Our speakers

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

Asit Kumar Pal, Vice President - HR, Bank Of Baroda Card

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

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