Conference Agenda

Opening Keynote:

Startup & Entrepreneurship in The New Normal

STAGE 1: The Future of Work

Keynote: Girish Mathrubootham, Founder & CEO, Freshworks

SESSION A: The Next Big Leap for SAAS

• SaaS has taken over, and the importance of consistent innovation in software development has grown right along with it.
• How Cloud computing, big data, customer service, sales & marketing and enterprise tech are creating great customer experience

SESSION LEAD: Punita Kapoor, Deputy Editor, Entrepreneur India

Rajesh Raju, Managing Director, Kalaari Capital
Shashank Randev, Founder VC, 100X.VC

SESSION B: Digital Transformation

• The facets of digital in business with the latest thinking on innovation within digital

KEYNOTE: Jaspreet Bindra, Digital Transformation Expert and Author

SESSION LEAD: Saurabh Kumar, Editor – Special Projects, Entrepreneur India

Akhil Gupta, Co-Founder and Chief Tech & Product Officer, NoBroker
Adarsh Dikshith, Co-Founder, Inflection Point Ventures

STAGE 2: The Future Impact of Deep tech: The Real-World Applications

Keynote: Sudhir Sethi, Founder & CEO, Chiratae Ventures

SESSION A: How Blockchain could help in transforming businesses

• Advanced development and use cases across sectors
• Impact & strategy
• Technology & trust

SESSION LEAD: Nitin Sharma, Founder, First Principles

Neeraj Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CTO, CoinDCX
Shinam Arora, Founder and CEO, Primechain Technologies
Walid Daniel Dib, Co-Founder and CEO of Addenda, a Hub71 insurtech startup
Rajesh Dhuddu, Global Practice Leader, Blockchain & Business Head, Cybersecurity (APAC, Japan, and India), Tech Mahindra

SESSION B: MedTech: Innovations for Digital Health

• Role of technology in healthcare for a transformed future
• New drug discovery, genome editing, and disease eradication
• Tech redefine economic value in healthcare
• Digital healthcare finding its moment within the COVID-19 crisis
• Need for more investment

SESSION LEAD: Saurabh Kumar, Editor – Special Projects, Entrepreneur India

Prashant Warier, Co-Founder and CEO, Qure.ai
Ajit Narayanan, Co-Founder and CTO, MFine
Dr. Geetha Manjunath, CEO and CTO, Niramai
Ryan Collins, Managing Director, Mass Mutual Ventures
Dr. Vedam Ramprasad, India CEO, MedGenome

Kick-Start Your Business & Conquer

Keynote: Pugal.T, Senior Consultant, Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd

STAGE 3: The Future of Society

SESSION A: Infrastructure for The Society of the Future

• Smart connected cities – A data, democracy, and disruption Interplay
• Innovation in newer, cleaner source of energy
• The future of mobility

SESSION LEAD: Saurabh Kumar, Editor – Special Projects, Entrepreneur India

Dr Sumit D Chowdhury, founder and MD/CEO, Gaia
Manish Rathi, Co-founder, and CEO, IntrCity RailYatri
Tarun Wig, Co-Founder, Innefu Labs
Rakesh Kharwal, Managing Director, India/South Asia & ASEAN, Cyberbit
Arvind Vasu, Senior Vice President, and Investment Lead (Asia), ABB Technology Ventures

SESSION B: Logistics & Supply Chain for Tomorrow’s world

• How Logistics is digitizing supply chains ranging from Global to Hyperlocal
• Organizing one of the largest unorganized sectors
• Modern agriculture – Focus on health and speed

SESSION LEAD: Jinesh Shah, Managing Partner, Omnivore

Ashish Jhina, Co-founder, Jumbotail
Shashank Kumar, Co-founder, DeHaat
Nishith Rastogi, Founder & CEO, Locus
Anjani Mandal, Co-Founder and CEO, Fortigo
Talwinder Singh, Regional Director, Lalamove

STAGE 4: The Future of FinTech

SESSION A: How Digital Payments & LendingEcosystems are changing the future of Money

