Minsky Awards for Excellence in AI 2025 | AIM Media House | 16 September 2025 | KTPO, XPH9+QVP, KIADB Export Promotion Industrial Area, Whitefield, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048, India

The most prestigious AI awards in the country, given out exclusively at the company or organization level. These awards are dedicated to recognizing excellence in AI, showcasing the very best in innovation and application of artificial intelligence.

A standout feature of the awards is its transparency and commitment to fairness. There are no application fees or hidden costs involved in these esteemed honors, reinforcing the integrity and significance of the awards.

2024 Past Speakers

Bhaichung Bhutia
Indian former footballer

Mohandas Pai
Chairman, Aarin Capital, Former CFO and Board Member, Infosys

Ronnie Screwvala
Co-founder, upGrad & Swades Foundation

Shashank Kumar
Managing Director, Co-Founder, Razorpay

Bhupendra Chaubey
Journalist

Sunil Gupta
Co-founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yotta

Manu Kumar Jain
India CEO, G42

Pradeep Gulipalli
Co-Founder & CEO, Tiger Analytics, India

Kailash Nadh
CTO, Zerodha

Anand Das
Chief Digital & AI Officer: Engineering, TVS Motor Company

Debarag Banerjee
Chief AI & Data Officer, L&T Finance

Saakar S. Yadav
Founder, CMD, Lexlegis.AI

Shalvi Chitkara
Chief Operating Officer (COO), Data and AI, Genpact

Debasis Bal
Senior Vice President, Data Science & AI, Fidelity Investments

Shashank Dubey
Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Tredence Inc

Amit Koshal
Co-Founder & CEO, Twid

Puneet Talwar
Vice President, Data Science & Analytics, TransUnion Global Capability Center, India

Shekar Sivasubramanian
CEO, Wadhwani AI

Madhusudan Shekar
Customer CTO, Google Cloud

Biswajit Biswas
Chief Data Scientist, Tata Elxsi

Sanathraj Narayan
Senior Data Scientist, Ericsson

Gaurav Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Raga.ai

Richa Saini
Global Transformation Leader, Genpact

Semen Budennyy
Ph.D. in Physics/Mathematics, Managing Director – Head of Advanced AI Technology Development Division, Sber; Research Consultant, AIRI

Sumeet Tandure
Head of Sales Engineering (India, Commercial & South), Snowflake

Gurbans Chatwal
Vice President of Innovation and Intelligent Automation, Fiserv

Richa Awasthi
Vice President, Credit and Fraud Risk, American Express

Kapil Chandel
EVP & Head of Data Science, Motilal Oswal Financial Services

Aseem Sharma
Associate Director, Tiger Analytics

Nitin Jog
CIO, Bajaj Finserv Health

Harsh Vardhan
Global Head - Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres

Anusha Mujumdar
Senior Manager, Data Science and AI, Intuit

Vignesh Subrahmaniam
Group Manager, Data Science, Intuit

Kaushik Halder
Head-Education, Training, Information Security and Emerging Technology, WEBEL

Shriram Vasudevan
Lead - Technical Evangelist | APJ, Intel

Raja Jamalamadaka
Managing Director, Roche Information Solutions India

Maksim Khaitovich
AI Lab Head, Kearney, Dubai

Megh Makwana
Solution Architect & Engineering Manager – Applied Generation AI, Nvidia

Rimjhim Agrawal
Co-founder & CTO, BrainSight AI

Floris Hermsen
Director of Data Science & AI, Elsevier (RELX)

Prashant Ramappa
Chief (Principal) Data Science, AT&T

Anju Garg
Vice President, Genpact

Kamesh Sampath
Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake, India

Siddharth Bhardwaj
Co-founder & CTO, Beatoven.ai

Bharadwaj Amrutur
Executive Director & Chief Technologist, ARTPARK

Raman Srinivasan
Chief Digital Officer, InMobi

Santosh Hegde
Senior Director Of Engineering, Couchbase

Arjun Rao
General Partner, Speciale Invest

Pranam S. Karpur
Vice President & Sr. Partner | Data and AI, Genpact

Rahul Lodhe
Global Head of Engineering for SAP Business AI Copilot Joule

Nikhil Malhotra
Global Head - Makers Lab, Tech Mahindra

Srikanth Iyengar
CEO, upGrad Enterprise

Shikha Singhal
Principal of Data Science, Axtria

Srinivas Chitturi
CIO, iOPEX

Raunak Gulshan
Senior Director - Retail, Tredence Inc

Vinod Kumar
Director, IN-SPACe, Department of Space

Nataraju Vusirkala
Sr. Director, Data Science and Engineering, Walmart Global Tech

Venkatesh Mahale
Senior Research Manager, Technology Holdings

Jigar Halani
Director of the Enterprise Solutions Architecture & Engineering, NVIDIA, South Asia

Abhinav Dadhich
Senior Data Scientist, Tricog Health

Sriharsha K V
Associate Director, Technology Holdings

Anant Kharad
Vice President, TH Healthcare & Life Sciences

Ashwin Raguraman
Co-founder & Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund

Swaroop Shivaram
Senior Director of Data Science, Lowe's

Sergey Palamarchuk
Head of Division, Digital Client Profile Platform, Sber

Krishnakumar Maruthur
Technology Partner, Tiger Analytics

Yana Charuyskaya
Executive Director of the Department of Experimental Systems Ml, Sber

Nitin Dhir
Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud

Evgeny Burnaev
Doctor of Science in Physics/Mathematics, Head of “Learnable Intelligence” Research Group, AIRI; Head of Applied AI Center, Skoltech

Supriya Raman
AI Engineering Manager, IBM

Anish Kumar
AI Software Engineering Manager, Intel

Anisha Udayakumar
AI Software Evangelist | APJ, Intel

Anish Kumar Roy
Director of Analytics, MiQ

Prag Jaodekar
Technology Director, CTO Office, Synechron

Shreevyas H M
Project Director, e-Governance, Government of Karnataka

Gaurav Anand
Head of Data and Analytics, Diageo India

Abhishek Upperwal
CEO/Founder, Soket Labs

Nikhil Doegar
SVP, Tata 1mg

Dinesh Kumar Kotha
CEO, Ixigo Trains & ConfirmTkt

Arvind Nagaraj
Chief Architect, Invento Robotics

Prateep Basu
Co-Founder and CEO, Satsure

Jayanth Sekar
Sr. Director - Data and Analytics, GE Aerospace

Amritendu Mukherjee
Co-founder, NeuroPixel.AI

Ram Kunchur
Former Head of Product Innovation, Digi Yatra Foundation

Vishnu Vardhan
Founder & CEO, SML

Jim Samuel
AI Scientist & Professor, Rutgers University

Aravind Murthy
Co-Founder, Factors.AI

Himanshu Daga
Founder, Data with D

Meghana (Meg) Jagadeesh
Co-founder & CEO, GoCodeo

Praveer Kochhar
CPO & Co-Founder, KOGO

Vivek Raghavan
Co-founder, Sarvam AI

Prakash Selvakumar
Assistant Vice President, Data Science and Insights, Genpact

Jayachandran Ramachandran
Senior Vice President – AI Labs, C5i

Prashant Rao
Head- Application Engineering, MathWorks

Rahul Krishnan
Senior Industry Lead - Finance Solutions, MathWorks

Anusha Rammohan
Chief Technology and Product Officer, Myelin Foundry