Head, Business Finland
Head, Business Finland
Dr Jukka Holappa is a pharma professional with R&D, regulatory, business development, in- and out-licensing and retail experience. As an innovative, experienced and brutally honest dealmaker, Dr Holappa knows how to juggle between parties in order to make business deals happen in the healthcare space. He has been buying and selling pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food supplements, technologies and all kinds of pharmaceutical services globally.
After extensive career in the healthcare industry, Dr Holappa now heads Business Finland in India. He is responsible of Export Finland, Invest in Finland, Visit Finland and Innovation funding activities in India.
Managing Director & CEO, Andhra Pradesh
Managing Director & CEO, Andhra Pradesh
Dr. Jitendar Sharma is the Managing Director & CEO of Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone, Asia’s first medical devices manufacturing city. He is Executive Director of Kalam Institute of Health Technology- a Dept. of Bio-Technology, Govt. of India project which serves as medical technology policy institute to DBT, DIPP/DPIIT, DHR. He is Member Secretary of National Medical Devices Promotion Council under Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Govt. of India and founder of Medi-Valley (an Atal Incubation Centre under Niti Ayoge), and Bio-Valley (a Bio-nest centre under DBT).
He is adjunct faculty at University of Adelaide, Australia; and program Director for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) fellowships in India.
He worked as Advisor (Health) to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. He established the Healthcare Technology Division at NHSRC under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and was the Founder Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Medical Devices. His past experience includes Consultant-World Bank, Consultant-WHO,Geneva and Advisor-Health Technology Innovation Centre at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
He was Awarded the European Union –India Young Leaders Award-2019 at EU Parliament for distinguished work in bringing EU-India medical technology trade & science closer.
G.M, Asia Field Operation, Coherent Inc.
G.M, Asia Field Operation, Coherent Inc.
BSc and MSc. from Physics Department, Wuhan University, China
Ph. D from Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University College London (UCL), UK
Postdoc Researcher at Electrical Engineering Department, University College London (UCL), UK
9 year at JDS Uniphase, California, USA on various positions (application engineer, staff engineer, product line manager and sales manager)
10 years at Coherent Inc. California USA
Founder & CEO, Jajal Medical
Founder & CEO, Jajal Medical
Ketan Jajal is a Founder and CEO at Jajal Medical Services, Vadodara Gujarat.Mr. Jajal received Bachelor from Sardar Patel University, Anand and then Master’s from North Carolina State University, USA. He has played multiple leading roles in Medical device industry in USA, Europe and now in India
Over his career, Mr. Jajal has filed more then 10 patents and is pioneer in Medical applications of 3D printing. Prior to starting his own venture, he has had multiple leadership position in Sales and R&D for Materialise and Stryker corporate-relations-iit-delhi
Sr. Director & Head- Health Systems, Philips
Sr. Director & Head- Health Systems, Philips
Ravi Ramaswamy heads the Health Systems team at the Philips Innovation Campus at Bangalore, India. He also leads the New Business Creation Hub based out of Bangalore, which interfaces with specific Markets to support their growth ambitions. In addition to product development for the developed world, he is also deeply involved in creating products and solutions for the underserved segment in emerging geographies. The solutions are on par with international standards of quality as also affordable. Ravi is a member of the Management team of PIC.
Ravi completed his Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1982and then Masters in Engineering Management in 1990. He started his career with L&T in 1982, then moved on to GE in 2000 and then to Philips in 2010. His experience covers R&D, Operations, Finance, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Product Management and General Management. He has also worked in several domains like Computer peripherals, Consumer electronics, Defence electronics, Telecommunications, Medical electronics and IT environments.
Ravi has been a task force member of several Government committees at the Central and State level. He is a regular speaker in Indian / International Conferences on Healthcare. He evangelizes Healthcare in the print and Digital media. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (India), Fellow, HITLAB USA and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Director, Innvolution Healthcare
Director, Innvolution Healthcare
Forum Coordinatorm, AiMeD
Forum Coordinatorm, AiMeD
Rajiv Nath is Managing Director of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. which is having a turnover of over 600 Crores. He is President of All India Syringes & Needles Mfg. Association. (AISNMA).He is also the Founder and Forum Coordinator – Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AiMeD) with over 350 Members nationwide whereby Medical Device Manufacturers of all types of technologies have been attracted nationwide on one Platform. He was born in 1962 and entered his family business i.e. Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. (HMD) soon after he finished his college in 1984.
