Our speakers
Vidya Gothe, Director - L&D, DXC Technology
Vidya Krishnan, Deputy Managing Director (IT), SBI
Vidya Rattan Sharma, Vice Chairman, Jindal Advisory Company
Vijay Balakrishnan, EVP - Chief Digital & Information Officer, Godrej Enterprises Group
Vijay Balakrishnan is the Chief Digital & Information Officer at Godrej Enterprises Group. With over two decades of experience in digital transformation within the manufacturing sector, Vijay is dedicated to maximizing technology value through responsible adoption.
At Godrej Enterprises Group, he leads the digital transformation across various domains, including products, commercial operations, service operations, manufacturing, finance, procurement, and marketing. He leverages mature technology platforms such as ERP, CRM, Lakehouse, dashboards, AI, web apps, mobile apps, RPA, chatbots, AR/VR, and more to drive efficiency and innovation.
Vijay is committed to ensuring the responsible use of technology through behavioral modeling, reactive controls, monitoring, and corrective actions. His digital strategy focuses on enhancing customer experience, connected products, smart manufacturing, supply chain digitization, and unlocking operational efficiencies across various business functions including Commercial, R&D, Procurement, and HR.
Prior to joining Godrej Enterprises Group, Vijay has successfully led digital transformation initiatives at GE, Michelin, and UPL Ltd. An avid speaker at technology forums, he also leads frugal innovation projects in emerging technologies.
In his leisure time, Vijay enjoys running, reading books, traveling, and playing ping-pong
Vijay Gokhale, Former Foreign Secretary of India,
Vijay Kedia, Ace Investor,
Vijay Kedia is an Individual Investor in the stock market, having experience of more than three decades.
Many of his investments have appreciated 100 times in the last 15-20 years. One of his investments has given him 16400 times return.
He has been a keynote speaker in many business schools, including IIT Bombay, Royal Global University, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Amritsar, and London Business School. He has been a TEDx speaker twice.
In 2017, Kedia was conferred with a doctorate degree.
Recently, he was given an award for " ACE INVESTOR" by hon'ble ministers Shri Piyush Goyal ji and Shri Devendra Fadnavisji.
Vijay Kedia, Ace Investor,
Vijay Kedia is an Individual Investor in the stock market, having experience of more than three decades.
Many of his investments have appreciated 100 times in the last 15-20 years. One of his investments has given him 16400 times return.
He has been a keynote speaker in many business schools, including IIT Bombay, Royal Global University, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Amritsar, and London Business School. He has been a TEDx speaker twice.
In 2017, Kedia was conferred with a doctorate degree.
Recently, he was given an award for " ACE INVESTOR" by hon'ble ministers Shri Piyush Goyal ji and Shri Devendra Fadnavisji.
Vijaybahu Joshi, AVP - Head of Experience Design, Reliance Jio India
Viji Krishnamurthy, Ph.D, Vice President - Generative AI Solutions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Vikas Kumar, Managing Director, DMRC Ltd.
Mr. Vikas Kumar, graduated in Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now IIT) and did Masters in Opto-Electronics & Optical Communications from llT-Delhi.
He belongs to 1 988 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service. He has more than 31 years experience of all phases of Rail based Urban Transportation Projects including more than 17 years experience with Delhi Metro Rail Corp. Ltd., the largest MRTS system in India having 285 metro stations (389 KMS network; including Aqua line of NOIDAGreater NOIDA of NMRC and Rapid Metro section of HMRTC).
He has been a meritorious student at 11T Roorkee and 11T Delhi. He has also been in the Institute's Swimming and Badminton team. He has been a member of hobbies club, electronics section in 11T Roorkee. Projects undertaken were ECG Analyser in 11T Roorkee & transmission of video signal through optical fibre and video analytics at 11T Delhi.
He has lead the trekking team at LBS NAA Mussorie to the Roopkund Glacier and have attained 1 st position in Swimming competition & 2nd position in Badminton Championship of Central Railway Officers.
He had gone to Kailash Mansarovar Parikrma with Chinmay Mission group in Jul-201 7.
He has done extensive learning courses on Transportation and Sustainable Development organised by National & International organisations like IUT, World Bank, UIC France, KOTI Korea, etc. He has been awarded 1 st Prize in the assigned projects by International Union of Railways (for program SIAFl-2014) and Korea Transport Institute (for LUTP program under World Bank-GEF-UNDP Sustainable Urban Transport Project in 2012).
He is also the recipient of General Manager's award (twice in Indian Railways), Operations Shield & Commercial Shield (both in Indian Railways), Managing Director's award in DMRC (on a number of occasions).
He has been instrumental in organizing / accomplishing various unique tasks including that of Mela Officer during Maha-Kumbh held in Jan-Feb-2001 at Allahabad, organizing relief to the passengers of Karnataka Express which derailed in 1998, handled first ever llTF-2006 arrangements in newly opened Pragati Maidan metro station, taking over Airport Express Line and Rapid Metro, Gurugram in a smooth & hassle free manner without disruption in services, etc.
He has been involved in overall planning of various metro rail projects in India / Abroad, preparation of tender document and training of Officers & Staff. He was also instrumental in 1 st Driverless Train Operations which commenced on Magenta Line of DMRC network during Dec-2020. He has been Benchmarking Coordinator / Sr. Representative for Community of Metros (CoMET, Worldwide metro group) from DMRC's side and represents DMRC at the UITP.