Keynote Speakers:
Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Government of Maharashtra
Mr. Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis, the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra, is a rare brand of politician who is both, erudite and popular with the masses. He has played multiple leadership roles for both his political party as well as an elected representative of the people of Nagpur, Maharashtra. He has served as an elected member in the Municipal Corporation of Nagpur for two consecutive terms, in 1992 and 1997. He has the distinction of being the Second youngest Mayor in India and the youngest Mayor in Nagpur, when he served as the Mayor of Nagpur. He was also the only person to be re-elected and serve as the first 'Mayor in Council' of the State of Maharashtra. He has been elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra State, representing Nagpur, since 1999. Mr. Fadnavis is a seasoned public representative and has many awards to his credit including one from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association for the 'Best Parliamentarian Award'. He has been elected as a secretary of the Global Parliamentarian on habitat.
President, Product Development, Oracle Corporation
Thomas Kurian is president of Oracle Product Development and reports to Oracle executive chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison. He is responsible for leading Oracle's software development organization and transitioning the company's technology to Oracle Cloud and has been leading Oracle Server technologies and the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. Under his leadership, the latter business became the fastest-growing within Oracle and the industry's leading middleware product suite. Kurian has also led development for Oracle's family of cloud offerings, including software-as-a-service applications, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a consultant in London, Brussels, and San Francisco with international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the software, telecommunications, and financial services industries.
Kurian has a BS in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He also has an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Kurian serves as an advisory member on the boards of several international venture funds and software companies.
Advisor to Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh
J Satyanarayana (Retd. IAS) is currently serving Government of Andhra Pradesh as Advisor to Chief Minister. He has given new innovative concept 'e-Pragati', State-wide Enterprise Architecture.
He retired as Secretary to Govt. of India. Last as Secretary, DeitY, he was CIO of Govt. of India. He gave 'Meghraj, the Cloud Policy', 'Electronic System Design & Manufacturing Policy', and many other policy level initiatives. He has served in various positions in Govt. of AP. As first CEO, NISG, J Satyanarayana gave projects like e-Passport and MCA-21 to Country.
Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud GTM and Product Business Groups, Oracle Corporation
Shawn Price is senior vice president of cloud for Oracle and has global responsibility for Oracle's data as a service (DaaS), software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) businesses. Prior to joining Oracle, Price was president of global cloud at SAP, where he was responsible for global P&L across on-premises and cloud applications. During his tenure at SAP, Business Insider named Price one of the 39 most influential people in cloud computing.
As a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley, Price led three companies to successful IPOs; the largest of these had a market capitalization of $10B. During this time he relied on his experience as an entrepreneur to become a successful venture capitalist and investor. Price is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon Valley nonprofit organization for Canadian entrepreneurs. Price holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario.
Director - Technology Consulting, Deloitte India
Rakesh is a director with Deloitte's US-India (Offshore) Consulting offices and serves as the leader of "Technology Consulting" practice in US India. He has been with Deloitte for over Sixteen years and has served some of Deloitte's largest strategic clients in various capacities. He has worked with Deloitte US' Chicago office for several years before moving to Mumbai. An early adopter of offshoring, Rakesh was responsible for setting up and leading the first few Customer Relationship Management (CRM) projects involving Deloitte Consulting's offshore capabilities. He has over 20 years of IT and consulting experience, primarily in CRM and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He has a strong client service background with extensive experience in architecting, designing and implementing CRM engagements and setting up and successfully running large program centers and application support teams. He also has expertise in client-server based custom application design and development in LSHC, public sector and high-tech industries.
Rakesh also brings to the table deep technology and process expertise with Oracle(Siebel) packages and customer transformation initiatives and has significantly contributed to development of unique tools, accelerators, and methodology for delivering engagements.
Managing Director, Oracle India Private Limited
Shailender is responsible for Oracle's business growth in India, increase Oracle's market share across all product lines and solutions and drive Oracle's citizenship initiatives in the country. He also oversees new businesses such as the public sector unit, geo-expansion business unit, key accounts programs and the cloud business. Prior to his current role, Shailender served as Group Vice President, Key Accounts Program and led this business into one of Oracle India's most successful programs. Previously, he also served as Vice President for Oracle India's Middleware business. Before joining Oracle, Shailender was Managing Director at Quest Software and BEA Systems India Private Limited. In previous assignments, he has held senior positions at Microsoft India and IBM India. Mr. Kumar started his career with CMC Limited.
Cloud Summit Speakers:
Sales & Marketing Summit: |
Global Head, Oracle CX, Oracle Corporation USA
Joe Fuster is a proven leader in building and transforming cloud companies on a global basis. He is a sought after speaker at international events for his views on digital transformation, end-to-end cloud transformation, venture capital and the strategies for growth, mergers and acquisitions. He has 25+ years of experience include senior leadership roles at SAP, Salesforce and Siebel. Joe's intense focus on customer outcomes has brought him notoriety for key business transformations in financial services, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing and life science industries. As the leader of the Oracle CX Cloud go-to-market, Joe is responsible for driving the growth of Oracle Cloud's portfolio of integrated services across data, applications, platform, and infrastructure.
Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group
Blue Coat Systems
David Canellos has over 20 years of high-technology experience gained at early stage, venture-backed startups and medium & large sized corporate organizations. David is currently SVP of Advanced Technology Group for Blue Coat Systems. David joined Blue Coat through the acquisition of Perspecsys, where he held the role of President and CEO. Previously, David was SVP Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Irdeto, a division of Naspers. Prior to that, David was the President and COO of Cloakware, which was acquired by Irdeto. Before joining Cloakware, David was the General Manager and Vice President Sales for Cramer Systems (now Amdocs). Previous to his work with Cramer, David held a variety of executive, sales leadership and business development positions with the Oracle Corporation, Versatility and SAIC. David holds B.Sc. Biology and MA International Transactions degrees from George Mason University.
Senior Director, CX Sales Applications, Global Sales Support, Oracle Corporation
Neil has been a senior business manager in various industries for nearly 30 years. For much of that time Neil has worked in large global businesses, such as Hasbro, General Electric and Bio-Rad. Neil has helped develop strategies and solutions that take advantage of technologies to support and enable business processes and drive business value in Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and Bio-Tech. He is convinced that in order to succeed in business today, sales functions need to adapt to the new sales environment where customers are leading their purchasing cycle.
In his current role, Neil is helping Oracle customers see the value of CRM in their business with particular focus on Sales and CPQ where Oracle customers are seeing very impressive returns on their investment.
Senior Director, Customer Success
RVP Sales APAC, Oracle Marketing Cloud
Will joined Oracle in 2013, through the acquisition of Eloqua having re-located from the UK to Sydney Australia in 2012 to lead the growth of the region. Since joining Oracle, Will has established a presence for Oracle Marketing Cloud in new markets like India, ASEAN and China as well as overseeing the continued expansion and establishment of the Australian and NZ markets. Prior to this relocation, Will was responsible for Eloqua sales in the UK Enterprise market, and has held a number of sales leadership posts in leading marketing technology providers such as Email Vision, smartFOCUS, and RedEye.
Business Tech Partner – EPC Business & Digital Officer, KEC International Ltd., RPG Group
Sudip Mazumder is Business Tech Partner for Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) business and Corporate Functions, leading a transformational process digitization program at KEC International, global leader in Power Transmission Industry. He is a key member of Digital@RPG, a strategic initiative of the 4BN USD diversified RPG Group. He has 20+ years of industry experience in sectors like IT Services, Manufacturing, BFSI and Pharma. Sudip has been based out of UK about 10 years, managed business unit and function across Europe. He delivered multi-million Pound multi-technology programs across 30 countries in Europe. Sudip has vast experience in consulting and delivery of CRM, ERP, SCM and Analytics with mobility for large global clients before joining RPG Group. As per his current role Sudip is working with startups and entrepreneurial ventures with IPR based new age solutions and much talked about 'outcome based business model'.
APAC Principal Solution consultant, Oracle Marketing Cloud
Master Principal Consultant, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle India
Madhukar Uniyal is the lead consultant who works as a trusted technology advisor and evangelist for leading customers across India and South Asia regions. He has more than twelve years technology experience spanning digital marketing, cross channel campaign management, data management platforms, web personalization, content management tools, rules policy engine and web analytics.
As a specialist in digital marketing platforms, Madhukar works closely with Oracle Marketing Cloud customers to make their digital journey successful, he has helped leading organizations successfully setup their digital marketing platform to help them increase revenue, reduce operational costs and accelerate the adoption of digital channels.
A marketer at heart and technologist from mind, Madhukar intends to bring the MarTech combination to display to the Oracle Cloud World
Chief Corporate Strategy, Tata Steel
An officer of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS), Sarajit has worked with Tata Global Beverages, Alliance Coffee Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd, and Tata Tea Ltd in the last decade. Prior to joining Tata BSS, he was working as the Commercial Director of Tata Global Beverages, Moscow, where he managed and migrated existing portfolio of brands and entered new categories through innovation. He also led Mergers & Acquisitions for TGB in Russia & CIS countries. Earlier, at Tata Tea, he led the brand migration of Agni under the Tata Tea umbrella. Sarajit founded Alliance Coffee, a JV for Tata Coffee to ensure the even spread of brand penetration in Europe and Russia.
Sarajit is a regular speaker in many forums like CII, Nasscom etc, and is an active advocate of Impact Sourcing. He was recently featured in the Business Today 25 hottest executives under 40
Head of Digital Marketing at Jabong.com
Soumajit Bhowmik is currently the Head of Digital Marketing at Jabong.com, a leading fashion online portal in India and a part of GFG (Global Fashion Group)
Soumajit is an Alumni of IIT Kharagpur (major in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering). He went on to become a software developer at CenturyLink U.S.A & founded sCubes Inc, a software & product development organisation.
In his tenure spanning over 10 years, he has pursued entrepreneurial roles with AdWize, sCubes Inc & Rowdyauto.in in the fields of experiential online marketing, branding and creative communication.
A passionate digital marketer at heart, Soumajit intends to bridge the gap between branding and digital marketing in the Indian Digital Space.
