Kapil is currently serving as the Group CIO and Digital Transformation leader for Safexpress. He is known for sharp technical and business acumen with expertise in building and executing strategic visions and technology roadmaps that work in alignment with business goals. He has extensive experience in unifying and leading engineering, product development, and commercial (sales, marketing, channel) organizations, devising and executing company-wide and go-to-market strategies, envisioning and delivering digital products and transforming enterprise IT. Apart from being a sought-after speaker on digital innovation, he is a regular to round table, panel discussions in India and abroad and has authored numerous technology articles. In his years in IT, he has managed Global Platinum programs in multiple industries including Group Insurance, Pharmaceutical, T&T, Finance/Banking domains for fortune 500 companies like Prudential GI, Shell, Airbus, American Express, EE, Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), Pfizer etc.

He is a curious, incisive & visionary senior technology professional with 20+ years of insightful experience in IT Infrastructure design, implementation and operations with strong service management, leadership and digital transformation skills.

Strong focus towards Digital Transformation and UX by utilizing emerging technologies weaved together to create desired business outcomes (5G, IoT, Quantum Computing, Data Analytics, Blockchain, digital marketing and social media, multi-cloud hyper-converged software defined architectures, deep learning and AI accelerators and automation).

Highly passionate towards cyber security and privacy and capable to design competent & secure architectures

¡ Process oriented professional with prolific experience of over 25+ Years in:

Business strategy • Sales strategy and brand promotions •Investor Pitch • Investor Term Sheet • Cash flow management • Customer acquisition & Management • Startup scaling • Time & Resource Management • Recruitment & Efficiency Improvement • Work Allocation & Prioritisation • Quality Assurance & Improvement • Learning & Development • Performance Management •P& L Management • Team Management

* Entrepreneur I Business Coach I Mentor I Life coach I Public speaker I Start-up and incubation Mentor

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Technology and services for customers across 20+ countries.

* Ashish is startup & Incubation Mentor at 91 Springboard and many other communities to mentor many startups from idea to reality and growth stage in various industries and technology like IOT, digital transformation, Media, e-commerce, B2B to B2C and more. I have huge network of startups, professionals, investors from almost all verticals.Ashish also on the Advisory board of various startups in India and abroad

* huge experience working with individuals and teams (students, executives, or entrepreneurs) to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and act as a future leader. He helped them Solve specific situation in life, business and achieve specific results.

* I have been involved with people to build a career path and working towards empowering people to enhance their skills and fulfil their dreams. Being an experienced industry business leader and mentor, he has recently launched Next Gen Mentorship platform (MentorKart) for various target mentee groups e.g. Students, Working professionals, leaders /entrepreneurs & Startups. This platform is launched and recognized by Startup India scheme under Govt. of India. Vision of this initiative is to provide everyone an ideal mentorship.

* Mentorkart was founded by Ashish and his team with mission to provide access to mentors for everyone on a digital platform with easy availability, where experts from various industries can be your mentor and get direct assistance from leading professionals across the globe. Overcome challenges to achieve your personal & professional goals, learn a new job-oriented skill and be successful. From one-on-one (1:1) interaction to Group sessions, MentorKart brings your number of opportunities to develop your key skills and helps you increase your employability, you can stay connected with your personal mentor to Create, track, review and achieve your personal & professional goals from anywhere! anytime! Mentees can Learn from best of industry veterans, Attend Webinars and Mentoring Sessions by Educational gurus, entrepreneurs to handhold you along your journey & so much more!

Professional experience:

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, Ashish led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Information Technology for customers across 20+ countries.

* During his tenures at PC Solutions an IT consulting company having its business in many countries and strong consulting partners of companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Citrix etc, Ashish has grown from engineer

to Vice president and successfully created multiple business units within the company. He has built new business and led large team of IT professionals working in various industry verticals.

* After successful career as IT Professional for around 20+ years Ashish has decided to step into the journey of entrepreneur and founded IOT World Labs Inc knows as D4DT HQ based out of Seattle USA, D4DT developed and launched digital transformation platform for global market and acquired customers in multiple countries. D4DT runs on futuristic technologies like IOT, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, big data. This global Startup is growing fast in a very short span of time of 3 years.

* During his entire professional career his colleagues applauded his strategic ability to plan and execute organisations vision, energetic leadership and strong team building capabilities. Ashish used a distinct leadership practice of ‘leading through mentoring and coaching’.

