Our speakers

Pramod Agrawal, Chairman, Coal India Ltd. (CIL)

Pramod Mundra, EVP & CIO, Havells India

Pramod Varma, CTO EkStep Foundation, Co-Chair CDPI.dev

Dr. Pramod Varma is the former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.3 billion people. He was also the chief architect for various India Stack layers such as eSign, Digital Locker, and Unified Payment Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), and all of which are now working at population scale in India. He played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure (ABDM), vaccination & immunization infrastructure (Co-WIN and DIVOC), and Unified Health Interface (UHI).

He is currently the CTO of EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org). These power India’s largest digital learning infrastructure called DIKSHA providing learning opportunities to 200+ million children and 10+ million teachers in India. Sunbird building blocks are used in other learning, skilling, and capacity building efforts in India and other countries. As part of this effort, he also helped design India’s digital education & skilling architecture blueprint called NDEAR.

In addition, he is the Co-Founder of FIDE.org, he is the genesis author of the open source beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io) that helps create decentralized open discovery, fulfillment, and transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the base protocol for India’s new commerce infrastructure efforts such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC.org), Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN), and Namma Yatri (nammayatri.in).

He is also an adjunct faculty and Co-Chair at the global Center for DPI (CDPI.dev) , a nonprofit, helping countries design and architect their own Digital Public Infrastructure systems in addition to building local capacity.

He is an advisor to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), National Payment Corporation (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), National Health Authority (NHA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Turing Institute Identity Initiative in the UK, and helps with many Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives in India and across the globe. He is a regular speaker and evangelist for open source efforts and actively advocates Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) investments as a means to drive inclusive and equitable economic growth.

Pramod holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His interests include Internet scale distributed architectures and intelligent systems. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.

Pranav Anam, Founder & CEO, The Gene Box

Pranav Anam is a qualified geneticist from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He has a rich exposure in Genetics and Bioinformatics spectrum including Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Biomolecules, Pharmacology and Cytogenetics. Having said that, his strategy and business acumen makes him a visionary who is able to make sense of the chaos. His greatest strength is his ability and agility in setting up and steering large global teams across diverse businesses.

He has successfully developed a unique pan-India commercial and collaborative platform to help stem cell scientists, academicians, and medical practitioners create best-in-class therapeutic products and services.

At The Gene Box: Founder/ CEO

Pranav plays a critical role of a catalyst and business accelerator. On the one hand, he spearheads the firm’s business development and strategic alliances, on the other; he actively coordinates with the product development and engineering teams towards continually enhancing TGB’s unique value proposition and expanding its wide range of offerings.

The inception of The Gene Box was serendipitous. Pranav Anam, A young, enterprising graduate in genetics, returned from Newcastle, UK in 2015. He was on the prowl for his next big adventure in life. His love for genomic science ran deep and that paved the way for what was to come. Aware of the influence of genetics on fitness and nutrition, he wanted to build a platform where he could channelizehis knowledge for the betterment of quality of life.

Pranav spent months speaking to the predictive wellness space in India. He soon realized that there was an unmet gap in genomics infrastructure in the country. A geneticist at heart, Pranav took matters to hand and decided to start The Gene Box on the principles of science. For
Pranav, science came first, selling later.

Pranav spent three years mastering the nitty-gritty of predictive testing. He built a razor-sharp algorithm that would make sense of the gigabytes of genomic data that would be generated in the years to come. Pranav invested time and effort, blood and toil to scaffold cutting edge technology platforms. Knowledge and Technology have been the cornerstones of The Gene Box since the very beginning. A person with infectious energy, passion and indepth knowledge about Genetics and Stem cell research makes Pranav a people’s person at The Gene Box which in turn helps him to effectively lead the teams across product development, engineering to business development and strategic alliances. Today, The Gene Box is a leading genetic testing
platform that focuses on science and analytics to promote healthcare solutions. TGB’s commitment to spearhead quality-driven genomic research is evident that is what makes us preferred globally.

Pranav Arora, MD and Lead Applied Intelligence, Accenture in India

Pranav Mistry, Founder & CEO, Two Platforms Inc

Pranav Mistry is the CEO and Founder of TWO. He is a renowned scientist and inventor, and his contributions to the fields of AI, AR/VR, Machine Learning, and Robotics put Pranav in the elite list of pioneers and inventors that shape the future of our technological world.

Pranjal Kamra, CEO, Finology Ventures

Prasenjit Roy, Chief Marketing Officer, NTT Ltd. in India

Prasenjit has over two and half decades of corporate experience on the business front – spanning across multinationals in India and abroad. A curious learner – he is also the evangelist of Integrated Strategic Marketing spanning across a wide spectrum of industry sectors.

Besides being the Regional Council member in NASSCOM, he is also the Past Chair of their Sales & Marketing Council nationally. Equipped with multiple certified coaching credentials, he coaches / mentors NASSCOM’s 10,000 Start-ups program and the SME Forum across India. 

He is a regular speaker at leading Business Schools and industry associations and  regularly contributes to publications like IDG, ET, Express Computers and numerous other media publications.

Prasenjit has been the recipient of the prestigious Alumnus of the year award under the Corporate Leadership category - presented by the Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Top 10 Business School in India) at a special ceremony and numerous CMO awards.

He has advanced degrees in Engineering and Business Management, and also did a Post Graduate certificate course in Modern Information Systems from IIT Mumbai.

Currently Prasenjit is the Chief Marketing Officer of NTT Ltd. in India.

Prashant Kumar, MD & CEO, Yes Bank

Prashant Kumar, MD & CEO, Yes Bank