Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022 | Bengaluru Tech Summit | 15 November 2022 | Bangalore Palace, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560052

Asia's most prestigious and sought-after technology summit is here again! The platform will be celebrating its 25th year and is all set to offer another enriching confluence of pioneering companies, bright minds, and cutting-edge technologies in IT, Biotechnology, Deeptech, Start-ups and other future-defining spaces. This invigorating crucible is all set to benefit the various stakeholders associated with the respective domains - industry leaders, technocrats, young innovators, investors, R&D professionals, academia, and policymakers.

Organised by the Department of Electronics, IT, Bt and S&T, Government of Karnataka and Co-Hosted by STPI, Bengaluru Technology Summit brings together the most established businesses across technologies, the most talented individuals, researchers, consultants, academia, professionals and other stakeholders providing them with a unique opportunity to interact and engage for mutual benefit. Of course, as always BTS 2022 promises to be bigger, bolder, and better.

2022 Speakers

INAUGURAL SPEAKERS:

H.E. Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, UAE

Petri Honkonen
Honorable Minister of Science and Culture of Finland

Tim Watts
Honorable Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australian Government

Basavaraj Bommai
Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Government of Karnataka

Dr. C. N. Ashwath Narayan
Honorable Minister for Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, Higher Education, Skill development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood,
Government of Karnataka

Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani
Honorable Minister, Large and Medium Industries Government of Karnataka

Martin Schroeter
Chairman & CEO, Kyndryl, New York, USA

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Executive Chairperson, Biocon Ltd. and Chairperson, Karnataka Vision Group on Biotechnology

Kris Gopalakrishnan
Co-Founder, Infosys, Chairman, Axilor Ventures, Chairperson, Karnataka Vision Group on Informational Technology

Prashanth Prakash
Partner, Accel Partners and Chairman, Karnataka Vision Group on Startup

Vandita Sharma
Chief Secretary, Govt of Karnataka

Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary Department of Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka

Arvind Kumar
Director General, STPI, MeitY Government of India

Naveen Tewari
CEO, Inmobi

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2020 and Scientific and Managing Director, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin.

Prof. Ajay K .Sood
Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India

Mohandas Pai
Chairman, Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education Services, Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd

Dr. Rajiv Bahl
Secretary, Government of India Department of Health Research and Director General ICMR

Veena Reddy
Mission Director, USAID

Ambika Sharma
Managing Director, USIBC

ITE DEEPTECH SPEAKERS:

George Lee
Head of Applied Innovation and Management Committee, Goldman Sachs

K S Viswanathan
Vice President (Industry Initiatives), NASSCOM

Manu Saale
Managing Director & CEO, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India

Gunjan Samtani
Partner, Head of Goldman Sachs Services India

Dr. Gopichand Katragadda
Founder and CEO, Myelin Foundry

Lama Nachman
Intel Fellow, Director of Intelligent Systems Research Intel Labs

Anirudh Suri
Founding Partner, India Internet Fund

Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Tech Ambassador, Denmark

Anand Ramamoorthy
Vice President & Managing Director, Micron Technology

Guruprasad S
Vice President & Global Director (Healthcare & Data Science), Bosch Global Software Technologies

Andres Elizondo
CFO, Builder.ai

Akash Sinha
Co-Founder & CEO, Cashfree Payments

Rajesh Bansal
CEO, RBI Innovation Hub

V. Ponnuraj, IAS
Secretary to Government, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (e-Governance)

Priyanka Jain
Public Policy Lead,Payments & Financial Inclusion, WhatsApp

Arti Singh
Deputy Editor, LiveMint

Hubertus Meinecke
Global Leader Climate and Sustainability, Boston Consulting Group

Shashank Garimella
Head of Project and Programme Management in Information Technology, Shell Information Technology International.

Sreyssha George
Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Dr Akshay Singhal
Founder & CEO, Log 9

N D Ramaraju ITS
Sr DDG NCCS, DoT Bengaluru

N Murali Krishna ITS
DDG RTEC, DoT Bengaluru

K. Srikrishna ITS
DDG NCCS, DoT Bengaluru

Dr. Tobias Feakin
Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia

Kshitij Khandelwal
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Pixxel

Arnob Roy
President, Engineering Tejas Networks

Santhosh Kumar
Managing Director, Texas Instruments

Ravindra Munvar
General Manager, Design and Development, Syrma Tech

Dr. Satya Gupta
CEO, EPIC Foundation

Hank Hsu
Vice President, Wistron Corporation

Gourab Basu
Vice President Business Development and Head, Commercials (Manufacturing Business) VVDN Technologies