Customer Service Summit: |
Senior Director - Cloud Applications Development - CX, Oracle JAPAC
YS is leading the growth of Oracle Service Cloud business in the Asia Pacific region. YS joint Oracle through the RightNow Technology acquisition, at which he spearheaded RightNow's sales growth in APAC for 8 years. YS has 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including leading the sales of IT Service Management solutions such as Remedy and HEAT, CRM and Sales Force Automation applications, and System Integration services.
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Reliance Commercial Finance
Mr. Shashi Kumar Ravulapaty has more than 26 years of experience within the financial services industry and he is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Reliance Commercial Finance and Reliance Home Finance, a position he held since 2007.
In his current role, he is responsible for the strategic application of technology to achieve greater operational efficiencies and productivity, leading to profitability of the organisation. He was responsible for many innovative initiatives in Reliance Commercial Finance (Reliance Capital) such as automation of loan processing and the award winning - Mobile Feet On Street (MFOS) to transform mobile phone into a Collections tool and recently for the "Best Innovator" by Cybermedia – CIOL for the Mobile Lead Management System. Prior to Reliance Commercial Finance, Mr. Shashi Ravulapaty also held senior positions at Laser Soft Infosystems, CIO at IndusInd Bank and State Bank Institute for Information & Communication Management.
Mr Shashi Ravulapaty graduated from the Osmania University with Master of Science (Statistics, Computer Science, PG in Applied Computer Science and received industry recognition such as CIO Creative 100 award, Special Security Award 2011 (by IDG), Technology Innovation 2011 Award, Intelligent Enterprise 2011, Silver Edge 2011 by Information Week, CIO Agile 100 award (by IDG, 2010), Best CTO (by Dun & Bradstreet, 2010), CIO 100 Ingenious award (by IDG, 2009) and NASSCOM IT user awards (by NASSCOM and CNBC, 2009) and the Virtual World Award 2010 for the "Mobile Feet On Street" product. The recent being the "Process Excellence Award" at Singapore by the Banking & Payments ASIA.
Vice President - IT & CX Initiatives,
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Sushil Mankar is the Vice President – IT for Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., India's largest integrated travel services company. He joined Thomas Cook in 2012 and is responsible for the roll out of the CX Application Pan India at Thomas Cook. His passion for customer experience is driving him to change various processes and implement new CX solutions to enable different businesses in the Company for smoother operations, digitisation and online customer acquisition.
Sushil has over 14 years of CX delivery experience in a variety of industry settings including experience of over 10 years with Big 4 consulting companies. Sushil has proven ability to be a strategic thought leader and innovator with a broad view of technology yet focused on specific deliverables as needed.
Director CX Strategist, Oracle Corporation
Nitin Badjatia heads up the Global go-to-market for Service Cloud and Field Service Cloud within Oracle's Cloud Business Group. An enterprise software veteran, Nitin has served in senior positions at RightNow Technologies, Knova Software, Siebel Systems, and Oracle. Prior to his current role, Nitin served as Oracle's KM strategist in North America. A frequent contributor to the Knowledge Management community, in 2012 Nitin was recognized as a Distinguished Innovator by the Consortium for Service Innovation
Senior Director, CX Sales Applications Group
Oracle India
In his current role, Caesar Peter focuses on CX Go-to-Market, Global Sales Support and Product Marketing of Oracle CX SaaS and Oracle PaaS Products and Solutions across the globe. He advises customers on how to provide better customer experience in their business. He has been with Oracle for more than 15 years working on various roles including CX Sales Consulting Manager and CRM Product Leader for India. Caesar has worked with customers ranging from variety of industries including – Retail Banking, Consumer Goods, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail and Life Sciences. Prior to Oracle, Caesar has worked with Ramco Systems and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Caesar holds Masters in Computer Applications and Bachelors in Mathematics from Bharathidasan University.
Sales Consulting Director, CX Solutions, Oracle India
Sanjiv is responsible for driving Oracle's leadership position for Cloud CX Applications in India. He is a Cloud evangelist with a passion for crafting innovative solutions with CRM/CX technologies to tackle business problems and achieve sustainable results. Sanjiv has been with Oracle and Siebel Systems for over 16 years. Prior to this, he worked for Plumtree, Fulcrum Technologies and TRIP Systems in the US. Sanjiv has 20 plus years of Solutions Consulting experience working in New York and India assisting companies such as Tata Motors, Daimler Chrysler Benz, Hyundai, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, MetLife, NY Life, Tata Sky etc., craft and develop their CRM initiatives. Sanjiv has extensive experience in the Financial Services, Manufacturing and automotive industry supporting and delivering strategy on cross segment customer needs and market opportunities.
Sanjiv received his Masters in Computer Science from Western Connecticut University in USA and his Bachelors in Applied Science - Information Science from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
General Manager & Global Practice Head, Oracle CRM/CX Practice, Wipro Ltd.
Siva has more than 15 years of experience in the CRM/CX area and has worked with clients across the globe in defining CRM/CX solution roadmap, Solution design, Project delivery and business development. Earlier, he was a Principal Architect where he formed and shaped Wipro's Center of Excellence for CRM and anchored the global cross pollination of best practices, dissemination of CRM knowledge and driving co-innovations with Oracle for multiple industries.
Siva has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prior to Wipro, he has worked with Hindustan Unilever and the General Electric Corporation in areas like Supply Chain management and IT application development.