* Technology Leader with end to end experience of building and managing innovative products & Professional services business; acquired various technical skills on the technology area e.g. IOT, Big data , Digital transformation , Cloud, System Management, Identity Management, Information Security, Business Solutions and Financial Management

* High-Performance Executive with expertise in business performance measurement & management framework, metrics and processes; undertook various process improvement initiatives to achieve maximum efficiency in various operations within organisations, Sales, Marketing, HR, and other Support functions

* Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills; proven ability to juggle multiple priorities and achieve results; hardworking and goal oriented with a high degree of flexibility; energetic and self-motivated with willingness to learn, openness to change and thrive on challenges

Significant Achievements

* awarded with highly prestigious award of the organization “Leadership award for outstanding contribution to the organization “in previous organization

* Achieved average growth of 40% Year over Year for more 10 years

* Expanded team from 0 to 1000+ People

* Travelled across 20+ countries for business and gained extensive experience of working with customers across the globe in different industry verticals

* Successfully increased geography Presence of business across globe

* Instigated paper less operations, starting from all processes like HR, Project management, Time sheet Management, KRA’s, Customer satisfaction, Profit and Loss dashboards, and various other support functions within organisation

* Accredited with “Celebrating leadership award “on 25th Year celebration of the organization

Mr Nirvan Biswas is an IT leader with over 20 years of rich experience across a diverse set of companies.

As the Chief Technology Officer of NBHC, Mr Biswas is involved in strategic planning and implementation of technologies that will enhance the operational efficiency of NBHC’s highly distributed operations and allow greater measurement and mitigation of risks.

Mr. Biswas was awarded the Newcomer CTO Award at the CIO Strategies Indian Awards 2008 by Time Magazine for SOA Implementation and the 2nd Runner up CTO Awards 2004 by Indian Express Group for the First Implementation of Cluster Framework in a VPN environment.

Prior to NBHC, Mr Biswas has been associated with other companies where he was the CTO like Performics , Zenith Optimedia , Mobilix and MiDDAY group, Rediff.com apart from working in consulting firms such as Boston as engineering practice lead.

Aashish is an award winning designer armed with over 12+ years of design experience & a firm believer of disruption with design. He is the founder & designer director at NetBramha Studios, a pioneer in design thinking & strategic user experience design services. Their work has impacted 250+ million users across 200+ clients across consumer & enterprise. 
He is also the founder of DesignDay.co – a monthly designers meetup community.  He is absolutely passionate about building design & design ecosystem in India. Aashish has consulted several fortune 500 companies like Google, EMAAR, Microsoft, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent, Shell & is always excited working with startups like Smartron Botmetric, InMobi, TaxiForSure etc. 
You could find him passionately speak & jury often at design conferences & eventsacross the geographies. He has been an YCE & IDEO fellow shortlist. He has spoken recently at DesignUp, CII, Adobe, TEDx, Nasscom, MetaRefresh, UXIndia, 500 startups, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, etc to name a few. He teaches designthinking at IIM Bangalore & other design schools in his spare time.

Arjun is the Co-founder for M360, at Times Internet, leading the business strategy and the product roadmap of building the tech stack. M360 is a turnkey SaaS platform that is disrupting the digital publishing space with its one of a kind offering of performance AdTech, content personalization, native ads, user privacy, yield optimization, recommendation engine, AMP/adblocker management and programmatic advertising. Mr. Satya holds a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was conferred with Undergraduate Research Award II for his final year project. Arjun joined Times Internet Limited in India in July 2014 as a Product Manager for the Company’s ‘Audience Platform’. Arjun is one of the youngest leaders in his domain and is a visionary with many merits under his belt all at the young age of 27. Arjun was a part of the founding team of Colombia in 2014, which is an in-house Advertising Platform responsible for managing and generating most of the advertising driven revenue for the company. Today, Colombia reaches nearly 500 million consumers across the world, in addition to countless marketers using the Colombia platform in India including a significant number of the Top 500 brands in India. Mr. Satya worked on Audience Platform- a subunit within Colombia which forms the bedrock for machine learning based revenue optimization for Colombia. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the Audience Platform. He currently leads a cross-functional team consisting of Product Managers, Developers, Designers, Sales Reps and Big Data Engineers. He has hands-on experience in building and scaling AdTech products, recommender systems and SaaS platforms. Outside of work, Arjun provides pro-bono consultation to non-profit organizations and also contributed in initiatives by NITI Aayog, Government-of-India think-tank, in building software stack for vernacular languages. Arjun also is a regular contributor and speaker at leading industry conferences/ events. LinkedIn: Arjun Satya

With over 22 years of experience in architecting Enterprise Solutions, Prashant has the mandate to digitally transform Products & Services at Denave. His focus is to progressively build SaaS Products, support revenue and business growth drivers and enrich Denave’s offerings.

