Our speakers

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

Vaibhav Dange, , Infrastructure Expert - Formerly Advisor NHAI

Varghese Thomas, Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

VARUN DUGGIRALA, Founder & CEO, EMoMee

Varun Sridhar, CEO, Paytm Money

Varun Thamba, Regional Head of AI, SAP Asia Pacific

With over a decade of experience in driving digital transformation, Varun is the Regional Head of Artificial Intelligence for SAP Asia Pacific. In this role, he and his team leads the implementation of SAP's Business AI strategy across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, China and India working closely with partners and governments.  Varun collaborates with global AI teams, academia, policy makers and customers in the region to make AI real in business processes.

Ved Mani Tiwari, CEO, NSDC

Veda Iyer, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Mphasis

Venkat Sitaram, Senior Director & Country Head, ISG, Dell Technologies India

Venkat serves as Country Leader of the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) for Dell Technologies India. In his current role, he leads ISG which comprises of Product Specialty & Solutions spanning across Data Centre Compute, Networking, Storage, Gen AI, Multi Cloud & Cyber Recovery technologies.

He is responsible for driving strategy and growth across Dell’s extensive technology portfolio, solutions & services. Committed to talent development, Venkat is leading a large team of individuals to help customers succeed on their digital transformation journeys.

An industry veteran, Venkat close to three decades of experience in IT infra industry, holding senior leadership roles across Dell Technologies India Corporate & Enterprise business. He joined Dell in 2010 in the enterprise solutions group & spent over a decade in leadership roles in India Sales. He was most recently the Senior Director & Country Head for Enterprise Business Segment.

Prior to joining Dell, he held various sales leadership roles in Wipro Infotech where he served close to a decade.

Based in Bengaluru, Venkat is a highly committed, customer and partner centric business leader.

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.