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.

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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.

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.

Innoviti is using payment technology in an unconventional way to solve the problem of rising cost of acquisition for businesses, caused by the Big Adtech companies equalizing access to consumers. By innovatively turning payment transactions into new and unique purchase tools, Innoviti is helping businesses grow faster with lesser efforts than possible otherwise. Consumers are able to make better purchase decisions, maximizing the joy out of every Re they earn.

Innoviti's tools power $8B of purchases every year by 90M consumers from 2000+ cities at India's top enterprise merchants in Fashion, Grocery, Healthcare and Electronics.

Rajeev is a strong believer that large problems can only be solved using a design centric approach. He loves alternating his time between designing products and observing customers use them. Innoviti has five design patents, including international patents, more than all fintech companies in India combined.

Prior to founding Innoviti Rajeev was Head of Internet Access Solutions at Sasken (NSE: Sasken). He has done his B.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay and is credited with the fastest Ph.D. in the history of IIT Bombay. Rajeev is a member of FICCI’s National Fintech Committee.

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.

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.

Anshul is a computer science graduate from IIT Kharagpur (2010). Post engineering, he grabbed the most coveted job at Microsoft Research Lab. He spent two wonderful years at MSR, filing 2 patents and publishing 4 papers in International Journals. However, this did not appease his hunger for learning, creating value and making that significant impact in the society he so desired. So he decided to quit his job to start Happay. Anshul loves coding. He can code for days continuously, and likes to make things work. When he is not coding, he can be found reading about entrepreneurs, listening to music, or explaining his new found discoveries to others. He also loves traveling and visiting new places with different cultures. At Happay, he looks after technology and possible business collaborations.

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.

Sashank is a former strategy consultant and investor with global experience across developed and emerging markets. Prior to Capital Float, Sashank was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where he advised several leading financial institutions, investment funds, governments and foundations on business strategy, governance, operationsand risk management. Sashank completed his MBA from Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Princeton University.

I’m the Editor — Tech & Innovation at Forbes India. My work includes writing for the mag, online, and hosting and producing three podcasts — on tech, business and entrepreneurship. I'm interested in all things tech, with some focus on India: IT services, our smartphone and data, and fintech revolution, startups (especially deep tech and the emerging climate entrepreneurs in India), and the world's technology giants and their interest in India/Asia. At a personal technology level, I still miss my BlackBerry — so used the Hub Plus for a long time on my Android phone — but the iPhone is my primary device these days. 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.

Technology leader with proven expertise of building highly successful and talented teams. Passionate about scaling tech platforms, building cloud scale products, developing people and growing business. I am accountable for technological innovations and building world class payments systems at "PayU". I drive complete Tech Growth Strategy enabling Software Development, AI/Data & Machine Learning, Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Teams to build highly scalable world-class tech Platforms. As Vice President of Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech India my main focus is to build the nextgen fulfilment systems so that our customers can shop anywhere, anytime and anyplace. In this role I have an opportunity to work with a talented team of engineers spread over IDC and US. I also get to partner with our fabulous business partners to provide a world class experience to our supply chain associates. This team's mission is to build a supply chain system which is very efficient and customer friendly. I am a seasoned Engineering Leader with over 20 years of experience in general management & engineering. I’ve led, built and nurtured top talented teams and scaled engineering practices. I’m a team player and leader who strives to align technology with business goals. I’ve extensive knowledge of all aspects of product and engineering management and have managed global teams of up to 300+. My expertise lies in digital eCommerce, retail, Web portals, Payments and Ad Platforms.

As a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Upstox, Siddharth Patnaik is in charge of the overall architecture, platforms & Data Prior to joining Upstox, Siddharth worked at Walmart Global Tech India. He formerly held significant positions at Digital Insights, Huawei Technologies and Cordys He has more than two decades of industry experience building massively scalable resilient low latency platforms in FinTech, E-Commerce and Telecom industries As a technology mentor, he has shared his expertise in technology and supported numerous startups. Siddharth is adept at coupling innovation with experience in research, architecture, design and development of innovative products, right from ideation to production. Siddharth graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from VSSUT and studied advanced computers at CDAC

