Our speakers

SONAL KALRA, Chief Managing Editor, HT

Sonalde Desai, University Professor Emerita, University of Maryland; Professor, National Council of Applied Economic Research

Sonalde Desai is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at University of Maryland College Park and leads the National Data Innovation Centre at NCAER, New Delhi. She is one of India’s most respected demographers, dealing primarily with social inequalities in developing countries. The India Human Development Survey, which she leads, is a pioneering large-scale national panel survey tracking changes in Indian society since 2004. Desai’s scholarly work has been published widely across the world. She also serves on several government committees such as the Steering Committee for NSS and Expert Committee on Benchmarking RBI Statistics. She was elected president of the Population Association of America in 2022. 

Sonali Jindal, Co-Founder and COO, Ring/ Kissht

Sonali Kulkarni, MD and Lead, Financial Services, Accenture in India

Sreedhara Narayanaswamy, Head of Innovations Centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle

Sreedhara is the Head of Innovations centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (OCI), Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle. The Innovations Center is the cross-functional cloud engineering domain team focused on identifying and exploiting the latest technical trends and then designing mission critical customer accelerators & solutions for Oracle Cloud in Data Science - AI/ML, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, IoT, BlockChain, and Security. Enrichen and Inculcate the culture of innovation across the Centers of excellence, spanning Japan & Asia Pacific.

Prior roles in Oracle - Senior Director, Data Base Engineering R&D & Chief Architect India Development Center R&D.

Sreedhara has taken up several Senior Executive leadership roles at Ca Technologies (Now Broadcom), NetApp, Dell Technologies, HP Inc. & OpenText

Sreedhara has been the frontrunner and leader for a multitude of cloud based products entailing that of: development, strategy, integration, transformation, operations, conceptualizing novel designs (granted patents) & execution. He has garnered change in that of myriad areas transmuting technologies, services and offerings in the realm of cloud based platforms, of respective firms. He has 33 years of Product & Cloud services R&D experience.

He has enabled several firms to encompass and embody End2End competence, expanding their business scope, in addition to transforming their legacy based technologies & infrastructure to current generational specification requirements. On several occasions, enterprises have been able to place at the top of their respective market share, due to the impact of changes brought about by Sreedhara.

Sreedhara has done a Leadership Program from Yale University USA. He holds a MS in Computer Science & Engineering in addition to a MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix, USA. He is BE Computer Science graduate from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, India.

Sreedhara has been awarded ten US patents & currently has eleven patents pending. He has authored & developed W3C Web services Access Protocols – WS-Eventing, WS-SOAPAssertions, WS-Enumeration, WS-EventDescriptions, WS-Fragment, WSMetadataExchange & WS-Transfer. He is working group member of India AI & Global Partnership of AI (GPAI) by IT Ministry of India.

SREERAMAN THIAGARAJAN, Co-founder & CEO, aawaz.com

Sridhar Rajagopal, Head - Marketing, Strategy, Sales and M&A, Otis India

Sridhar Rajagopal is the head of Sales, Marketing, Strategy and M&A for Otis India. Sridhar has had a variety of interesting assignments in Otis.  He headed two JV companies in India and led the acquisition of service portfolio companies across India, Singapore, Philippines and Japan. Prior to his current role, he headed the Marketing, Communication and Strategy function for the Northeast Asia Region covering Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Prior to joining Otis, was working in the glass flacconage business for global brands like Body Shop, L’Oréal and Revlon.

Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Co-Founder, Zetwerk

Srini Nagarajan, MD & Head Asia, BII

Srinivas Jain, Executive Director and Chief of Strategy, SBI Mutual Fund