Dr. Vikram Vij received a Ph.D. and Master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley in Computer Science, an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University and a B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur in Electronics. Dr. Vij has over 26 years of industrial experience in multiple technical domains from Databases, Storage & File Systems, Embedded systems, Intelligent Services and IoT. He has worked at Samsung since 2004 and is currently working as Sr. Vice President & Team Head for Voice Intelligence R&D / Services Platforms R&D at Samsung R&D Institute in Bangalore. Dr. Vij’s current focus is on building the World’s Best Voice Intelligence Experience for Mobiles and other Samsung appliances, and on building services and platforms for Personalization, Engagement and Monetization. He is also driving the growth of AI Centre of Excellence at Samsung Bangalore.

Todd Mozer Chairman & CEO at Sensory. Todd has played a pioneering role in bringing speech recognition into consumer products over the past 20 years. Sensory has enabled hundreds of products with speech recognition by companies such as Ecobee, Huawei, Garmin, GoPro, Motorola, Plantronics, Samsung, Sony, and many, many others. He holds over 20 patents issued in speech technology and related fields, and holds an MBA from Stanford University.
Mozer is one of the top 11 Visionaries in Voice Technology Globally. He has technical experience/knowledge in machine learning, AI, semiconductors, speech recognition, computer vision, neural networks and embedded software.

Vivek is the Co-Founder and CTO of Reverie Language Technologies, a company specializing in text and speech technologies for Indian languages.
With more than 20 years of experience in Indian Language Computing, Vivek is one of the very few subject matter experts who are passionate and dedicated to making usage of Indian languages easy on digital platforms. Vivek began his Indian language journey at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune, in the year 1997.
His journey spans across developing advanced multilingual tools for early computing devices and word processing software for computers to leading today’s state of the art AI-driven Indian language technologies like automated speech recognition, machine translation, text-to-speech, natural language understanding, multilingual search, etc.
Vivek has also been involved and contributed to several Indian languages standards initiatives at different forums. He has represented CDAC for Unicode recommendations for all Indian languages in the late 1990s. He has represented Reverie in contributing to the standards for Indian languages released by SIG for Indian languages at CeWIT in IIT Madras. He has also represented the industry in LITD 20 to define Indian languages encoding standards for mobile phones.

Jeff Adams, CEO at Cobalt Speech & Language. Jeff is a legend in the Natural Language Processing field. More than inventing Alexa at Amazon, Jeff was being pulled into every direction of Amazon, and would "travel for weeks at a time."
Cobalt Speech and Language has become a worldwide success in the field of Natural Language Processing, focusing on the simple mission of helping every corporation around the world integrate this technology into their business. Additionally, Adams is a co-founder of another Natural Language Processing firm, Canary Speech. Adams is excited about Canary, stating “it is interesting because we are using speech technology to get early diagnosis of conditions like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s.”

Ganesh Gopalan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Gnani.ai. He has over 25 years of Technology leadership and Marketing experience in companies such as Texas Instruments and IBM. Gnani’s raison d'être was the result of his desire to build a deep tech company from India. He passionately believes in the vision of Indian tech companies competing in the global market.

Ananth Nagaraj is the Co-Founder and CTO at Gnani.ai. He has over 11 years of experience including leading signal processing and 4G teams in Texas Instruments and Kyocera. Ananth’s vision is to make information accessible to large diverse population in vernacular and simplify human-machine interaction through Speech Recognition technologies. He believes technology should make our life easier and is an advocate of Conversational AI and its role in enterprise automation.

Rajesh Mehta has over 20 years of experience in business, sales and marketing. He dons multiple hats and has an extensive expertise in demand generation and go-to-market for new-age technologies and services. His core competencies are general management, B2B enterprise sales, business development, domestic and international partner business management, sales operations, marketing, customer engagement, and revenue management.
Rajesh is result-oriented and has a deep understanding of the energy and passion required for building a strong brand and product in the ever-evolving technological landscape. He is exclusively focused on digital transformation by engaging with key clients to execute digital businesses strategies.
In addition, Rajesh heads new client acquisitions, revenue, and delivery at Reverie. He is responsible for identifying new domains where Reverie's SAAS solutions can add value and solve real problems.
Rajesh wields a B.Com in Economics and an MBA in Sales and Marketing.

