Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has more than doubled over the past five years, and investment in AI is gathering pace. That said, machine learning, an AI technique, was largely limited to observe and classify patterns in content with the help of predictive models. Now text-based machine learning models rely on self-supervised learning, which involves feeding a model a humungous amounts of text to enable it to generate predictions. Known as Generative AI, it describes algorithms and chatbot models such as ChatGPT that are multimodal, implying that they can be used not only to create or generate new content but also audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.
Individuals and smaller companies across the world appear to be heartily embracing these new AI-powered tools to write blogs, reviews, resumes, product descriptions, make short films, create images, make videos, generate software code, provide templates for marketing campaigns, and even analyze broad economic trends. However, the models will also need a fair bit of customisation and fine-tuning besides addressing security and privacy challenges to stay up-to-date when used by companies. Regardless, Generative AI is being discussed in global boardrooms--17% of CEOs in the January-March quarter of this calendar year, spurred by the release of ChatGPT and the discussions around its potential use cases. Experts at this event will discuss how to make the best use of AI and Generative AI models even as they discuss how to address the challenges and disruption that the exponential growth of these new technologies is posing.
By Leslie D'Monte, Sr. Associate Editor, Mint
By Rajat Mathur, Partner, Boston Consulting Group
By Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom
Speakers:
Rajesh Uppal, MEB (HR, IT, SAFETY, DE), Maruti Suzuki India
Shrijeet Mishra, Chief Innovation Officer and Head Group Services, Aditya Birla Group
Rucha Nanavati, CIO, Mahindra Group
Speakers:
Dr. Vibha Tripathi, Founder, Boon
Arup Chakraborty, Founder & CEO, Mirrorsize
Rrahul Sethi, Founder, Metaverse911
Rustom Lawyer, Co-Founder & CEO, Augnito
Dr. Sarita Ahlawat, MD & Co-Founder, BotLab Dynamics
By Sreedhara Narayanaswamy, Head of Innovations Centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle
Speakers:
Rohit Jain, VP & Head of Technology, Airtel Digital
Aditya Varma, Former Director of Transformation and Innovation, Indian Navy
Jayanth Kolla, Partner & Founder, Convergence Catalyst
Sheba Fernando, Global Head - DataScience, AI and GenAI, LTIMindtree
Manish Tiwari, CIO, Fractal
Moderator:
Shouvik Das, Special Correspondent, Mint
By Kashyap Kompella, CEO, RPA2AI Research
By Raghu Dharmaraju, President, ARTPARK at IISc
By Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India Bhashini Division
By Dr. Neeraj Mittal, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Govt. Of India
By Nappinai N S, Supreme Court lawyer & Founder, Cybersaathi
By Manu Chopra, CEO, Karya Inc
By Gagandeep Reehal, Co-Founder & CEO, Minus Zero
By Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
By Carin-Isabel Knoop, Executive Director, Harvard Business School
Speakers:
Ashutosh Gupta, Country Manager, LinkedIn India
Bipin Preet Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, MobiKwik
Satish Shukla, Co-Founder, Addverb
Rohan Verma, CEO & Executive Director, MapmyIndia
Shashank Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, DeHaat
Moderator:
Leslie D'Monte, Sr. Associate Editor, Mint
Amitabh Nag, in his role as the CEO of Digital India's Bhashini Division and Director of Digital India Corporation holds the responsibility of spearheading the implementation of the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) aimed at breaking language barriers.
With an extensive career spanning more than 30 years, he is a seasoned business leader with expertise in Business Management, Sales and Marketing, and Project Execution within the Information Technology sector. His track record includes successfully managing Business Units responsible for executing IT-driven transformation programs.
Amitabh Nag has a rich professional history, with notable tenures at renowned companies such as Coforge, HP Inc., and TCS. During his career, he has consistently demonstrated his ability to oversee large project deliveries, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and work in partnership with external stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
Jack is the CEO of SandboxAQ which focuses on enterprise SaaS solutions at the convergence of AI and quantum tech.
Jack worked previously at Alphabet leading AI and quantum teams. Jack is the author of Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach, published by Springer. This work, now in its second edition, is one of the leading textbooks in the field and is used both in undergraduate and PhD programs, as well as corporate training sessions.
Jack is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of several tech companies, including EarthWeb/Dice (NYSE: DHX), which he led from its founding through IPO. He also co-founded Vista Research, a fintech company, which he and his team sold to S&P/McGraw-Hill.