• PayTech: Driving the next generation of payments, meeting customer expectations
• Digital Finance -New products, new approaches to credit and lending. Digital Banking and loans that are customized, intelligent and real time.
• Wealth tech – Robo Investing, New opportunities in Institutional asset management

SESSION LEAD: Ashish Fafadia, Partner, Blume Ventures

Vinay Bagri, CEO & Co-Founder, Niyo Solutions Inc
Hemant Gala, VP- Payments & Financial services, PhonePe
Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder & CIO, Zerodha and True Beacon
Akash Gehani, Co-founder, and COO,Instamojo

SESSION B: InsureTech

• How is insuretech disrupting the face of insurance distribution and what this means for the insurance industry
• Successful collaboration & challengesand barriers between insurers, insuretech and non-insurers.
• The impact insure-tech will have on the future of claims.

SESSION LEAD: Shipra Singh, Chief Correspondent, Entrepreneur India

Rohan Kumar, CEO and Co-founder, Toffee Insurance
Wei Zhu, Founder and CEO, Igloo
Dhirendra Mahyavanashi, Co-founder, Turtlemint
Vijay Kumar, CEO & Principal Officer, Digit General Insurance
Anil Joshi, Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures
Tarun Mathur, Co-founder & CBO, Policybazaar

STAGE 5: The Future of AI

Keynote: Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder & CEO, Haptik

SESSION A: Machine Learning & Data Science

• How Non-tech businesses can apply ML in their business and to what outcomes.
• Machine Learning & Data – finding intelligent business answers from within.
• The next generation of data and analytics.
• Judicious use of data

SESSION LEAD: Vikas Sarda, CFO, Unitus Capital

Kunal Kislay - Co-Founder & CEO, Integration Wizards Solutions
Puja Srivastava, Co-Founder & CTO, Spocto
Manit Parikh, Country Manager, India, ELSA Corp

SESSION B: AI & Automation

• The practicalities of deploying and scaling AI in Enterprises
• The challenges that still lie when it comes to adopting AI across the board
• How far has automation come, and how far does it still have to go?
• Automation with Human Touch

SESSION LEAD: Rohit Goyal, Managing Partner, Windrose Capital

Raghu Ravinutala, Founder and CEO, Yellow Messenger
Ankit Ratan, Co-Founder, Signzy
Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai
Devesh Jain, Chief Product Architect, Tesseract

STAGE 6: The Future of Consumer Tech

KEYNOTE: Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO, GOQii

SESSION A: IOT + Ecommerce + Food Tech

• The New Age of IOT Devices
• How Food tech and Cloud Kitchens are set to change our eating in and Eating out
• The New age of Ecommerce

SESSION LEAD: Punita Kapoor, Deputy Editor, Entrepreneur India

Pranesh Chaudhary, Founder and CEO, Zunroof
Shah Kadavil, Co-Founder and CEO, FreshToHome
Ashish Sharma, MD & CEO, InnoVen Capital India
Mukund Jha, Co-founder & CTO, Dunzo
Sahil Jain, Co-Founder, Dineout

SESSION B: Entertainment Tech + Gaming

• How esports and gaming, are defying audience convention and reshaping entertainment
• The New Age of Entertainment Tech, opportunities, and creation
• The disruption online entertainment-gaming platforms is creating and what it means for physical modes of entertainment
• How far the digital-virtual entertainment has come and how far will it go?

KEYNOTE: Neeraj Roy, Founder & CEO, Hungama Digital Media

SESSION LEAD: Priyadarshini Patwa, Features Editor, Entrepreneur India

Tarun Katial, CEO Zee5
Shailesh Sawlani, Country Head, Audible India
Sumedh Chaphekar, Founder and CEO, NOFILTR Social
Quentin Staes-Polet, GM India and SEA, Epic Games
Sunil Nair, CEO, Firework India

Valedictory remarks by Ritu Marya, Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur India and Asia-Pacific