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.

A senior C-level engineering leader and leadership coach with 20+yrs of experience (18years in USA), currently working as Chief Technology Officer with BookMyShow, driving the transformation of BookMyShow during pandemic to be more agile, efficient and set the platform foundation to grow and expand for few years to come. Enabled to expand the business horizon to OTT world via BMS STREAM and also taken the 15+yrs old on-prem data center based platform to AWS cloud in shortest timeframe to enable us to handle our seasonal based traffic patterns in much more efficient (cost effective and high performing) and predictable manner and ability to expand our business to different horizons. Experience building and heading development centers, defining enterprise applications architecture, leading technology governance, consultative/technical solution crafting and proposals and solution contracts negotiations. Passionate about motivating teams to bring innovation and build scalable products that delight our customers. Have consistent track record of delivering business results and successful products that involve multiple cross-functional teams. Before joining BookMyShow, was working as SVP/head of Engineering with Near and VP/Global Head of SW Engineering with Nissan Digital, to drive Digital Transformation effort. Prior to that, at Hotstar, as VP of Engineering, led engineering teams responsible for User Management, Subscriptions, Payment Platform, DevOps/Infrastructure and Quality Engineering. Responsible for defining and promoting strong cultural values and build a world class engineering organization. Prior to Hotstar, worked as Sr Engineering Manager with Apple, USA to lead the digital transformation of legacy manufacturing data analysis platforms to strategic big data analysis platform to handle petabytes of manufacturing test data. Prior to this effort, also worked as a Senior Architect Manager on Apple HR Employee System Transformation effort for around 1.5Yrs to lay the core foundation for digital transformation. As part of these efforts built and led different offshore development centers in India as well. Before joining Apple in 2013, worked as a VP - Senior Eng Manager and Strategist for Bank of America to transform legacy EAI based payment transfer platform to SOA based platform to support $3T transfer per year. Also led the innovation to implement solutions to streamline development effort across Consumer Banking Technology development teams. I also had to manage my offshore teams in Bank of America, Hyderabad as well.

Gurukeerthi Gurunathan, Co-founder and Senior Vice President is an accomplished internet technology veteran and business leader with more than 19 years of experience in the digital space. Prior to CaratLane, Guru was managing engineering teams in Yahoo! Bangalore, responsible for delivering web applications for the US and European markets. And prior to Yahoo!, Guru was working at Healthline, a healthcare search engine company in San Francisco. At CaratLane, Guru is responsible for developing all the technology touch points across CaratLane in it’s B2B and B2C line of business. He is also leading the online business of Titan Eyeplus. Earlier, he has led the supply chain operations of CaratLane and HR. Guru holds a master’s degree in enterprise management from IIMB and a bachelor’s in computer science engineering from University of Madras. Outside of work, Guru either spends time with his family or escapes to spiritual sojourns and social service on weekends across Tamil Nadu.

Amit is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at Ecom Express. He is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and leads the Product, Engineering, Data Science, IT Security, and Infrastructure teams to build ultra-high scale systems and cutting-edge data science and AI-driven logistics solutions. He is a passionate advocate for gender equality in the workplace and STEM-related inclusion and diversity initiatives at Ecom Express. Amit comes with 20 years of experience that spans management consulting, product management, technology architecture, and engineering leadership. Prior to Ecom Express, Amit was associated with Paytm as Senior Vice President – Technology where he led the launch and scale-up of Paytm’s Lending platform. He has previously worked with Helpshift, Expedia Group, Deloitte Consulting, and AT&T Labs across US and India geographies. Amit completed his B.E in Electronics and Communication from Delhi College of Engineering, M.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University and MBA in Finance & Strategy from Indian School of Business.

Part of Founding team at Lenskart, currently leading Product for Android, iOS, web apps and POS, Supply chain systems. Graduated with MS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. Previously, worked on Michelin’s Greenfield Chennai Site for projects dealing with: Purchasing, Simulation of plant capacity & training. Graduated with MS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. Previously, worked on Michelin’s Greenfield Chennai Site for projects dealing with: Purchasing, Simulation of plant capacity & training. During course of my work got opportunity to work at Supply chain department, where I was responsible for Production planning on shift. I’ve also worked as Business unit leader with 51 direct reports and coordination of multi-disciplinary experts. Previously, as IE Project Leader, I worked on Warehouse Operations Study where we Optimized inventory storage, developed & implemented warehouse management & inventory deployment system. I also led Flow & Traceability Study, wherein we proposed RFID tags based Inventory tracking.