Vishwanath is a DeepTech entrepreneur with a decade of academic and applied research experience in Computational Linguistics. Vishwanath has been a vocal champion of the new age conducive policies for Indic language & voice technology companies at various government, academia & industry think tanks. He's on a mission to enable uniform customer experience in every interaction through Saarthi's multilingual call centre AI agents deployed in contact centres across different verticals

Sangram Sabat is an entrepreneur, consultant and product/ops strategist. Sangram has led large scale AI projects in CPG, Telcos, and BFSI, over the past 7 years. He's making information and services accessible in native languages for digital inclusion, through Saarthi’s pioneering work in Conversational AI. Sangram believes Ambient Intelligence will soon dominate all interactions we have, and is purposefully advancing that vision through industry and academic collaborations.

Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor, and CEO at Behavioral Signals, an emotion AI and behavioral recognition software company. In 2014, Rana founded TiZE, a cloud software for specialty chemicals, and held the role of CEO until his exit when TiZE was acquired by Alchemy. He has been awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, the ‘US-China Pioneer’ Award by IEIE, and listed in "Top 10 Entrepreneurs to follow in 2017" by Huffington Post. Due to his notable thought-leadership in the voice-first community, spearheading digital transformation in the behavioral analysis space, he is recognized in Inc. Magazine as an “AI Entrepreneur to Watch”. His writing can be found in publications such as Inc., TechCrunch, and Forbes.

Mehul is a product management leader focused on building artificial intelligence-driven enterprise solutions, and loves building great, innovative products that delight users. He is Director of Product Management at SoundHound for Houndify, the AI platform that enables developers to add voice and conversational intelligence into their products. Before joining SoundHound in 2016, Mehul cofounded two technology startups focused on applying AI and Machine Learning to build enterprise solutions. Prior to that, Mehul was Director of Product Management in VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit where he lead product strategy, definition, and delivery of a new and innovative product line. Throughout his career, Mehul has worked in a variety of technical and management roles at companies including Adobe, Intel, and Digital Impact. Mehul is a regular speaker at industry conferences and customer panels and holds a M.S. from Stanford University and B.S. from University of California Davis.

Kaushik leads NCR Technosolutions and is the driving force behind the development of Gyani - a ready to run automated conversational platform for enterprises and small businesses. Kaushik is a big believer of voice technology and natural language understanding. His passion is to help organizations turn into conversational enterprises by embracing intelligent automation powered by voice and natural chat. He has almost 20 plus years of experience in Technology and management consulting across the world and has held Senior management positions prior to founding NCR Technosolutions. He is an engineer and MBA from IIT and IIM respectively and a supporter of Made in India brand of products and solutions. Gyani - is a range of voice & natural chat enabled conversational solutions that will help enterprises enable self service among employees and channel partners (like Distributors, dealers etc) and customers for a range of functions.

Bret Kinsella is CEO and founder of Voicebot.ai, the leading source of research, data, analysis, and news related to the voice and AI industries. Bret was named Commentator of the Year by the Alexa Conference in 2019 and both Voice AI journalist of the Year and Commentator of the Year by Project Voice 2020. He frequently keynotes at technology conferences in the U.S. and Europe.
His Voice Insider newsletter has a select audience of industry leaders and often breaks news weeks before it becomes public. The Voicebot.ai website is the number one most consulted source of news around voice and AI technologies, and Voicebot Research is the most cited source of industry data by news media, academia, and industry professionals. Mr. Kinsella’s has also served as a guest columnist for Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and VentureBeat.
Kinsella is also a practitioner in voice strategy and voice app design for Fortune 500 companies and has in-depth experience with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri. A past executive at Sapient and Accenture as well as technology startups, Kinsella earned degrees from UCLA and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and can be found most weekends running in the mountains.

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is the CEO and Founder of Women in Voice, the international nonprofit empowering women and gender diversity in voice tech.
Previously a Senior Conversational Experience Designer at Nuance and Principal User Experience Researcher at the University of Arizona, Bajorek currently spearheads conversational research and strategy for the world's largest voice digital agency, VERSA. An Alexa Champion, “Top 11 Influencer of Voice” by Voicebot.ai 2019, WeWork Labs Entrepreneur in Residence 2020, “Executive of the Year” Finalist 2019, and Finalist for “The Project Voice Medal for Diversity and Inclusion” and “Voice AI Pioneer of the Year” 2020, Bajorek is a leader in the voice technology field domestically and internationally.