Mr. Nath has started from the scratch i.e started his career on the shop floor of HMD to have first-hand technical experience of all the ground realities & learning basic production techniques of Medical Devices Industry. HMD has capacity of manufacturing over 6 Billion Disposables per annum. HMD’s turnover has grown from a mere Rs. 2 crores to over Rs. 600 crores in the year 2017, an impressive growth rate of over 300 times in less than 35 years. Mr. Rajiv Nath has dared to challenge the rules of the market & wrote his own script with respect to syringe design, packaging and presentation. HMD created a niche for their disposable syringe “DISPOVAN” which is today the most popular brand in Syringe market in India with over 60% market share and thereby displaced renowned MNC’s – an inspirational case study for other Indian Entrepreneurs. As Forum Coordinator of AiMeD, Mr. Nath has taken many initiatives of establishing a collaborative framework with various Dept. of the Govt. and Media to bring to their attention issues troubling the industry and attract investments into India in his quest to make India as the Preferred Manufacturing Destination and the leading supplier of Medical Device worldwide. AiMeD is an Umbrella Association of Indian Manufacturers of Medical Devices covering all types of Medical Devices including consumables, disposables, equipment’s instruments, Implants, electronics and diagnostics. With a Primary Membership of over 350 Manufacturers and additionally of over 200 Associate Members representing the interest of over 700 Manufacturers of Medical Devices to address the manufacturer’s problems. (www.aimedindia.com )
Vice President, Technology & New Materials Business, Tata Steel Ltd.
Vice President, Technology & New Materials Business, Tata Steel Ltd.
"Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee completed B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1986, M. Tech in Metallurgy from IIT Kanpur in 1989 and PhD in Materials Science & Metallurgy from University of Cambridge, UK in 1993.
He joined Tata Steel in the R&D function in 1996 and headed the function as Chief Research & Development and Scientific Services between 2002 and 2009. In 2009, he was seconded to Tata Steel Europe as Group Director Research, Development & Technology for Tata Steel Group. Dr Bhattacharjee is an expert in development of materials and associated technologies. He has more than 50 international peer reviewed journal publications and 20 patents.
Dr Bhattacharjee is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and of the Indian Institute of Metals. He is Visiting Professor at the Imperial College London, at the University of Warwick, UK, and at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.
Currently he is Vice President Technology & New Materials Business, Tata Steel based in Kolkata.
Dr Bhattacharjee’s hobbies include playing cricket and acting in plays.
Country President & MD, Applied Materials, India
Country President & MD, Applied Materials, India
Srinivas Satya is president and managing director of Applied Materials India Pvt. and an appointed vice president for Applied Materials, Inc. Srinivas leads an organization of more than 3000 employees and has been with Applied for over 20 years, holding a variety of technical and customer-facing positions of increasing responsibility in various business units in semiconductor and energy business segments, as well as roles in Finance and Corporate Business Development, where he drove a number of successful acquisitions and external investments.
Srinivas is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds an MBA degree from the University of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He received his bachelor of technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, and his master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
CEO, Resil Chemicals
CEO, Resil Chemicals
Mr. GANESH SRINIVASAN is a Gold Medalist in Chemistry & Rubber- Polymer Technology from Madras Institute of Technology. He joined Resil Chemicals in 1992 in technical sales and support, and then went on to set up manufacturing plants for silicones in Bangalore. Along his long-term affiliation with Resil he set up various business divisions in Resil such as Vista car care and implemented SAP B1-ERP. Presently he has grown up the ladder to become CEO in the organization. As a Leader-Innovator, his key areas of focus include, R&D, Innovations, collaborations, Technology strategy Business development and commercialization in Silicones, Nano Materials, and Advanced Materials for Textiles, Plastics and wide variety of industries Industrial applications.He has won the National award for innovation in the Silver Technology in Bangalore Nano 2013, CII-IPR awards in 2015, 2016,2017 and top 25 innovative company award from CII in 2018 along with numerous other credentials to his accolades. He was featured in the BBC for innovative silver technology commercialisation. He is associated with SNWG – USA, CASP- Japan, is also a committee member of BIS MTD-33 and ASTM for silver based materials. He is also a member in ASM International (American society for Materials) the world's largest association of materials-centric engineers and scientists.
