Jaideep Mehta is CEO, News Corp Mosaic Digital. He joined the company in October 2017 to drive the next stage of growth for News Corp’s wholly owned subsidiary Mosaic Media which includes two media platforms VCCircle & TechCircle and a financial research platform VCCEdge in India. Aside from being a business leader, he is an advisor to CEOs and business leaders of investment and tech ecosystem. 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 a regular contributor to various business newspapers and is a recognized “Author” on LinkedIn too.

Shalil Gupta is the Chief Business Officer at News Corp Mosaic Digital. He joined the company in February 2018. He is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.

Priyanka Dutt is the India Country Director for BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international NGO that uses the power of media and communication to inform, empower and connect people around the world. With two decades of experience in media and communications across both private and development sectors, Priyanka specializes in communication for social impact. She has worked on a range of media platforms and formats, including television, radio, mobile, and outreach. Her work has won several Indian and international awards including a GSMA Global Mobile Award, a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Award, a Global Health award and a Vodafone Mobile for Good award, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.

Rob Sloan is the Research Director at the Wall Street Journal Pro. He has made a career of specializing in IT security, focused on directing, investigating and protecting against cyber-intrusions, especially state-sponsored attacks. Mr. Sloan writes analysis for the WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter tailored for executives in big and small companies and regularly contributes his research and executive analysis to studies and reports.

Previously Mr. Sloan was Response Director at an IR consultancy in London and started his career with the UK government looking at some of the earliest targeted attacks against critical networks. He is especially interested in the requirements, motivations and capabilities of threat actors.

Sahaj holds is a Senior Manager- Research at News Corp Mosaic Digital. He bring in professional experience into Strategy Consulting, Product Strategy Research, Business Development & Presales. In his prior roles, he was responsible for collaborating with clients, internal stakeholder and the leadership team along with the business leaders on the client side, to generate insights and advisory content on IDC’s 3rd Platform (Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud & Digital Transformation), which helped the stakeholders in making informed strategic decisions. He has also developed research papers, PoV, whitepaper, technology/ vendor spotlights and related services along with helping in developing RFI & RFP frameworks for sourcing strategies to ensure committed value to end-user segment in their technology transformation.

Anthony Schiavo is an Analyst based in Lux Research's Singapore office.  He leads the Advanced Materials team and supports the broader materials research at Lux.  Under his leadership, the Advanced Materials team conducts research on technical and market trends in areas such as future materials platforms, advanced structural materials, and coatings. His expertise also includes new technological innovations in digital manufacturing, materials informatics, and advanced design technologies.  Anthony often is called upon to provide strategic advice and guidance for executives in the automotive, chemicals, and consumer goods industries.
Anthony received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Anthony focused his research activities on biomaterial composites and nanoparticle technology and ethics.

Sumit is a management graduate from IIM Bangalore with over 24 years IT Leadership experience in top multinational and consulting organizations in Asia. Sumit is currently working as Chief Information Officer for Max Healthcare leading enterprise digital strategy for Max network of 14 multi and superspeciality hospitals in India. He has a proven track record of successfully leading digital initiatives and process automation in various countries in Asia.

Sumit has won several industry awards for technology innovation in Asia Pacific region based on his team’s work primarily in India, Indonesia and Thailand markets.

Topics of Expertise: Automobiles , Team Building, Customer Service
Annadurai aka Auto Annadurai, a Class 12 dropout, whose passion for his profession and the desire to give the best amenities for his customers has brought him success in good measure. An auto driver from Chennai is now a much sought speaker on ‘building customer loyalty’ with nearly 10,000 followers on Facebook and more than 40 speeches at corporate offices and two TED talks to his credit.

Venkatesh Maheshwari known as Venki is a retail professional, having worked with many fashion and food retailers across many continents with Fortune 500 firms.  He worked with leading Indian fashion brands from 1994 to 2000. In 2000, Venki immigrated to Canada and worked as an employee of Walmart Canada in buying and supply chain. In 2004 , He became a Canadian citizen and moved to US working for TCS as a retail consultant working with leading global retailers.
On May 16th 2019, Venki achieved his childhood dream to scale Mount Everest after 33 years of first dreaming about it. 

Today as a motivational speaker also, Venki talks to many corporates on Management and Life Lessons from Mt Everest linking it to his climbing experience. He also talks in his talks about ordinary people chasing their dreams, work life balance and other learnings from his experiences with the mountains.