Carin-Isabel Knoop founded and leads the Harvard Business School’s Case Research & Writing Group, which supports about a third of the School’s course materials output. In collaboration with leading management experts, she co-authored more than 200 case studies on organizations and managers worldwide, as well as athletes, artists, and chefs. A desire to improve their lives and those they touch led to the publication of Compassionate Management of Mental Health at Work with Professor John A Quelch (Springer, 2018), the development of Harvard Business Publishing resources on human sustainability and numerous speaking, publishing, and consulting engagements around the world.
Debjani Ghosh is the President of the nasscom since April 2018. A veteran of the technology industry, she is the first women at the helm of the organization’s three-decade history.
Driven by a strong belief in the need for human-centric technology that enhances lives and livelihood, Debjani is a vocal advocate for the ethical and responsible use of technology. Under her leadership, nasscom actively works with the industry to ensure responsible practices and build trust as a core competitive advantage for the tech industry in India. Under her guidance, NASSCOM has prioritized the development of a Responsible AI Resource Kit, in partnership with leading industry stakeholders, to promote the adoption of responsible tech solutions.
Back in 2019, nasscom under her leadership coined the term “Techade” to define a decade where technology will play a transformative role to create a sustainable, equitable and safe future, powered by human-centric innovation. Debjani also believes that by the end of this Techade the Tech Industry in India will be established as the world’s leading technology ecosystem and the "I" in innovation will stand for India, fuelled by India’s young talent, the growing confidence in our capabilities to solve for the world and our proven success in building open and interoperable tech ecosystems like the Digital Public Infrastructure, to deliver at scale services grounds up.
Debjani is also a vocal advocate for building a truly inclusive technology sector where talent and meritocracy thrives above all. In January 2018, Debjani was felicitated by the President of India under the auspices of the ‘First Ladies’ program, which honors exceptional women pioneers in their respective fields. In 2020, she has been honored by Vogue as the Tech Leader of the year 2020. Recognizing her contribution in the field of technology, Debjani was also facilitated in ‘40 over 40 - World’s Most Inspiring Women’ list by Fe:maleOneZero (F10) Magazine in 2022.
With multiple feathers in her cap, before joining nasscom, she was the first woman to lead Intel India and the Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT), she was also a member of the executive council at nasscom. She believes that learning never stops, and a trainable mindset is the biggest strength one can have.
Debjani holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and an MBA degree in marketing from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India.
Ashutosh Gupta is LinkedIn's India Country Manager since 2019, responsible for driving the next wave of growth for the business in the market. He continues to lead LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) Online Sales Organisation (OSO) for APAC, before which he played a defining role in scaling the LMS Enterprise business for LinkedIn.
As a sales veteran with close to twenty years of experience in the tech industry, Ashutosh understands the pivotal value of transferable skills and believes in leading with a people-centric approach. He is a risk-taker who embraces uncertainty and relies on his intuition to pivot swiftly between different scenarios, optimizing his time and seizing every opportunity that comes his way.
Ashutosh is committed to creating a job market in India that values skills above all else by cultivating meaningful relationships with the key stakeholders that inform policymaking, bolster the LinkedIn brand, and demonstrate the value of the platform to over 100 million members in India and 900 million members across the world.
Mr. Rajesh Uppal is a visionary and a thought leader with an impressive career of more than 38 years. Mr. Uppal is currently serving as the Chief Information Officer of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., and as a Member Executive Board (MEB) he looks after HR, IT, Digital Enterprise, Education & Training and Safety at Maruti Suzuki.
Mr. Uppal’s association with Maruti Suzuki began in 1985 when he joined the IT team. He has successfully established IT as a critical business function in initial years of Maruti Suzuki. Realizing the importance of trained and motivated human resource, Mr. Uppal had conceived and successfully established a dedicated Training Academy in Maruti Suzuki which has garnered prestigious awards and accolades. Under his leadership the Company also started Digital Enterprise with only 5 people which today is a full-fledged function accelerating MSIL’s digital transformation journey.
Sreedhara is the Head of Innovations centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (OCI), Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle. The Innovations Center is the cross-functional cloud engineering domain team focused on identifying and exploiting the latest technical trends and then designing mission critical customer accelerators & solutions for Oracle Cloud in Data Science - AI/ML, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, IoT, BlockChain, and Security. Enrichen and Inculcate the culture of innovation across the Centers of excellence, spanning Japan & Asia Pacific.
Prior roles in Oracle - Senior Director, Data Base Engineering R&D & Chief Architect India Development Center R&D.