Satinder Singh 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.

Vipul is a serial entrepreneur and is now the cofounder of Bigbasket, India's largest online grocery business. He is currently the CMO and CFO of Bigbasket.
Before Bigbasket, he was an investment director at Peepul Capital, a leading private equity fund. He was also the Co-founder of Fabmall.
Vipul Parekh is an IIM Bangalore alumnus.

Prashanth Ranganathan is the CEO of PayU Finance where he is responsible for driving the overall growth for PayU's consumer business in India and its ambitious plans to become one of the largest digital lenders in the country. Before joining PayU, he was the founder and CEO of PaySense, a leading digital lending startup that was acquired by PayU in January 2020.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of Ashoka University. He was given the Padma Shri Award, the fourth Highest civilian award in India, in January 2020

He attended St. Columba's School, Delhi and finished schooling from there in 1981. There after, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1984. He completed his MBA from IIMA in 1989. He is ranked #68 in Forbes India Rich List 2020 with a net worth of US$2.1 Billion

Sanjeev after his PG left a job marketing Horlicks at HMM (now known as GlaxoSmithKline) in 1990 to set up two companies Indmark and Info Edge along with a partner. The first company specialized in pharmaceutical trademarks and the second produced salary surveys and reports. In 1993, Sanjeev got Info Edge. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up Naukri.com, jobs portal, and later Quadrangle, an offline executive search business. In 2005, Naukri.com was reported as being India's largest web-based employment site. Building up in the websites business, Infoedge later launched other classified sites like 99acres in real estate, Jeevansathi in matrimony and Shiksha in education.

He is also an astute investor, having invested in unicorns like PolicyBazaar and Zomato. Additionally, he is a part of the 'Vision Circle' of FYI (Foundation for Young Innovators) - a shark tank for social initiatives exclusively open to high school students.

He won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008.

Ramki Gaddipati is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zeta. He leads a strong team of engineers to give the product a stable foundation. Ramki is extremely passionate about product engineering with a strong sense of initiative and commitment to excellence at every step.

Ramki has been associated with the Directi Group for the past 11 years. He led several tech initiatives in various capacities and has developed and managed the delivery of several scalable services. Ramki also co-founded Bridle Information and Technology Solutions and was named one of Asia’s Best Entrepreneurs Under 25 by BusinessWeek in 2006.

He holds a Master’s degree in Management and Software Systemsfrom Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

Amit is a 40u40 business leader and a versatile individual with education from top Indian universities (IIT Bombay and ISB Hyderabad). He has climbed up the ladder in the last 15 years from being a management trainee to a Global CXO and a startup CEO. He has worked across geographies in diverse industries (Classifieds, e-Commerce, FMCG and Telecom). His work has focused on building scalable businesses with intuitive products and large, strong teams. He understands the value chain of consumer products (e.g. Auto, Fashion, Electronics). He understands consumer segments from Premium to the Bottom of the pyramid. Amit likes to read about evolutionary psychology.
Lately, Amit has started "Giving back" to society. He is a startup mentor and is also an empanelled Stanford Univesity SEED consultant.

I am an experienced IT Sales Professional with expertise in the Enterprise Solution in IT Industry. I have acquired a great experience,confidence and skill working in different Segments & offering wide range of Infrastructure Solution on various Technologies & Products. It had given me a platform to network with excellent professionals in the IT industry. Currently I am associated with Amazon Internent Services for business development of Amazon Web Services for North Region.

With Hewlett Packard --I was handling various roles as "Storage Sales Manger, BCS Sales Manager & Account Manager for North Region.". I was responsible for managing HP Enterprise business & increasing the HP revenue in north region. I was handling large Enterprise accounts & State governments for different HP Technologies, Products & Solutions. I also used to drive SI Engagement & ISV Relationship for State Government Business.
I'm passionate about meeting and networking with new people and developing & maintaining relationship's with the existing one's.
Specialties: Engaged in Various IT Projects in State Governments to increase SOW for HP. Relationship with System Integrators & ISV to drive business in north. Excellent equation with HP Business Partners. Excellent Network with IT Professionals.