Phoebe Ohayon is a board member of Whoozy Agency and active as Head of Design at Voicebranding.ai. Phoebe helps brands to exploit the power of sound and speech to design the best voice experiences. With her methodology, she helps brands like Pepsico, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Babylon Health to make knowledgeable data-driven design decisions about their audio and voice identity on conversational touch-points.

Mr. Kayzad Hiramanek, Chief Operation and Customer Experience in Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co.Ltd. Kayzad has a double Masters’ degree in Commerce & International Business. Kayzad has worked in multi sectors- Hospitality & Travel with the Taj Group of hotels, Telecommunication with BPL Mobile, Idea Cellular, Sify and Bharati Airtel wherein he has handled numerous responsibilities in CRM, loyalty programmes and service marketing.

Shyamala Prayaga, Product Owner Digital Assistant at Ford Motor Company. Shyamala is a UX evangelist turned product owner with experience designing for mobile, web, desktop, and voice-based interfaces.
At Ford, she is the product owner for the Autonomous Digital Assistant. She leads the company-wide Ford's Autonomous Digital Assistant innovation for Voice and Chatbots by owning and executing the roadmap and overall vision.

Somu Vadali is the Chief Digital and Data Production Officer at Hopscotch. Somu has 24 years of experience in Tech/Data/Products with focus on Digital Transformation including building the Digital/Data/AI stack as the Head of Digital and Data products at various firms with retail/FinTech/AdTech/ConsumerTech globally including Acxiom, Nuance, Blackberry, EnvestNet Yodlee and Future Group and Hopscotch in India. A strategic and results-driven technology product executive with experience in leading global and complex initiatives. Background in managing the entire data driven product life-cycle for Supply, Demand and Growth in consumer tech companies.
Experience as a Head of product acting as the “CEO of the product” for various products. Successful record building products and managing innovation in global companies and start-ups. Domain experience in Mobile, Gamification, Behavioral change, Machine learning, Biometric data from wearable devices, Speech Recognition, Predictive Analytics & SaaS/DaaS.

Chirag Boonlia, an Engineer plus MBA by profession with 17+ years of varied & enriching IT experience & currently contributing at Embassy Group as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Having worked on various roles & responsibilities in Business Transformation initiatives transcending across domains, multiple technologies & organizations ranging from established to institutional backed start-ups, Chirag’s accolades speak for themselves.
He has been featured in India’s Frontline IT magazines including VarIndia, Silicon India etc and has also been rewarded amongst the ‘Top 100 Retail Minds’ in the country & featured as ‘Icons of the Digital Era’.
He’s had a distinguished career, having worked with marquee organisations such as Infosys, Oracle, JSW, Aditya Birla Retail, Virtuous Retail with experience transcending across Real Estate, Retail, Warehouse Management, Stores, Real Estate, Malls, Hotels, Co-Working Offices, Food courts etc.
He is an active speaker at multiple forums & Technology platforms & business mentor to AP Innovation Valley based start-ups & multiple early stage start-ups.

Sourabh Gupta is Co-Founder and CEO at Vernacular.ai. This IIT Roorkee grad raised funds for his company when he was 23. He has played an important role in getting the first few customers on board to get Vernacular over $1mn ARR. As of today, he spends most of his time, solving product distribution problems, and taking the company globally.

Sameer has over 22 yrs of design and leadership experience at leading product companies building Desktop, Web, Mobile, Wearable & Speech(Voice User Interface) applications. He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from IIT Mumbai and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has published papers, UX patents and has been a speaker at many conferences and colleges. Presently he is the Head of Design at Flipkart.
He has played multiple roles ranging from VP of Design to being a design consultant and entrepreneur. He as worked as VP of Products at Spire Technology, Director User Experience Design at Intuit & Human factors Lead at Intel California. Before this, he was Chief Researcher for LG R&D Lab in Seoul, South Korea. Sameer has also worked at enterprise software companies across India namely, Oracle in Hyderabad and Siemens in Pune. He nurtured his entrepreneurial skills as VP of Design for Naukri.com in Noida. Early in his career, Sameer was an Industrial designer working for Piaggio scooter in Pontedera, Italy and as lead engineer in Mahindra & Bajaj Auto