Senior Scientist, Industrial IoT/Smart Energy/VTT, Technical, Research Centre of Finland
Senior Scientist, Industrial IoT/Smart Energy/VTT, Technical, Research Centre of Finlandp>
Klaus was born in 1961 and has M.Sc. (Tech.) and eMBA degree at University of Oulu. He has been working in Technical Research Centre of Finland since 1989. He has worked as project engineer, expert and product development manager positions in numerous domestic and international projects. Klaus has gained a solid expertise on wireless metering, embedded systems and onboard DSP solutions. He has also been developing wireless metering solutions for Smart Grid applications and advised corporations and public organisations on energy markets, energy technologies, demand-responsive concepts and renewable production. He has been involved in several EU projects as a researcher, work package leader and coordinator. He has published over 90 scientific publications, and holds several international patents on measurement technology.
MD and CEO, Thermax Limited
MD and CEO, Thermax Limited
M. S. Unnikrishnan is the Managing Director & CEO of Thermax Group, the energy and environment solutions major. The company has a global presence and operates in the areas of heating, cooling, power, water and waste management, air pollution control and chemicals. Mr. Unnikrishnan began his career with Thermax after graduating from the VNIT, Nagpur in 1982 in Mechanical engineering. He is a graduate in Advanced Management Program from the Harvard Business School, USA He joined Thermax as a graduate trainee engineer in 1982 and later went on to establish the marketing set up for the Energy division of Thermax in the Western Region. Later, in 1987, Mr. Unnikrishnan joined EID Parry as Deputy Regional Manager and by 1992 he was the Head of Engineering Division. He then worked with Terrazzo Inc, U.A.E. as AGM heading the manufacturing, marketing and commercial operations from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Unnikrishnan rejoined Thermax as General Manager in 1997. During this tenure, he brought a turnaround in the Waste Management and Absorption Cooling business of the company. In the year 2000, he was inducted as a member of the Executive Council Group of the Company. He managed the Corporate Sourcing, HR and all the project businesses of the company during this period. In the year 2007, Mr. Unnikrishnan was elevated as the Managing Director & CEO of Thermax Limited. He Chairs the CII National Committee of Industrial Relations. He has chaired the Capital Goods Skill Council Committee under the National Skill Development Corporation. He also chaired the Skills Working Group of BRICS Business Council in 2016. He is Member of the Development Council constituted by the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India, to create strategies for the industrial development of the country. Mr. Unnikrishnan is actively involved in initiatives for the improvement of technical education in India. He is a member of the AICTE Jury Committee for annual ranking of technical and management institutes of the country. He Co-Chairs the Apex Council to implement the ‘Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research’, a joint initiative from the government and industry to encourage industrial research and nurture talent. Mr. Unnikrishnan has been honoured with the ‘Asia Innovator Award’ at the 11th CNBC Asia Business Leaders Awards, held in Bangkok in November 2012. He was awarded “for his inventive thinking in business and his leadership in an organization that has innovation at its core”. Earlier in 2010, he was also awarded the ‘Distinguished Alumni’ of VNIT, Nagpur. In 2014, he was awarded “The Business Leader of the Year for Talent Management” by CNBC TV-18. Recognizing his contribution to the field of Mechanical Engineering, The Institution of Engineers has felicitated him as an Eminent Engineering personality in 2016. Mr. Unnikrishnan is known for his strategic and human relations skills and is a champion of green technologies.
Senior Vice President, Head, Reliance Technology Group, Vadodara
Senior Vice President, Head, Reliance Technology Group, Vadodara
36 years experience in research and development in chemicals and petrochemical. Leading R&D teams for last two decades. Developed 50 and commercialised 16 technologies. Published 300 research articles.More than 150 granted patents. Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering; Fellow Indian National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Gujarat Science Academy.
