In 15+ years of career, he has gained experience in leading and executing product & solution development in carrier and enterprise grade telecom/networking and in memory database. He has extensive exposure to program management life cycle including designing & execution of project framework, scope management, time & cost management, human resource and professional responsibility & ethics. I have proven my competence in E2E delivery management including technical guidance, stake holder management, problem solving and innovative thinking.

I bring along with me expertise of handling new network roll outs and providing post release support along with exposure to managing customers and offering customized solutions to meet business needs. My knowledge of evolving technologies and the ability to analyze and design appropriate solutions relevant across situations gives me the advantage of being a problem solver in crisis situation as well as an active contributor in regular strategic decisions. This has given me the edge and knowhow of benefitting the organizations, contributing effectively to business growth.

My communication, interpersonal skills and the attitude of ‘never say die’ are key strengths that have seen me through tough situations. Moreover with my strong liaison & relationship skills, I build & maintain long standing relations with stakeholders & key decision makers to strategically secure profitable business. I am deft at monitoring performance and managing complex business challenges with strong work-ethics, interpersonal communication, relationship management and analytical skills.

Technically leading a new innovative project to research for SCM based filesystem with one-side RDMA acceleration.

Key architect and technical contributor of distributed filesystem, which is shipping in Dorado NAS and FusionStorage. He Lead the design and development of Huawei’s next-generation scale-out filesystem which will support bandwidth intensive HPC applications as well as OPS intensive enterprise applications using a common filesystem architecture.

Chengappa is associated with HP/HPE for a decade and is currently associated with Compute Business Group, catering to the requirements and solutions for telco on NFV Infrastructure. From an early career as an intern software engineer, his current focus areas have moved him into defining, building, and delivering NFV-based telco solutions bringing together technologies that form building blocks integrating Cloud-native applications / VNFs on NFVi platforms. Being IEEE Senior member, he also plays a key role in being part of IEEE Bangalore Section initiatives around Industry engagement, Professional Activities.

Ketan Keshav, is a Computer Science Engineer, currently working as a Software Engineer at KreditBee. He is passionate about Mobile and Web Development, Cyber Security, Coding and Cricket. He completed two internships to further amplify his passion. He is an Experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is a highly organized and detail-oriented individual with Event Management experience having organized several IEEE Events, hackathons and college workshops. His team was the Regional Level Winner of Technology Dissemination Contest conducted by IEEE Pune Section. He has competed at TCS EngiNX and was the finalist and the 2nd Runner up of this National-level competition. He is currently an Execom member at IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer, IEEE Young Professionals and SCT Mentor, IEEE Bangalore Section. Other titles he holds are Section Chapter Representative, IEEE TEMS, India, Member Student Representative, IEEE Bangalore Section, PR and Promotions Coordinator for Students Activities Committee (SAC), IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE Chairman and Student Activity Committee(SAC) Chairman for K.S Institute of Technology. Despite his eventful life, he always makes time for family, cricket and volunteers at various NGOs and conducts monthly events which are aimed to make life better for the underprivileged.

Dr. Abhishek Appaji is working as Institutional Coordinator for R&D and Assistant Professor at B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore. He is also serving as Guest faculty at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp specialized in new ventures leadership. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics with University Rank from BMSCE, Masters of Technology in Information Technology, and a Masters of Engineering (M.E) in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. His Ph.D. was in Mental Health and Neurosciences from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Abhishek is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served in various volunteering positions at IEEE. Currently, he is the Chapter coordinator Chair of the IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer of IEEE IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter, Webmaster, and MD Chair for IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter and advisor for IEEE EMB BMSCE Chapter. He is also serving as Secretary of IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee. Abhishek has received various grants from Indian agencies like DST, DBT, BIRAC, and from abroad. Abhishek has also worked as a research associate in the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has two patents filed in Medtech Space. He has more than 50 International/National journal publications and conferences to his credit. He has been a part of more than 150+ Invited expert talks in various conferences, Forums, and events. He has renowned laurels including IEEE International Best paper Award in Malaysia, MGH CamTech Jugadathon Awards, Best Nodal Coordinator award, Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2016 at Rastrapathy Bhavan (President of India House) New Delhi, Elderly care Hackathon (the Netherlands), Winner of Class 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, IEEE MGA Young Professional Achievement Award, R10 YP achievement award, etc.

