TechXcelerate: A time travel to the Technological utopianism

Daisy Chittilapilly is President of Cisco's India and SAARC theatre. As President, Daisy is responsible for strategy and sales, operations, and investments to drive long-term growth in the region. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, including 19 years of leadership experience 
at Cisco, Daisy has a proven track record of transforming operations and cultures to drive growth at scale. Prior to her current role, Daisy held the position of Managing Director for Cisco's Digital Transformation Office, where she worked with customers to capitalize on opportunities emerging in the digital world. In addition, as the leader of Software & Services Sales, she worked with partners to accelerate Cisco's transition towards software and subscription-based offerings. Previously, she held leadership positions within Cisco's Enterprise & Commercial businesses, Strategy & Operations, and Partner Organisation. Before joining Cisco, Daisy worked with Wipro Limited across multiple sales management roles.  Daisy serves on the Executive Council for NASSCOM, and as the Co-Chair on the FICCI National Committee  for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. She is a governing body member of Woxsen  University, an advisory board member of the non-profit 'Dragonflies Everywhere', and an Independent 
Director at Virescent Renewable. Business Today has consistently recognized Daisy in their list of “Most Powerful Women in Business” since 2020. Daisy has also been recognized by Fortune India among the “Most Powerful Women” for two years running in 2022 and 2023. 

Daisy is a BTech (College of Engineering, Trivandrum) and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in General Management (XLRI, Jamshedpur). She is passionate about empowering youth to join the technology  space and mentoring start-ups to innovate technology solutions for the most urgent social challenges.

Shri Nilesh Desai is a top ranker and gold-medalist of 1986 BE (Electronics & Communication) batch of L.D.College of Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. In his Thirty Seven years of dedicated and illustrious engineering and research career at SAC/ISRO, he has contributed extensively in design and development of ISRO’s Microwave Radars (RISAT, Oceansat, NISAR, Chandrayaan), and realization of advanced and synergetic applications involving earth observation, navigation and communication technologies for societal benefits, governance and strategic uses. He is guiding activities related to remote sensing data processing, NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) Receivers & Applications, SatComterminals & ground segments for Mobile, Broadband & High Throughput communication satellites and advanced technologies like Quantum Frontiers and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Thus, he has provided leadership and direction in developing and strengthening space infrastructure and its applications. Many State-of-the-Art technologies utilized in projects for governance, development and strategic use 
involving synergetic satellite Communication & Navigation (called ComNav) based applications were developed under his leadership. He has made considerable efforts in popularizing and proliferating usage and applications of indigenous navigation technologies like NavIC & Gagan for commercial, governmental and strategic users. He has also mentored the design of world class courses on Satellite Communication (SatCom) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), under the aegis of United Nations Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (UN-CSSTEAP). 

He has represented ISRO/India at various International forums in Abu Dhabi, Austria, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, including delegations at International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite System (ICG) meetings & conferences. He organized and presided over the ICG-14 held in India during Dec.-2019. He is the recipient of ISRO Performance Excellence Award-2018, ISRO Individual Merit Award-2010 and ISRO Team Award for RISAT-1 Payload for the year-2012. Recently, he was awarded IESA Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Award for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Space programme by Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) at Spacetronics and Deftronics Summit-2023. He is an active and contributing life member of many professional societies like Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Astronautical Society of India (ASI) and Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE). During 2020-22, he also served as National President of ISRS and Presently, he is serving as the Vice President of ISSE-Ahm. 

Ms. Gitanjali Singh is the Global Head of Strategy & New Business Growth at Visionet BPS. Visionet Systems is a leading IT company, headquartered in New Jersey, US with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Coimbatore in India. She was recognised as the 2021 Woman Of Influence in the mortgage and housing industry by HousingWire, a leading US Magazine.

She, along with Mr. Alok Bansal, CEO, Visionet BPS and DocVu.AI has conceptualized a free skill development program 'Unnati For India' for the underserved youngsters to generate employment for them.

She is skilled in scaling businesses, managing high performance sales teams, working on strategic initiatives and managing data operations. She has previously worked as Business Head for 360 Realtors LLP, General Manager, Business Strategy and Operations, Equis Housing, APG and Head - Commercial and Audit, Hindustan Dorr Oliver Limited.

What Ms. Gitanjali Singh stands for - 

• Providing opportunities to women in tech sector 
• Breaking stereotypes in corporate world -
• Skilling young women -
• Turning challenges into opportunities for women in business - 
• Women Equality in workforce

A transformational and seasoned technology business leader with over 25 years of industry experience in leading innovation, engineering, product management and business development.  Pankaj has built and led businesses across different technology stream like data  communication, wireless technologies, end to end IOT platforms, cloud and mobile applications. As CEO & MD of Siemens Technology & Services, he leads the organization of about 10000  employees developing innovative digital solutions in - Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructures, Mobility, Smart Energy and connected devices. Prior to Siemens, Pankaj held senior management positions at Cisco, Intel and GE Healthcare. He co-founded GainSpan which was later acquired by Telit Communications. Always striving to find innovative solutions, Pankaj holds 32 granted U.S. patents. Driven by a value creation mindset, Pankaj is passionate about building entrepreneurial teams, which he believes is core to building innovative technology businesses of the future

Pradeep is the Managing Director and Head of HSBC Technology India. He is also a member of the Group Technology Executive Committee at HSBC. As the head of the technology GCC in India, which is one of the largest GCCs in the country, Pradeep’s priorities are to drive robust and agile software delivery from the India Centers to achieve better customer outcomes across HSBC’s businesses globally. Pradeep joined HSBC in 2019 as the CIO of the Group Data Technology & Analytics function and led the data engineering function globally for the Bank that touched all its businesses and operations across countries and territories.

A role he relinquished when he took over as CEO of the HSDI legal entity currently. Prior to HSBC, he worked as the Chief Data Officer at GE Digital’s Data hubs globally, where he led Data Analytics as a function, and led Digital Transformation and Innovation initiatives across all of GE’s global data hubs. He has also previously held data leadership positions at Maersk, Dell and Oracle Consulting.
Pradeep is an active member of many industry bodies across India and Asia and holds council positions with NASSCOM and CII. He is a frequent speaker at various industry forums and events and has featured in industry awards in these areas. He holds an MBA in Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) and an Engineering Degree from VJTI, University of Mumbai

Yatin is a graduate from IISC, Bengaluru and serial hardware entrepreneur who designed and developed products sold in more than 23 countries in his previous start-up Lumos.

It all started when Margi started working post her MBA, It became very difficult for them to manage cooking given both had very hectic schedules. They tried many cooks but, being Gujjus settled in Bangalore, they couldn’t get anyone who can cook as per our taste and diet requirements. That made him to start thinking about what can be automated in a kitchen. He talked to his friends who has migrated to Bangalore or abroad, he felt that even though they are all very well to do, something as basic as food is not solved for them. This motivated him to start dream project "Nosh".