Our speakers

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, President IITM Research Park & IITM Incubation Cell,

Ashutosh Gupta, Country Manager, LinkedIn 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.

Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Planning, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences

Ashwin Jacob, Partner and Energy Resources, & Industrials Industry Leader , Deloitte India

Ashwin is a Partner and Energy, Resources & Industrials Industry Leader with Deloitte India with ~23 years of experience. He has worked extensively in strategy formulation and implementation consulting in India and overseas. Ashwin has led engagements across sectors covering Oil & Gas, Resources, Industrials, Infrastructure, and Engineering and clients spanning across Indian promoters, MNCs and large public sector enterprises on business strategy formulation & implementation, ESG strategy, Decarbonization, organization design, EBITDA improvement, portfolio management and optimization.

Ashwin Moduga, Head- Research, Mosaic Digital

Ashwini Kumar Tewari, MD, SBI

Mr. Ashwini Kumar Tewari is a career banker and started his career in SBI in the year 1991 as a Probationary Officer and has spent more than three decades with the bank in India and abroad in various assignments.

Presently since 21.11.2023, he is the Managing Director (Corporate Banking and Subsidiaries) of State Bank of India and a Whole Time Director handling the portfolio of Large Corporate and Commercial Credit business of the Bank alongwith Associates & Subsidiaries of the Bank. This includes major non-bank business like Credit cards, Mutual Fund, Life & General Insurance, Capital Markets, Custodial Services etc. and serving on the boards of all these companies. 
 
Prior to this assignment, he was Managing Director (Risk, Compliance and Stressed Assets) since June 2022.  There he was focusing on driving Climate Risk Management in the bank and shaping the Stressed Assets Strategy of the bank.  Earlier he was the Managing Director, handling International Banking, Information Technology and Non-Bank Subsidiaries of the Bank from January 2021.  He was also involved in a big refresh in the technology space in SBI.  Prior to becoming Managing Director at SBI, he served as Managing Director and CEO of SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd where he oversaw key partnerships inked with GPay, PayTM, BPCL etc. and steered the company through the immediate aftermath of the Covid period.

Earlier, he was the Country Head of the US Operations of State Bank of India from April 2017 to July 2020. Prior to that he was the Regional Head and General Manager, East Asia, for SBI, based in Hong Kong. 

Over the years, he held other leadership positions at State Bank of India, including, the Deputy General Manager (Operations & Information Systems) International Banking, Head of SBI’s Cash Management, Regional Manager, Branch Head, among others. 

An Electrical Engineer by degree, he is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB), Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and has done a Certificate Course in Management from XLRI. 
 

Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, GOI

Atit Mehta, Head of Marketing, BYJU'S

Avinash Joshi, CEO, NTT India Private Limited

Avinash Joshi is the CEO of the India business of NTT Ltd., a USD 11 billion global technology services company. He is responsible for end-to-end go-to-market, sales, delivery, operations, and profitability.

A seasoned leader, Avinash has over 30 years of extensive experience working in IT & Telecom Industry in client facing roles and P&L management. Avinash joins NTT after being with IBM for more than 18 years where his core expertise was in P&L, Strategic Business Development, Key Account Management, Sales and Delivery. In his last role, he was the Senior Partner and Vice President, 5G, APAC, IBM Services.

Avinash has done his Bachelors in Electronics and PG Diploma in Marketing Management. He has completed a certified course in Design Thinking from Stanford University.

Avinash Satwalekar, President, Franklin Templeton India