Rakshit was born in the small town of Bhavnagar in Gujarat, India. He did his schooling at Fatima Convent High School and went on to pursue mechanical engineering from MSU Baroda. He then went to the University of Minnesota for his master’s in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. His knack for technology allowed him to be a part of several great teams at companies like SAP, where he finished his tenure as the Director of Technology. He has also been the founder and CEO of QURATER, a company that built SAAS enterprise software products before he went on to become the VP and CTO at BigBasket.

Arvind Neelakantan provides technology leadership at Unity India. He is instrumental in the adoption and growth of the company's solutions across product verticals. Arvind particularly specializes in enabling film/animation studios around the world to harness the power of real-time rendering. He served as Disney India's lead software architect and was responsible for driving innovation through research and development (R&D) activities and oversaw interactive content development. Prior to Disney, he was in the United States for close to 10 years, where he served as a full stack engineer at Nickelodeon in Los Angeles. At Nickelodeon, he played a key role in the company’s technology business developing core game features and during the major transitions to cloud based computing.

Sanjay Suri is working as CTO & CPO in the Nykaa.com which is an Active company headquartered in . The Nykaa.com office address is located at , . The company comes under industries, Present employees count around . The company was founded in the year . To Know more about Nykaa.com, you can visit their website nykaa.com An accomplished and enterprising Senior Software Development Executive with keen interest in building high impact teams and scalable software platforms. Specialties: bootstrapping startups, building Engineering organizations, prototyping solutions, heading product and engineering.

Editor - Technology @Forbes_India. Write publish tweet repeat (not original. Saw something similar that inspired.)
I’m the Technology Editor at Forbes India. I write, host two podcasts — on tech, business and entrepreneurship — and produce them as well. I've covered India's IT services, smartphone revolution, and startups, and the world's technology giants and their interest in India/Asia, from the vantage point of my base in Bangalore. At a personal technology level, I still miss my BlackBerry — so use the Hub Plus on my Android phone — but love the new focus options on iOS 15. More seriously, my daily fight is about staying optimistic as a story teller about the world of good that technology can be used for, in the face of all the evidently evil applications it’s being put to. For now, I’m still an optimist, but the climate crisis has really tempered my optimism. Thing is, journalistically speaking, bad news is of course good copy, but writing about great tech and business and some cool way tech solved a human problem at scale can be really satisfying and fun too. I’m not very good at scoops, although I like them as much as the next journo, but what I love most is to see the big(gest) picture explained.

Rajat Bansal is the Chief Technology Officer at Games24x7 where he is responsible for delivering creative strategies to maximize tech innovation and provide an intuitive gaming experience to players. A seasoned product-tech leader with over two decades of experience, Rajat has an illustrious track record of working in the technology sector where he focused on customer satisfaction, innovation and creating business value. He comes with a rich experience in building products and organizations from the ground up and expanding them globally to international markets. Prior to joining Games24x7, Rajat was the head of engineering at Amazon Lockers. In the past, he has worked as CTO of Hike where he led Hike Messenger on a journey of 100M+ users solving unique India-specific challenges. Rajat is a BE in Computer Science from the Delhi Institute of Technology.

Anirudh is a founder of Pocket Aces, a Sequoia Capital-funded, new-age, socially-distributed, multi-format, digital entertainment company, making highly engaging content for the millennial audience, viaits channels, FilterCopy, Dice Media, and Gobble. Prior To founding Pocket Aces, Anirudh was at Valo Group LLC, a value-oriented hedge fund, based in Philadelphia. Prior to that, he worked in investment banking and private equity at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Istithmar World Capital in New York, London, and Dubai. Anirudh, along with Ashwin Suresh and Aditi Shrivastava, was featured on CNBC Young Turks, in November 2017, with Pocket Aces being listed as one of the top 10 Indian startups to watch out for in 2018. The two founders also bagged Digital Entrepreneur of the Year at Talentrack Awards 2018. Anirudh holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Anirudh is a huge Liverpool FC fan, massive cricket buff, and a film fanatic. He loves playing poker, reading history, and discussing politics in his spare time. He calls Kuwait (where he grew up) and Mumbai (where he currently resides) home.

