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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SUMMIT 2016

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Ganesh Natarajan Vice Chairman and CEO Zensar Technologies Ltd

Ganesh has been one of the most successful and dynamic professionals in the Indian Information Technology Industry and has been leading Zensar as the Vice Chairman for over ten years now, making Zensar one of the most successful IT companies in the country and amongst Fortune’s Top 10 global offshore outsourcing companies from India. Ganesh's Credentials: Ganesh is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and the Harvard Business School, and a Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. A PhD in Knowledge Management from IIT Bombay, Ganesh is the author of four McGraw Hill Books on Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management. He is also a regular columnist for India’s premier Business and IT magazines Awards and Recognitions: Ganesh was named 'CEO of the Year' by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organization through HR in 2005. Ganesh was also the finalist at the Ernst & Young 2005 Award where he was recognized for exceptional entrepreneurship. Having been a part of two major success stories in IT Training and Consulting earlier, NIIT and APTECH, Ganesh grew the company’s revenues fifty times during his ten year stint as CEO of Aptech and listed it on the Indian and London Stock Exchanges. Ganesh is the National Chair for Confederation of Indian Industries - IT and ITES Committee and a fellow of the Computer Society of India. He also chairs the Higher Education forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries in Western India. He is a member of the Board of Governors of NITIE Mumbai and member of the Executive Council and Chairmen’s Council of NASSCOM.


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B V R Mohan Reddy

Executive Chairman Cyient Ltd.

B.V.R. Mohan Reddy is a visionary who has placed India on the global map for leading-edge engineering research and development (ER&D) services. Having established Cyient (formerly Infotech Enterprises) in 1991, Mohan Reddy pioneered computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) solutions serving international clients. Cyient is consistently ranked among the top 15 IT services exporters from India. Cyient is also the largest independent exporter of high value research and development (R&D) services from India. 7 of the top 10 global aerospace companies, 5 of the top 5 global rail companies, 2 of the top 5 global semiconductor companies, 7 of the top 10 heavy equipment companies are Cyient’s customers. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) CIE division conferred the distinguished Leadership Award on Mohan Reddy in 2011. This is the industry’s most prestigious global award for engineering. Mohan Reddy was the first Indian and the seventh recipient globally. Mohan Reddy was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. It is the highest award given by the IIT to its alumni in recognition of their achievements of exceptional merit. He also received an Honorary Doctorate (Ph.D) from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, Honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from KL University, Vaddesaram, Vijayawada. Mohan Reddy is a Fellow of The Institute of Engineers (India). Mohan Reddy’s dedicated commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has made an indelible mark on the lives of many individuals and is an acknowledged contributor to community, state and nation. Through its “Adopt-a-School” initiative, Cyient touches the lives of over 10,000 underprivileged children. To promote digital education and inclusive growth, Cyient Foundation launched a Digital Library at the Akshara Vidyalaya School in Nellore District,


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Andhra Pradesh. Cyient continues to contribute to India’s growth story by setting up development centers in Tier-2 towns of Andhra Pradesh such as Visakhapatnam and Kakinada and has created over 1,000 technology jobs in Kakinada alone. Cyient won ICSI (Institute of Companies Secretaries of India) National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance 2014. Mohan Reddy is a Member of Board of Trustees of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Mohan Reddy is currently serving as Chairman of NASSCOM (National Association of Software & Service Companies), and has been a member of the Executive Council since 2003. At NASSCOM, Mohan Reddy laid the foundation of NASSCOM’s engineering services council (ER&D Forum) through a range of initiatives, including instituting industry research on ER&D services. In his previous role as Vice Chairman, NASSCOM, he was credited with establishing the Member Connect program. Mohan Reddy has also served as the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern Region (2008-2009). Mohan Reddy is also Director of T-Hub, the largest incubation centre in India for start-ups by Government of Telangana. Mohan Reddy has immense passion towards promoting education in India. Towards this, Mohan Reddy serves as Member on the Board of NIIT University, Neemrana; Member of Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at lIlT, Hyderabad. The Honorable President of India in his capacity as the Visitor of IIT-Hyderabad, has nominated Mohan Reddy as the Chairman of the Board of Governors (BoG), IIT-Hyderabad for 2012-15 and re-nominated for 2015-18.


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Rajeev Sangal Director

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He holds a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and MS and PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his work on computers and processing of human languages, and in particular on automatic translation among Indian languages. Before joining his current position he led a newly established research university, namely IIIT Hyderabad, for 11 years as its Director. In the new university, he helped create an innovative academic structure around research centres rather than departments; a radical research-oriented undergraduate curriculum; integrated trans-disciplinary BTech-MS programmes; research that tries to connect with society & industry; and an environment of experimentation, openness, and caring. He designed and helped make human values course a regular part of the academic curriculum at IIT(BHU) and IIIT-H. It has played a major role in shaping the atmosphere of the Institute, and drawing attention to larger human and societal concerns. There is also an attempt to run the institution on these principles. Since then the course has spread to several universities in India and abroad. His research in Natural Language Processing led to the development of Computational Paninian Grammar (CPG) framework. It has been applied to parsing, semanties and morphological analysis of Indian languages etc. and forms the basis of several machine translation systems among Indian languages as well as English. He leads/mentors the multi-institutional consortium that has developed MT systems for 18 Indian language pairs. He has authored 4 books and many research papers.