Director General, ONGC Energy Centre (OEC) in Delhi
Director General, ONGC Energy Centre (OEC) in Delhi
Dr. Sanjeev S. Katti is presently DIRECTOR GENERAL at ONGC ENERGY CENTRE (OEC) in Delhi, where he is instrumental in leading Research, Development, and Demonstration (R D & D) projects for implementing the OEC vision of harnessing science and technology to meet the national energy needs of tomorrow in a clean and sustainable manner. He has over thirty five years of diversified technical and managerial experience in the global chemical/petrochemical and biopharma/biotech industry. After achieving an outstanding academic record in India, including B.Chem. Eng. Gold Medal at UDCT/ICT and first rank in the Maharashtra State S.S.C. Board, he moved to USA for higher studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh & a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He also holds an MBA degree from Northwood University, Midland, Michigan. Prior to joining OEC, he has held key positions in leading US Companies such as Dow and Genzyme, and was Senior V.P. in Reliance in India for five years. He has expertise in wide spectrum of chemical & bio processes such as Chemical Reaction Engineering (kinetics, catalysis and reactor design), Industrial Mixing, Process Scale-up & Trouble Shooting, Debottlenecking and Optimization, Downstream Processing & Fermentation, Chromatography & Separations, and Process Economics. He has broad experience in technology assessment and planning, opportunity and economic analysis, development and commercialization of technology, technology transfer, and strategy formulation. Author of numerous papers, publications and patents, he has co-authored a chapter on “Industrial Mixing Technology” in Albright’s Chemical Engineering Handbook. His academic and professional distinction has been recognized nationally and internationally by plenary lectureships, fellowships, and numerous awards. He has been an endowed visiting professor at the Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) at the University of Mumbai, and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). He was awarded the Hutchison Medal by the (British) Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1995. A Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (A.I.Ch.E.), he is on the Industrial Advisory Board of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.) and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (I.I.Ch.E.). He is a National Council Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (I.I.Ch.E.) and the Indian Desalination Association (InDA). He has been and continues to be an active member/chairman of several national and international scientific/technical advisory committees, both in Government (MoPNG, MHRD, DST, etc.) and in Professional Organizations (AIChE, IICHE, ISCRE, ENCIS, FIPI, LKMT, etc.) and has given over ten keynote addresses and plenary lectures in the last ten months.
Senior Fellow, Environmental & Industrial Biotechnology, TERI
Senior Fellow, Environmental & Industrial Biotechnology, TERI
Sanjukta Subudhi is a microbiologist and working as senior fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She obtained PhD in molecular microbiology in 2001 from University of Delhi, Delhi, India and then she completed her postdoctoral research (2001-2003) in algal biotechnology from National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Agency for Science and Technology Development (NSTDA), Bangkok, Thailand. Subsequently, Dr. Subudhi worked as a faculty scientist (2004-2008) at Pilot Plant Development Technology Research Institute (PDTI), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008, she joined TERI. She leads the advanced microbial based biofuel research group at TERI. Research explorations of her group span the domain of; microbial production of clean fuel and green chemicals. She had the opportunity to work in several bilateral and multilateral collaborative research projects and visited to following overseas research institutes; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ, Leipzig, Germany), Korea Maritime and Ocean University (Busan, South Korea), Queensland University (Brisbane, Australia), Curtin university, University of South Australia (Perth, Australia), Michigan State University (East Lansing, USA), Saitama University, (Tokyo, Japan), Feng Chia University (Taichng, Taiwan), Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York, (York, U.K.), as a visiting scientist/ invited Speaker. Her research contributions are recognized in the form of research publications , conference papers, proceedings (more than 100) including 35 high impact factor peer reviewed international publications (with RG score of 27. 71 and 490 citations), patents (2), book chapters (3). Her major research achievements include development of pilot scale microbial process for bio-hydrogen production from 1st and 2nd generation (Agricultural waste) feedstock. She was awarded with ‘Roll of Honor’ award from TERI, for her outstanding contribution to microbial bio-hydrogen production research domain.