Vice President, Product Marketing, CX, Oracle Corporation
Madhukar Kumar is a digital marketer by practice and has been running product management and product marketing teams in the Digital Marketing and Big Data arena. His areas of expertise include product vision, strategy and go to market for different marketing technologies including marketing automation, web content management, commerce, web optimization and digital assets management.
Head of IT, Myntra Online
Saurabh is currently the "Head of IT" for Myntra and in the past was "Apps Head" for FlipKart. A bay area expatriate, set up many R&D centers' in India/US and led Engineering, R&D, Analytics, Product Management, Sales, Marketing & Partnership initiatives for organizations. In his past, he has worked with organizations such as DRDO, CA, Oracle & J.P.Morgan Chase, across US, UK, Phillipines and India. A serial entrepreneur, founder of 3 companies, author of 2 books, owner of 3 patents and 4 research papers. Today he sits on the board of 3 funded start up's and is also mentor to Google Incubator, NASSCOM 10K Start Up's, British council & Govt of Andhra Pradesh start up incubators. He is an alumnus of BITS and IIM L.
Vice President, Digital Business and CRM
Aditya Birla Management Corp Pvt Ltd.
As Head Digital Business, CRM and Change Management, Priten drives strategy, planning, execution, and adoption of various initiatives in the Digital, E-commerce, Employee Collaboration and Customer Experience space in Aditya Birla Group.
With a career spanning 26 years across multiple countries and industries like IT, ITES and Consulting and start-ups, Priten has led large transformational assignments in Financial Institutions, Retail, Auto OEM's and Manufacturing companies.
In 2012, Priten was featured in the book "100 Leaders in action" by T.V.Rao as one of the outstanding and impact-making leaders for Excellence in external customer relationship and client management.
Priten holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Diploma in Philosophy and has done a certificate course in Venture Capital from Haas School of Business Berkeley.
CIO, SRL Diagnostic
OPA Principal Sales Consultant
Government Summit: |
Senior Vice President, Global Industry Solutions Group
Oracle Corporation
As Senior Vice President of the Global Industry Solutions Group, Laura Ipsen leads a team of industry and technology experts that build and enable multi-pillar solutions across Oracle's top growth industries. With over 25 years of experience as a Silicon Valley technology executive, Ipsen has worked intensively with the public and private sector to drive transformative change through what she calls doing "more with less" and "new with less" with partners and customers to inspire innovation globally. Prior to joining Oracle, Ipsen served as corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Public Sector organization, where she led a team of more than 1,900 sales and marketing professionals serving government, education, and non-privatized healthcare customers in more than 100 countries. Prior to Microsoft, Ipsen was senior vice president and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco, and prior to that, Ipsen established and managed Cisco's Global Policy and Government Affairs division.
Ipsen currently serves on the board of Monsanto and is the past chair of the board of the Information Technology Industry Council based in Washington, DC. She has also received numerous awards and recognition for her work in information and communications technology, sustainability and gender diversity including the "Women Making History" award from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.
Ipsen holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. She is also a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Chapter.
Director, Solutions Consulting, XLOB (Central Government & North State Government), Oracle India
CEO, Innovation Society, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Nikhil Agarwal is currently serving as CEO, Innovation Society, Government of Andhra Pradesh. The role of the innovation society is to kickstart the innovation agenda and promotes entrepreneurship in the sunrise state of India. Dr. Nikhil Agarwal is FOUNDER, Entrepreneurs Café. Entrepreneurs Cafe is a global movement where entrepreneurs meet to discuss ideas.
Dr. Nikhil Agarwal devotes part of his time as researcher at Institute of Study of Science, Technology & Innovation (ISSTI) at University of Edinburgh. Dr Agarwal has founded businesses and advised firms on strategic matters in last 19 years of his career. Dr Nikhil Agarwal is alumnus of University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh.
MCGM Commissioner
Principal Secretary, Urban Development, Government of Maharashtra
Managing Editor, The Financial Express
Founder & CEO, 3Di and Kahuna Systems
Dr. Rajiv Desai is founder and LA based CEO of 3Di and Kahuna Systems and has managed R&D projects. Prior to becoming a full time entrepreneur, Dr. Desai worked with a group of scientist and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who developed a series of micro rovers that led to Mars Pathfinder Mission in 1997. Dr. Desai has received several prestigious recognitions for his leadership in innovation and research including NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal, JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Dr. Desai holds a Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Master's in Computer Engineering and PhD. in Computer Science from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also holds a MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA.
Commissioner and Secretary Urban Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Mr. Aggarwal is an IAS officer of 1994 batch from MP, serving as Commissioner and Secretary Urban Development, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Aggarwal is leading the Smart City program for Government of MP. He has served and delivered in many leadership positions and is very supportive of Administrative Reforms within Government.