Dan Jeavons
VP Computational Science & Digital Innovation, Shell

Vivek Tyagi
Chairman, IESA

Vadiraj Krishnamurthy
Vice President Technology & Innovation, Bosch Global Software Technologies

Anjum Parwez, IAS
Managing Director, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL)

Amit Bhatt
Managing Director, International Council on Clean transportation (ICCT)

Biren Ghose
President & Country Head, ABAI

Harshavardhana Kikkeri
Founder & CEO, Holosuit

Srinivas Mohan
VFX Supervisor

Kiran Kumar V
Moving Production Company

Veerendra Patil
Founder & Director, Zebu Animation

Naveen Kumar
Director, Lahari Media

Sudheer Kumar N
Director, CBPO, ISRO

Vinod Chippalkatti
President SEBU, Centum Electronics Ltd

Tanveer Ahmed
CTO, Digantara

STARTUP SPEAKERS:

Tej Kapoor
Managing partner, IvyCap ventures

Anurag Ramdasan
Partner, 3one4 capital

Henri Verdier
Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Tech Ambassador, Denmark

Dr. S Rajagopalan
Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

Sharad Sharma
Co-founder, iSPRIT

Sridhar Pabbisetty
Founding Director, Kautilya School of Public Policy

Dr. Bharadwaj Amrutur
Professor, Division of EECS- IISc Co-Founder, Research Head & Director.

Ajay Gopalswamy
CEO, DiFACTO Robotics and Automation

Dr. Arjun Jain
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist, UAVIO Labs Pvt Ltd

Kamal Bali
President & MD, Volvo Group India

Naganand Doraswamy
Managing Partner & Founder, Ideaspring capital

Roopan Aulakh
Managing Director, Pi Ventures

Madhukar Sinha
Co-Founder, General Partner, India Quotient

Pulkit Agrawal
Assistant Professor, MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL

SriVidhya Srinivasan
Co founder, Amagi Technologies

Mythily Ramesh
Co-Founder & CEO, NextWealth Entrepreneurs Pvt Ltd

Sucharita Eashwar
Founder & CEO, CWE

Dr Subi Chaturvedi
Chief Corporate Affairs & Policy Officer, InMobi

Beverly White
Senior Anchor, YourStory Media

Saurabh Kumar
Independent Consultant, Former EVC & MD EESL

Starlene Sharma
Founding Partner, Green Artha

Vishal Pandya
Co-Founder, REConnect Energy

Ganesh Shanker
Founder & CEO, FluxGen Technologies

Suhas Dixit
CEO and CTO, APChemi Pvt Ltd

Suresh Bhagavatula
Professor, Entrepreneurship Area, IIM Bangalore

Prof. S Sadagopan
Former Director, IIIT Bangalore

Suresh Narasimha
CEO, Co-Create Founder & CEO of Telibrahma, Co- Create Telibrahma

Pallavi Gopinath
Co-Founder and Director, Fond Solutions

Abhilash Madabhushi
Founder, Consuma

Akshay S P
Co-Founder, Zeru

Ananya Mungara
Founder & CEO, SmartChakra

Yousha Mahamuni
Co-Founder, Physi.Fit

Hrithin Kedage
Co-Founder and CTO, Assertify Technologies Pvt Ltd

Jeyandran Venugopal
CPTO, Flipkart

Umakant Soni
Co-founder & CEO, ARTPARK

Tapan Barman
Co- Founder & CEO, Mihup Communications

Ankush Sabharwal
Founder & CEO, CoRover.ai

Dhrupal Shah
CEO, Stempedia

Rohit Rathi
Co - Founder, KarmaLifeAI

Manasi Shah
Vice President, Accel Partner

Raghunandan G
Founder, Zolve

Nithin Kamath
Founder & CEO, Zerodha

Nitin Gupta
Founder & CEO, Uni cards

Harshil Mathur
CEO & Co-Founder, Razorpay

Nitin Mishra
Chief Technology Officer & President, ONDC

Sanjay Anandaram
Co-founder, NICEorg

Shankar Maruwada
Co-Founder and CEO, EkStep

Hrushikesh Mehta
Co-founder & Chief Evangelist, CredAll

Kiran Anandampillai
Core Volunteer, Healthcare iSPIRT CEO, and Founder iDrishti, Advisor (Technology) National Health Authority

BG Mahesh
Co-founder, Sahamati

Prashant Adurty
Co-Founder, Mannjal

Nruthya Madappa
Director, 3one4capital

Manjunatha Kukkuru
AVP and Principal, Incubating Emerging Technology Offerings, Infosys

Nakul Saxena
Head, Fund Strategy & Investor Relations, lets venture

Madan Padaki
Founder & CEO, 1BRIDGE

Dr. Sridhar Mitta
Founder & Managing Director, NextWealth Entrepreneurs

C.M.Patil
CEO, Krishikalpa

Anil kumar SG
Founder & CEO, Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services Pvt Ltd.