Sreedhara has taken up several Senior Executive leadership roles at Ca Technologies (Now Broadcom), NetApp, Dell Technologies, HP Inc. & OpenText
Sreedhara has been the frontrunner and leader for a multitude of cloud based products entailing that of: development, strategy, integration, transformation, operations, conceptualizing novel designs (granted patents) & execution. He has garnered change in that of myriad areas transmuting technologies, services and offerings in the realm of cloud based platforms, of respective firms. He has 33 years of Product & Cloud services R&D experience.
He has enabled several firms to encompass and embody End2End competence, expanding their business scope, in addition to transforming their legacy based technologies & infrastructure to current generational specification requirements. On several occasions, enterprises have been able to place at the top of their respective market share, due to the impact of changes brought about by Sreedhara.
Sreedhara has done a Leadership Program from Yale University USA. He holds a MS in Computer Science & Engineering in addition to a MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix, USA. He is BE Computer Science graduate from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, India.
Sreedhara has been awarded ten US patents & currently has eleven patents pending. He has authored & developed W3C Web services Access Protocols – WS-Eventing, WS-SOAPAssertions, WS-Enumeration, WS-EventDescriptions, WS-Fragment, WSMetadataExchange & WS-Transfer. He is working group member of India AI & Global Partnership of AI (GPAI) by IT Ministry of India.
Bipin Preet Singh is the co-Founder & CEO of the MobiKwik Group. He founded MobiKwik with a vision to transform the digital payments landscape in India, which was close to nil when he started in 2009. He believes that the India Fintech opportunity will be at least $1TN by 2025 and that MobiKwik will be a significant part of it.
Bipin has often been recognised as one of India’s leading Tech founders. He was featured in the 2016 ‘Fortune 40 under 40’ list of Indian entrepreneurs. He was also featured in the ‘Economic Times 40 under 40’ list of India’s top Business Leaders in 2018.
Shrijeet is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Aditya Birla Group, a $60 billion fortune 500 conglomerate, since May 2018. He oversees multiple areas of innovation, including digitalization, data & analytics, consumer-centric innovations, innovation fund ecosystems, brand development, and sustainability for the Group. His team collaborates closely with the leadership team to identify new business and synergy opportunities in areas such as logistics, energy, procurement, green tech, and digital. He recently led the incubation of the strategic Grasim B2B Commerce Initiative, scheduled for launch in the second half of '23.
In his career of over 36 years across various geographies (APAC & Middle East), Shrijeet has been recognized for placing the consumer and sustainability at the forefront of discussions to develop ecosystem solutions. His passion for driving sustainable businesses through collaborative research and modern technology has led to numerous innovative solutions across categories and services, including successful management of multiple M&A deals, mentoring start-ups for exponential growth, spearheading the $5 billion AUM journey of Brand Capital at BCCL and currently, also leading the Innovation Fund mandate at ABG. He has played a transformative role in multiple brands and businesses, with demonstrated expertise in P&L, marketing, supply chain, and venture.
Shrijeet's influence extends beyond the corporate sphere, as he works actively with many governments across India, US, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Israel and Singapore to create business value. He also advises global universities and industry associations such as MIT, Wharton, TIE to foster sustainable innovation ecosystems. He is passionate about education, speaks at universities and has established a new university called Bennett, now hosting over 7,000 students.
A graduate of Economics and an alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and Wharton, he actively participates in key industry associations such as WBCSD, Bombay Chambers, FICCI, CII, and ASCI.
He was amongst Constellation's BT (Business Transformation) 150 Leaders chosen for 2022. More recently, he was invited by the Swiss Government in Davos in Jan ’23 to share his insights on collaboration between governments and corporates for sustainable innovation to drive business value and competitive advantage.
Outside of his professional endeavors, Shrijeet is deeply passionate about music, nature and wildlife. He is dedicated to making a positive impact on people's lives and actively engages in philanthropic initiatives. Notably, he works with a non-profit school regularly that provides quality education to over 800 children, nurturing their growth and development. Throughout his career, he has always believed in giving more than taking in any relationship - his purpose in life
Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO, ARTPARK at IISc, has been building and scaling innovations and institutions for impact for over two decades. He is also a Fellow of the Lancet Commission for Reimagining India’s Health Systems. ARTPARK fosters innovations in AI & Robotics through startups, platforms, and skilling. It is helping impact-focused orgs leverage LLMs for societal good at scale in LMICs, and building DPIs (digital public infrastructure) and DPGs (digital public goods) in health, climate, and languages partnering with Office of PSA, MEITY, ICMR, NITI Aayog, and some states and cities. Along with partners ARMMAN and Belongg, it is a double winner of the Global Grand Challenge for Equitable AI.
