Our speakers

Ashish Agrawal, , BPEA -EQT Partners.

Ashish Gupta, Chief Investment Officer, Axis Mutual Fund

Ashish Kundra, Principal Secretary Transport, Govt. of Delhi

Ashish Singhal, Co-Founder, Lemonn & CoinSwitch

Ashish Venkataramani, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures

Ashok Emani, Director, ESG, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)

Ashok has over 27 years of experience of applying ESG and Sustainability considerations spanning across financial sector, consulting and research. Ashok heads the NIIFL’s approach to investing responsibly for impact while working closely with investors, investment champions and company management to assess and manage ESG risks & impact, opportunities and value add to build “NIIFL way of doing business”.

Before joining NIIFL, he was the Director & Head ESG at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Prior to this, Ashok led IDFC Alternatives ESG practice, working with multiple stakeholders including investors, investee companies, sustainability forums and communities. During his ~17 years stint with the IDFC and its subsidiaries, apart from other key initiatives, he was responsible for managing USD 3.8 billion alternatives portfolio in project equity, private and real estate asset class and has implemented the IFC Performance Standards. Prior to IDFC, working along with Dr. Vandana Shiva, he managed grassroots campaigns pertaining to sustainable livelihood, biodiversity and food rights across the country.

Ashok is member of the ESG working group at Global Infrastructure Investors Association (GIIA) and the recipient of Chevening Scholarship from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of UK Government for pursuing environmental management and sustainable development program at University of Wales, Bangor. He holds M.Phil. degree in Applied Economics from Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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.