Varun Das
EVP & Chief Product Officer
Airtel Digital

Varun Das serves as the Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President at Airtel India, where he leads the company’s digital platforms and product strategy for the Consumer and B2B business. With over two decades of experience across the Internet, digital media, and telecommunications industries, Varun has worked with technology leaders like Microsoft, Ericsson, and Conde Nast, bringing a truly global perspective to his work. His career has spanned key markets in the United States, Australia, and India, giving him a unique understanding of diverse digital ecosystems and consumer behaviours.

At Airtel, Varun is at the forefront of delivering digital products and solutions that cater to a vast and diverse customer base. Airtel’s reach extends to over 400 million consumers, 2,500+ enterprises, and more than 1 million SMBs. Varun has been instrumental in building and scaling next-generation digital services and platforms contributing in shaping India’s digital landscape.​

Throughout his professional journey, Varun has consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to excellence and a deep understanding of the evolving technology landscape. His collaborative approach fosters a culture of innovation and encourages his team to think beyond the normal. Varun strongly believes in empowering individuals and nurturing their talents, enabling them to realize success for themselves and the organization.

Deepak Pargaonkar
Vice President, Solution Engineering
Salesforce

Capt. Raghu Raman
UN Peacekeeper, Founding CEO, NATGRID, Strategic Coach
Storyteller

Capt. Raman has had a distinguished career spanning three distinct leadership environments, the military, corporate, and the government. He has experienced diverse settings – the authoritarian style of the Armed Forces; the incentive-driven approach of corporates like Mahindra, Reliance Industries, and Adani as well as the procedure-driven bureaucratic style of the government. Capt. Raman has founded and led companies, including complex global joint ventures, and was handpicked by the government as the founding CEO of the National Intelligence Grid, an Agency which was set up after the 26/11 attacks. 

Capt Raman has served as a strategic advisor to national and global leaders and has a strong presence in leading publications and platforms, including TEDx and Josh. His talks & podcasts have been watched over 50 million times and are used as case studies in several leadership forums and storytelling workshops.

Capt. Raman is visiting faculty for esteemed business schools and government institutions, including the Indian School of Business, IIM, the National Defence College, and the Indian Institute of Public Administration. He is the author of the bestselling book “Everyman’s War” and anchored a leadership development program for the Adani Group, structured to produce 75 CEOs in two years. Additionally, he hosted the NDTV talk show “Wisdom of Leaders”, and coaches leaders to become TEDx level speakers. 

Prasun Kumar
Chief Marketing Officer & Business Head
Magicbricks

Prasun Kumar serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Magicbricks, where he oversees the company’s marketing, research, and editorial functions. In addition to his CMO role, Prasun also leads strategic revenue verticals, leveraging his expertise to drive growth and innovation for the leading real estate portal.

Before rejoining Magicbricks in 2023, Prasun was the Chief Marketing Officer at Justdial. His career spans over two decades across leadership roles in renowned organizations, including Reliance Communications, Sony Mobile Communications, MTS, Levi Strauss & Co., Madison Communications, and McCann Worldgroup.

With extensive experience across industries, Prasun brings a wealth of strategic insight and a proven track record of success in building brands, fostering innovation, and delivering impactful results.

Shamik Banerjee
CMO & Founder Member, Growth & P&L Leadership
Apollo 24|7

Shamik Banerjee is a growth-focused business leader with over 20 years of experience driving transformation across financial services, healthcare, insurance, and digital ecosystems. As part of the founding team at Apollo 24|7, he played a pivotal role in scaling the digital health platform into one of India’s leading health-tech ecosystems. He also led the creation and expansion of Apollo 24|7’s insurance vertical, overseeing product, technology, operations, and organizational strategy—bringing full P&L ownership and board-level engagement.

Shamik has previously held senior leadership roles at Apollo Munich, Reliance, Aegon, and IFFCO-Tokio, where he led large-scale digital transformation and operational scale-up initiatives across highly regulated industries. His core strengths lie in building and scaling businesses, leading digital-first growth, and navigating complex high-growth environments.

He is passionate about partnering with ambitious fintech, health-tech, and InsurTech ventures to drive innovation and sustainable scale in India and the broader APAC region.

Mankiran Chowhan
Vice President – FCI Sales, India
Salesforce

Mankiran is a technology business leader with experience in driving a high-performance growth culture. She leads the Financial services & Consumer Industries business for Salesforce India and is fuelled by the mission of accelerating growth for the segment.