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He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and of Computer Society of India. He was given Vasvik award in 2008. As the President of NLP Association, India from 2002 onwards he helped organize the community of NLP researchers and started ICON, a high-quality annual NLP conference. He referees for many major conferences such as IJCNLP, ICON, COLING and ACL, and has been on the editorial board of journals computational Linguistics, Corpora, ACM Trans. of Asian Language Processing, Machine Translation, NL Engineering, etc. He was a member of the National Review Committee for PG programs in Engineering in India from 1996-98. He headed the Department of Computer Sc. & Engg. at IIT Kanpur 1987-90 where he spent 15 years as a faculty member.


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Girish Chandra Tripathi Vice Chancellor Banaras Hindu University

Educational Qualification

Ph.D from Allahabad University, Allahabad in the year 1983

Major Field of Study

Economics Area of Specialization

Agricultural Economics; Industry and Industrial Relations, Monetary Economics

Research Publications:

More than 25 Research Papers in the Journals of National and International repute

Supervised nearly about two dozen students and more than a dozen students have been awarded Ph.D.

Presented numerous papers in National and International Seminars

Delivered Special Lectures as Chief Guest; Guest of Honour and Key-note Speaker in National and International seminars

Experience

Professor of Economics in Allahabad University, Allahabad since 1999

Presently Vice-Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University since Nov. 2014 Membership of Academic / Professional Bodies

Chairman, Board of Governors IIT (BHU)

Chairman of the UGC Expert Committee for recognition of JRH University, Chitrakoot

Member of Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur, NITs


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Member and Chairman of many Committees of MHRD and other Institutions

Member, Search-cum-Selection Committee for Selection of Vice-Chancellor, Assam University

Member, Search-cum-Selection Committee for Selection of Vice-Chancellor, Manipur University

Member, Search-cum-Selection Committee for Selection of Director, NCERT

Member and Office bearer of many Social, Cultural and academic Institutions / Organizations

Visitors Nominee for Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow

Member, Finance Committee, IIT-Kanpur Visits Abroad:

Visited Sweden and Belarus as a Members of delegation of Hon'ble President of India

Again Visited Belarus, Sweden and Norway


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K D Tripathi Professor Emeritus BHU Varanasi

Kamalesh Datta Tripathi is presently Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Sanskrit Learning & Theology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He was appointed Professor in 1987. Prof. Tripathi became Dean of the Faculty twice and also acted as a member of the Executive Committee of Banaras Hindu University. Professor Tripathi did his M.A. (with specialization in Sanskrit Sahitya) in 1958 from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Acharya (Navya Vyakarana) in 1962, Acharya (Dharmashastra) in 1964 (both Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishvavidyalaya, Varanasi) and obtained D.Phil from Allahabad University in 1966. He joined Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1970 as Lecturer in Religion in the Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vijnana. He became Reader in Religion in 1977. He was invited by Govt. of M.P. as Director, Kalidasa Akademi, Ujjain in 1981 and served as Director till 1986 and from 2003 to 2007. As Director of Kalidas Akademi, Ujjain, for two terms, he shaped up the institution as an international centre for Sanskrit studies and theatre. Professor in the Department of Religious and Agamic Studies at Banaras Hindu University in 1987, Prof. Tripathi has been an Advisor at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Varanasi since 2007. Professor Tripathi has also taught as visiting faculty at reputed universities and institutions in Europe such as the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and University at Copenhegan. Many of his students are now professors in various universities in India, Germany, Japan and France. Professor Tripathi frequently contributes to national and international journals of philosophy, aesthetics, theatre, literature and languages. He has edited and translated Amarusatakam. For his services to the Sanskrit


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Sahitya, Indian Philosophy & Religion, Professor Tripathi has received honours such as the Certificate of Merit in 2007 from the President of India and Sahitya Akademi New Delhi Award for translation from Sanskrit and his contributions to Sanskrit literary studies. Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi conferred on him its Fellowship in 2009 and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati conferred the title of Mahamahopadhyay on him in 2015. He wrote many books and scores of research papers. He traveled several countries and also attended various International Conferences at Japan, Holland, Austria, Poland, France, Thailand, Finland, Spain and Sweden and also took part in various Conferences of the country. Publications by Prof. Tripathi:

Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta, translated with Prof. Lyne Bansat Boudon, Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, New York, 2011.