General Manager (R&D), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
General Manager (R&D), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
Dr. Bharat L. Newalkar joined Corporate R&D Centre, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in September 2002 and currently holds charge of General Manager (R&D). Currently, Dr. Newalkar is leading zeolite synthesis and catalysis group who is actively engaged in development of high silica zeolite based catalysts for oligomerization, dewaxing and niche petrochemical applications. His group has successfully developed dewaxing catalyst formulations which are currently practiced commercially in BPCL group of refineries. Apart from zeolite catalysis, Dr. Newalkar is actively working on development of porous materials for adsorptive separation and low pressure natural gas storage applications. Dr. Newalkar has published over 60 scientific papers and holds 10 patents. He has contributed 3 one ASTM book chapter on hydroisomerization of refinery streams and two book chapters on bio-lubricants and their applications He is a technical reviewer for Elsevier journals (Micro porous and Mesoporous Materials, Applied Catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Fuels) and ACS journals (Energy & Fuels, Industrial Engg. and Chemical Research) and is on Editorial Board of Journal of Porous Materials. He has guided 3 Ph.D. candidates. Dr. Newalkar did his Ph.D. in zeolite science and catalysis from M.S. University of Baroda, India and carried out his post-doctoral work at The Pennsylvania State University, USA in the area of material science.
Head of Department HDP Catalyst and Technology Licensing, Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Ltd.
Head of Department HDP Catalyst and Technology Licensing, Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Ltd.
Raju Chopra is a Chemical Engineer with more than 25 years of rich experience in refinery area and has a wide range of experience in the field of Basic process design and proposal work for hydroprocessing technology and catalysts, Design of open art refinery units, Process design under different phases of a project such as refinery configuration study, feasibility report, detailed engineering, licensor evaluation, project management for various refinery units, plant operation, developmental activities, refinery technical services and refinery business development area. He is presently heading “Refinery Business” at Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Limited with responsibilities for refinery technology/catalyst business in India.
Head, Development Department, Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Limited
Head, Development Department, Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Limited
Jasvant Singh is a Chemical Engineer with more than 14 years of rich experience in synthesis gas generation area and has a wide range of experience in the field of Basic process design and proposal work for Hydrogen/Formaldehyde technology and catalysts, Detailed engineering, Process development, Plant commissioning and start-up , Technical services and troubleshooting . He is presently heading “Development Department” at Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Limited with responsibilities for synthesis gas , Refinery development , CFD and Mechanical hardware development area.
President & Managing Director, MG Motor India
President & Managing Director, MG Motor India
Rajeev Chaba is the President and Managing Director of MG Motor India, the India unit of the iconic Morris Garages brand.
Over the course of his career, Mr Chaba has held various senior positions with top global automotive brands such as GM across multiple international markets. In 2005, he was the President & MD of GM in India. He has also served as the VP of Marketing & Sales at Shanghai-General Motors (SGM) in China and as the Chairman & MD for GM in North Africa & Egypt. Mr Chaba started his career with Eicher Motors in 1990 after completing his Masters' degree from IIM Bangalore. His last assignments include Global COO at Vanguard Logistics, USA, and Operating Partner at UK-based private equity firm ManCapital.
Director – Strategic Collaboration, GE Aviation Engineering, India.
Director – Strategic Collaboration, GE Aviation Engineering, India.
Arvind Rao is the Director – Strategic collaboration for the engineering team in India for GE Aviation. He is responsible for forging strategic collaborations with Academia, governments and industries in areas of mutual interest for GE Aviation in India.
Arvind joined GE Aviation in 2003 and held leadership roles with increasing responsibilities since then. Arvind is an expert in combustion aero design and has personally worked and supervised teams in development of combustors for products like GEnx, LEAP and GE9X. Arvind also led teams in the area of engineering tools & methods development and in providing engineering support for fielded engines. He led several successful projects with premier universities and national labs in India for collaborative research & development.
Arvind received his bachelor’s degree from K. K. Wagh CoE, Nashik and his master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Arvind is married to Shilpa and they have a daughter, Aadhya. He is an avid nature lover and enjoys photographing birds and animals.
GE Aviation, an operating unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is a world-leading provider of jet engines, components and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. GE Aviation has a global service network to support these offerings.