Param Singh
Founder & CEO, MOOO Farms

Dhiresh Bansal
CFO, Meesho

Ravi Haldipur
Co-founder, eSamudaay

Ravi Narayan
Trustee, TiE Global

Sruthi Kannan
Head, Cisco Launchpad, Cisco

Naren Ravula
Vice President, Head of Product Strategy & Deployment Flipkart

Abhay Tandon
Head Digital and AI Innovation, TVS Motor Company

Madhurima Agarwal
Country Head, Microsoft for Startups Microsoft India

BIO SPEAKERS:

Dr. Vijay Chandru
Co-Founder & Director, Strand Life Sciences

Dr Joydeep Goswami
Senior Vice President Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, Illumina Inc.

Dr Ramprasad V L
Chief Executive Officer, MedGenome Labs Ltd

Dr. Ramesh Hariharan
CEO & Co-Founder, Strand Life Sciences

Lalith Kishore
COO, C-CAMP InDx

Mrinalini Lakshminarayanan
Global Executive Director, Digital Operations Innovation Ingram Micro

Sameer Amte
Managing Director, Life-Science and Retail Industry Lead India Accenture

Dr. Brad Ringeisen, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute UC Berkeley

Dr KK Narayanan
Director & CEO, Agrigenome Labs

Prof CS Prakash
Dean, Tuskegee University

Sindura Ganapathi
Visiting PSA Fellow, Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India

Raghu Dharmaraju
President, ARTPark

Dr. Farah Ishtiaq
Principal Scientist, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society

Dr H Paramesh
Visiting Professor, Divecha Center for Climate Change IISc, Founder/Chairman, Lakeside Education Trust

Dr. Varsha Shridhar
Director and Co-founder, Molecular Solutions Care Health LLP

Dr. Vishal Rao U S
Director/Head Neck Surgical Oncology & Robotic Surgery, Dean, Centre of Academics & Research, HCG Cancer Centre

Dr. Roger Hajjar
MD/Head of Research & Development, Ring Therapeuticse

Dr. Arun Shastry
Founder/Director & Chief Scientific Officer, Hanugen Therapeutics Private Limited

Prof. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science

Dr. Anand Ranganathan
Professor, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Dr Ezhil Subbian
Co-Founder & CEO, String Bio Pvt Ltd

Dr. Anindya Bandyopadhyay
Vice President R&D, Reliance Industries Ltd

Dr H. S Subramanya
Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology

Eswar Iyer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aikium

Shrikumar Suryanarayan
Chairman & Managing Director, Sea6 Energy Pvt. Ltd.

Krishna Mohan Puvvada
Regional President, Business Director, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

Dr Pramod Kumbhar
President & CTO, Praj Industries

Dr. Santanu Dasgupta
Senior Vice-President, Head of Algae to oil and Synthetic Biology R&D Reliance Industries Limited

Dr VV Hemanth Giri Rao
Senior Manager - R&D, Sea6 Energy

G. S. Krishnan
President, ABLE

Dr Bharathi Salimath
Director, Sanorva Biotech Pvt Ltd

Varun Deshpande
Managing Director, The Good food Institute India

Dr Manish Dhiwan
Head, Strategy Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC

B N Manohar
MD & CEO, Stempeutics Research Private Limited

Dr. Narendra Chirmule
CEO/Director & Co-Founder, SymphonyTech Biologics, Adjunct Professor (faculty), University of Pennsylvania

Dr Arun Anand
Chief Operating Officer and Board Director, Immuneel Therapeutics Private Limited

Prof Rahul Purwar
Associate Professor & Founder, ImmunoACT

Mohankumar K. Murugesan
PhD, Scientist -E, Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College Campus.

Dr. Woody Sherman
CEO, Psivant Therapeutics

Mahesh Bhalgat
Chief Operating Officer, Syngene International Limited

Dr. Nandu Gattu
Vice President, Eagle Genomics Ltd

Panna Sharma
CEO & President, Lantern Pharma

N Suresh
Chief Operating Officer, ABLE

Subramani Ramachandrappa
Founder & Managing Director, Laurus Bio Pvt Ltd

Vikas Katial
Head Manufacturing operations Biologics, syngene international limited

Dr. Jaby Jacob
Sr. President, Bharath Serums and Vaccines Ltd.