Commissioner, KDMC
HR Summit: |
Vice President Recruitment, Oracle Corporation, Europe, Middle East (EMEA) and APAC
Anne-Marie is responsible for the sourcing, selection and recruitment of circa 5000 employees across 80+ countries annually. In her twelve+ year tenure, Anne-Marie has introduced a direct sourcing model, which has seen the elimination of third party agency suppliers to Oracle and has resulted in saving millions of USD per annum for the corporation. Anne-Marie has over 20 years' experience working in the IT recruitment arena and joined Oracle in 2002 working in a number of roles including being responsible for recruitment in EMEA for the past 12 years. Most notably, Anne-Marie was recently asked to lead an aggressive accelerated hiring program, which saw Oracle APAC recruit more than double the normal number of hires resulting in the program becoming a global standard in Oracle. As a result she now leads recruitment for both EMEA and APAC
Recognised by social media guru Bill Boorman, as being one of EMEA's 'Super Recruiters', Anne-Marie has also been named as one of the Top 11 Most Influential Recruiters in 2013 by Recruiter Magazine in the UK.
Anne-Marie has a BA in Computer Science and Economics from University College Cork and a Post Grad in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts
CEO and Editor-in-Chief, People Matters
Ester is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief at People Matters – India's leading knowledge and media platform in the Human Resource space.
In 2009, upon noticing a serious lack of India-centric data on talent management, leadership and HR that holds critical insights for heads of HR and CEOs, Ester founded People Matters in the country's capital, New Delhi. Since its inception, People Matters has come a long way and has now become a brand synonymous with knowledge in HR.
Ester holds a Postgraduate degree in Human Resources Management from EADA (Spain) and a Master's Degree in Management from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. With more than 14 years of experience in human resources, Ester has a wealth of knowledge in all areas of Talent and Human Resources management. Until 2008, she worked as a professional manager with a host of Blue Chip companies such as Hewlett Packard and Tata Consultancy Services, both in India and the UK. Ester is an active member of various HR and Business forums in India and internationally.
HR Head, ICICI Bank
Mr. T.K. Srirang, Senior General Manager, heads Human Resources function for ICICI Bank Limited. He is also the Chairman of CII Western Region HR Sub-Committee & part of CII National HR Committee, member of Society of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, member of Governing Council of Indian Institute of Production Management and Board Member of National HRD Network.
In his 20 years of work experience at organisations like Coca-Cola India Limited, Ford India Limited, ICI India limited and ICICI Bank, Srirang has handled Industrial Relations, Mergers, Leadership Development, Performance Management and large scale recruitment and employee engagement processes. At ICICI Bank, he has successfully handled integration of Sangli Bank and Bank of Rajasthan through an approach based on sensitivity, mutual respect and openness. He has also been instrumental in establishing Branch Banking Academy and Sales Academy ensuring the supply of trained manpower for retail banking business of ICICI Bank. He has a keen interest in improving HR Service Delivery architecture through technology and self-service platforms. His current responsibilities include shaping HR policies and culture for the Bank and driving these policies and processes across various business groups.
Group Head – Human Resources, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
Makarand Khatavkar heads the HR function at Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited. Makarand possesses extensive experience in HR strategy, employee engagement, shared service management, learning and leadership development. With more than three decades of experience, he has managed HR functions in reputed Indian and Multinational banks.
Prior to joining Kotak, he worked as Managing Director & Head HR at Deutsche Bank, India, where he oversaw the function for Global Markets, Investment Banking, Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, Institutional Equities, Private Wealth Management, and Asset Management. He has also lead HR functions at DSP Merrill Lynch and JM Morgan Stanley. An Accredited Coach (ACC), Makarand is passionate about Executive Coaching. He has coached leaders at Director, Business Head & CXO levels across financial services, FMCG, Banking and Consulting sectors.
Makarand is an alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences with master's degree in HR. He has completed a certificate program in Appreciative Inquiry – a change management methodology from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.
Vice President Global Integration
Nagarro
Surya Vedula is responsible for the alignment of Nagarro's delivery centres across different geographies to provide our customers with the optimal and most beneficial service delivery models. Surya has over 18 years of experience in building and sustaining software products and services in the global delivery model. His prior roles include start-ups, product development as a Director at Oracle, project management at HP-EDS and Adobe, and consulting at State Street Bank. He holds a MS Degree from the University of Toledo, Ohio.
Vice President – Human Resources, UnitedLex India
Suruchi Maitra in her current role at UniteLex, is responsible for providing strategic HR leadership and leading the team in India in implementing best-in-class people practices and robust HR operations.
Prior to joining UnitedLex, Suruchi was working with Exclusively.In and Sher Singh, an eCommerce lifestyle brand. In her previous role as a core leadership team member, Suruchi has been actively involved in collaborating business strategies and organizational transformation along with the co-founders. Her HR responsibilities comprised of building HR systems and processes to create a vibrant, passionate and productive learning environment.
Suruchi is graduated in Philosophy from Miranda House (Delhi University) and completed her MBA in HR from Maharishi University of Management, Iowa. She also studied Strategic Human Resource Practices (e-course) from Cornell University.
Digital Head- Global HR, Schneider Electric
Beatrice Oger heads the shared Digital HR Transformation Division for World Wide Schneider Electric Offices relocating to Bangalore from France.