Kalatattvakosa, Vol. VII, Ed. by Prof. K.D. Tripathi, Dr. S Chattopadhyay, and Dr. Pranati Ghosal, Publisher: IGNCA, and Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, New Delhi.

Natyashastra, Vol. I (Nepali Version), Ed. Prof. K.D. Tripathi, Publisher: IGNCA and Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi.

In Process:

Indian & Western Philosophy of Language, Ed. by K.D. Tripathi and P.K. Mukhopadhyay, Publisher: IGNCA, New Delhi, 2015

Meaning & Beauty: Shastric Foundation of Indian Aesthetics, Ed. by K.D. Tripathi, Publisher: IGNCA, New Delhi, 2015.

Natyashastra, Vols. II & III (Nepal Version), IGNCA, New Delhi.


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R Chandrasekaran Executive Vice Chairman Cognizant Technology Solutions

R. Chandrasekaran or Chandra as he is known, is Executive Vice Chairman, Cognizant India. In this capacity, Chandra focuses on strengthening Cognizant’s strong relationship with industry bodies such as NASSCOM, and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), driving strategic initiatives that strengthen outreach to the government, and further enhancing Cognizant’s brand equity through public relations in India. Chandra also focuses on fortifying Cognizant’s broad business relationships and technology/delivery thought leadership. Chandra works closely with project teams to drive ever greater levels of client intimacy to help key clients in their transformation journey. Prior to this, Chandra, as Cognizant’s Group Chief Executive, Technology and Operations, led our solutions and global delivery teams worldwide. Chandra was responsible for growing our capacity, expanding our global delivery network, achieving ever greater excellence in delivery management through process and quality initiatives, and proactively nurturing key alliances and business partnerships. Chandra has been with Cognizant since its inception in 1994 and has played a variety of roles in developing Cognizant’s value proposition and executing our strategy. Chandra has also served as President and Managing Director of global delivery where he was instrumental in implementing a vertical structure in our core business and in introducing specialized service offerings. Chandra obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (formerly the Regional Engineering College) in Trichy, India and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. He is a 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India.


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Sandhya Shekar Advisor Knowledge and Innovation Strategies

Dr. Shekhar works in the area of Knowledge and Innovation Strategies. Her recent work focuses on helping organizations manage the challenges of global dispersion whilst leveraging market and innovation opportunities by extending organizational boundaries. She has worked at the confluence of industry and academic fraternities helping to build innovation ecosystems, in her former role as the first CEO of India’s first University Research Park. She also has extensive industry experience, having worked as Director, Asia Pacific Consulting, Gartner; CTO, BconnectB.com; Head, Knowledge Management Research, Aptech Ltd.; and Group Consultant, NIIT Ltd. She did her management studies at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She earned her PhD from IIT Madras, with her dissertation winning the award for outstanding doctoral research from the European Foundation for Management Development and Emerald. She currently serves as an independent director on the Boards of Bimetal Bearings Ltd. and IP Rings Ltd.


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Amit Biswas Executive Vice President Integrated Product Development Organization (IPDO) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Dr Amit has 26 years of diverse and rich international experience, spanning academic and industrial research, product development, technical service and management of research & technology in the areas of pharmaceuticals, engineering polymers and plastics, high performance fibers and coatings, and alternate energy technologies. He worked earlier with companies like DuPont (USA), ICI India, GE Advanced Materials and Reliance Industries. Currently, Amit leads a global R&D team of more than 1200 people that develops new products for the Pharmaceuticals Services & Active Ingredients (PSAI) and Global Generics (GG) businesses within Dr. Reddy’s. These products are marketed in more than 20 countries, providing access to affordable and innovative medicines across the globe. Amit is a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma (GE Certification). He is also a member of various councils viz. CII National Council for Technology, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (Hyderabad) Research Council and has been previously associated with the NCL Research Council, the IIT Bombay Advisory Council, and the IIT Bombay Centre for Research in Nano-technology & Science. Amit has 44 international publications, 3 book chapters and 4 patents. Amit has a Ph.D and Masters degree in Polymer Science from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA; and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.


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Jaideep Mehta Managing Director - IDC South Asia IDC

Jaideep Mehta is Managing Director - IDC India and South Asia. He joined the company in early 2011 to set up IDC’s wholly owned subsidiary operations in India, and subsequently in South Asia. He is a thought leader, advisor to CEOs and an international conference speaker. Aside from India, he has presented to business leader and technology leaders in Europe, Asia, USA and Japan. From macro-economic trends to technology disruptions, and market and industry analysis, he has blogged, written and presented on a wide range of topics. He has been awarded the “Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research” by the World Marketing Congress in 2014, and under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for “IT Advisor of the Year” in 2014 & 2015. Prior to his current role, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years where he was Regional VP, Sales Operations & Business Development – EMEA. Before Gartner, he spent more than 2 and a half years in the Indian outsourcing sector, most notably at Zensar Technologies where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe. During the late nineties, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of a software products company based in New Delhi which successfully launched Asia’s first Guest Relationship Management product for luxury hotels. The company was sold to the partners of a private equity firm. Jaideep is a graduate from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University. He then completed an MBA degree from IIM, Bangalore and the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of India.


