundapi

CEO, ILJIN Electronics India Pvt Ltd

Shetal Mehta

Founder, Suchi Semicon

Dr. Shreevyas H.M.

Project Director, Karnataka AI Cell, Government of Karnataka

Sonam Motwani

Founder and CEO, karkhana.io

Soni Saran Singh

MD & CEO, NMTronics India Pvt. Ltd.

Srinivasa Rao P.V.V

CEO, ACT Fibernet

Sujay Shetty

Partner, PwC India

Suryaprakash Konanuru

Partner & Chief Technologist, Ideaspring Capital

Tanmay Bunkar

CEO, BotLab Dynamics and Vayudh

Prof. V. Kamakoti

Director, IIT Madras

Vinod Sharma

MD, Deki Electronics Limited

LIFE

Shri A.S. Kiran Kumar

Chairman Physical Research Laboratory Management Council and Member, Space Commission, Government of India

Abhisek Halder

Principal, ZS

Dr. Anand Govindaluri

Founder, Govin Holdings

Prof. Anurag Agrawal

Dean, BioSciences and Health Research, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University

Dr. B.M. Prasanna

Regional Director for Asia & Managing Director of the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), CIMMYT’s Distinguished Scientist

Chaitanya Giri

Space Fellow, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology, Observer Research Foundation

Prof. D. Sundar

Director & Biocon Chair, IBAB Bengaaluru (on lien from IIT Delhi)

G.S. Krishnan

President, ABLE

George G. Weinmann

Founder | Aerospace Executive & Entrepreneur, Space Habitat Corporation (HabSpace)

Govindrajan D.S.

Director & CEO, CoE Space Tech Foundation

Dr. K. Thangaraj

CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Dr. K.K. Narayanan

Founder-Director, Ananthara Biotech Private Limited

Dr. Kalaivani Ganesan

Scientist F, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

Dr. Karthik Anantharaman

Group Chief Commercial Officer, Magnet Hospitals, Santaana Fertility & Healthcare International

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Executive Chairperson, Biocon Ltd. &, Chairperson, Vision Group on Biotechnology, Govt. of Karnataka

Dr. M.S. Sheshshayee

ICAR-Emeritus Professor, Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

Dr. Murali Ramachandra

CEO, Aurigene Oncology Limited

N S Srinivasa Murthy

Honorary Consul General, Honorary Consulate of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Nivedita Mitra

Principle Key Expert, Siemens Healthineers

Dr. Praful Chandra

Dean of Research, Atria University

Dr. Rajesh S. Gokhale

Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Biotechnology

Ravi Audichya

Science and Technology Specialist (Fermentation), The Good Food Institute India

Ritu Verma

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital

Dr. S.R. Rao

Founder and CEO, Genentech Regulatory Solutions LLP

Sabrina Lykkegaard Svidt

Science and Innovation Attaché, Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK)

Dr. Saurabh Jain

VP - Global Delivery Centers, Indegene

Savita Kothandaraman

Senior Trade Advisor, Business France India

Soham Sankaran

Founder and CEO, PopVax

Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan

Chairperson, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed

Director and CEO, C-CAMP

Thomas Bomhoff

Vice President, Sustainability & External Engagement, Novonesis

Dr. Velislava Petrova-Chamova

Minister Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria

Vikas Kanungo

AI & Digital Transformation Consultant, The World Bank

STARTUP 1

Anandi Iyer

Director, Fraunhofer Office India

Anirudh N. Sharma

Founder & CEO, Digantara

Dr. B. Chagun Basha

Chief Policy Adviser, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

Capt Abhijit Bhutey (Retd.)

Co-founder, Inbound Aerospace

Gadhadar Reddy

CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies

Hareesh Chandrasekar

Co-Founder & CEO, AGNIT Semiconductors Pvt Ltd

Kajal Shah

Co-Founder & CEO, Dreamfly Innovations

Lokesh Kabdal

Co-founder, VyomIC

Major General Ravi Murugan (Retd.)

Strategic Advisor to Startups, Ex Defence

Prashanth Prakash

Founding Partner, Accel India

Pravin Hungund

CEO, Innoverse Foundation

Dr. Sanjeeva Kumar Majumdar

Senior Manager & CVO, National Research Development Corporation

Siddharth Jena

Founder, Akashalabdhi Space

Souad Tenfiche-Ancelle

CEO, Link Innovations

Swapna Gupta

ex Avaana and Qualcomm

Vishesh Rajaram

Managing Partner / General Partner, Speciale Invest