She is currently managing the Digital HR Transformation Project Roll Out for 150,000 Employee across Taleo and Fusion HCM Cloud Applications
Director - Human Resources, Vodafone Shared Services India
Ajay Bakshi has been instrumental in leading Vodafone Shared Services India, in the Top 15 Dream companies to work for in the Times of India Ascent Dream companies to work for Award. His job responsibilities are the Design and deployment of HR strategy across Vodafone Shared Services India, handling a diverse portfolio of Talent Acquisition, Leadership Hiring, Talent Development, Talent Engagement, Talent retention, Rewards & Recognition and HR Operations. He is also responsible for the design and deployment of people policies across VSSI for 10,000+ people across four locations (Pune/ Ahmedabad / Bangalore / Chennai).
Ajay has several awards for HR leadership including Business World, Economic Times and World HRD congress has been included as the 50 most inspiring HR leaders in India by Economic Times coffee book. In addition, he has been ranked as the Top 50 CHRO's in Asia by World HRD congress and Asia Pacific HRM.
Vice President – HR, Tata Communications
Anjali is a Global Talent Management & Development professional with about 26 years of experience across Hospitality, Service, and manufacturing and telecom industries. She has been working with Tata Communications for the last 12 years and is currently the Vice President HR, handling Talent Management, Learning & Development and Employee Engagement practices globally. In addition she also heads HR for India, APAC & MENA region. Prior to Tata Communications she has worked for companies like Jet Airways, LG Electronics & Zip Telecom. Her key focus is to facilitate the creation and deployment of effective people strategy in line with business needs, leadership strategy and employee aspirations using Technology.
Senior Director, HCM Transformation, Oracle India
is leading Human Capital Management and an expert Executive Coach in Asia and serves as Senior Director – HCM Strategy & Transformation at Oracle Corporation. Prior to joining Oracle Shakun has was the CEO of Right Management, India & Middle East. Over the last two decades he has been a consultant to many Fortune 500 Organizations on areas of Talent Management, Organization Design & Transformation, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development and Succession Planning.
Shakun carries rich experience of managing businesses for global organizations like Gallup Inc., IBM Smarter Workforce, The Tata Group, Manpower etc. in various leadership roles.
An inquisitive traveler and an avid reader, Shakun is greatly inspired by Dr. Stephen Covey and Donald O Clifton, which instills in him a great passion to transform organizations for betterment of their Human Capital.
Senior Director, Sales Consulting, Applications, Oracle India
Ameeta Roy leads the Sales Consulting teams for Oracle Applications in India as Senior Director. In over two decades in the industry , Ameeta has held several technical leadership positions spanning software development, delivery, enterprise architecture and remote infrastructure management. Ameeta has spent a significant part of her career helping clients plan and implement business- led IT transformation initiatives as well as derive value from the investments they made in their software portfolio. Her experience spans industries like Telco, Financial services, Public sector ( including defence) and Systems Integrators. Prior to Oracle, Ameeta has spent many years at IBM and Rational Software.
Ameeta is a free spirit , passionate about technology and has been part of several organizational growth initiatives including talent development, retention, inclusion and diversity initiatives.
Senior Director, HCM Strategy and Transformation, Oracle India
Pramod has spearheaded leadership interventions that have had demonstrable & direct results anchored to Business growth mandates & organizational effectiveness. His key accomplishments have been in the following domains - Change Management, Organization Design and Development, HCM strategy, Competency frame-work, Talent Assessment, HR technology & Transformation, Strategic Workforce planning & process re-engineering, Leadership development and Coaching interventions at CEO/CXO levels. Pramod has led many senior management teams on team-building, culture-mapping, visioning, conflict management, & negotiation skills His forte is thought leadership resulting in least invasive yet deep-dive transformation for individuals and the enterprises. He is also a frequent speaker, at various seminars and symposiums, debates & discussions at apex level in industry forums. Pramod is also a teaching faculty at leading B-schools and technology institutions. Pramod has coached approximately 25 CEOs and about 200 CXOs and has trained about 20, 000 executives.
Director, Human Capital and HR Transformation Leader
Deloitte Consulting
Dheeraj leads Deloitte's Human Capital capabilities and the HR transformation practice in India. Deloitte in India is a 1000+ people practice focusing on HR Transformation, Organization Transformation and Talent and Actuarial, Rewards and Analytics areas. In this role, he is responsible for leading our global delivery operations ranging from sales to delivery across the region.
DJ has 17 years of HR Transformation experience focusing on Oracle technology. His clients include large, global organizations leveraging Oracle as the technology to transform their HR function. DJ has led numerous successful implementations and is involved in some of Oracle's largest and most complex cloud projects globally. He is currently involved in helping a large retail organization implementing Oracle Cloud across the globe. He acts as an advisor on our large HR Transformation engagements and is also responsible for defining and executing our Cloud strategy for Oracle in the region.
Vice President & Group Head - HR, Polycab Wires Pvt. Ltd.
Anand is an HR Professional with over 2.5 decades of experience in the field of Human Resources and TQM. He believes in overcoming challenges through a tenacious and questioning approach - drawing on wide-ranging internal expertise. Also practices coaching skills. Key contributions include start-ups and being a part of the core team that successfully turned around 3 non-profit companies. He has driven cost reduction initiatives that have directly added to the bottom line of the company and restructured various businesses in line with the business needs. He has run several assessment centers for various organizations. His expertise's in the area of organizational behavior. Other note worthy contributions includes the CEO performance matrix which helps them improve their overall performance and establishing the Leadership model for various companies.
