Key Speakers invited and confirmed for the 17th India Innovation Summit
Day 1
Shri Basavaraj Bommai *
Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Karnataka
Dr C N Ashwath Narayan*
Hon’ble Minister for IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka
Dr E V Ramana Reddy, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Commerce & Industries, IT, BT and S&T Government of Karnataka
Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan
Chairman, CII India Innovation Summit and Co-Founder, Infosys Limited & Chairman, Axilor Ventures
Mr C K Ranganathan
Chairman, CII Southern Region & Chairman & Managing Director, CavinKare Ltd
Dr Omkar Rai
 Director General, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)
Mr Ramesh Ramadurai
 Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & Managing Director, 3M India Limited
Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd
Mr Friedrich Birgelen
Deputy Consul General for Germany in Bangalore
Mr Jonathan Zadka
Consul General of Israel to South India
Mr Sam Freeman
Trade Commissioner, Australia Consulate in India
Mr KT Rajan
Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) & Cluster Head - Technology & Innovation for India & South Asia, UK
Dr Jacob Orberg
 Innovation Attache, Consulate General of Denmark
Dr Ezhil Subbian
CEO, String Bio Pvt Ltd
Dr Taslimarif Saiyed
CEO & Director
C-CAMP
Mr Deepak Padaki
EVP, Chief Strategy & Risk Officer
Infosys Ltd
Dr Sanjay Singh
mRNA Vaccines
Dr Santanu Dasgupta
Reliance
Dr Jogin Desai
Founder and CEO, Eyestem
Dr Syed Shams Yazdani
Group Leader of the Microbial Engineering group
Day 2 :Â Parallel Sessions
1. Future of Healthcare
Ms Shobana Kamineni
Executive Vice Chairperson
Apollo Hospitals
Dr. Naresh Trehan
CII National Healthcare
Committee Chairman
Mr Ajay Nanavati
Chairman, Quantum Advisors &
Former Chairman, Syndicate Bank
Dr Alexander Thomas
President, Association of
Healthcare Providers India (AHPI)
Mr Amit Mohan
Chief Operating Officer
GE Healthcare India and South Asia Region
Mr Krishna Chaitanya
Partner - Risk Consulting Services
EY (Ernst & Young LLP)
Mr Sasikanth Dola
Partner, Mckinsey
Ms Lucy Setian
Director of Digital Transformation
Novartis Foundation
Mr Tim Williams
Co-Founder & CEO,
My Clinical Outcomes, United Kingdom
Dr Nandakumar Jairam
Advisor - Manipal Group
Dr Venkataraman Sundareswaran
MCHC Fellow, AI & ML
World Economic Forum
Dr. Keren Priyadarshini
WW Healthcare Industry
Lead Microsoft
Mr Sidharth Shah
Co-Founder and CEO Pharmeasy
Ms Jyoti Gera
General Manager
Primary and Affordable Care, GEHC
Dr Ajay Nair
 CEO, Swasth
Dr Kaushik Murali
President, Sankara Eye Hospital
Dr. Radha Rangarajan Head
OJAS MedTech
Dr Charit Bhograj
Founder & CEO, Tricog
Mr Daryl Arnold
CEO, Connected Life
Ms Jo Agarwal
Co-Founder, Wysa
Mr Neelish Reddy
Chair Yi Bengaluru & Product Development Operation Lead, Cisco India
Dr Sai Praveen Haranath
MBBS, MPH, FCCP
Senior Consultant Pulmonologist & Critical Care Specialist & Medical Director, Apollo eACCESS TeleICU Service, Apollo Hospitals
Mr Suthirth Vaidya
 Co-Founder & CEO, Pedible Health
Mr Ajit Patil
Co-Founder & CEO,
Deeptek
2. Future of Automotive & Mobility
Mr Soumitra Bhattacharya
President, Bosch Group in India and Managing Director at Bosch Ltd.