In his past stints, Prashant had built several strategic systems for Snapdeal and managed large-scale transformational programs for Infosys. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Nordstrom, Emerson, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Arrow Electronics, etc. across locations in America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and India. Over the years, he has architected and successfully managed ERP, CRM, SCM, HCM, BPM & BI multi-milliondollar engagements. Hehas expertise in strategizing IT to align with organization’s vision, engineering business design to meet defined objectives, and deploy right technology solution to succeed.

Under his guidance, the team is focused on creating SaaS Products & Platforms and Innovating through next generation technologies.

As head of Data Labs, Business Insights and Innovation at HDFC Life, Francis is responsible for translating business problems and architecting effective solutions that drive business growth and profitability. He heads the organization drive in the areas of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and collaborating with the Insure-tech ecosystem
Through leadership roles in market-leading organizations across BFSI, FMCG and Consumer Durables, Francis has gained rich versatile experience in successfully setting up new functions and building scale.
Francis is an MBA from NMIMS (Mumbai), a CFA charter holder from CFA Institute, Virginia USA and has a Bachelors degree in Engineering (Electronics)

Pradeep is a Business-focused Digital & IT Executive with extensive experience leading Technology Function and managing Transformative change through innovative technology solutions and digital adoptions.

Passionate about harnessing Digital and IT technologies to create business value with competitive advantage; his experience spans across ‘Technology  & Program Management’, ‘Techno Business Consulting’, Systems Development & Integration, and ‘Technology Transformation’ in industries such as BFSI, Retail, Telecom, IT/ITES, Energy Resources and Aviation.

He has held leadership positions with IBM, HCL&Wipro in Australia; Yes Bank & SKS Microfinance in India

Mihir Karkare is co-founder and Executive Vice-President at Mirum India. He is responsible for providing solutions for some of the largest brands in the country. 

Ten years ago, Mihir co-Founded Social Wavelength, on the belief that brands and organisations would have to change the way they do business to survive and thrive in the digital era. Social Wavelength was acquired by WPP in 2014, and is now known as Mirum. He is driven by his interests in business strategy, technology, media, marketing, content and behavioral economics. 

Mihir believes that every day is an opportunity to explore new possibilities and create work that engages the world.  

Mihir is currently focused on leading Mirum in its next phase of growth! 

IIM Lucknow & IIT Roorkee alumnus, Rishabh holds over 16+ years of experience in technology with a focus on building scalable, high-performance technology platforms. He founded India’s first rural insurtech organization, GramCover and scaled it to be among the top 50 organizations working in the financial inclusion space globally. Before this, he worked in the leadership position of successful startups and built technology businesses to scale.

Chaitanya is Information Technology & Digital Transformation leader with close to three decades of experience. He is responsible for IT Strategy and Roadmap, Business Transformations, IT Service Delivery and Operations for JM Financial Group. Chaitanya has strong leadership skills, strategic planning ability and global vision to expand the business impact of IT. Technology, he says, is not for the sake of technology, but should have focus on Business Value Creation. He has played various value added senior management roles, partnering with CXOs in influencing overall direction of all technology functions associated within the enterprise. Chaitanya’s core strengths are to work with Passion and Commitment, Connect with People and having Clear set of Values. Chaitanya has an exceptional track record as an innovative and accomplished technologist in Financial Services industry. His enriched experience includes managing global team footprints and his prior organizations include UBS Securities, JM Morgan Stanley, DSP Merrill Lynch etc. On spiritual side, he believes in Swami Vivekananda’s Advaita Vedanta philosophy that we are spiritual souls having a human experience and our goal is to realize the divinity within. Chaitanya holds Engineering degree (B.E.) in Electronics from University of Pune. He holds many professional certifications and he speaks frequently on evolving world of IT.

Nitin Agarwal has two decades of experience in global service and IT project delivery across banking, retail and healthcare companies in APAC, Europe and USA. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he set up three companies as founding  member – BrainVisa Technologies (eLearning Platform and service for Global Fortune 500), BigShoeBazaar (Yebhi.com – eCommerce), and Incred (NBFC & Housing Finance Company). He has also been associated with and provided technology solutions for companies like UPS, Microsoft, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, among others. Nitin is a Silver Medallist from IIT Delhi. He is an avid traveller and a foodie and enjoys a game of quash.

Over 22 years growing businesses in Media, Banking, Telecom and Technology.

As CxO, led sales, marketing, product, finance, operations and IT. Currently promoting startups and new ideas in IT led businesses. Also heading the IT function, digital marketing and online sales as CIO for the largest movie exhibition company (PVR) in India.

Earlier, had led the Response-IT for the largest print company in India (BCCL/Timesgroup). Managed the systems for ads-sales, MIS, planning, scheduling and pre-press. Prior to Bennett, I had setup the technology and started the mobile payments/wallet for Airtel (Payments Bank).