Raj Sundar is the CEO of Cognizyr, an emerging research-oriented company specializing in speech and text analytics. He is a self-proclaimed geek, with special interests in AI and related technologies such as speech-to-text technology, NLP, computer vision, and also dabbles in augmented reality and robotics.
Despite being a college-dropout and not having much in the way of formal degrees to boast of, Raj continues to explore and gain knowledge about cutting edge technologies. He is an avid reader and is always keen on learning something new from everyone around him and from practical experiences.
Over the past 18 years, Raj has constantly tried to incorporate technology and automation in everyday life, for himself and his customers. He has a flair for identifying and articulating customer pain points which helps in formulation and execution of successful product strategies. He acknowledges the role of his smart and proactive team that has enabled him to translate ideas to reality.
Raj strongly believes that India has great potential as an emerging market. He has been leveraging his experience in software engineering with our long-term international customers in the United States and Germany, to help solve India-specific customer problems, and save costs.

Dr. Suresh A Shan has Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Academic Vs Industry Researcher, Entrepreneurial, Passionate, Self-Driven, Technology Lead Architect, Mentor Rural Simplicity & Urban Complexity Advisor, Customer Evangelist, Data Scientist, Affectionate & create to build a product from scratch & scale them up from Zero. Business Information Solution Technologist with a strong background in Business Process align Technology creating Digital Value Business Information Technology Secured Solutions using the available Technology at Affordable Cost.
Develop & Deploy Digital IT Technology to ensure the Rural Crowd understand & gets adopt easily to use the Belief Behavior Business Benefits of Technology which is “Simple” to use. Strong Multi Product & Multilingual skills with a proven record as a problem solver recognized for focus on solution & cost reduction, meeting aggressive deadlines, aligning teams, digitizing operations, leveraging the rural infrastructure digital ecosystem, and maintaining a hand’s on approach to achieve organization’s Business goals.

Yashoraj CTO at CASHe. Yashoraj is a strong believer that innovation is a fundamental driver of progress and growth in any organisation. Thus, he is motivated to take up roles of leadership in the field of creating, harnessing and managing technology such that it benefits the masses today and positively affects the world in we live today.
He is passionate about solving problems, be it at any level, and is more than willing to lead teams and take the initiative to come up with long-term solutions.
As the CTO of CASHe, He aims to create scalable and high-impact technology solutions, which would go a long way in financially empowering the millions of unbanked and under-banked people in India, and pave a way for their rapid financial inclusion.

Sarandeep Kaur is the Conversational AI Manager and Chapter Founder- Women in Voice- India. Sarandeep is responsible for setting up the global product and platform for Conversational AI at Novo Nordisk from ground up. She is work with teams across the globe for designing and building chatbots/voicebots for employees, patients and healthcare practitioners.

Keri Roberts is the Owner of Branding Connection, helping companies and entrepreneurs find what they're great at and amplify it. Her passion and focus lies in branding, content marketing and community building with a speciality in podcasting and voice technology.
She is the podcast creator and host of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things as well as the host of B2B Tech Talk with Ingram Micro and previously was the host of the Inside VOICE podcast. She has interviewed leaders on mindset, technology, cybersecurity and voice technology including executives from Pandora, IBM, NPR, Oracle, Mereceds and the Dale Carnegie Institute.
She was featured as a thought leader in media and advertising in Forbes in 2019 and featured as an expert in Just AI Global's blog on why brands need a voice strategy as well as an expert in branding and voice in Soundhound's Voice Guide.

Mukul Devichand is the Executive Editor of Voice + AI for the BBC. He is responsible for developing and running a broad BBC offer on newly emerging Voice AI platforms, including both discovery of all BBC services and developing what the broadcaster offers on AI platforms in genres from news to children’s content. Part of this involves creating the BBC's own AI Assistant capability, 'Beeb', and running new teams that pair producers with software engineers to set a direction for public service media in the era of AI Assistants. Mukul is also part of the senior team of BBC Sounds, the BBC’s digital audio offer.
His background is in BBC production and journalism, with a 15-year career as an investigative programme maker and then an editor for BBC News and World Service. He founded and ran several of the BBC’s main digital journalism units, such as the BBC Trending unit, the world’s “bureau on the internet

Neeraj Bhople, CTO at Seniorty. Neeraj is an accomplished digital transformation expert who has successfully implemented various IT strategies, transformation and re-engineering programs. He is best known for his innovative and "fit for purpose" automation solutions. National and international industry award winner, including the most recent Nxt100 CIO of the Year award in 2019.
Author of an Amazon bestseller book “How to kill your b/oss and get away with it”

Arnab Paul, CEO, Patient Planet & Member, Focus group AI & Health at WHO. Due to his excellent specialties' and outstanding experience in Global Healthcare and Management, he has been selected to join the experts for the World Health Organization (WHO) Digital Health Advisory Committee.
Arnab was elected member of Beta Kappa Chi (National Scientific honor Society, USA). He has been Reviewer/Mentor at HIMSS, USA. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of IoT Health slam, NY, USA. He also serves as a Member of the Board of Advisors at MIST, Inc, Canada.

Sina Kahen is the Co-Founder of TheVoiceCourse.co – the bestselling online course for Conversational AI strategy & design.
Sina is a Conversational AI thought-leader, with experience spanning strategy, design, and innovation in over 50 countries. Sina has advised companies such as BBC, Amazon, and O2 by translating principles from psychology, philosophy, and emotional design into the language of Conversational AI.
He is a qualified biomedical scientist, and has an MBA from Imperial College London.

Abdullah Saleem, the Group Chief Information Officer at Omni Hospital. Abdulla has almost 25+ years of experience in Healthcare IT domain. He is responsible for developing leadership excellence, creating clinical, business transformation, and managing technology based strategic growth. He has successfully provided the IT transformation support to this chain’s various hospital leadership teams on benchmark-based cost containment, novel revenue growth and databased revenue leak avoidance strategies, leading to more than doubling of unit EBITDAs within six months.
Prior to joining to Omni, he was working with Ohum Health Care Solution Pvt Ltd whereby he was heading the end to end enterprise solution delivery and deployment for public & private sectors for India, USA, Europe & Gulf countries.

Shovan Sengupta Global Vice President Hotel Segment at Schneider Electric. Shovan has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of engineering and technology. He holds a certification in Hotel Asset Management and Strategic Analysis from Cornell University and has spent more than 13 years in the hotel segment in technologies related to hotel guest satisfaction, energy management, and operational efficiency. He has been working with hotel operators like Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Accor, Movenpick, and more for over a decade. Shovan’s core competency is in IT network infrastructure and electrical engineering.
He likes to spend his leisure time trekking, reading and watching movies. His bold idea is to ensure that Schneider brings differentiated technology value to hotel customers by helping hotels design and operate their properties more efficiently while achieving superior RevPAR.

Nandkishor Dhomne,VP-IT & CIO at Manipal Health Enterprises. Nandkishor is working with Manipal Group, Bangalore for the last 11 years plus as a CIO for Manipal Health Enterprises (MHE) & managing corporate IT function for Manipal group Hospitals & Healthcare entities. His key focus areas are – Digital Hospital Strategy & Execution, Business Transformation using IT, IT Investment & ROI, HIS/PACS/RIS/Analytics, ERP & other Core Business Applications, Technology Evaluation, Implementation of latest Technologies like AI, IOTs, RPA, Analytics, RFID, Cloud, mobility etc for group hospitals, Process Standardization & Automation, Executive Dashbaords, Customer Engagement using Technology, Improving Operational Efficiency, Customer Satisfaction and reduce cost using technology initiatives across group entities. He carries an overall experience of 24 years in managing corporate IT function for various industry verticals like Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Logistics etc. He has worked with the reputed organizations like Hindalco Industries, GMR Group & Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR), New Delhi.

Swapnil, has a vast experience of 17+ years and is a proficient all-rounder when it comes to Product Evangelism, Project Management, Seed Investments, Mentorship, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Speaker and Tech-Evangelism.
A person of utmost optimism who strives for constant innovation in the world of Business Transformation, Digital Adoption and Artificial Intelligence.
With his rich niche experience is transforming business ideas into technology-driven business models, his entire focus is on evangelizing Digital Transformation with the power of AI/ML and RPA.
He has been also a speaker of several webinars at ADMH (Adoption of Digital Marketing in Healthcare), Digital HR, ASMA, GIT, ASM ,Rungta.

Ashutosh Mayank is the Vice President of Lumis Partners. Ashutosh has conceptualized and running the 1st cohort of Supply Chain Labs (SCL) -- India's first supply chain focused accelerator. He has a dual role of Investment in Disruptive Technologies and existing Portfolio Management.