Ashish Wadhwani is the Managing Partner at IvyCap Ventures. He has over 25 years of experience in Venture Capital, M&A, and Strategy Consulting. IvyCap is a Venture Capital fund built around the alumni of premier institutions in India and manages about 125m USD of Capital. During his career, Ashish has led and managed investments of over USD 400m and also a NASDAQ listing. In addition, he has also worked on about 15 M&A transactions. Ashish has worked with companies across the investment lifecycle, from incubation to exit. He advised over 40 companies on business strategy, and growth, and implementing new business models, mergers, and acquisitions across Asia, India, and Europe. He sits on the board of several privately held companies in India and Asia. Ashish has also founded and run his ventures and is a member of the board of several companies across the APAC region. He is also currently serving as a board member of TiE Singapore. Ashish was a strategy consultant with Roland Berger, Monitor Group, and Deloitte. Ashish was also part of Tata Industries, the holding company of the Tata group. His expertise is across Technology, Energy, and Manufacturing verticals. Ashish is a regular speaker and author on thought leadership topics. He holds a postgraduate diploma in management from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.Tech. degree from IIT Delhi. Ashish was born in Jamshedpur, India, and has been living in Singapore and working across Asia since 2000.

Karthikeyan K (Karthikeyan Krishnaswamy) is the CTO and Co-Founder of KreditBee and a member of the company’s board of directors. Karthik leads the team responsible for realising the company's vision of creating unprecedented value to borrowers through KreditBee’s online credit marketplace and constant innovation. He also serves as Director at KrazyBee Services Private Limited, which is a systemically important NBFC (Non Banking Financial Company) registered with RBI (Reserve Bank of India).

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.

Saurabh is the CTO of India’s leading insurtech company, Policybazaar.com and CEO at Zphin. Saurabh joined back Policybazaar.com in February 2019 and since then has been responsible for tech innovations and providing seamless customer experience to the visitors on the website. Prior to joining PolicyBazaar, Saurabh served as Vice-President-Technology at GEP Worldwide and was with IBM India and MCSB Systems. Saurabh is a graduate from IIT Kanpur and holds MBA from IIM Calcutta.
A leader, who brings insight from both technical and business perspectives in the field of Information Technology. Experience in the area of software pre-sales, product management and development. Successfully defined and evolved product roadmaps. Developed product marketing assets & designed solutions Worked closely with customers from USA, Europe and across Asia-pacific. Experienced in rolling out Distributed Agile Product Development processes. Technically hands-on in SOA, OOAD & architectural patterns. Specialties: Ideation and successful execution, Product Management, Software Solution Building, Cross-Geo & Cross-functional Team Management, Product Sales & Software development.

Vivek Gupta is the EVP and Head, Technology of CoinDCX, India’s first crypto unicorn and the nation’s safest cryptocurrency exchange. As the CTO of CoinDCX, Viviek leads the firm’s technology team with a firm focus on strengthening CoinDCX’s product experience, while ensuring the platform remains reliable, secure and seamless for its end users.
Over the span of his career, Vivek has worked with multiple startups across different sectors including FinTech, e-commerce and social commerce, gaining extensive experience in product engineering, technology and innovation, as well as scaling solutions for growth. Vivek holds Bachelors of Computer Applications (BCA) from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Viviek is a firm believer of technology and the critical need for tech to be built transparently and simply – fundamental tenets of creating great user experiences. A technologist at heart, Vivek also believes that crypto is poised to proliferate, much like how the internet grew exponentially during the Web 2.0 era. To this end, Vivek is committed to harnessing his expertise in technology to make crypto safe and accessible to all.

Thippesha Dyamappa brings in a unique mix of tech capabilities and organisational acumen, 20+ years of software engineering experience in building best-in-class organizations in six countries (US, India, Jordan, China, UAE, and Brazil). The appointment of Dyamappa is the first step towards the next phase of Upstox’s expansion into global markets.
Experienced technology executive with 20+ years of software engineering experience in building best-in-class organizations with 600+ FTEs in 6 countries (US, India, Jordan, China, UAE, and Brazil). Successfully Built innovative, scalable, and operationally excellent services and products for B2C in e-Commerce. Customer-focused and results-driven leader with expertise in setting the organization's vision, strategy, and culture that improve customer lives, accelerate the company business's growth, and drive profitability through efficiency. Designated to excel in a global role focused on leading International Consumer Expansion. An influential professional with an empowering, iterative, and motivational leadership style that brings out the best in employees, and creates allegiance in efforts to achieve organizational goals.

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.