Aseem Vardhan works as a Senior Director of engineering with the HPE Storage division and leads a global engineering team of R&D engineers to build “Intelligent Storage” that is self-healing and self-managing using AI and ML. Prior to this role, Aseem has spent more than a decade in Operating systems group where he led advanced product development teams in the areas of High Availability, Systems Management, and OS security. During the start of his career, Aseem worked with Sun Microsystem in the Operating systems group in the Bay area as Member of technical staff and then moved to Bangalore to set up the engineering group. Aseem holds an engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Masters in Business Administration with Specialization in technology management from the University of Phoenix.

Prasant Misra, Ph.D. is currently working as a Scientist at Corporate Research & Innovation, TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore. Prasant is passionate about building systems "at scale" that can extend human and machine capabilities with newer and better ways of observing and managing the physical world. His research cuts across various aspects of computational sensing, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems. His current focus is on smart mobility management. He also has a background in middleware for wireless sensor networks and low-power networked embedded systems. He has more than ten years of experience in scientific and industrial research. He has worked in different roles and capabilities for: Keane Inc. (a unit of NTT Data Corporation), Bangalore (2006-08); CSIRO Sydney and Brisbane (2008-12); Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2013-16)

Yianni Gamvros is Head of Product Strategy and Business Development at QC Ware, where he is responsible for the company’s product direction, sales, and business partnerships. Prior to QC Ware, Yianni was part of IBM’s sales leadership team for 10 years, covering IBM’s products in AI/ML, optimization, and predictive analytics. Yianni began his career as an optimization solutions consultant at ILOG, which was acquired by IBM. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Technology Leadership; Innovation Management and Culture, Future Tech and its impact on Business and Society, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Internet of Things, AI, Corporate Director, Chevening Fellow, Mindfulness

• CEO and Partner at Benzaiten Advisors
• Steering Committee Member IEEE Future Directions- Quantum Initiative
• Member- Quantum Consultative Committee for the Govt of Telangana
• Founding Chairperson for IEEE Special Interest Group on Quantum Computing, India
• Senior IEEE member
• Founding Member and Member of Governing Board – Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India(CCICI)
• Founding member of the formal Chevening Alumni Association of India ( CAI)
• Past Chairperson for Storage Networking Industry Association of India ( SNIA)
• Certified Corporate Director and Member Institute of Directors
• Patents Holder
• Author of Book “ Innovation Magic- The Science and Art of Innovation Management”
• Chevening Fellow for Rolls Royce - Science, Innovation and Policy Leadership Program, Oxford Alumni
• Tata Group Executive Leadership Program, Ross School of Business Alumni

RK Senthil Kumar is working as Associate Director , Real Time Systems Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Bangalore. He has more than two decades of experience in Research and development. Currently he is working in the area of SCADA Security and energy trading models for the power sector. His interests are Smart Grid, SCADA Security, Agent based Computing, Blockchain, Power systems and Cloud computing. Having more than 14 International & National publications. He is Senior Member of IEEE and also Life member of Computer Society of India (CSI) and Advanced Communication & Computing Society (ACCS). As Chief Investigator, he has led the team in executing several projects in the area of Smart Grid and Security.

Manoj’s role is Global Program Director – AIShield® at Bosch. He is an award-winning experienced seasoned Technologist. He has a demonstrated history of working with emerging technology, deep technology, and automotive engineering industry. He has been working at Bosch for more than 13 years. He is responsible for designing, leading, and driving technology-oriented strategy for the organization. His responsibilities include building a global product at the intersection of AI and CyberSecurity to safeguard AI systems and leading AI Security Initiative for Bosch Group. Manoj’s journey is an inspirational and transformational one, across domains of automotive, two-wheeler, and digital, to deliver customer-focused business values. He, along with his teams, has built several innovative products and solutions using multiple classical and emerging technologies. He has mastered numerous technologies and helped the organization, and people navigate through disruptions using the visionary approach. He is skilled in Algorithms, Control Systems Design, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computing, Blockchain, IOT, Quantum Computing, and Automotive. He has filed 20+ patents out of which 8 are industrialized. He has published 13 research papers in IEEE and SAE Conferences. He is a Mentor and Jurist for various startup events (Government and Private). He has also been a guest speaker on varied topics of technology, Innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is a Technical Committee Member of six prestigious international conferences and has been the chair of an IEEE conference session. He is a recipient of the Chevening Cybersecurity Fellowship 2021 by the UK Government’s FCD Office. He was awarded Technology Role Model Award 2020 by Zinnov. He is founding member of MITRE ATLAS. He holds engineering and management degrees. He has also completed the Corporate Startup program from UC Berkeley and M.Sc. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. He is a lifelong learner and holds science, engineering, and management degrees.