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Uma Ganesh Chief Executive Officer Global Talent Track Pvt. Ltd.

Dr Uma Ganesh has three decades of success in corporate and entrepreneurial ventures covering manufacturing, media, banking and IT sectors. Uma’s experience of working with leading corporates namely Crompton Greaves, Fibre Glass Pilkington, NIIT, APTECH and HSBC Global Resourcing enabled her to hone in her expertise in functional management and build leadership acumen in scaling and managing large businesses. As the Chief Corporate Development Officer at HSBC Global Resourcing, Uma had responsibilities for Strategy and implementation of Next Gen transformation Programme in the Asian foot prints of HSBC covering India, China, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka. She has previously been part of ZEE Media Group as the CEO of Zee Interactive Learning Services. Uma set up an entrepreneurial venture Global Talent Track focussed on skill development which attracted investment by Intel Capital, CISCO and Helion Ventures. This venture is one of the leading vocational skills companies that uses the blended learning model and acts as the bridge between the academia and the industry with the vision to empower the youth through employability and play a leading role in the mission of the country to skill 500 million youth by 2025.

Uma has been a recipient of several awards in recognition of her contribution to skill development and education in the country and she plays an active role in industry associations and business forums at national and regional levels with leadership responsibilities at the National HRD Network, CII – Indian Women’s Network, Bombay Management Associations Higher Education Forum to name a few. Uma has an MBA degree from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and a PhD degree from IIT Bombay. She has a regular column in the Financial Express since 2013 where she writes on digital impact and talent development related subjects. She has co-authored a book with Dr. Ganesh Natarajan titled ‘Únleashing the Knowledge Force’ published by Tata Mc GrawHill.


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Shashank Tripathi Partner - Leader Strategy & India PwC Strategy & (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Shashank leads the Strategy & practice of PwC and has helped CEOs and Boards on a variety of Growth, diversification and market entry issues. He has consulted with a number of organizations in the Industrial Products, Aerospace and Defense, Auto verticals. He is also the lead Partner for PwC’s Growth Market Centre in Singapore, which advises clients on Emerging Market issues. Shashank and his team have recently led and published a report on the Future of India – the Winning Leap which seeks to ask the question, what would it take India to grow at 9% per annum. Shashank has over 20 years of experience in consulting with prior experience in the UK where he worked with Accenture and Deloitte. Shashank was also the CEO of a company he founded and led for 4 years and started his career at Schlumberger. Shashank is a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA (Hons) from IMD Lausanne. Shashank chair’s Jagriti Yatra in National Entrepreneurship Development journey which takes 450 young potential entrepreneurs from smaller town and villages of our country for a 15 day, 8000 km journey in a special train. Shashank is also the author of a book India - a journey through a healing civilization published by Harper Collins.


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Darshan Appayanna Chief Information, Security and Knowledge Officer Happiest Minds Technologies

Darshan Appayanna is the Chief Information and Knowledge Officer at Happiest Minds Technologies. He also holds additional responsibility as the Chief Information Security Officer for the company. With 22 years of experience in varied functions in the IT services industry across multiple domains, Darshan brings immense experience in Sales and Business Development, Evangelising Technology Solutions, Solutions delivery, business process consulting and Product Management in the Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Retail and Aerospace domains. He has championed multi-million dollar sales growth, driven process efficiencies and improved productivity for large enterprises using technology and has spearheaded multiple global operations and sales improvement programs within companies. He is a passionate follower of technology, a thrill seeker, traveller, a gadget geek and technology evangelist!


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Devender Malhotra Vice President & Chief Quality Officer Wipro Limited

Devender has over 20+ years of experience in IT, BPO, engineering and Automobile industry. Devender is a PGD in Marketing and Financial Management with graduation in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Certified Master Black Belt with Wipro in DMAIC and Lead Black Belt in DSSS+ and TQSS Methodologies driving Six Sigma as well as Lean Initiative as a certified Lean facilitator. A Qualified Internal Quality Auditor in ISO, CMMi Assessment Team member and has experience in implementing CMM Level 5 in GE-India Design Center and CMMi level 5/ BS 7799 in Wipro and also a Certified Malcolm Baldrige Examiner. He is a significant influencer of IT industry to promote continuous improvement and Agility through co-existence of methods inclusive of Scrum, SAFe, XP, Lean, Six Sigma while working with global teams. He is also instrumental in bringing robust Knowledge Management and Lean culture across Wipro. Devender has done various consulting assignments in US on Metrics, Six Sigma and Testing Process maturity areas and has presented papers in various forums (CII, Nasscom etc.) in India, Europe, Hong Kong and US. He recently presented paper in ANQ and EOQ conferences.