Dr Radha Rangarajan
Director, CDRI

Dr. P. M. Murali
Chairman & Managing Director, Jananom Pvt. Ltd.

Clarence Andre John Anthony
Partner, Trilegal

Sanjeev Yamsani
Partner, VenturEast

Dr. Bratati Kahali
Associate Professor, Centre for Brain Research, IISc

GIA SPEAKERS:

Barry O'Farrell
Honorable High Commissioner to India, Australian High Commission Delhi

Tim Watts
Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australian Government

Clément Maës
COO and Co-Founder, Coralium

Rajesh Desai
Cofounder/CEO & MD, Lyra Network

Souad Tenfiche-Ancelle
CEO, LINK INNOVATIONS

Nikhil Pathak
Vice President, Offer Marketing and Business Development, Schneider Electric

Rajiv Aramadaka
Director Public Sector, Dassault Systemes

Sylvain Rouri
Chief Sales Officer, OVHcloud

Sarah Kirlew
Australian Consul General for South India, Australian Consulate Chennai

Jay Meek
General Manager, High Growth Export Services, Austrade

Chris Waters
Regional Director, South Asia Dept. of Home Affairs, Australia

Madhavi Shankar
Cofounder and CEO, SpaceBasic

Patrick Crehan
Founder Director, CKA (Crehan, Kusano & Associates) SRL

Vinayak Andangoudar
Head Of Location Development, Nokia

Saniya Jeswani
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Perkant Tech Private Limited

Ravi Chivukula
CEO, Hearthealth Technologies

Dr. Jukka Holappa
Country Director India, Business Finland

Eske Bo Knudsen Rosenberg
Consul General of Denmark, Consulate General of Denmark

Krishna Mohan Puvvada
Regional President & Business Director (Consumer Biosolutions), Novozymes

Freddy Svane
Ambassador of the Royal Danish Embassy, Royal Embassy of Denmark

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Executive Chairperson, Biocon Ltd. and Chairperson, Karnataka Vision Group on Biotechnology,

Manoj Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO, Social Alpha

Dr. Jong-Bum Kim
Principal Researcher, Korea Aerospace Research Institute

KT Rajan
Cluster Head, Technology & Innovation, British Deputy High Commission, Bengaluru

Prof. K V S Hari
ECE and Chief Project Executive, BTIRC, IISc, Indian Institute of Science

Gnanapriya Chidambaranathan
Associate Vice President, Unit Technology Officer, Infosys

Cecilia Oskarsson
Sweden Trade & Invest Commissioner to India, Business Sweden

Christian Kamill
Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi

Stefan Gustafsson
Senior Vice President Strategy & Sustainability, Swedish Space Corporation

Laxmesh BH
Head of Missiles & Aerospace Business, Larsen & Toubro

A K Anil Kumar
Associate Director, ISTRAC, ISRO

Vinod Kumar
Director, IN-SPACe

Mr. Ewout De Wit
Consul General, Consulate General of the Netherlands in Bengaluru

Michiel van Erkel
Agricultural Counselor, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in India and Sri Lanka

Anesh Kisoen
Business Advisor/Tech & Founder Digital Soft Landing Program, The Hague Business Agency

Tammy Ben-Haim
Consul General of Israel to South India, Consulate General of Israel

Eyal Miller
CEO, Ivory Graft

Ms. Tlalit Bussi Tel-Tzure
VP of Business Development & Global Marketing, IceCure

Pierrick Fillon Ashida
First Counsellor/Head of Section Research & Innovation, European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I)

Leena Pishe Thomas
Director, Global Business Inroads (GBI)

Dr. Balakrishna Gowda
Professor/Project coordinator, Biofuel Park, India

Ramakrishna YB
Member Working Group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Nishad Ali
Chief Executive Officer, Teltonika India

Sandeep Mohanta
Director, Neurotechnology Lab India Private Limited

Raghu Rajappa
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland, Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Bengaluru

Jittrapon Jirakulsomchok
Innovation Developer, National Innovation Agency

Dr. Sura-at Supachatturat
Director of Innovation for the Economy Department, National Innovation Agency