He has worked in various leading companies like Vedanta Resources, TVS Sundram Fasteners, Lucas TVS, Eicher Goodearth and RPG Telecom and IT. Presently he works with Polycab, India's leading Wires and Cables Company with a turnover of 5500 Cr. as their Group HR head.
Senior Vice President – Human Resources
Indira has 22 years of experience in Operations, Training and HR in diverse sectors like Hotels, Publishing and IT Enabled Services.
Indira joined Genpact in 2000 in the Insurance and Financial Services vertical and currently heads Talent Management, HR transformation & Shared Services. She is responsible for leadership talent review and deployment, organization design, performance management processes and the campus hiring strategy. In addition, she leads the HR transformation and technology agenda globally including the set up of HR Shared Services.
Prior to this, she was the HR leader for a large financial services business at Genpact. Indira has also done a stint as the HR Operations leader for Genpact where her key deliverables were standardizing and deploying Employee Retention practices
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Vice President, Product Management
Amit Chaudhry is the Vice President of Product Management for Oracle Cloud. Amit has the global responsibility for Go-to-Market and Business Development for Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings. Prior to his current role, Amit was Principal at Amazon Web Services, responsible for driving business through AWS partner ecosystem. Amit has more than 17 years of industry experience in technology sector with successful stints in product marketing, and sales functions at several organizations including Microsoft. Amit has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India and MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Manila Philippines.
Global COO -IT, Genpact
Sanjeev Prasad is the Global Chief Operating Officer for Genpact IT services. He is responsible for delivering end to end services across Enterprise Applications and IT Infrastructure where the key focus is on helping customers transform their business leveraging Cloud and Digital technologies. A respected industry veteran, Sanjeev brings more than 25 years of functional expertise in delivering complex projects across multiple verticals and possesses deep knowledge of diverse IT products and technology.
An entrepreneur for 10 years, Sanjeev ran a successful IT company, STG International, which went public in 2000. He has also worked for US Fortune 500 companies such as Nortel and Amdahl where he worked on innovating new digital products and solutions to drive transformational change. He holds a postgraduate degree in engineering from the University of Texas.
Sanjeev is a part of EMC, Avaya, Oracle and Gartner Advisory board. He is also part of the WSJ CIO forum. He has won numerous industry awards and is a speaker at various industry forums.
Vice President, Cloud Enterprise Architecture, Oracle India
In his current role, Sundar and his architecture team plays a major role in helping Oracle India's large & strategic customers embrace the Cloud. Additionally, Sundar also works with customers to help them identify and deliver on strategic initiatives encompassing Big Data and other national programs like the Government of India's 'Digital India' initiative.
Prior to this Sundar Ram was Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle Asia Pacific region. Sundar has been a key leader in Oracle, serving customers in India and Asia Pacific, for almost two decades.
Sundar joined Oracle in 1996, as a Consultant in the ERP Pre-Sales team. He has also been the CRM Pre-Sales manager and Technology Pre-Sales manager for India during his career at Oracle. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, Ram was a systems executive at Maruti Udyog Ltd. Sundar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from IIT Madras (India) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad (India).
Group Vice President & Chief Architect, Core Technology & Cloud, Oracle APAC
Chris is Group Vice President and Chief Architect, Core Technology & Cloud for Oracle Asia Pacific. He has more than 22 years experience in the information systems industry, of which 20 years is with Oracle Corporation across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Chris has held other roles within the company, where he focused on technology consulting and implementation services in large, global projects for Oracle across the telecommunications, financial services, and government sectors. In these roles, he has been instrumental in meeting the business needs of customers through innovative software solutions.
Chris holds a degree in Computer & Mathematical Sciences, with First Class Honours from the University of Western Australia. He has been published in a number of trade and industry journals and is the co-author of "Professional Oracle Programming", a Wiley publication. He is a featured speaker on Oracle's vision, strategy and architecture and consults on all critical and key customer projects throughout Oracle Asia Pacific.
Senior Director, Platform & Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions, Oracle APAC
Ashwani Chandhok, with his Eighteen years experience with Oracle, has served in various functions like support, partner development, business development, program management, sales consulting, enterprise architecture and executive management in India, ANZ, ASEAN and APAC regions. In his current role, he is leading a team of Asia Pacific regional leaders and subject matter experts of platform and infrastructure cloud solutions. His team is responsible for evangelizing, competency & community building, architecting and adoption of Oracle public platform (e.g. database, java, integration etc.) and infrastructure (e.g. compute, storage etc.) cloud solutions in Asia Pacific region.
Ashwani has been instrumental in helping APAC customers and System Integrator and ISV partners in architecting their solutions around sound architecture principals and proven software frameworks, ensuring that any investment in Oracle technology and services is optimally leveraged. Prior to joining Oracle India he was with Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Ltd. (Now Tata Motors) where he was developing custom ERP systems using Oracle Technology.
Ashwani holds bachelor or engineering degree from Mangalore University. Along with Oracle Enterprise Architect (OEA) accreditation, he is also Level 2 certified in TM Forum Frameworx, SID and eTOM.