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Sandhya Vasudevan Managing Director & COO - India Deutsche Bank AG

Sandhya is the Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer for the Deutsche Bank Group in India. She has rich industry experience in the financial services sector, technology and off-shored services in different roles ranging from operations, technology, strategic development [capability build and looking at business development in rapidly developing markets], business engineering, process strategy & architecture, etc and has been involved with a number of integrations the last one being Thomson Reuters in India. She started her career in the TVS group and has since worked in organizations such as Guardian Royal Exchange / AXA, Thomson Reuters and now with Deutsche Bank. Sandhya is an active industry leader and has been involved with NASSCOM, CII and other forums over the years. With NASSCOM she has been part of the national Executive Committee and the Regional Council and is currently a Trustee with NASSCOM Foundation. She is part of CII Committee on Integrity & Transparency in Governance & CII National Committee on Knowledge Management & Business Transformation Best Practices Sharing. She is actively involved with many Diversity and Inclusion forums including being a jury member for NASSCOM D&I awards. She is on the board of Swiss Re’s Shared Services and is a member of World President’s Organisation (YPO/ WPO). Sandhya has an MBA in Marketing and an MA in History.


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Ruchi Mathur CEO Pune City Connect

Ruchi is a post graduate from IIM-Ahmedabad and comes with over 20 years of work experience straddling both, the corporate and the non-profit sector. She has worked in varied functions such as advertising, marketing, fund-raising, HR and strategy across myriad industries. She has been working in the social sector since 2005 and held positions at CRY (Child Rights and You) and Teach For India and is currently head of Zensar Foundation. Ruchi is passionate about enabling high scale and impact through collaborative platforms and in the last one year, has also taken on a leadership role in Pune City Connect, which is a platform for city-wide transformation.


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Ron Young Chief Executive Knowledge Associates Cambridge Ltd

Ron Young is the founder of Knowledge Associates International Group of Companies, a knowledge management and innovation consulting and solutions group with headquarters at St Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge U.K. He is acknowledged as a leading international expert and thought leader in strategic knowledge management and innovation. He specializes in knowledge driven results for organizations. He advised and assisted the UK DTI Innovation Unit in 1999 in the production of the UK Government White Paper ‘UK Competitiveness in the Knowledge Driven Economy’.

He regularly provides keynote presentations and workshops at leading knowledge management & innovation conferences around the world. He chairs the BSI Knowledge Management Standards Committee and is seconded to the ISO KM Standards workgroup. He chaired the CEN European Knowledge Management Standards Committee. He is a visiting lecturer for global knowledge economy programs and runs regular Knowledge Asset Management master classes at King’s College Cambridge University, UK. He is a consultant for the World Bank, Washington, USA, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Brussels, and the inter-governmental Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo.

He specializes in developing strategies, policies, governance models, knowledge systems and knowledge driven platforms. He works with major multi-national corporations, international UN agencies, Governments, military, and professional institutions globally. He was a lead consultant for the European Commission 2 Million euro ‘Know-Net’ project. He is joint author of the books ‘Knowledge Asset Management’ (Springer 2003), ‘Upside Down Management’ (McGraw Hill Europe 1996), Knowledge Management: Facilitators Guide (Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, 2009), Knowledge Management: Case Studies for SME’s (APO, Tokyo, 2009), Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques (APO, Tokyo, 2010), and Knowledge Management for the Public Sector (APO, Tokyo 2014). He is currently finalizing the book ‘Enhancing Knowledge Productivity’.


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Manjiri Gokhale Joshi Founder Director - Elephant Connect Elephant Connect Pvt. Ltd.

A training and management specialist based in the UK, Manjiri has designed and delivered management training and development programmes and blended learning courses for global teams including large transformation projects for ISS Facilities Services (Denmark), ICICI Lombard, Kalyani Steel, Shoppers' Stop, Persistent Systems, the Ministry of IT, Zensar Technologies, the National Congress Party (NCP) and Dr. Kiran Bedi's Womens' Rural Initiative among others. She has an MSc in Major Programme Management from Said Business School, University of Oxford. She has authored 3 books: Bosses of the wild, Lessons from the Corporate Jungle, Foreword-Mr K V Kamath, Chairman, ICICI Bank, McGraw Hill 2013, Crushes, Careers and Cell phones, Foreword - former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen, Vitasta 2011; Inspired - Lessons from 23 contemporary inspirational leaders (co-author Dr Ganesh Natarajan), Westland 2006; Her fourth book will be published in 2016. She co-founded Maya CARE, a charity working with senior citizens across India. She is a recipient of the British High Commission Chevening Scholarship (2006). Among her past assignments are: Learning & Development Specialist and Head, Project Management (Primal) at Informa PLC, London, Programme Manager, GlobalLogic, UK, National Management and Head, Corporate Communication, ICICI Lombard, Mumbai, Head, Contact Centre and Head, Human Resources, Zensar BPO and Assistant Editor, Dataquest, New Delhi.