GM, Open Innovation at the GTIO, Tata Services
GM, Open Innovation at the Group Technology & Innovation Office (GTIO), Tata Services
Dr. Suneel TS joined Tata Sons in June 2016. In his current role as GM, Open Innovation at the Group Technology & Innovation Office (GTIO), Suneel leads Open Innovation (Tata Innoverse) for the Tata group companies and helps accelerate solution implementation & IP portfolio through Open Innovation. Prior to joining the Tata Group, he was with United Technologies leading Carrier Air Conditioning Design, Analysis & component engineering activities for North America and GE Global research prior to that. Suneel started his career with General Electric (GE) in their Global Research Centre as a Mechanical Engineer. His passion for manufacturing and mechanical engineering continued and he, along with his team, developed several solutions/applications for GE Aircraft Engines and Energy businesses in manufacturing and inspection areas. Suneel also has led quality for GE and United Technologies and is a certified Master Black Belt (MBB) in 6 Sigma.
He has held several global positions including leading Product regulatory compliance for Asia and Australia and Global Program Management for Australasia and Europe. Suneel has around 19.5+ years of experience and has varied experience in R&D, Quality, Program Management, Innovation and New Product Development. Suneel has 4 patents in the areas of manufacturing and inspection technologies and several disclosures/publications to his credit. Suneel studied Engineering and has a Ph.D. (Manufacturing) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Director General (TM & HR), DRDO (Retd) JATC Director, IIT Delhi
Director General (TM & HR), DRDO (Retd) JATC Director, IIT Delhi
Mh Rahman obtained M. Tech. in Radar & Communication Engineering from IIT, Delhi. His areas of specialization is, Digital Communication Engineering, Source Coding and Channel Coding, Satellite Communication, System Integration and Life Cycle assessment. He joined DEAL, Dehradun in 1984 and contributed for development of video Codes, Jam Resistant Data Link and Tracking System as well as Group Head of signal processing. He was project Director of Airborne Early Warning and Control System as well as Group Head of Software Defined Radio. He was Head of Communication system Design Group of unmanned Ground vehicle programme. He was appointed as Director & General Manager, DRDO Integration Centre (DIC), in 2007. Due to his consistent efforts DIC was made operational in record time. He was promoted to the rank of Outstanding Scientist in 2014. He was appointed as Chief Controller R&D (Technology Management) on 22 Sep 2015 andsince then he provided leadership to harnessthe research potentials available in the academic institutions and industry for development of state-of–art technology for the futuristic programs and projects of DRDO. Under his leadership 4 new centres of excellence have been created to pursue advanced research in the field of propulsion technology, robotics, unmanned & secure systems and blast resistance technology at IIT (Mumbai), IIT (Chennai), IIT (Delhi) and Jadavpur University. Joint Advanced Technology Center (JATC) at IIT Delhi is an outcome of his efforts for strengthening DRDO Academia interface. He instrumented Research through private industries called Technology Development Fund (TDF) in DRDO to engage private industries specially MSME in research activity. He was also Director General (Human Resource), DRDO and mainly responsible for skill mapping and development, managing senior appointments, recruitment planning, cadre management, assessments, policies related to promotion, modification of SRO and recruitment rules, implementation of Government policies issued from time to time related to the about 40000 workforce of 7500+ Scientist; 9000+ DRTC, about 12000 Admin and Allied Cadre Officers and staff, 300 Service Officers and about 1000 Service personnel deployed in various DRDO Laboratories, Establishments, Headquarters, Work/ProductionCentres, User locations, etc. He was promoted to Distinguished Scientist in Oct 2016. He is recipient of DRDO Technology Group Award, AGNI Award for performance Excellence in self-reliance, National Technology Day Award, Life Time Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of IETE, AeSI, MIEEE. He is author/Co-author of many publications and many research papers to his credit. He is adjunct professor of DIAT (University), Pune. He has published may research papers in reputed international/national journals, seminar and symposium etc. He has guided many students for research leading to their MasterDegree in Engineering and examine of thesis for Ph. D. degree.