Mr Kamal Bali
President & Managing Director
Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd
Mr Ramesh Ramadurai
Managing Director, 3M India Ltd Â
Mr Shekar Viswanathan
 Past Chairman, CII Karnataka & Former Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor
Mr Aman Choudhari
Past Chairman, CII Karnataka &
Managing Director, Surin Automotive
Mr Dattatri Salagame
CEO, President, Managing Director
at Robert Bosch Engineering
And Business Solutions
Mr Akilur Rahman
CTO Hitachi ABB Power Grids
Mr Guruprasad Mudlapur
MD, Bosch Automotive Electronics
India Pvt Ltd
Ms Sripriya Gangadhara Nellore
Product Owner Connectivity Platform
Ather Energy
Mr Arvind Goel
MD & CEO
Tata AutoComp
Dr Akshai Kumar Alape Seetharam
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Centre for Nanotechnology
IIT Guwahati
Mr Shivanshu Gupta
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company India
Ms Veena YV
Marketing and Business Strategy, Bosch Powertrain SolutionsÂ
Mr B Indushekar
Head Strategy Volvo Group India
Mr Marco Zehe
Head of Strategy and
Transformation Bosch Business Sector Mobility
Mr Anshuman Awasthi
Vice President & Head of Innovation
Mercedes – Benz Research & Development India
Mr Prashanth A
Head – Mobility Solutions
Bosch Ltd
Mr Chetan Maini
Co-Founder, Sun Mobility
Mr Sandeep Maini
Chairman, Maini Group
Ms Vasudha Madhavan
Founder, Ostara Advisors
Mr Manikandan
Founder Director, Spero Mobility & Energy Solutions Pvt LtdÂ
3. Future of Financial Services
Mr Sanjiv Bajaj
President Designate CII & CMD
Bajaj Finserv Ltd
Ms Zarin Daruwala
Cluster CEO
Standard Chartered Bank
Ms Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO, Salesforce, India
Mr Rajeev Sabharwal
MD & CEO, Tata Capital
Mr Ajay Nanavati
Chairman, Quantum Advisors &
Former Chairman, Syndicate Bank
Mr Ari Sarker,
Co-President, Asia Pacific, Mastercard
Mr Alok Mittal
Co-Founder and CEO, Indifi
Mr Amrish Rau
CEO, PineLabs
Mr Bhargav Dasgupta
MD & CEO
ICICI Lombard
Mr Y S Chakravartis
MD & CEO, Shriram City Union Finance Ltd
Mr Deniz Guven
CEO Mox Bank
(The HK based digital only Bank)
Mr Nithin Kamath
CEO, Zerodha
Ms Praveen Rai
COO, NPCI
Mr Rajeev Nair
Managing Director,
Lead - Industry Network
Accenture Advanced Technology Centres
Mr Sanjay Gurjar
MD & Regional Head, Banks & Broker Dealers, Asean & South Asia
Mr Harshvardhan Lunia
Mr Vijaya Kumar
CEO and Principal Officer
Digit Insurance
Mr Sameer Nigam
CEO, PhonePe
Mr Kusal Roy
CPBB Head
Standard Chartered Bank, India
Mr Tarun Chugh
Managing Director & CEO
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Day 3 : Parallel Sessions
1. Futue of Retail
Mr Arvind Mediratta
Managing Director & CEO METRO Cash & Carry India
Ms Gunjan Krishna, IAS*
Commissioner for Industrial Development & Director of Industries and Commerce Government of Karnataka
Mr Laeeq Ali
Convener, CII Startup Panel &
Co-Founder & Director,Origami Creatives
Mr Ambeshwar Nath
Senior Vice President( Retail EMEA), Infosys
Mr Eric Heens
Director Operations, Metro Cash & Carry India
Mr BS Nagesh
TRRAIN
Mr Jeyandran Venugopal
CTO, Flipkart
Mr Kabeer Biswas
Founder – Dunzo  Â
Mr Timo Salzsieder
CIO/CSO, Metro AG
Mr Vipual Sharma
Founder, Chqbook
Mr Alok Sharma
Executive Director, Supply Chain, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB)
Mr Vinod Mathur
Vice President Product Management, Blue Yonder India
Mr Sujeet Kumar
Co- Founder, Udaan
Mr Raghav Rao
CFO, Amazon
Mr Devendra Chawla
Managing Director and CEO -
Spencer’s Retail Limited and
Nature’s Basket Ltd
Ms Kavitha Rao
IKEA India
Mr Sudanva
Big Basket
Mr Sangeetha M
Past Chair CII Yi Bengaluru & CEO Foregreen Foods
Mr Srinivasan R