Dr. Navin Kumar serves as Chairperson and Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru. Dr. Navin obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Porto, Aveiro and Minho – Portugal, Europe (2007-2011) and M.Tech. in Digital System Engineering from Motilal National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India in the year 2000. He did his bachelor's degree in Engineering from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, New Delhi in 1996. Navin has over 24 years of working experience in Government, Industry and academia in IT and Telecommunications area. He has over 10 years of overseas experience in teaching, research and development. Some of the international research projects he has worked in the team like VIDAS, iLITE (EU). Dr. Navin has over 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and IEEE conference proceedings. In addition, he has also authored and edited books and book chapters. Navin has been awarded the Fraunhofer Challenge award in the academic year 2010-2011 for the best Ph.D. thesis work. He also received a fellowship grant from Govt. of Portugal towards his Ph.D. research work. Navin is the recipient of the Gowri Memorial award, India in the year 2009 for the best journal paper and multiple best conference papers. Dr. Navin has been giving tutorial at IEEE flagship conferences like ICC, WCNC. He regularly speaks and delivers talks as keynote, invited speaker in conferences and workshops. His research area includes 5G (mmWave) Network architecture, 6G, THz Communication, Visible Light Communication, Optical Wireless Communication, Intelligent Transportation Systems, IoT& Smart City and Wireless/Mobile Communications & Networks. He is the Senior Member IEEE, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India), Charter Engineer Institution of Engineers (India), Life Member IETE (India) and AIEng(HK). He is very active in organizing workshops (local and international), conferences etc. He is currently secretary IEEE Bangalore section, Founding chair VTS Bangalore, Past Chair ComSoc and associated with IEEE Photonics, ITS, Consumer Electronics and Sensor council.

Sh. M A K P SINGH, Chief Engineer (Information Technology & Cyber Security), Central Electricity Authority and designated as Chief Information Security Officer for Ministry of Power, is an Electrical Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur and holds MBA degree from IIT Delhi. Prior to joining Power Sector, he had worked for Schlumberger, Geo Services in Oil Industry and with Automobile leader Maruti Udyog Ltd. He joined Central Electricity Authority in 1992. While in CEA he has worked for 12 years in Regional Power Committee of Northern and Western Grid. He has 3 yrs experience of managing Northern Regional load dispatch center. In CEA he had worked in other divisions like Fuel Management, System Planning & Project Appraisal, APDRP cell. He was on deputation for 3 years looking after operation of Combined Cycle Gas Power Plant Kawas of NTPC. He has worked for 5 years as Electrical Inspector in North Eastern Region (all seven sister states). As Electrical Inspector he had the inspected all electrical installations of Govt utilities like NHPC, NEEPCO, POWERGRID besides other industries. He has also worked for five years in hydro sector for 5 years as Member(Power), Narmada Control Authority overseeing the O&M of 1450 MW Sardar Sarovar Hydro Plant and Dam. He is very well versed with the crisis that may arise in the hydro as well as thermal plants and have a very good knowledge of the critical information infrastructure in power sector. In the present assignment in CEA, he is looking after the National Power Portal, Cyber Security and working upon various Committees and Groups constituted by Ministry of Power for ensuring cyber security in Power Sector. He is the Chairman of drafting committee of CEA Regulations on Cyber Security in Power Sector. He is working on framing of Scheme for identifying Trusted Source and Trusted Product being procured by Power Sector Utilities. Other important current assignment being handled by him are:

1. Developing curriculum on cyber security for Load Dispatchers of RLDCs & SLDCs

2. Developing Road map for cyber security in Power Sector for next 5 years

3. Working on model contractual clauses for ensuring cyber security

4. the changes to be made in IT Act, IPC and CrPC for prosecution of Cyber Crimes committed to disrupt and damage power supply system

5. He is chairing a Join Working Group of LITD 10 and LITD 17 Panel for developing an Indian Standard for Listing Cyber Tests to be carried out during FAT/SAT and at designated Labs, firm up procedures to carry out these test and develop tools for carrying out these tests