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder at NeuroEquilibrium Diagnostic Systems Pvt Ltd
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder at NeuroEquilibrium Diagnostic Systems Pvt Ltd
Rajneesh is a first generation serial entrepreneur and has promoted four successful ventures in Telecommunications, Engineering Materials, Medical Diagnostics and Gems. He has over 10 years of experience with Industry leaders like Reliance and Birlas before and his ventures. His flagship company is one of India’s leading Telecom Infrastructure service providers, spread across 14 states with a technical workforce of over 700 people providing engineering services to Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Bharti Infratel, Indus Towers, Huawei , ATC, etc. Rajneesh Bhandari is a Chemical Engineer from IIT Delhi. Rajneesh has multiple US patents to his credit. His newest startup, Neuroequilibrium™ Diagnostic Systems, is engaged in developing innovative and path-breaking medical diagnostic systems and protocols, especially for vertigo and balance disorders. The company is in the process of setting up specialty diagnostic clinics across India to impact a million vertigo and balance disorder patients by 2021 and 100 million in next 10 years through remote diagnosis leveraging cloud technology and Machine Learning.Rajneesh is on the governing board of Rajasthan Angel Investors Network. He was former president of TiE Rajasthan. Rajneesh is an active angel investor & has invested in various technology companies in Silicon Valley & India . Rajneesh is an investor at Boundary Capital , UK & is on the mentoring panel of GSV-Brand Capital accelerator. He is also member of State level Implementation Committee for startups of Government of Rajasthan
Chief Graphene Business, Tata Steel Ltd.
Chief Graphene Business, Tata Steel Ltd.
"Sumitesh’s ambition is to develop economically viable and environmentally friendly technologies through integrated research.With a post graduate degree in Manufacturing Science from IIT Kanpur, he joined Tata Steel in the summer of 1995. In 1999, he was selected as a Tata Steel Fellow for his doctoral studies in the area of Engineering Materials from the University of Sheffield, UK. Sumitesh presently heads the Graphene Business Initiative under the New Materials Division in Tata Steel. Prior to taking over this role, Sumitesh led the Global Research Programmes under Tata Steel Global R&D across the UK, Netherlands and India. His research interests include – advanced manufacturing technologies, computational materials and nano materials. As part of his work profile, Sumitesh has also developed systems and processes that enable multi-loactional research and technology organisations to function seamlessly. He has also been instrumental in the setting up of the Tata Steel Advanced Materials Research Centres at IIT Madras and Center for Nano and Soft Matter, Bengaluru. What is so unique about working with the Tatas. Sumitesh says – it is the freedom to experiment for a cause without the fear of failure. This ambience has enabled many, including Sumitesh, to dream of solutions that could benefit the larger society while creating business opportunities at the same time. Sumitesh has been actively engaged in the development of the affordable housing solutions NESTIN, in developing alternate energy sources like solar, water, medical and waste management systems using nanotechnology. Since 2007, Sumitesh has been leading a team of innovators who have used nanotechnology to extract waste heat from commercially used coolants, develop water based lubricants, provide superior corrosion resistance on steels. Two of these initiatives e.g CoolFast H2 and GrafLacca has been recognized at the Group level Innovation Awards ""Innovista"" in 2009 and 2015. Sumitesh has been the recipient of the Chevening Fellow from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK; receipient of the Young Engineers Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering and The Brunton Medal from the University of Sheffield"
Director & India CTO India, Applied Materials India
Director & India CTO India, Applied Materials India
Suraj Rengarajan is the India CTO based in Applied Materials Bangalore, India. He started his career in Applied Materials, Santa Clara in 1997, where he held different roles ranging from process engineering, technology, program management, and product marketing for thin film deposition and metallization for interconnects silicides and novel memories. He moved to India in 2007 to set up the solar group for Applied Materials in India. Later he headed the engineering group for dielectric deposition. Suraj holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras in Metallurgical Engg, and earned his M.S and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Materials Science. He has over 10 US patents and holds more than 15 publications.
Regional lead - Intel® Software
Regional lead - Intel® Software
Developer Products – Region lead for the Intel® Software tools for South East Asia. With her team, the group has the charter to drive deep software optimization on all Intel® architectures with the software development tools. Akanksha’s charter is to grow stronger and more skillful practice in the software developer community on IA. Akanksha has built many developer and data scientist related programs like code modernization workshops, software developer conferences, HPCDEVCONs and since the past 15 years has managed to drive the message of parallel programming to over 100,000 developers. With her efforts to grow the ecosystem, her team also works on building solution servicing by training and incentivizing the channel, SI and ISV community to spread the tools offering and optimization drive across all developer/ customer pockets of the region. She has been driving focused strategies to help build HPC, IOT and now AI knowhow on Intel across the region. Prior to her career at Intel, Akanksha was market evangelist for Microsoft.