Jaspreet is the Founder of Digital Matters, an advisory firm in the areas of Digital Transformation, Blockchain and the Future of Work.

Until recently, he was the Senior Vice President- Digital Transformation, (equivalent to the Chief Digital Officer), of the $20bn Mahindra Group of Companies. He is a Digital Advisor to Mahindra Group, Adjunct Advisor to IDC, and the Emerging Technologies Advisor to Internet and Mobile Association of India. He sits on the Advisory Board of AI firm Findability Sciences and a few other companies in the technology space.

Mr. Sethi is the Chief Information Officer, Head Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Head Human Resources at Hero MotoCorp Ltd. – World’s largest two wheeler manufacturing company. He also leads innovation efforts in the company. He also serves as a Board Member of M/s HMC MM Auto Ltd. (A joint venture of Hero MotoCorp and M/s Magneti Marelli of Italy).

Rated as India’s Best CIO, he has won several prestigious recognitions including CIO of the year, CIO Hall of Fame, Super League CIO, Champion CIO, Global CIO, Global CIO Hall of fame, Most Influential CIO,Innovative CIO, Most Respected CIO, India’s Best IT Manager, Eminent CIO of India and many others. Mr. Sethi has also featured in the CIO Power List for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Vineet Agarwal is the Managing Director of Transport Corporation of India Ltd. (www.tcil.com). He is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, USA and completed the Owner President Management program from Harvard Business School.

Vineet currently serves as the Vice President of ASSOCHAM, a leading chamber of commerce in India. He is also the founding National President of the Young Leaders Council (ylc.aima.in) at the All India Management Association and has been a Council member for several years. He served as a director on Young President Organization’s (YPO) international board and was previously a member of the Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum, board member of the HBS Club of India and at many other institutions.

Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot and Investor with over 50+ global recognition and 17 Patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world are making a difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world's top 25 CIO and top 10 Robotics Designer in 2018.

Ravi is a global speaker and has delivered over 100+ lectures and papers in Asia, Europe, USA and Africa in 2018-19. Ravi is advisor to board of 9 enterprises where incubation and differentiation is a core necessity and challenge. He sits on the advisory council of 3 global research firms where he contributes in predicting practical future automation use cases and respective technologies.

Mr. Vivek Tyagi is Director - Business Development, Embedded and Enterprise, Western Digital Corporation – India and South Asia Region. His focus is building a strong team and Strong customer base for Enterprise Storage products including Devices, platforms and systems within India in various industry verticals.

Vivek has over 25 years of industry experience. Prior to Western Digital and SanDisk, Vivek has been pivotal to Sales and Business Development initiatives within India for Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola and Philips Electronics.

Alok is the quintessential IIT-IIM alumni as comfortable with Technology as with Marketing. As a Chief Marketing Officer, he has accelerated transformation in the approach to building brands using digital. He was recognized (by IAMAI) as the "Digital Marketer Of The Year". Now with Orientbell he continues using VR & digital to drive dramatic transformation in the Tile industry.

He has succeeded in demonstrating value from digital and aligning stakeholders in not the usual “tech savvy” industries.

A seasoned HR leader with a diversified experience across industries and verticals. He has worked in IT, ITES, R&D and BFSI verticals for India, North America, Middle East and Singapore and has been pivotal in forming HR strategies and compliances for Fortune 300 organizations.

He has worked with renowned companies like Hero Group, Dell, IBM, Stryker Global and currently, is a Vice President & Head – HR and Training with India’s largest Insurance web aggregator, Policybazaar.com. Under his leadership, Policybazaar has seen immense growth in manpower and won several awards in the HR arena including BML Munjal Awards for Business Excellence through Learning and Development, “Gurgaon Best Employer” and “Great Places to Work”.

Sidharth Balakrishna holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and an Economics degree from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University. He has over 14 years of experience in the media & entertainment, artificial intelligence, energy, infrastructure and education sectors.

He is currently an Executive (whole time) Board Director and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at the Essel (Zee) Group and is leading several strategic initiatives in digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence, etc. In the past, he has led strategy and headed many large projects including in the fields of oil & gas, renewable energy, education, water, etc. Mr. Sidharth Balakrishna has also been a Strategy Consultant with Accenture and KPMG. Some of the projects that he has led have been awarded nationally and internationally.
He is a mentor to startups with MIT, Boston, USA as well as MassChallenge Boston & Tel Aviv, Israel.