Nihar Ranjan is the Venture Partner at Exfinity Venture Partners. Nihar has around 17 years of cumulative experience of which 13 years has been in investing in early and growth stage companies. In his last role, he was co-founder of a mobile based retail app. He started his career as a software developer with Infosys. Later, he shifted to equity research and worked as a Software sector analyst with Morgan Stanley.
He has worked with various funds and invested across sectors. In his last investment role, Nihar was a Principal at Contrarian Capital. He has also been a part of Aavishkaar Venture Capital and Sage Capital. He has invested more than USD 50 million across Technology, Healthcare, Capital Goods, Oil & gas Service and Auto Ancillary sectors. Nihar is a management graduate from IIM Calcutta and B.Tech from IIT Kanpur. He is passionate about History, Economics & Movies.

Ben Sauer is Product Director at Babylon Health, formerly of Clearleft. He's worked with organisations like the BBC, Pearson, Tesco, and TCS to raise their design and product game.
He’s been speaking about and training people on the topic of design, and particularly voice UI for several years; particularly in how to rapidly design conversational experiences. Teams at Amazon and the BBC use his methods, and through O'Reilly, he's trained folks at NASA. He’s also spent many hours at home removing the ridiculous things that his kids have added to Alexa’s shopping list.

Harish is the Head of IT (CTO) at Sarovar Hotels Pvt Ltd. He oversees the IT & Telecom needs of the existing and new hotels and the regional sales offices. He is responsible for formulating and implementing IT strategy, technology solutions, information management initiatives and policies to support company’s business requirements.
He enjoys more than to two and half decades of expertise across multiple industries including the Hospitality, Aviation, IT & Telecom sectors. Across hospitality, he has worked with international and Indian hotel brands, such as InterContinental Hotels Group South West Asia Corporate Office (IHG SW Asia), Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Le Royal Meridien, The Park Hotels and among other organisations, he has worked with Oracle Hospitality (formerly known as Micros – Fidelio), Air Sahara and telecom giant -Avaya GlobalConnect (formerly known as Tata Telecom)
A focused ability to generate discussions, formulate and implement IT strategy enables Harish to provide Sarovar Hotels leadership in the Information Technology function. Mr. Chandra, is also Member of CIO Klub - NCR Chapter Managing Committee http://cioklub.com/delhi.php
Harish is also founding member of LinkedIn and WhatsApp (No +91 9560454774) group: ‘Global Hospitality CIO's, CTO's & Digital e-Marketing professionals’ on https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8267953/ This Group is purely created for Hospitality CIO/CTO/CDO/Corp IT community professionals with purpose to leverage on digital electronic platform and share knowledge on all Technology front and succeed professionally together. As of today it has more than top 250 Corporate IT professionals across globe (India, Singapore, Middle East, UK and US) from various domestic and international chains like Hyatt, Marriott, Accor, IHG,RHW, Hilton, Taj, Oberoi, ITC, Lemon Tree, Jumeirah, Air Vistara, Spicejet, GoAir, Air India and Indigo Airlines etc.

Jay Krishnan is a partner at Mantra Capital, a cross- border early stage Venture capital fund. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He was the founding CEO of T- Hub, India's largest Startup Incubator & accelerator.
In a career spanning over two decades, Jay has donned many hats. He was responsible for product development, product management, business strategy at organizations like BrooktroutIntel, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems in India & the US.
He is the recipient of over 50 international awards and publications in Technology and innovation.
Jay has a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, a Bachelors in Electrical & Computer engineering and is an alumnus of IIM, Bangalore.

Aariv Modi is a blogger, programmer, and Alexa skill developer. Aariv is a 6th grader at Walsh Middle School in Austin, TX. He has created several Alexa skills including STEM Party, Word Party, and Wheel of Fun. He has been actively contributing his learning with the Alexa and voice community through his blog and social media channels such as LinkedIn and YouTube. He was the youngest presenter at Project Voice 2020 and the VOICE Global conference. He enjoys chess, and he played his first tournament when he was in kindergarten. He is an avid reader who likes mystery and historical fiction.

Raoul Nanavati is the co-founder and CEO of Navana Tech. He is a second time entrepreneur and is focused on making high impact digital services accessible to India at scale regardless of a users background, gender, language or literacy.