Professor of Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
Mr Abhishek Ganguly
Managing Director, PumaÂ
Mr Rajat Wahi
Partner, Deloitte Consulting, India
Mr Vipul Mathur
Head – Exclusive Lines, Lifestyle Business
2. Futue of Communication
Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan
Chairman, CII India Innovation Summit and Co-Founder, Infosys Limited & Chairman, Axilor Ventures
Mr Dave West
President, Cisco APJC
Cisco India & SAARC
Mr Ramesh Ramadurai
Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & Managing Director, 3M India Limited
Prof K VijayRaghavan
Manish Tiwari
Sr VP & Global CISO, Bharti Airtel
Mr Vivek Aggarwal, IAS
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture
Government of India
Dr Neeraj Mittal, IAS
Principal Secretary
Dept of Information Technology
Govt of Tamil Nadu
Ms Meena Nagaraj C N, IAS
Director, KBIT,
Government of Karnataka
Mr Deepak Padaki
Mr Arun Kumar Melkot
VP & Head of Application Business, North America, Wipro Ltd
Mr Arvi Krishnaswamy
Director, Product and Strategy, Experience Management, Cisco
Mr Byas Nambisan
CEO
Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Ms Daisy Chittilapilly
Vice President
Cisco India & SAARC
Mr Hemal Shah
APJ-CIO and SVP, Dell
Mr Ravi Mehta
Ms Rama Vedashree
President, DSCI
Mr Rajesh Sundaresan
Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE), IISc
Mr Suhas Mansingh
Ms Anupam Trehan
Sr Director, People & Communities
Cisco Systems
Mr Kiran Karnik
Mr G Shankara
 Vice President – HR,
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd
Mr Sarav Radhakrishnan
Mr Sidharth Menda
Founder & Vice Chairman, CoWrks
Mr Sanjay Kaul
President APJC, SP Business
Cisco
Mr Harish Krishnan
MD and Chief Policy Officer
Cisco
Mr R S Mani
DDG, NIC
3. Future of Transportation
Mr Amitabh Kant
CEO, NITI AayogÂ
Mr R Dinesh
Joint Managing Director
TVS Logistics
Mr Kamal Bali
Past Chairman, CII Karnataka & President & Managing Director, Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd
Dr N Muthukumar
President & Executive Director
Meritor HVS (India) Ltd
Mr Sandeep Singh
Managing Director, Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Pvt Ltd
Dr Taslimarif Saiyed
CEO & Director
C-CAMP
Mr Pravin Hungund
Chief Technologist & Global Head Technovation Centre, Wipro Ltd
Ms Vinutha Narayanmurthy
CTO, Wipro
Mr Lars Stenquist
Executive Vice-President & CTO, Volvo Group HQ
Mr C R Vishwanath
Engineering Leader,
Product Development & Transformation Leader, Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd
Dr Sudeendra Koushik
Innovation Director & Head of CampX Volvo Group
Ms Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory Media
Mr Murali Arikara
CTO, Racanaa Energy
Mr Jonas Y Nilsson
VP, Volvo Trucks India
Ms Helene Niklasson
Head of CampX, Volvo Group
Mr Ravikiran Annaswamy
 CEO, Numocity
Day 4 : Parallel Sessions
1. Future of Sustainability & Energy
Prof Sandeep Verma
Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board
Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd
Mr Anirban Ghosh
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group
Mr Alok Nanda
CEO, GE India Technology Centre & CTO, GE South Asia
Mr Deepesh Nanda
CEO, GE Gas Power South Asia
Mr Matt Guyette
Director Business Research
Strategy GE Research
Mr Kirit Bramhbhatt
CEO, Reliance Energy
Mr Wim Van Gerven
Director & VP Operations, Arcelor Mittal
Mr Deepak Maloo
Regional Sales Leader - Onshore Wind International – APAC, GE
Renewable Energy
Mr Rajesh Ramachandran
Chief Digital Officer - Industrial Automation | Global Head of Digital & Product Management, ABB India
Mr Bose Varghese
Head of Green Initiatives in Infosys
Mr SGK Kishore