Latha is a graduate in applied electronics and instrumentation from CET Trivandrum and has 28 years of industry experience. Her prior experience is with BHEL for 2 years and 10 years with Siemens Information Systems Ltd. Latha has a diverse work experience in the areas of software development and architecture, global project management, sales and business development and delivery of global projects. Latha is passionate about leadership and building powerful technology teams which creates value and differentiation for business. She has handled leadership roles for several topics in different parts of the globe. Connecting industry and academia for co-creation of solutions is an area where she has keen interest. Coaching is an area of passion for Latha and she is also a certified executive coach from IAC and CFI.

Research interests
Magnetic Resonance Quantum Information Processing

Academic Background
1992-1995: BSc, JCBM College, Sringeri, Karnataka 1995-1997: MSc, Mangalore University, Karnataka 1997-2003: PhD, Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore 2003-2005: PDF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA 2005-2007: PDF, University of Dortmund, Germany Since 2007: Faculty in Physics, IISER Pune

Awards and Fellowships
MIT Cambridge Fellowship (2003) Humboldt Fellowship (2005) Prof. S. Subramanian's 60th Birthday Lecture Award (by National Magnetic Resonance Society - 2014) DST swarnajayanthi Fellowship-2014

Apoorva D. Patel is a Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his MSc in Physics (1980) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his PhD in Physics (1984) from the California Institute of Technology, USA. He has extensively worked on lattice gauge theory investigations of Quantum Chromodynamics. He is also notable for his work on quantum algorithms, and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages.

Prof. Anil Prabhakar received his PhD in 1997 from Carnegie Mellon University, with a dissertation on the Nonlinear Spin-wave Optical Interactions. He has been with the faculty at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras since 2002, and is engaged across multiple laboratories that work on photonics. His current research interests in the areas of quantum technologies, have applications in metrology, quantum communication and quantum computing. As an academic entrepreneur, he has founded Unilumen Photonics, QNu Labs, Yali Mobility and Enability Foundation. He has over 50 research publications, has co-authored a book on Spin Waves, a few book chapters, and has 18 patents on a wide range of devices in areas of photonics, magnonics and assistive devices.

He served in the MeitY at various capacities dealing with Technology Development for Indian Language, e-Learning initiatives in the Country. He was awarded Ph.D. degree by IIT Delhi. He is instrumental in the initiation of e-learning activities and contributed for the incorporation of Media Lab Asia. He also served as Executive Director, National Institute of Electronics and IT, (NIELIT erstwhile DOEACC). He was a member of Technical Committee & Project Approval Board of National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), MHRD; He is currently member of Board of Governs Indira Gandhi Technological University for Women, Delhi, IIITs at Allahabad, Gwalior, Tirupati, Kanchipuram. He also served as Guest faculty at IIT Roorkee, IIIT Gwalior, IP Univ. etc. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, Object Oriented Design and Software Defined Networking. He has published and presented more than 50 papers in various journals and conferences. Under his able guidance, there has been unprecedented achievements of C-DAC, Noida (both in terms of receipt of projects and awards). He had executed projects with a total outlay of approximately Rs. 150 Crores in the areas of Health Informatics, E-governance, Smart Cards, Language Technology and e-learning. About 30 awards have been received interalia Manthan Award 2012, Rajasthan State e-governance award 2012; Skoch Order of Merit (2013); CSI Nihilent e-Governance in 2013; (vi) Indian Merchants' Chamber Award 2013; e-north East Award for 2015.

Manjunatha is an Associate Vice President and Principal Research Analyst of the Infosys Center for Emerging Technology Solutions (iCETS) unit. He is an intrapreneur incubating emerging technology led offerings for Infosys. He leads the development of new offerings across Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), autonomous systems and automation He is also responsible for Go-To-Market of emerging technology offerings in iCETS. Manjunatha leads and support several aspects of co-creating innovation between Infosys and its clients. As a founding member of this approach and enabling teams, he inspires investments for innovative products and services, designs and build innovation capabilities, institutionalize new ideas from concept to reality, develops innovation process, tools, techniques, systems and ecosystems, and research on companies, industries and technologies. Manjunatha has been a key contributor in creating a culture of innovation and innovation infrastructure for Infosys with programs like Co-creation, Flatworld, Building Tomorrow's Enterprise, Murmuration, Hackathon, Labstorm and Zero Distance. He is currently part of the Be the Navigator Program at Infosys, bringing grass roots innovation to clients. His other interests include the larger context of societal change, economy, politics and history. Manjunatha has experience across trends research, valuation and costing, mentoring startups, strategy and IT consulting, and aerospace research with aircraft research and design center.