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Parameshwar P Iyer Principal Research Scientist Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Dr. Parameshwar P. Iyer is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science. He has had his education from IIT Kharagpur, the University of Illinois, and the University of California. He has been a faculty previously at Rutgers University of New Jersey, IIT Kharagpur, and IIM Kozhikode. Dr. Iyer’s areas of interest include Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Business Systems. He has written three books, co-edited three Conference Proceedings, and published over 45 research papers. He has also contributed significantly by offering Management Development and Consultancy services to over a dozen major corporates. In particular, he has trained over 3000 professionals from industry in the above areas, through Continuing Education programs, especially in Project Management. Dr. Iyer is a member of several professional bodies, notably the Systems Society of India, the Institution of Engineers (India), and the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management. Parameshwar P Iyer is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of California, Davis, USA; M.S in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, USA; and B.Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India. Prof. Iyer’s teaching and research interests include Project Management; Technology Management and Entrepreneurship; Business Systems Analysis; and Knowledge Management. He has authored three books on Engineering Project Management with Case Studies; Project Evaluation and Implementation; Strategic Management (all published by Vikas Publishing, New Delhi); and has contributed one Chapter on Bio - diesel Energy Systems and Technology, in a Book on Capacity Building for Sustainable Development published by the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy.


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Dr Iyer also has published and presented over 43 papers in international and national journals and conferences. Prof. Iyer is the recipient of several awards including the Silver Medal for General Proficiency from IIT Kharagpur; Harry G. and Harriett A. Wright Fellow of the University of Illinois; and Escorts – ISAE Medal. Dr. Iyer has offered management development programs and consultancy services in Project Management and Strategic Management to over a dozen corporate, including TCS, ITI, WIPRO, 3SE, Compsoft, Liqiwd Krystal, NTPC, HKADB, Tata Motors, Leo Infotech, and the University of Mauritius. In the past 22 years, Dr. Iyer has trained over 2200 professional engineers and managers in the area of Project Management. He has been invited to be on the Board of Directors of three Information Technology Companies; and is also on the Governing Council of two Engineering and one Management Institute. Dr. Iyer has been elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management (GIFT); he is also a Life Member of the Systems Society of India (SSI) and the Institution of Engineers (India).


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Rudolf D’Souza

Founder and CEO

In-Kno-Win Consulting Rudolf DSouza is the founder of In-Kno-Win Consulting (www.inknowin.com), a Consulting and Solutions Company specializing in Innovation, Knowledge Asset Management and Decision Frameworks, based in Mumbai, India. He is acknowledged as the worldwide pioneer who introduced Gamification to the field of Knowledge Management. He is the leading expert and thought leader in strategic knowledge management and innovation in the country.

Rudolf firmly believes that the success of any intervention lies in delivering Business Results. This philosophy was cultivated when he was the Head- KM for a decade at Asia’s Largest Direct Sales Company. He created path breaking programs to engage the 8000+ employees working in over 200 offices that resulted in Business Growth, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Engagement. The success was reflected in the company being recognized among the Top 5 ‘Best Places to Work’, and Asia and India Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE Award). The KM Practices are now a Case Study at the Indian Institute of Management.

Rudolf is a speaker, session chair, workshop leader and co-chairs a number of National and International Conferences, among them the KM Asia conference. He has written articles on KM, Gamification and Innovation that has been published in leading Journals worldwide. He is a visiting faculty at a number of educational institutes and conducts an elective paper on KM at one of the leading Management Schools in the country. Rudolf actively promotes KM in India as well as globally. He is the Executive President (KM) of the LASSIB Society that is an active partner in the Global KM Network (GKMN). He is a Member of the KM Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He animates the Mumbai KM Community. Rudolf has been felicitated by the Observer research Foundation for his contribution to ‘Mumbai Vision 2015’ and has recently been recognized as ‘Among the Top 50 Knowledge Management Professionals’ at the World HR Congress.

http://www.inknowin.com/


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Amirullah Khan Board Member Digital Empowerment Foundation

Amir Ullah Khan is Policy advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also co-founder and Director of Aequitas Consulting. Amir is visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business Development and Trade Economist. He graduated from the Institute of Rural Management in Anand and has a PhD from the Jamia Milia Central University in New Delhi. Amir is on the Governing boards at Aequitas Research, Welhams Girls School, the Digital Empowerment Foundation, Pahle India Foundation, EandH Foundation, ACCESS ASSIST and the India China Economic Council. He has been Director at the India Development Foundation, Deputy Director General at the PHD Chamber of Commerce, Adjunct Professor of Law and Economics at the Edith Cowan University in Perth and Executive Director and Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Nikita Tete Director, Knowledge Services Deloitte Support Services India Private Limited

Home-grown leader with 15 years of experience - Nikita brings demonstrated leadership in knowledge management, people and team development, quality and operational excellence.