With over 23 years of experience across the BFSI IT, Anup is business focussed and result oriented banking technology professional. He has rich techno-commercial experience – an excellent grasp of technology and commercial backed by vendor management skills. He has diverse experience with emphasis on key Leadership, Innovation in Digital Banking, Financials, Service Delivery, Portfolio & Program Management, Risk & Controls, Vendor Management and Waste Cutting.

At YES Bank, Anup leads the mission critical role of spearheading Technology Replatforming & Digital Innovation. His primary focus is to bring future technology into YES BANK’s current technology stack. As Chief Information Officer, he drives innovation and developing an IT strategy in accordance with the Business Strategy of the Bank to provide edge to his business in market. Innovative Technology forms one of the critical differentiating pillars at YES Bank in transforming the bank into finest LARGE Bank by 2020.

Anil Goel is the Chief Technology Officer at OYO, South Asia’s largest, and world’s fastest growing chain of hotels, homes and quality spaces. With his current role at OYO, he is responsible to provide strategic direction and strengthen the technology infrastructure powering the Company’s business operations.

A seasoned tech professional, Anil has nearly 20 years of experience in building complex software applications & systems, technology infrastructure and businesses to drive revenue growth, expand customer base and boost profitability. Prior to this he has worked in various technology development and leadership roles at companies like Amazon.com, Hike Messenger, RealNetworks, Capgemini and HyperQuality.

Rajender Singh Bhandari is the Director of Systems Engineering for NetApp India. He and his team are responsible for architectural and technology relationships as well as NetApp platform evangelism across the ecosystem in the region.

Rajender has been associated with NetApp for the past 5 years and is an industry veteran with c30 years of rich experience in Information Technology, Service Technology Consulting, DC Technologies, Service Delivery, Project Management and Managed services.

Rajender joined NetApp after stints at Tata Unisys, Digital Equipment, Sun Microsystems and SmartTrust Infosystems.

Ms Meenakshi Vajpai has more than 25 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, core telecom and enterprise IT operations.  She has envisioned and led various organisations from diverse sectors in their efforts of organizational transformation through the use of technology spanning internal functions, customer experience as well as innovation for revenue.

She has held a number of senior management positions across industries wherein she has driven strategy and execution of new business initiatives. Her initiatives have won her several awards, including CIO 100, Digital transformation Icon and at international forums.

At Vodafone Idea, Meenakshi leads IT strategy and policies across all businesses and partners.

Ankush Arora is a highly accomplished HR Executive Leader, with nearly two decades of experience, working with reputed organizations. His forte lies in seeking new opportunities in building and sustaining national competitive advantage through people management and tangible value creation.

Ankush has been associated with Grofers since 2017 as Vice President & Head - Human Resources where he is enabling Grofers India to establish a strong HR function that acts as an enabler of organizational growth and change. In his past roles, he has worked with major enterprises such as Havells India Limited, Jubilant Life Sciences Limited, SAP Labs, L&T Infotech Limited, Tata Interactive Systems amongst others.

As a highly skilled and widely endorsed name in the industry, Ankush is responsible for optimal functioning of tasks being carried out by the HR team at Grofers. He carries with him an exceptional track-record of performing best HR functions at the organization, at both, regional and corporate levels.

What drives Ankush is his passion for developing people and helping them grow as a person and a professional. Across organizations, he has nurtured a value & performance based culture in teams by providing cross industry perspectives and implementing best practices.

Ankush graduated in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Techonology, Rourkela and obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Nikhil is an award winning marketeer having 14+ years of experience. He has built a strong foundation in traditional brand marketing & further augmented it with digital expertise by working across digital first brands across FMCG & Consumer Electronics firms like Nestle, Samsung, Marico & Pepsi. He has delivered disruptive growth by turning around different challenger brands P&Ls, eCommerce business responsibility & led the organisation's entry into a new category with NPD deliveries. He has led digital transformation projects & innovative digital marketing initiatives to deliver strong business growth.

He is an MBA from IIM Lucknow & has done his engineering from PEC Chandigarh. He has an inherent interest in the way digital interaction is changing the marketing landscape & the opportunities this change provides. He loves to watch movies & listens to a diverse genre of music, enjoys playing tennis & is an avid quizzer. He loves the mountains & is happy to explore them both riding on his 22 year old Bullet & on foot, trekking.