In her last role she was the Managing Director of SAP Concur, prior to which she spent 15 years at Gartner – the last 5 of them as the Country Manager Sales for India. Building high performance winning teams remains central to her approach.

Serving on the board of Latika Roy Foundation, a NGO focused on making a better world for children with disabilities is an honour as that aligns with her values of making the world more inclusive. A strong advocate for more women in business and leadership, she lends her voice to champion for the cause and mentors many mothers returning to work and women in sales.

From being a travel enthusiast to trying out skydiving or to being a certified deep sea diver, she is always willing to try new adventures and tries to walk the talk in exemplifying a growth-mindset. She is married to Rantej , the founder of Eligere Technologies a digital product company and they are parents to 2 boys – Vihaan and Shaan.

Mankiran has a proven track record of building talent and managing complex transformations, having won the Economic Times Top 20 corporate women leaders award in 2018.

Neeraj Gera
President, upGrad Enterprise
upGrad

Neeraj is the President – Capability and Delivery at upGrad Enterprise, where he partners with leading organizations to drive talent transformation in an era defined by rapid technological change. In his current role, he leads the development and delivery of learning solutions that blend behavioral, digital, and AI-driven capabilities to future-proof enterprise workforces.

An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta, Neeraj combines deep technical and business expertise with a practitioner’s understanding of workforce capability-building.

Prior to upGrad, he held leadership roles in global IT services, managing large cross-functional teams and advising Fortune 500 clients on business and digital transformation. His corporate career includes tenures at industry giants such as GE/Genpact and Citibank, where he built deep expertise in operations, transformation, and leadership development.

Neeraj later pivoted to the startup ecosystem, bringing his enterprise acumen to high-growth ventures like TBO.com (a travel-tech marketplace and a 2024 unicorn), before joining upGrad. His unique blend of corporate discipline and startup agility positions him at the intersection of talent, technology, and transformation.

Dilpreet Singh
Head of Loyalty, CRM & Partnerships
ITC Hotels Limited

Dilpreet is a seasoned Loyalty and CRM leader with over two decades of experience across varied industries like Hospitality, Retail and BFSI. 

Dilpreet currently leads the Loyalty, CRM, and Partnerships division at ITC Hotels, with a strategic mandate to build the core technology platform and engagement framework driving two critical growth levers: customer retention and loyalty.

He is spearheading the transformation and launch of a next-generation, digital-first loyalty program by harnessing cutting-edge Martech solutions and advanced data analytics to decode customer behavior and deliver hyper-personalised experiences.

Under his leadership, the organisation is implementing market automation tools that enable precise campaign orchestration, ensuring deeper resonance with target audiences. Dilpreet is also establishing an analytics Centre of Excellence to foster data-driven decision-making, create a robust framework to track and deliver ROI on loyalty initiatives, and elevate the end-to-end customer experience.

Renowned for driving digital transformation, he blends data, design thinking, and innovation to craft personalized, high-impact customer journeys that deliver both emotional resonance and commercial success.

Ashish Tiwari
Chief Marketing Officer
Home Credit India

Ashish brings to the table 20+ years of corporate experience across consumer (FMCG/FMCD), insurance, telecom and new media domains. He practices the amalgamation of brand marketing, technology, and data analytics to transform brands and enrich consumer experience.  At Home Credit India, he is responsible for using digital as a key medium for enablement & delivery and expand the brand’s reach across India. Prior to joining Home Credit India, Ashish was associated with Future Generali India Life Insurance (FGILI), Hero Group, Jubilant, Vodafone India and HCL. He has been a TEDx speaker, keynote panelist and jury member at various marketing summits, and a visiting faculty at IIMR. Ashish holds a post-graduate degree in Business Management from LBSIM, New Delhi, combined with a digital and social media specialization from IIM, Bangalore.

Neil Thompson
Director of the FutureTech Research Project, Principal Investigator at Initiative on the Digital Economy
MIT

Chief Marketing Officer
Home Credit India

Sandhya Kapoor
SVP & Head, Central Platform Organization
Flipkart

Harvansh Singh Sagar
Corporate VP & Head – IT Infra & Digital Ops
Axis Max Life Insurance

Manya Ghobadi
Associate Professor at EECS
MIT

Patrick Fagan
Bestselling Author, Chief Scientific Officer
Capuchin Behavioural Science

Saurabh Tiwari
Chief Technology Officer
Policybazaar

Arvind Satyanarayan
Associate Professor of EECS
MIT