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

Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd
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 Krishna Chaitanya
Partner - Risk Consulting Services
EY (Ernst & Young LLP)

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

Dr Ajay Nair
 CEO, Swasth

Dr Kaushik Murali
President, Sankara Eye Hospital

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
2. Future of Automotive & Mobility

Mr Kamal Bali
President & Managing Director
Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd

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

Ms Sripriya Gangadhara Nellore
Product Owner Connectivity Platform
Ather Energy

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 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 Ari Sarker,
Co-President, Asia Pacific, Mastercard

Mr Harshvardhan Lunia
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 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
2. Futue of Communication

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

Mr Kiran Karnik

Mr Sarav Radhakrishnan
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

Mr Pravin Hungund
Chief Technologist & Global Head Technovation Centre, Wipro Ltd

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

Ms Jyothi Pradhan
Vice Chairperson, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO, Kurlon Enterprise Ltd

Mr Alok Nanda
CEO, GE India Technology Centre & CTO, GE South Asia

Mr Matt Guyette
Director Business Research
Strategy GE Research

Mr Kirit Bramhbhatt
CEO, Reliance Energy

Mr Rajesh Ramachandran
Chief Digital Officer - Industrial Automation | Global Head of Digital & Product Management, ABB India

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

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 T Seshu Kumar
National Head - Buying and Merchandising
Big Basket

Mr Ashish Jhina
Co-Founder, Jumbotail
3. Future of Manufacturing
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

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

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 Brijesh Dutta
EVP & CISO, Reliance Jio

Mr Ganapathy Venugopal
Co- Founder & CEO, Axilor Ventures

Ms Poyni Bhat
CEO, Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay