Archana Verma is a Visionary and transformative leader with over 28 years’ professional experience including over a decade of leading in executive leadership positions. Currently, she heads Technology Services for Asia Service Centre India and is a key part of Leadership Team at Sun Life ASC. The global capability centres in India and Philippines are a 3700+ enabling organization that provide business operations, technology and knowledge services support to Sun Life businesses globally.

Her key focus at Sun Life has been to aid in formulation and implementation of the Centre Strategy, grow the technology footprint across new and existing regions, enhance/mature the capabilities across digital technologies and ensure high quality delivery. She joined Sun Life from Accenture, and as Technology MD, led delivery of multiple client accounts. As the Technology Head of the Global in-house Centres at Aon; she established new business units and product teams, contributing to Y-o-Y growth. She streamlined programs, established emerging technologies capabilities and delivered cost efficiencies to drive value from the center.

Ashish is the CTO of Times Internet. With over 22 years of experience in the technology industry, Ashish is a seasoned professional with a strong background in product development and leadership. A graduate of IIT Kanpur, Ashish possesses a
unique blend of technical acumen and business savvy, which has been instrumental in the success of multiple early-stage startups as an early employee. Throughout his career, Ashish has played a leadership role in developing B2C and B2B SAAS products
in various domains such as Travel, Fintech, eCommerce and Healthcare. Ashish has proven leadership in building and sustaining high-performing teams, building scalable platforms, improving architecture and design and building solutions for complex engineering problems, as well as creating and implementing effective strategies for product development and growth. His ability to understand the needs of the market
and the end-users has resulted in the development of products that have been widely accepted and adopted by customers.
In his previous roles, Ashish has worked with Pinelabs, GlobalLogic, MakeMyTrip, and hCentive (US Healthcare).

Avelo Roy is a serial Tech Entrepreneur, Investor & TV Host, who started his first startup at the age of 19 around his patent pending technology while still studying as a computer engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He built it to a multi-million dollar valuation by the age of 22.

He has built 8 Businesses in the US & India with multi-million dollars worth of products and services ranging from consumer electronics, artificial Intelligence systems, healthcare process automation, food science, wireless communications, wearable technology and graphical password applications.

As the great great grandson of Sarojini Naidu (Poet, Politician and first female governor of India), Avelo continues the legacy forward by tirelessly serving the Indian youth through entrepreneurship education using lean startup methodology and principles of Bhagavad Gita. His efforts through Kolkata Ventures in the past 5 years have resulted in 500+ revenue generating startups responsible for around 4700 new jobs created in 10 states of East India.

Prof. Dr. Gielen has extensive experience with R&D in the telecommunication and software technology sector as well as in raising venture capital, university-industry collaborative research and spin-off creation.

Prof.Dr. Gielen started as a software architect with AT&T Bell Labs in the U.S.A. and was director of software technology at Alcatel. In 1998 he joined Tellium, a US based start-up company in optical network technology, as the VP of Software Engineering. In 2001, he returned to Europe as the CEO for Tellium EMEA.

From 2010 to 2015 he was the Director of the Incubation & Entrepreneurship at iMinds, the leading digital incubator and business accelerator in Flanders, Belgium. He then became head of the EIT Digital Professional School. In 2007, Prof. dr. Gielen became Education Director and Executive Board Member at EIT InnoEnergy. Currently he is also a professor of software technology entrepreneurship at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Dale Vaz is the CTO at Swiggy. His key responsibility is to drive the company’s technology strategy and lead the Engineering and AI teams in building Swiggy’s next generation AI-driven platform for hyperlocal discovery and on-demand delivery.

Prior to Swiggy, Dale spent over 11 years at Amazon.com. In his last stint there, he built and led engineering and AI teams for Amazon India, launching new products and platforms for Amazon IN Consumer business, Amazon IN Payments, Amazon Now and Junglee.com. As someone who thrives in high-performing engineering organizations, Dale is passionate about delivering innovation through technologies including machine learning, big data systems, highly scalable low-latency distributed systems and mobile. Apart from technology, Dale is also focused on transforming Swiggy into an AI-first, agile organization that can innovate at 10X scale.

Dale holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Manipal Institute of Technology.

As Senior Vice President of Retail Tech Platforms and Country Head, Walmart Global Tech, Hari oversees the building and deployment of scalable, leverageable capabilities and systems across the enterprise and externally. With a strong focus on scaling organizational efficiency by enhancing technology, Hari is spearheading teams of highly talented associates across the globe.

Under Hari’s leadership, associates are innovating to create a seamless, omnichannel shopping experience for Walmart’s customers. His hands-on approach and vision for the ‘Future of Retail’ has been instrumental in nurturing a high-performance team. He is also an advocate of a very diverse and inclusive workplace and has undertaken many initiatives to ensure our associates feel empowered to bring their whole, true selves to work every day. Along with Cheryl Ainoa, Hari is the executive co-sponsor for the Walmart Women in Technology charter.