ED-South and Chief Innovation Officer – GMR Airports
Mr C S Divakar
Head – EHS – India Region, Grindwell Norton Ltd, Saint Gobain
Ms Shilpa Gupta
India Engineering Leader
GE Gas Power
Mr Vikram Rai
Country Head, GE Aviation South Asia & Indonesia
Mr Prashant Jain
CEO
JSW Energy
Mr Derek M Shah
Executive Vice President
Larsen and Toubro Ltd Power IC
Mr Sisira Dash
Senior Vice President, Engineering & maintenance VISTARA - TATA SIA
Dr Ashish lele
Director
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory
Mr Vinod Hejmadi
Director Finance
Air India
2. Future of Food
Mr Piruz Khambatta
CMD, Rasna Pvt Ltd
Mr P Ravichandran
President, Danfoss
Dr Chindi Vasudevappa
VC, NIFTEM
Dr C. Anandharamakrishan
Director, IIFPT
Ms Sushma Vasudevan
Managing Director and Partner
BCG
Mr Ramesh Ramadurai
Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & Managing Director, 3M India Limited
Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd
Mr Yatindra Sharma
Managing Director
KHS Machinery Pvt Ltd
Mr Sanjay Sharma
CEO, MTR foods Pvt Ltd
Mr Pratik Pota
Chief Executive Officer & Whole Time Director, Jubilant Food Works Ltd
Mr James Joseph
Managing Director, Jackfruit 365
Mr Varun Deshpande
Managing Director
Good Food Institute
Mr Anuj Rastugi
COO, Chocolate, Confectionery Coffee, & New Businesses, ITC Ltd
Ms Sujatha Jayaraman
VP, R&D, Unilever Beverages
Mr Tanutejas Saraswat
CEO and Founder, Shop Kirana
Mr T Seshu Kumar
National Head - Buying and Merchandising
Big Basket
Mr Ashish Jhina
Co-Founder, Jumbotail
3. Future of Manufacturing
Mr L Krishnan
Managing Director
Taegutec India Private Ltd
Dr Alexander Liu
Head of Additive Manufacturing Programs, Asia Region - ASTM International
Mr Maniraj Perumal
DGM-Prototype Development
Hero MotoCorp
Dr. U. Chandrasekhar
Program Director AddWize
Wipro 3D
Mr Sarajit Jha
Chief Business Transformation &
Digital Solutions Tata Steel
Mr Naveen Unni
Partner, McKinsey
Mr Maltesh Somasekharappa
CEO & Co-Founder
Supercraft 3D
Dr. Vishwas Ramadas Puttige
Business Head, amace solutions
Day 5
Shri Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani *
Hon’ble Minister for Large &
Medium Industries Government of Karnataka
Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan
Chairman, CII India Innovation Summit and Co-Founder, Infosys Limited & Chairman, Axilor Ventures
Mr Ramesh Ramadurai
 Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & Managing Director, 3M India Limited
Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd
Mr L Krishnan
Past Chairman, CII Karnataka & Managing Director
Taegutec India Private Ltd
Dr Gopichand Katragadda
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Myelin Foundry
Mr Avnish Sabharwal
Managing Director, Accenture Ventures & Open Innovation
Dr Rishikesha Krishnan
 Director, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Mr Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi
Co-Founder & CTO
Crayon Data Pte
Mr Ravi Arora
Chief Innovation Officer, TATA Sons
Mr Brijesh Dutta
EVP & CISO, Reliance Jio
Mr Ashwin Raghuraman
Bharat Innovation Fund
Mr Ganapathy Venugopal
Co- Founder & CEO, Axilor Ventures
Mr Naganand Doraswamy
Managing Partner & Founder, Ideaspring Capital
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
IIIT Hyderabad
Ms Poyni Bhat
CEO, Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay
Dr Aloknath De
CTO, Samsung R&D
Mr Vishal Salvi
CISO, Infosys Ltd
Ms Mili Srivastava
Partner, Procure, Invest in potential start ups, DIAGEO India Ventures
Mr Abhishek Malhotra
Managing Partner, TMT law Practice
Mr Krishnan Balasubramaniam
Professor, IIT Madras
Ms Richa Natarajan
Partner - UC Growth Equity, Unitus Capital