Rohan is a passionate entrepreneur on a mission to make our world better through maps and location technologies. He has significant experience as an industry leader in the digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies sectors. In 2004 while still an undergraduate at Stanford University, the then 19 year old Rohan created India’s first interactive internet mapping portal, MapmyIndia.com. And on July 26, 2007 he joined the MapmyIndia board as a full time Director and thus began a period of high growth for the company and sustained value creation for the stakeholders. But his finest hour came in December 2021 when MapmyIndia was recognized as a ‘Unicorn’, post the company’s blockbuster IPO that was oversubscribed by more than 154 times and the stock listed with an opening day premium of 65% despite uncertain market conditions.
Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of IIT Delhi (’08), co-founded the full-stack, business-to-farmer (B2F) agritech platform DeHaat, in 2012, and currently serves as its CEO. DeHaat is a one stop destination for small farmers, catering to all their agricultural needs. Under his leadership, DeHaat is grown into one of India’s fastest growing AgriTech startups employing a brigade of 1800+ professionals, and working with over 20,00,000 farmers and 11,000+ micro-entrepreneurs.
Satish, co-founder of Addverb, is a proud alum of TISS-Mumbai, a non-practicing engineer and has 20+ years of experience in the Technology industry. He is a Technology “evangelist,” and continues to hone his skill set by conceptualizing the finer aspects of Human-Robot collaboration. His strong background in sustainability initiatives and reducing Cycle Time helps Addverb deliver unique automation solutions.
Ms. N. S. Nappinai, Supreme Court Advocate and founder of Cyber Saathi™, is a senior and renowned lawyer with about 32 years of experience, specializing in Constitutional, Criminal, IPR and cyberlaws. She is Amicus Curiae before Supreme Court in Prajwala vs. Union of India to formulate methodologies to remove child sexual abuse material and violent videos of offences against women from online platforms. She is Advisor - Tamil Nadu eGovernance Agency & Advisor - Maharashtra Cyber police. Ms. Nappinai represented the Govt of Kerala in the recent decision of the Kerala High Court on data protection during the covid pandemic. Nappinai founded Cyber Saathi, a non profit organisation to take forward her work on cyber laws and cyber safety.
Sheba Fernando, a strategic leader with a strong technology background spanning 25 years, heads Enterprise AI Solutions at LTIMindtree. She serves as a trusted advisor for many global clients, guiding them on their strategic AI transformation journey. She is an exceptional advocate for embracing AI, taking a human-centric approach to AI solutions and leveraging Generative AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning Techniques, and Cognitive Solutions such as Chatbots, Computer Vision, and Audio/Speech processing. With her digital thought leadership and distinctive storytelling, she has spearheaded large transformational AI programs for customers, enabling various business outcomes such as improving top-line targets, productivity, creativity, efficiency, and interactivity. Her areas of expertise include Solution Architecting, Strategy Consulting, Cloud Data Modernization, AI/ML, Cognitive Solutions, and Visual Narratives.
Jayanth Kolla advises global companies - from multinationals to startups - on their emerging technologies' based product roadmaps, GTM and business growth strategies. He is a speaker at international conferences, advisor and founding member of a US-based AI think tank, advisor to a European industry forum, technocrat, an entrepreneur and founder of Convergence Catalyst, a global deep technologies research and consulting firm. He is also the co-author of the soon-to-be-released book “AI Rising: India’s Artificial Intelligence Growth Story”
Kashyap Kompella is an award-winning industry analyst, best-selling author, educator, and advisor.
Kashyap is the CEO of “RPA to AI Research”, an AI advisory and analyst firm with presence in US and India.
Arup Chakraborty, Founder & CEO of Mirrorsize with a vision to bring an ultimate disruption in the fashion, retail, e-commerce vertical by introducing a state of the art technology in AI, deep learning, 3D to solve the ill-size and to enrich customers shopping experience. Brands can now harness the power of Mirrorsize to improve online conversion, increase revenue, reduce returns/rejections and to improve customer loyalty index. Arup Chakraborty is a senior executive with a high-growth entrepreneurial background having over 25 years international finance experience in publicly traded, startups and pre-IPO companies including 6 years in a Big 4 firm. Experienced in raising capital, building start-ups, FP&A, restructurings / turnarounds, corporate development and leading change and transformation process. Arup led finance functions of various mid-size US companies in the east coast, having global offices across the world and have raised multiple financing rounds from various lead stage VC’s and private equity groups. Arup holds bachelor degree (honors) in Mathematics from Delhi University and is also a qualified Certified Public Accountant (US), Chartered Accountant (India), Company Secretary (India) and Cost & Works Accountant (India).
