Speakers

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare
Science & Technology and Earth Sciences
Government of India

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office
Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space
Government of India

Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak

State Minister, ICT Division
Ministry of Posts
Telecommunications and Information Technology
Government of Bangladesh

Mr. Amitabh Kant

CEO
NITI Aayog

Dr. Sangita Reddy

Joint MD
Apollo Hospitals Group and
President, FICCI

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma

Secretary at Department of Science and Technology
Government of India

Dr. Shekhar C. Mande

Secretary
DSIR and Director General
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, GoI

Shri Rahul Chhabra

Secretary (ER)
Ministry of External Affairs
Govt. of India

Mr. CP Gurnani

CEO and Managing Director
Tech Mahindra

Mr. Vivek Wadhwa

Distinguished Fellow
Harvard Law School

Mr. Javier Lopez Casarin

President
Council of Knowledge and Innovation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico

Mr. Gopal Vittal

MD & CEO
Bharti Airtel (India and SA)

Mr. Abhishek Singh

CEO MyGov, President & CEO NeGD
MD & CEO Digital India Corporation (DIC), GoI

Dr. Lawrence C. Schuette

Director of Global Science & Technology
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Mr. Nishith Acharya

CEO
Equal Innovation

Dr. Samiran Panda

MBBS, MD, Scientist G and Head
ECD Division and Director, NARI, ICMR

Dr. Arabinda Mitra

Scientific Secretary
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

Dr. Manish Diwan

Head
Strategic Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development
BIRAC

Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj

Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University

Mr. Dilip Chenoy

Secretary General
FICCI

Dr. Ajai Chowdhry

Founder
HCL

Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan

Director and Professor of Strategy
Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore (IIMB)

Dr. Narottam Puri

Board Member & Former Chairman – NABH
Advisor – Medical Operations & Chairman
Fortis Medical Council, Fortis Healthcare Ltd.

Mr. Rajesh Jejurikar

Executive Director
Auto & Farm Sectors
Mahindra & Mahindra

Mr. Amajit Gupta

CEO
Lightstorm Telecom Ventures

Dr. Rajendra Kumar

Additional Secretary
Meity
GoI

Mr. Sanjay Nayak

CEO & MD, Tejas Networks and
Chair FICCI Science Technology & Innovation Committee

Mr. Jagdish Mitra

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Growth Tech Mahindra and
Co-chair FICCI Science Technology & Innovation Committee

Dr. Anita Gupta

Head – NEB Division
Department of Science & Technology
Ministry of Science & Technology, India

Mr. Avnish Sabharwal

MD
Accenture Ventures and Open Innovation

Mr. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Group CIO
Apollo Hospitals

Mr. Dileep Mangsuli

Executive Director
Siemens Healthineers

Mr. G. Krishna Kumar

Vice President
Crop Operations and Sustainability
ITC Limited Agri Business Divison

Dr. Aloknath De

Corporate Vice President
Samsung Electronics and
CTO Samsung R&D Institute India

Mr. Himanshu Kapania

Vice Chairman, ABFRL &
Director
Telecom Aditya Birla Group India

Ms. Sindhu Gangadharan

SVP and MD
SAP Labs India

Mr. S K Varshney

Adviser & Head – International Cooperation
Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Ms. Jayshree Kotapalli

Senior Director, Digital
Data and Analytics, GSK

Mr. Rene Van Berkel

Representative and Head
Regional Office of UNIDO in India

Ms. Meena Ganesh

CEO & MD
Portea Medical

Mr. Rajesh Ranjan

CEO
NABVENTURES

Dr. Dietmar Hueglin

Director Innovation
Campus Mumbai (RA/OM)
Vice President Advanced Materials & Systems Research, BASF

Dr. Anu Acharya

CEO
Ocimum Bio Solutions & Mapmygenome

Mr. Rajib Shaw

Professor
Graduate School of Media and Governance
Keio University

Mr. Ravi Ramaswamy

Strategic Advisor-Healthcare, Board Member, Executive Coach, Adjunct Faculty
(Retd.) Sr. Director & Head
Health Systems & Market Solutions Innovation, Philips