Hari’s previous experience with Yahoo! and Flipkart is testimony to his ability to lead large technology organizations. He shaped the strategy for a supply chain ecosystem at scale during his tenure with Flipkart and built the technology stack for Ekart. At Yahoo! he played a key role in the substantial growth of the center whilst working on a range of end-to-end consumer and platform products.

On the personal front, Hari and his wife Lata are parents to twin girls. When he is not working, Hari loves to listen to all kinds of music from English rock to Indian classical, and Bollywood.

He has received three patents for - ‘Method & Apparatus for configuring a camera through external means’, ‘Intelligent camera flash system’ and ‘System method and apparatus for portable digital identity’.

Hari holds an M.S. (Computer Science) from Iowa State University and has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jyothirlatha is the Chief Technology Officer of Godrej Capital. She is a digital and technology strategist with deep expertise in building and implementing technology solutions.

She has 25+ years of experience in technology in strategizing and executing large digital transformation programs predominantly in Banking and Financial Services domain. Hailing from a software development background, she has a strong track record of building and nurturing stable systems spreading across Housing Finance, Retail Core banking, Lending, Payments, Digital Channels, Mutual funds, Depository Services and Wealth & Private banking domains.

Jyothirlatha has completed Master of Engineering from Mumbai University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

Prior to joining Godrej Capital, she was the Chief Technology Officer at DHFL. In the past, she also been with brands like Tata Consultancy Services, ICICI Bank, Vodafone etc.

During her tenure in TCS, she enabled several BFSI clients such as PNB, BOB, UBI, NSE, Stock Holding Corporation of India, Unit Trust Of India, to realise and enhance value through complex IT solutions.

Previously, as Technology Solutions Group Head in ICICI Bank, she enabled operational efficiency through technology enablement across the bank through multiple IT solutions. She headed internal engineering group for developing innovation initiatives, anchored organizational initiatives such as Robotics Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP etc. She was responsible for complete reengineering of business process management system for core banking, trade finance, corporate banking, payments and loan management products.

In her previous organisations, as a technology head of Vodafone M-pesa and Dewan Housing, she was responsible for payments bank setup and digital transformation along with ensuring scalable infrastructure and enterprise cyber security posture.

With over two decades of rich experience, has been conferred with several prestigious awards for her contributions in the field of technology and innovation

Dr. Kailash Nadh has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence & Computational Linguistics from the Middlesex university. He has been the CTO at Zerodha since 2013, where he co-founded its tech arm. Zerodha is now the largest stock broker, and one of the largest fintech companies, in India.

He has been a hobbyist software developer for close to two decades and writes codes every day, building technology at Zerodha, and building and contributing to open source projects. He co-founded and volunteers at the FOSS United Foundation, a non-profit that promotes the open source software ecosystem in India, and Rainmatter, an initiative that works on climate change projects.

Dr. Lalit Singh is a senior executive with twenty years of experience in healthcare and education industries across multiple functional areas, including healthcare delivery, business strategy, product development, business management and general management.

Lalit is currently the Managing Director for McGraw Hill India, where he is leading the commercial turnaround and digital transformation agenda for McGraw Hill. Prior to his current stint at McGraw Hill, Lalit spent close to ten years at Elsevier, where he held multiple roles in content strategy, product development research, medical education and clinical solutions businesses, and before that he worked at AIIMS New Delhi as a clinician.

Lalit is passionate about application of technology in healthcare and education. He strongly believes that technology is the means and not the outcome; technology has to be intelligent and not indulgent - ultimately here to solve on-ground real time problems in both these critical sectors. His passion along with an innate ability to challenge the status quo drove him to change his career track from an accomplished clinician to a technocrat and eventually a management professional.

A medical doctor with specialization in General Surgery from JN Medical College, Aligarh, Lalit also holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore. Lalit loves travelling and meeting new people and also enjoys reading on a variety of subjects in his free time

Shailendra Katyal is the Managing Director, Lenovo India. Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker and an emerging PC+ leader. He is responsible for leading the growth strategy to further strengthen Lenovo’s business.

Shailendra is a veteran and comes with over two decades of experience in building consumer-focused businesses in India and South Asia, across mass-market traditional FMCG businesses as well as new-age businesses in consumer technology and E-commerce. In his previous innings at Lenovo, he started as CMO for the India region, launched the Tablet business, led the P&L for the Home & Small Business portfolio and headed the Strategy office and E-commerce business.

Before Lenovo, his previous stints were with Wipro & Marico where he was responsible for leading New Business initiatives, organic and inorganic, which entailed leading the M&A office, incubating the E-commerce business, and leading the Innovation pipeline for new category launches.

Shailendra holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from Delhi University with a post-graduation in management from IIM – Calcutta. He is based out of Bangalore.

With 2 decades of experience enabling e-commerce, Vidmay is currently responsible for leading eBay’s business across South East Asia and India region

He has led multiple businesses within eBay spanning Ecommerce, Strategy, P&L General Management, Cross Border Trade, Policy Advisory, Online Payments and Strategic Investment & Partnerships.