Our speakers
Avinash Satwalekar, President, Franklin Templeton India
B. G. Mahesh, CEO, DigiSahamati Foundation
Mahesh is the CEO of Sahamati, a not-for-profit industry alliance of participants in the Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem. At Sahamati, Mahesh oversees all programs and works to establish productive relationships between market participants, policymakers, and the citizenry.
He’s been leading the implementation of the Account Aggregator framework, a Digital Public Infrastructure for Data empowerment. AA is a techno-legal framework that gives individuals & small businesses control of their data. It’s being rolled out in India and is the largest implementation of Open Finance globally.
Mahesh has spent nearly three decades enabling technology-driven solutions to problems of digital inclusion in India. Prior to Sahamati, Mahesh founded OneIndia.com, a very successful portal that served content to over 100 million users per month of consumers in Indian languages, which was acquired by DailyHunt.
B.C. Tripathi, Senior Advisor, Greenko
Bahram Vakil, Founding Partner, AZB & Partners
Baldev Prakash, MD & CEO, J&K Bank
BC Patnaik, Managing Director, LIC
Beerud Sheth, Co-Founder & CEO, Gupshup
Beerud Sheth is the co-founder and CEO of Gupshup, the leading conversational engagement platform. Gupshup helps businesses engage their customers better through personalized conversational experiences. The company operates in 40+ countries, has over 45k customers and delivers 10 billion messages every month.
Sheth previously co-founded Elance (now Upwork; NASDAQ: UPWK), which pioneered online freelancing. Its online platform enables businesses to tap into a network of millions of freelancers worldwide, enabling over $3.5 billion in gross transaction value.
He has a Masters in Computer Science from MIT and a Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, where he was awarded the Silver Medal. Beerud recently received the distinguished alumnus award from IIT Bombay. He is based in Silicon Valley.
Bharat Puri, MD, Pidilite Industries
Bharat Shah, Executive Director, ASK Group
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business , The Fletcher School at Tufts University