Our speakers

Suresh Kumar KK, Head - Data Exchange & Data Spaces, IISc

Suresh has more than three decades of experience in defense, telecom, automotive, semiconductor, IoT, cloud computing, and Smart city domains and has been associated with India's Smart City program since 2015. 

Suresh is currently working at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, leading the Data Exchange project, an open-source, cloud-based platform developed and deployed at the national level aimed at discovery, exchange, and use of data from various sources to facilitate open innovation and build applications.
 
Suresh holds an engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Kerala University, Software specialization from the Indian Institute of Science, and Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru and is also the author of the book "7 Steps to Joyful Living". 

Suresh Soni, CEO, Baroda BNP Paribas Asset Management India Pvt. Ltd

Sushil Kurri, Co-Founder & CTO, PocketATM

The co-founder and CTO of PocketATM, has revolutionized cash accessibility through Kirana stores, enabling over 200 withdrawal scenarios. A seasoned leader with expertise in customer success, partnerships, and business development, he has driven growth and innovation across various ventures. Previously worked at Wisestep, he managed 1200 users and improved efficiency. As Vice President at Innobliss, he launched a cloud kitchen platform serving 400 clients. Kurri's entrepreneurial spirit also led him to found Spontakt Solutions, an AI platform for reservations and expense analysis.

Sushil Modi, MP and Former Deputy CM, Bihar

Sushil Ostwal, VP- Project Head Data Science, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

As the VP - Project Head Data Science at Motilal Oswal Financial Services, lead a team of data scientists and engineers across group businesses. Responsible to design and deliver data science and AI solution. With 20 years of experience have built several data driven solution to achieve incremental revenue, reduce cost, improve operational efficiency, and won industry awards. Speaker at Analytics conferences and have won several awards for thought leadership, commitment, innovation excellence, and high performance.

Have an MBA degree in Marketing and IT, and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence from Kellogg Executive Education. Strong domain knowledge in capital market, wealth management, asset management, housing finance, insurance, ecommerce, telecom, technology, public sector, utilities

Suyash Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, GalaxEye

Swaraj Singh Dhanjal, National Editor, Mint

Swarup Mohanty, CEO & Director, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Swati Arora, Director, Sales, Slack India

Swati Arora is Director ,Sales at Slack India . She has over 14 years of experience working across industries - banking, corporate travel, technology in managing and building commercial business teams .  Swati has extensive background in strategy & planning, general management & leadership and has spent a large part of her career driving growth and change management while scaling businesses. Before joining Slack, Swati held leadership positions at Expedia Group , Citibank and Lehman Brothers 

Swati Kulkarni, Director, Fireside Ventures

Swati is a distinguished investment banking professional with over 16 years of experience specializing in the consumer and retail sectors. She has an extensive track record of advising some of the world’s most prominent consumer brands, including Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Tata Consumer, Godrej Consumer Products, and DMart, as well as emerging market leaders such as Fogg, Paperboat, iD Fresh, Epigamia, and Manyavar.

Swati's expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPOs), capital raising, and strategic alliances. She has successfully led and executed over 30 advisory and capital market transactions across both listed and unlisted domains, with a total value exceeding US$ 10 billion.

Prior to her tenure at Fireside, Swati held the position of Director at Kotak Investment Banking and has also garnered valuable experience working with leading global firms such as KPMG and PwC. She holds an MBA in Finance from Mumbai University and has cleared CFA Level 2, further underscoring her deep expertise in financial analysis and strategic advisory.