I had also worked like a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in Banking at JP Morgan Services in India, centralising IT and Operations for Treasury and Securities Services (TSS). And had before that, helped Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) as their liquidity, cash and trade partner in Standard Chartered Bank.

Management expertise in:
Business and product development, program & project management, loyalty, marketing, business & IT architecture, partner governance, strategy and change management. Venture funding.

Industry expertise:
Entertainment/Retail, Print and digital media. Ecommerce. Banking – retail, wholesale and investment banking. Telecommunication (mobile, mobile money/ mobile wallet/mobile payments).
Digital transaction services (billing/ticketing/order management/STP/ecommerce). Cash & liquidity management, trade finance and mobile-commerce.

Technology expertise:
Enterprise and service oriented architectures (SOA), BPM, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile and Cloud technologies. Polyglot (multiple programming languages) architecture background. Technology environments include Java frameworks, SAP (IS-MAM), Javascript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Tensorflow, PHP, JavaEE, Scala, Microsoft .Net, Erlang, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Docker.

Jagmal Singh is the Chief Technology Officer at Paisabazaar.com, India’s largest lending marketplace. He leads all tech functions including infrastructure, engineering, mobile and app for Paisabazaar. Jagmal is an alumni of IIT Delhi and has worked with one of the world’s top hedge funds for over 5 years. He has also been an entrepreneur, building two start-ups, one of which was acquired by Cardekho.

Vivek started his career at the Magnon group. The 300+ member Magnon group today is a part of the Fortune 500, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC). Of its two agencies Magnon eg+ and Magnon\TBWA, Vivek leads Magnon eg+ across international markets, including North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, apart from India. Vivek was named Managing Director of Magnon eg+ in 2014, at the young age of 33. This made him perhaps the youngest ever MD of a multinational agency in India. He has been profiled as a case study in the bestseller book ‘30 Something CEO’.
Magnon eg+ is an award winning digitally-led specialist agency. Major clients include Google, Hewlett Packard, Etihad Airlines, Nissan Motors & Tata Communications. Magnon eg+ is also Omnicom’s largest digital & creative production center anywhere in the world. It works as a strategic
arm of Omnicom agencies such as TBWA, DDB and BBDO from around the world and has workedon over 100+ global brands. It. Vivek is also on the advisory board of several exciting start-ups, including Talentrack – India’s
largest hiring platform for the US$ 25 billion media & entertainment sector. Within 3 years of being set up, Talentrack today aggregates over 250,000 talent and 10000+ industry recruiters and is trul digitizing and democratizing the industry. The platform processes over a million job & audition applications for talent such as Actors, Models, Singers, Photographers, Anchors, Dancers etc. He is a regular speaker and panelist at various corporate and academic forums and is an MBA from
LBSIM, New Delhi. His interests include swimming, cycling, horse riding, tennis and is passionate about travelling the world. As of now he is worried about strands of grey hair!

Mohit is a graduate in Computer Science from MNNIT Allahabad (Class of 2006), having a total 13+ years of experience in building large scale enterprise level applications. Currently working with Chaayos as their CTO, Mohit is working on building next generation retail technologies. Passionate
about programming, he has built the world class retail tech and an ERP solution with team of 5 developers. Apart from Software, Mohit also has a team of Hardware Engineers who have built the first in the world Automated Fresh Tea Brewing Machine. Prior to Chaayos, he started his career with Globallogic India Pvt. Ltd. Which is one of the best Software Development Outsourcing Companies, as a Software Engineer for 1 year. After that, he worked at Tribal Fusion which is a technology-enabled media services company that offers Digital Marketing solutions for advertisers and publishers, he was involved with the adApp team as a Senior Software Engineer for 2 years and 5 months. He was the Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Bangalore which is a leading global investment management firm. He worked there for 5 years and 8 months.

Business Analytics and Data Science Leader with more than 10 years of experience, applying data-driven models to Product, Sales, Operations, Business, and delivering high impact on business & product performance via advanced quantitative analyses and predictive modeling.Experienced in the execution of large scale data analytics initiatives, leading to the development of useful insights and the improvement of a business’s performance and driving top-line growth.

  Major architect of Innovation and application of data-driven and statistically oriented decision-making at Attune consulting, IGP.com, JIO Haptik, Active.ai in the customer Experience realm and strategised the movement from reactive to Predictive strategies, Presently runs the data science division for developing conversational sales analytics solutions at Salesken.ai . 

Ashish has strong technical leadership in conversational AI products and has contributed to many NLP initiatives. He has helped build chatbots deployed at all major banks in India and has incubated and fostered state-of-the-art technology domains from scratch in many companies. Ashish is also a published author, inventor of more than half a dozen patents in conversational AI, and has extensive know-how in conceptualising and delivering innovation while building high-performance R&D teams.