Nikita leads a team of over 250 professionals in Deloitte and has established and steadily grown the Knowledge Services team and services over the course of 13 years, expanding service delivery from Hyderabad to Bengaluru. She has extensive experience spearheading complex operations, programs and projects for both U.S. and Global customers. As a founding leader of KM in Deloitte US India Offices, Nikita’s accomplishments include the development of the service framework to deliver exceptional KM services, first to Deloitte Consulting, then cross-functionally, to enabling areas, and a portfolio of member firms. Core to her success is the demonstrated leadership mentoring, teams and programs she has developed to ensure strong and steady growth of both leaders and leadership teams. These programs have been adopted across US India Offices and credited toward both U.S. Knowledge Services growth and customer satisfaction.

Nikita has been a leader on Women’s Initiative Sr. Manager Advisory Council (WISMAC) and the Inclusion Council, led several strategic regional initiatives and served as a member on the regional Executive Committee. She is a recognized speaker on the topic of KM and women leadership at international conferences, including: KM World: Asia, KM India and the NHRD. Nikita was awarded with the KM Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge Management Congress for 2014 and recognized as one of 50 most influential KM professionals in 2015. Currently, Nikita also leads a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) panel for KM and Business Transformation. Prior to Deloitte, Nikita led the ISO 9001:2000 certification process for Magna Infotech’s quality initiative. Nikita holds an M.Phil in Policy Studies from the Central University of Hyderabad. She resides in Hyderabad and enjoys traveling, cooking and being the official taste tester for her husband’s thriving food venture.


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Seema Mehta Director Chhandam Nritya Bharati

A born artist, Seema graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, USA with Bachelors of Fine Art (BFA) specializing in painting and sculpture. She has been training under renowned Kathak maestro Pandit Chitresh Das since 2000. Her performing career began in 2003 at the San Francisco State University. She is an expert practitioner and performer of Kathak Yoga- Chitresh Das’s innovation within the Kathak tradition. Seema performs Kathak Yoga by dancing complex compositions while singing and playing the harmonium. Seema is the Director of Chhandam Nritya Bharati - India where she teaches over 100 students in Mumbai and Kolkata. She has worked with the children of Kolkata’s red light areas, the New Light Project in particular empowering them through Kathak. She also teaches children from the Akanksha and SMILE Foundations in Mumbai. Going beyond the traditional preview of dance, Seema’s vision is to touch lives through her work. Seema is the Creative Director at Kirtilals.


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Shumita Mahajan General Manager Social Venture Partners, Pune

Shumita has over 18 years of experience in the Media circuit, Shumita has worked with leading publication houses of the country such as the Times of India, Sakal Papers, Indian Express. Shumita has vast experience in the field of Marketing Communication and Magazine creation. With a Masters degree in English Language and a Masters in Journalism &Communication, Shumita’s last assignment before taking over as General Manager, Social Venture Partners, Pune, was serving as the Executive Editor of the monthly Education journal, “Educon” that connected the academic community of India. In addition Shumita also has wide experience of teaching Communication studies to various reputed colleges across the country and regularly mentors young keen minds.


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Padma Chandrasekharan Cultural and Start-Up Entrepreneur Chennai

Padma Chandrasekaran has worked in senior executive capacities and entrepreneurial roles in the IT sector in India, UK, USA for close to 18 years. For the last 14 years she has worked in the global development and public health sectors. She was part of the founding team of Sify Ltd, and part of the founding India office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She continues to engage with global health research organizations in an advisory capacity. She is also an active investor and mentor to startups in healthcare, technology, analytics and education. She is on the board of directors of several companies, is a member of the advisory board of Algolabs, an initiative of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and a member of the Governing Council of TIE Chennai. Padma has several peer reviewed publications in top tier international journals such as The Lancet, and the British Medical Journal. She is a patron of the arts, and is an aficionado of both Carnatic and Hindustani music systems. Padma has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a degree in Mathematics / Statistics from the University of Calcutta.


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Ved Prakash Knowledge Management Head CGI Inc.