Dr. Vibha Tripathi is a social entrepreneur working in the energy and water sector. She holds a post-graduate and PhD degree from IIT Kanpur with specialization in the research and development of solar energy.
Dr. Tripathi is the founder of Boon, a technology driven company with a focus on social and environmental impact with respect to drinking water. She has been the key driver behind Boon’s IoT enabled WaterATMs® and WaterCubes, commercial premium drinking water machines meant for 100+ people. Each machine is driven by an IoT mechanism designed and engineered by Boon’s in-house R&D facility, which allows the team to send and receive key information. The company collects this data through the remotest parts of the country and has built a unique water map. This remote-control mechanism also allows management to repair and update the machines effortlessly. The latest designs for B2B allow user engagement, a QR Code phone app to check water quality in real time and a dashboard for admin to monitor their usage. Many of the designs are solar ready.
Boon is currently on their 4th generation with reaching 1000 installations. Boon is instrumental in giving clean drinking water to half a million people daily while removing 85 tons of plastics annually.
In her free time, she loves rustling up interesting meals, preparing for marathons, and traveling to new destinations.
Commander Varma is an Indian Navy Veteran and an ICT & Cyber Security Consultant, with 21+ years of Information Communication Technology, Cyber Security, Supply Chain Operations and HR Training Management experience. He is presently leading Strategic Programs for digital transition, innovation and transformation in Disruptive Technologies. He has served as a catalyst for emerging disruptive technology trends, business models, and patterns that help solve complex technical business problems at scale such as Quantum Cryptography, Blockchain for Ops Supply Chain, IIoT, AR/VR, Big Data and AI/ML implementations. Cdr Varma has served in multiple Tech ICT leadership roles in Military Operations and Supply Chain Management and has served as the Chief ICT Officer for various mobile platforms. He is mentoring the next generation of IT Service Management and Network Security Operations of a Strategic Enterprise Class network. Prior to this, he led teams driving IT-OT convergence initiatives, auditing industry ICT best practices, and undertaking network risk assessment/ threat mitigation in the International Theatre.
Rustom is the Co-Founder & CEO of Augnito, an intuitive and advanced Voice AI innovator that is revolutionising clinical documentation and augmenting physician capabilities in the global healthcare market. Rustom's commitment to deep tech research & development as well as human-centric design principles has helped establish Augnito as a key player in Clinical Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing technologies. In a short span of 3 years, the company has amassed over 300 hospitals, across more than 25 countries (including the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, India, UAE, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). His overarching vision is to help institutions establish a strong backbone for centralised healthcare infrastructure, driven by the adoption and accessibility of Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMRs). A serial entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, Rustom also Co-founded Scribetech (2001) at the age of 19. The company pioneered clinical documentation services within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as well as independent healthcare organisations in the region. Rustom has received an executive education from Harvard Business School and Stanford University, among others.
Gagandeep Reehal, is co-founder & CEO of Minus Zero, an autonomous vehicle startup pioneering a unique AI approach aimed at solving autonomous driving using only cameras.
Closely working at an intuitive intersection of AI & cognitive computing for the last 4 years, he had always been intrigued by neuronal computations inside the human brain contributing to attention, behavioral awareness, episodic memory, and predictive decision-making, evolving into his brainchild - nature-inspired AI.
With the problem of autonomous driving where current AI paradigms fail due to the inability to handle real-world complexity, unlike the human mind, he knew the big gap that they could solve when he co-founded Minus Zero in 2021 with Gursimran Kalra.
Rucha Nanavati, Chief Information Office at Mahindra Group, is a global leader with experience in enabling business strategies through technology solutions. Rucha has led successful digital transformations in multiple industries including high-tech, retail and manufacturing. She is passionate about fostering innovations and cultivating an engineering culture and is known for developing and directing large global, cross-functional tech teams that deliver high-value, transformational initiatives. Rucha’s previous experiences range from consulting role at Pricewater Housecoopers to technology leadership roles at Albertsons Companies and Motorola.
Rucha is passionate about mentoring and helping women move forward in technology and at workplaces in general. She also mentors start-ups and a strong promoter of women led start-ups as well.
Rajat has over 17 years of leadership experience in management consulting and has driven multiple business transformations using AI and Digital. During this tenure, he has worked for Fortune 500 clients across industries including Consumer & Retail, Financial Services, Health Care & Pharma. He engages with CXO-level client members on how to transform organizations using Data & AI. Rajat has provided thought leadership and mentoring support to set up and grow consulting teams and played an instrumental role in incubating AI consulting practices across top-tier consulting firms. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore.
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