Senior Director, Security GTM, Oracle APAC
Chris Pickett is a Senior Director responsible for Oracle's Data Security business within Oracle Asia Pacific. He has 23 years experience in the information systems industry, of which the last 10 years have been with Oracle Corporation focused on security at both a domain-specific level and security in the context of Enterprise Architecture. He currently manages Oracle's Data Security team within Asia-Pacific that has responsibility for customer engagements spanning pilot projects, POCs, etc.
Head of Mobility Center of Excellence, L&T Financial Services
Rudra carries over 22 years of rich industry experience in IT and Operations across multiple businesses. He has unique distinction of working in both side of business i.e. he has led the IT function of the business in leadership roles from the business side and at the same time has also played key roles in software development and implementation in Software Services companies. On the business side, he has served Stock Holding Corporations, Unit Trust of India, DBS Chola Mutual Fund and multiple entities at L&T Financial Services such as Investment Management, Capital Market and Infra Finance in important capacities. On the other side, has the experience of working as senior consultant and project manager with 3-I InfoTech and Oracle Software Solutions and Services companies. Currently Rudra, in addition to leading IT for three entities in the group running the Mobility Center of Excellence for the enterprise. He is responsible for formulating mobile strategy, developing and maintaining both business applications as well as customer facing applications across business units.
Associate Editor, IDG Media
Shantheri has rich editorial experience across IDG Media brands such as CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld and ChannelWorld. She has covered enterprise IT and markets across the ecosystem comprising OEMs, partners as well as the CIOs, and comes with a deep level of understanding and connects across these communities. More recently, Shantheri has also been a part of IDG's key branded events and has anchored and managed quite a few of these pieces, interfacing with CIOs as well as external neutral speakers, and the sponsors for each of these events. Shantheri has been in B2B journalism for over a decade, having briefly worked with other tech media houses, prior to joining IDG Media. She has also had a three year stint with Price WaterhouseCoopers.
Solution Head for TCS' Oracle Center of Excellence, Tata Consultancy Services
Soumya is the Solution Head for TCS' Oracle Center of Excellence and leads global, large, cross-disciplinary teams of technologists and business consultants through the development of comprehensive, new TCS Oracle solutions for Fortune 500 companies. His current focus is developing solutions in the space of 'Digital Five Forces', especially in the area of Mobility, Big Data, Analytics, IoT and Cloud in the Oracle Enterprise area.
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Vice President, Cloud ERP/SCM Applications, Oracle Corporation
Jasbir has 20 years of ENTERPRISE Business Applications experience in various industries. Prior to his current position, Jasbir worked at Microsoft as an Industry Director spending most of his time in Japan, driving key business solutions for Enterprise-level customers. He has also worked in Oracle since 1998 from consulting to sales in the business applications space, before joining Microsoft and now, back to Oracle.
Jasbir graduated with a Master's Degree in Information Technology from the University College London with Bachelors in Engineering, and can speak several languages such as English, Punjabi, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia and Malay.
Head – Business Enterprise Systems, Pearson India
In his role, Rajeev focuses on devising optimized, scalable and expandable solution to the best fit for Pearson business across ERP, Planning and other business strategic solution.
He is carrying more than 16 years of experience in Business Process Reengineering, Proficiency in developing program governance and managing the different stakeholders working on various technologies under one program. Proven experience in presenting single snapshot of various projects at program level
Director, Supply Chain Applications, Asia Pacific, Oracle APAC
Rathinakumar has been a passionate Supply Chain professional offering over 30 years of experience across Asia Pacific region with strong concentration and success in variety of roles - Business Development, Presales, Delivery consulting of Oracle Applications, Business Process Reengineering Consulting and Manufacturing Operations. Rathinakumar also worked with Caterpillar, USA and. He was driving major re-engineering and transformational projects related to Supply Chain. Rathinakumar joined Oracle as Manufacturing and Supply Chain consultant in 1999 and contributed to the success of Oracle Business for the past 16 years.
Rathinakumar holds a Honors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Anna University in India and MBA from Loyola Institute of Business Administration, India
Cloud Solutions Director, Oracle India
Rajesh is Cloud Solutions director responsible for helping customers plug revenue leakages, save costs, consume innovation using Oracle cloud solutions. Rajesh drives thought leadership and business development activities as well as solution development and enablement across the region. Rajesh has been with Oracle for 12 years in product development and sales with specialization in cloud solutions across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. His specialization is around ERP (finance, projects, procurement, Governance, Risk and Control (GRC)). He has been involved in E-business suite and Fusion Applications.
Rajesh is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from US and Associate Member of Cost and Management Accountant (ACMA) from India with a diploma in relational database management system (RDBMS). Rajesh has more than 21 years of experience in the areas of implementation, consulting, support, presales, accounting, costing and treasury.
Senior Manager, EPM Sales Consulting, Oracle India
Sachin Kataria has, over the past 15 years, led various projects in the area of Enterprise Performance Management (Hyperion) across industries and has demonstrated success in managing and delivering full project lifecycles. He possesses a deep understanding of how to utilize technology in order to deliver EPM solutions that provide key stakeholders with the means to measure and monitor the health of their function and the enterprise as a whole. Sachin joined Oracle as a Principal Sales Consultant in 2010 and has significantly contributed to the growth of the EPM business over the past 5 years. He now leads the EPM Sales Consulting team for Oracle India.