Ved Prakash is Head of Knowledge Management at CGI, a Canada-headquartered global IT Services and Consulting firm with $10 Billion in revenues and 69,000 professionals in 40 countries. He has been with CGI for close to four years and as KM Head is responsible for setting up the KM strategy and its rollout with close alignment to business. Ved has also led a Transformation Program in APAC region that aims at preparing the organization for the future. Ved has been an active member of CGI’s Global Application Services Council that carries the charter of standardization and industrialization of application services provided to clients. Prior to CGI, Ved was with Wipro for twenty years where he was the Chief Knowledge Officer in the last six years. He set the strategic KM Vision for Wipro which included ‘One-KM’ for both IT and non-IT businesses of Wipro. Under his leadership, Wipro was the proud recipient of Global, Asian and Indian MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) Awards for excellence in knowledge management over the last several years. Amongst his other leadership roles in Wipro, he was the Delivery Head for Healthcare & Life Sciences business, and Practice Head for Energy & Utilities vertical. Ved has conducted KM Strategy and Visioning workshops for CXOs across the globe. He has been an invited speaker in many national and international forums. He is a member of CII National Committee on KM and Business Transformation, and a member of Bureau of Indian Standards national committee on framing KM standards for Indian organizations. He has been recognized with the KM Leadership Award in the Global KM Congress 2014 and listed in ‘50 Most Influential KM Professionals’ in 2015. Ved holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and a Bachelors of Technology with Honours in Computer Engineering from Pantnagar University where he was a Gold Medalist.


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Anand Byrappa Global Leader, Knowledge Centre GE John F Welch Technology Centre

Ananda Byrappa has a Master’s degree in Information Science from Bangalore University. He did his Information and Knowledge Management Course at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Ananda has spent over 18 years in top multinational corporates. Served at Deutsche Bank Group, Zee Media Group and General Electric. Ananda is currently with GE, heading their Knowledge Centre, which serves GE’s 25 plus global sites in Asia, Europe and USA. He is also driving digitization and copyright compliance at GE. Ananda has co-edited a book, written 4 book chapters and published papers in Journals and Conferences. He has attended many national and International Conferences and delivered invited lectures. He was invited by UK Serials group to deliver a plenary talk in their conference in London. He was recently invited to Kaulalmpur to deliver a key note address in an international conference. He has served on Scopus International advisory board and invited by Wiley and Springer to serve on their advisory boards. Ananda has received best paper award recently for his paper at 3rd National conference on “Scientometrics & Big Data”. Ananda is a recipient of Vikram Sarabhai Operational Excellence Award in the year 2010 in GE – received Rs.1 lakh cash and a conference hall was named for one year as ‘Ananda Byrappa Conference Room’ He is a recipient of Global Knowledge Management Leadership Award at World Education Congress in the year 2015. Ananda is a Certified Six Sigma Black-belt Areas of Interest: IPR, Six Sigma, Knowledge Management, Digital Libraries, Publishing, Research & Business Information


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Nirmala Palaniappan Head - KM Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE)

Nirmala is a knowledge management professional with over 15 years of experience in the function (most of it in the IT industry). She has had the opportunity to work on several knowledge management projects and initiatives covering organizational culture, process improvements and social technology design and implementation. Nirmala is passionate about knowledge management, employee engagement, learning, innovation and happiness at work. She is the inventor of a KM framework, methodology and toolkit that was granted a patent by the US patent office in 2010. Nirmala has authored and presented various papers and case studies at national and international KM conferences over the last decade or so. She loves writing about and sharing her KM experiences.


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Ravi Shankar Ivaturi Directory - Operations Unisys

Ravi Shankar Ivaturi is the Operations Director of Asia Technology Centres (ATC) – India, China and Australia at Unisys. His portfolio of responsibilities includes Knowledge Management for ATC and Unisys India. Collaboration, Innovation and Inventions, and a strategy to Acquire, Retain and Propagate knowledge within and outside the Organization are at the core of the KM Strategy he developed. Ravi is a professional with over 20 yrs experience in Manufacturing and Software Industries. He served as a Member of the CII’s Knowledge Commission for 2012-13, and currently serving on CII National Committee on KM & Business Transformation. He is an active member of K-Community, Bangalore Chapter. Ravi was conferred with Knowledge Management Leadership Award at the Global KM Congress in June, 2014. Ravi has filed (jointly with his colleague) the first patent application from Unisys India, and later on contributed to the invention culture becoming part of the organization. He is passionate about Organization Development & Organizational Change Management. He has presented at several KM conferences. His paper titled “Harnessing Knowledge Management for Innovation” was published in the book “Next Generation KM: Insights and Practice for Resilient Organizations”, edited by Madanmohan Rao, published by ARK Group.


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Vikram B Principal - Knowledge Management Infosys Limited

Vikram B. is a Principal - Knowledge Management and has over 15 years of

experience at Infosys Limited. He is primarily responsible for conceptualizing

Knowledge Management (KM) solutions as well as executing architecture, design,

implementation, deployment and management phases of KM solutions to address

Infosys KM requirements.

In his stint at Infosys, he has also contributed extensively to Infosys KM strategy,

processes, promotion, and KM Metrics. He is also responsible for collecting data

and providing analytics platform of KM systems’ usage trends to formulate KM

strategy and program management. He has consulted for high-profile Infosys

customers in Australia and Europe. He is a Certified Scrum Master ® and holds a

degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University.

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