Our speakers

Utpal Bhaskar, Assistant Managing Editor, Mint (Moderator)

Utsav Baijal, Head India Private Equity, Apollo Global Management

V. Vaidyanathan, MD & CEO, IDFC First Bank Ltd.

Vaibhav Dange, , Infrastructure Expert - Formerly Advisor NHAI

VARUN DUGGIRALA, Founder & CEO, EMoMee

Varun Sridhar, CEO, Paytm Money

Veda Iyer, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Mphasis

Venkatesh Hariharan, Public Policy Director, FOSS United

Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) is the Public Policy Director for FOSS United, an organization that represents the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in India and India Representative of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization that protects the FOSS community from patent litigation. 

Hariharan has 32 years of experience in journalism and public policy with organizations like Indian Express, IIIT Bangalore, Red Hat, Google, iSPIRT and the Data Governance Network at IDFC Institute. In these roles, he has been involved in key policy issues like open source in government, open standards, software patents, Indian Language Computing, free speech on the Internet, privacy, building and evangelizing Digital Public Goods, and many others. His long term interest is in democratizing access to technology and knowledge.

Venkatesh Raman Prasad, Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Vetri Subramaniam, CIO, UTI Asset Management Company Ltd