Friedemann Lotz
Key Account Manager ICT, Berlin Partner

Aurélien Elimane Guèye
Chief Executive Officer, Medigo GmbH

Stoyan Halkaliev
Chief Executive Officer, NursIT Institute GmbH

Martin Theobald
Chief Executive Officer, Terrasign GmbH

Harish Sid Venkat
Global Account Manager, Eva Drone Ports

Achim Burkart
Consul General, German Consulate General Bangalore

Vanessa Rexin
Managing Director/Co-Founder, LAEMON

Amrita Gandikota
Founder, German Chancellor Fellow 21-22, PrimedinFabrik

Ambika Banotra
Chief Representative, NRW Global Business India NRW. Global Business

Andrea Hendrix
Country Head/Executive Board Member, Infosys Germany/ Infosys Germany Holding GmbH

Dr. Tobias Traupel
Director General, European Legal and Foreign Trade Department Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry

Benjamin Pfrang
Head, RWTH Aachen University India Office, RWTH Aachen University

Nicole Karuvallil
International Relationship/Project Manager, digihub - Digital Innovation Hub Düsseldorf/Rheinland GmbH

Harish Shenoy
Director of Plastic Fischer India, Plastic Fischer

Felix Neugart
CEO, NRW.Global Business

Jonas Brunschwig
CEO/Consul General, Swissnex India

Venkat Gourishankar
Founder/CEO, Simulatory

Gnanli Landrou
Co-Founder, Oxara

Florin Müller
Head of Swiss Business Hub India, Swiss Business Hub India

Matteo Cornaglia
CEO and founder, Nagi Bioscience

Dr. Sawsane Queloz
Principal CEO, TOSA Swisstech

Rajesh Jayachandran
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, NextImmune AG

Anand Verma
Founder/CEO, PEROVSKIA SOLAR

Olivier Staehli
CEO/Co-Founder, Synature

Anna Krammer
Co-founder, Solaxer

Ana Hernando Ariza
COO/Co-founder, Bionomous

Panagiotis Martakis
Co-Founder, Seismohealth

Tsutomu Nakane
Consul General, Consulate General of Japan in Bengaluru

Dinesh Aggarwal
Joint Managing Director, Panasonic Electric Works India, Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd

Masanori Kurita
Head of Research & Development, Panasonic Electric Works India, Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Morimoto
General Manager, DENSO International India Pvt. Ltd

Yuna Natsumi
Director, JETRO Bengaluru

Toshihiro Mizutani
Director General, JETRO Bengaluru

Mihir Kanti Mishra
CEO, HAL

Anand Ramamoorthy
Vice President/Managing Director, Micron India, Micron Technology Operations India LLP.

Shashi Bhushan
VP & CTO, Enterprise Growth business Tata Consultancy Services

Prof. Debabrata Das
Director, IIITB

BEYOND BENGALURU SPEAKERS:

Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan
Honorable Minister of Electronics, Information Technology - Biotechnology, Science and Technology, Higher Education, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood
Government of Karnataka.

B V Naidu
Chairman, KDEM

Rajeev Khushu
Director, GR Strategy and Corporate Affairs at Texas Instruments

Rohith Bhat
CEO, 99 Games Mangaluru

Rajendra Belgaumkar
Founder/Principal, Seneca Consulting Belagavi (HDB)

Sudhanva Dhananjaya
MD & CEO, Excelsoft Technologies, Mysuru

Sanjeev Gupta
CEO, KDEM

Natrajan Radhakrishnan
Managing Director, WOW Factors India Private Limited

Parthasarathy
Director, I -Merit

Ullas Kamath
Former Joint Managing Director, Jyothy Labs Ltd

Shankar Goenka
Managing Director, WOW Factors India Private Limited

2022 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL PARTNER:
• Kyndryl

STARTUP PARTNER:
• Infosys

BIOTECH PARTNER:
• Biocon

TECHNOLOGY PARTNER:
• Razorpay

DIAMOND PARTNER:
• Bosch Global Software Technologies

PAYMENTS PARTNER:
• Cashfree Payments

APP DEVELOPMENT PARTNER:
• Builder.ai

FIBERNET PARTNER:
• Act Fibernet

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Nrw Global Business
• Micron

BANKING PARTNER:
• Sbi

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Ai1
• London Stock Exhange Group
• Goldman Sachs

SILVER JUBILEE PARTNERS:
• Karnataka
• Ksrac
• Mysore Sandal Group

EDU TECH PARTNERS:
• Visvesvaraya University
• Mangalore University

ASSOCIATE PARTNERS:
• Immuneel
• Medgenome

ENERGY PARTNERS:
• Bescom
• Kptcl