Our speakers

Arjun Rao, Partner, Speciale Invest

Armando Branchini, Executive Director, AL Tagamma

Arpit Agarwal, Director, Investment Team, Blume Ventures

Arun Ramchandani, Executive Vice President, L&T Defence

Arun Sharma, Group Head for Sustainability & Climate Change, Adani Group

Arunabha Ghosh, CEO, CEEW

Arundhati Bhattacharya, Former Chairman , SBI

Arup Chakraborty, Founder & CEO, Mirrorsize

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).

Arvind Iyer, Head of Marketing, Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited

Arvind Iyer is a seasoned marketing professional with over 16 years of experience in consumer brands, strategic marketing, and business for different segments across Retail Finance, Education Tech, Automotive, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods and Media.

At Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd., he is responsible for the overall Marketing function and drives the brand for retail and corporate marketing strategy. Arvind plays a pivotal role in further strengthening the financial services business of the Group and is instrumental in leading marketing efforts in the transformational growth phase of the company.

Before Piramal, he worked with various brands and businesses ranging from multibilliondollar enterprises to fully bootstrapped start-ups. Arvind has also been with Viacom18, Royal Enfield, and Unilever, among others. During his career, he has globally launched Cuemath & Royal Enfield Garage Café, brought Tresemmé Hair Care & Dove Deodorants to India and nurtured brands like Taj Mahal Tea and Cornetto Ice Creams in South Asia.

He has bagged several accolades through his stints, like The Yahoo Purple Chair and EMVIES for his work in Hair Care with Unilever and Times Food & Nightlife awards for his work with Royal Enfield.

Arvind holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Management from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune.

Arvind Tiwary, Founder, SangEnnovate

Arvind Tiwary  runs SangEnnovate based in Bangalore, India. SangEnnovate is about leading change and innovation in a VUCA world and Whitewater rafting as Strategy?.

He is managing partner AxlerateNow a boutique consulting company?.

Arvind is also Chair Emeritus TiE MatrixForum?.

He provided leadership in developing a  #IoTForIndia vision. Over 2000+ startups are engaged with the IoT Forum. . Arvind is also active as  IET India IoT panel lead for IoT Security WG  and was co Chair for the premier #IoTNext event and Lead for WG3 in IoT4 Smart City Task Force( IOT4SCTF).

Experience and Competencies:?

Arvind brings 36+ years of Industry experience . Arvind has a multi disciplinary experience in helping financial institution, exploit Information Technology. He has worked in Sales and Marketing, managed software projects and acted as Product Manager and Chief Architect to large enterprise scale applications over three generations. He has also run operations with Board level responsibility in Hong Kong, Singapore and India.   Arvind is a popular speaker and has been adjudged the best speaker in many conferences and has participated in strategic planning (Business and IT) at the board level for many insurers. Arvind loves deep in-the-trench exploration of new trends like AI-ML #genAI, Web3 , #DeFI etc,?

Arvind is an alumnus of the Wharton Business School, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.  ?

Arvind is 63 years old, married with 2 children, is keen on golf and an avid reader of books on all topics, and loves long drives on the road less travelled?.