Urbasi Sinha is a Professor at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India. She is heading the Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) laboratory at RRI. Prof. Sinha is an associate faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada, and the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, Canada. She completed her PhD at Cambridge University, UK, on experiments in high temperature Superconductivity. She completed her M.Sc in Physics also from Cambridge. She has been a Gates Cambridge scholar during her Ph.D and a Nehru-Chevening scholar during her masters. She was a postdoctoral research associate in the Cavendish labs, Cambridge as well as at IQC Canada. Her lab at RRI specializes in experiments on photonic quantum information processing including quantum computing and quantum communication, primarily using single and entangled photons. She is heading India’s first project on satellite based secure quantum communications. Her scientific recognitions include the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in the year 2017 as well as the 2018 ICTP-ICO Gallieno Denardo Award in Optics. She was recognised as one of Asia’s Top 100 scientists by the Asian Scientist for the year 2019 and has also been awarded the Simon’s Emmy Noether Fellowship at the Perimeter Institute, Canada. In August 2020, she led the two-member winning team as a mentor, at the World Skills International Competition in Quantum Technology at the BRICS Future Skills Challenge, organised by the Russian Quantum Centre in Moscow, Russia with competitors from several countries worldwide. She won the ASSOCHAM Women in Cyber: Making a Difference award in the category “Cyber - Leading from the front” in 2021. Website: Lab website:

He is Founder & President of Quantum Research And Centre of Excellence (QRACE) as well as also Founder of EGREEN QUANTA. And have strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused on Quantum gate design based on Schrödinger Dynamics from Delhi University with M.Tech from NIT Rourkela and B.Tech from IETE, Delhi. He has 8 years teaching experienced and worked as Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry with skilled in Matlab, Quantum computation, Python and so on. His mission model is focussing on quantum gate design based on the excitation of atoms and molecules with electromagnetic fields. A particular situation of this involves ion trap experiment in which the quantum electromagnetic field interacting with an ion modelled as a quantum 3D harmonics oscillators. We propose to apply this theory to atoms and quantum dots placed with the Graphene waveguide. I am planning to establish with unique proposals and ideas for setting up incubation centres where quantum Gate design based on ion trap experiments, namely making a laser field interact with a trapped ion, could be a natural method for simulating quantum gates and quantum computation algorithms.

He has several awards and achievements:
1. Senior Member of IEEE, 15 August 2020 to Till now.
2. Affiliate Member of Royal Society of Chemistry.
3. Associate Member of AMIETE, Delhi, 2008 to till now.
4. Life Time Member of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, AMIETE, Delhi.
5. Life Time Member of Vibha Membership (Vijnana Bharati).
6. Life Time Member of DECCAN ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH ORGANISATION.
7. Executive Committee Member of Society For the Research and Studies of Nanotechnology.
8. Aspire Accelerator (2021), KLIC-LNCT & AIIC-LNCTU, Bhopal, MP.
9. Incubates (2021) of Samruddhi TBI Foundation, Sangli, Maharashtra.
10. Potential Start-up under Bihar Start-up Policy - 2017 of the Government of Bihar.
11. Excellent Researcher Award, Global Education and Corporate Leadership Awards (GECL-2018) GECL Awards, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET), UP (India), 2018.
12. Best startup India Initiative award, during Golden jubilee mid-term symposium of IETE, 2019.
13. Young Scientist Award, Engineering, Science and Medicine, Coimbatore, India, 2020.
14. Best Entrepreneur Award, DECCAN ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH ORGANISATION (DERO) Awards-2020.
15. Best NGOs in India, GNE Award of Excellence 2021, GLOBAL NGO EXPO.
16. Innovative Quantum Research Organization of the Year 2021, World Startup Conclave - 2021.
17. Research collaboration (2021) with QUECWA, Australian startup in Quantum DOT Technology.
18. Research collaboration (2021) with Quantum South, Brazilian startup on Quantum Graphene Technology.