Manu Balachandran is a writer for Forbes, based in New Delhi. At Forbes India, Manu writes on numerous areas including automobiles, aviation, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, economy and policy among many others. He also moderates many of Forbes India's events including the Forbes India One CEO Club, Forbes India CXO dialogues, and hosts Capital Ideas, a weekly podcast on the most riveting success stories from the business world. He has previously worked with Quartz, The Economic Times and Business Standard in Mumbai and New Delhi, where he covered public policy and business. In his current role as a writer for Forbes, Manu focuses on economics, business, policy and long-form features.

Currently at Games24x7 - a company I co-founded in 2006. I moved to India to start the business operations for Games24x7 and have been in Mumbai ever since. I was responsible for setting up the company, building the team and for the company's first product launch back in early 2009. Since then, the company has come a long way with sustained year on year growth which I totally credit to the team we have at Games24x7. I firmly believe that ideas don't succeed, products don't succeed, teams succeed. Before Games24x7, I was getting my PhD in Economics at New York University. I spent over two years there with research interests in economic development and microfinance. While at NYU, I also taught intermediate macroeconomics and international trade. I dropped out of the fully funded PhD program at NYU in early 2006 to become an entrepreneur and start Games24x7 in India. Before NYU, I was at Purdue University where I studied electrical engineering with interests in biomedical engineering and economics. I spent some time as an engineering intern at GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) in their X-Ray and CT modalities. I grew up in the Middle East (the Gulf more specifically) which was an experience in and of itself.

Manish Agarwal is the CEO of Nazara Technologies Ltd., India’s only listed online skill-based gaming firm which focuses on segments like Gamified Early Learning, e-Sports, Skill-Based Games and Freemium. He has been actively driving representation on behalf of the industry on various issues and is presently the convener of the online gaming committees at leading industry associations like FICCI Gaming Committee (FGC) and the Digital Gaming Committee at Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
He is passionate about building and scaling consumer internet products for Indians especially in the media and entertainment space with over 20 years of experience across Unilever, Microsoft, rediff.com, UTV and Reliance Entertainment.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal along with an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).

Head - Solution Architects (India) - Digital Native Business Satinder Singh heads the Solution Architecture Function for Digital Native Business at Amazon Web Services. With over 26 years’ experience, Satinder has worked across multiple technology domains of Enterprise Architecture. Before joining AWS, Satinder has worked with companies like RedHat, NetApp, Symantec and PwC . Throughout his career, he has worked with customer across different industry verticals advising them on areas like Technology Strategy, Architecture and Blueprints. Satinder is a veteran of the IT industry, with more than 20 years of experience in leadership roles concerning solution architects.

Brian Carvalho is an Editor at Forbes India based in Delisle Road, Maharashtra. Previously, Brian was a Group Editor Publishing at NETWORK18.

An engineer by qualification, Avneet Rana started his professional career at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in 2012. Based out of Delhi, Avneet has been with the brand since the hay days of PokerBaazi.com. Right from being responsible for designing the UI and was integral to the rollout of the PokerBaazi version 1.0 on 23rd October 2014 to revamping the PokerBaazi app and website in 2021, Avneet’s contribution towards Baazi’s tech upgrade and innovations has been immense. A man of pure talent and hard work, Avneet holds strong opinions about the digital future of virtual gaming in India, the promising future of budding gaming start-ups and the exponential growth of the online gaming industry in India. He has been at the core of building strong products under Baazi Games, which includes creating agile apps that can be further developed according to the product life cycle and product feature learning curve based on the user community itself. He has devised the architectural framework keeping in mind the agility of human perception of technology and the fast pace of the fraternity. Using API based microservices to reduce the framework rigidity, internally developed ML and AI for smooth functioning of the apps, Avneet has always kept us ahead of the curve. He has led a very data-driven approach to prepare roadmaps and ML-powered planning for various engaging campaigns. Additionally, he has been a key cog in the wheel to offer the users a safe and seamless user interface as he drives the development of the security department as well.

Business Leader with comprehensive sales, business development, P&L and people management experience in India. Skilled In: Large opportunity management, business development, technology sales and marketing, media & analyst engagement, high impact presentations, product and P&L management, people management & leading large sales teams

Guruprasad has been with Moonfrog Labs as an Architect for the past two years. This is his first stint in game development. Guruprasad believes that gaming is one of the most technologically demanding spaces, and is an ideal field for any engineer looking to experiment with technology. Prior to Moonfrog, he has worked with companies like 24-7.ai, Flipkart, Adobe, and a few early-stage startups.