Fabian Cowan, is Director Posterscope India, the out of home specialist agency of the Dentsu Aegis Network. With offices across 34 countries Dentsu Aegis Network is the 3rd largest media conglomerate in the world and is currently ranked number 2 in India. Leading a team of close to 50 people, Fabian drives the out of home mandate for the agency and controls close to 350 crore of client billings. Over the 20 plus years of his media experience Fabian has been associated with the Print media, Radio, Television, and out of home media and has worked on brands like  Samsung, Mondelez, Star TV network, Microsoft, Apple, General Motors, Nissan, Toyota, Tourism Australia, Honda, Puma, Philips, Panasonic, Levi Strauss, Hitachi, Micromax, Parle Agro, Hindustan Unilever, and more.

Director General of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industery 2008 - 2015

Senior Advisor - New Business Development and Strategic Alliances
(Middle East, CIS and Soth Asia) Shell International 2007-2008

Head of External Affairs and HSSE - Shell in the UAE 2002-2006

Marketing Director - Dubai Internet City 2000-2002

Corporate Communications Manager - Emirates National Oil Company 1997-2000

Specialties: Government Relations, Business Development, Marketing and Corporate Communications, (Health, Saftey, Security and Envirnmental managment -HSSE)
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President - UAE Business Council for Sustainable Development 2004 - Present
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Chirman & Honarary Founder - Sharjah Tatweer Forum - 2000- Present
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Honorary Member and Advisor - Maastricht University

Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging & founder Director of F5ive Technologies. He has 20 years of work experience in Internet space and helps craft digital strategies for large firms. He has worked with leading brands such as British Council, Dominos Pizza, Murugappa Group, Mahindra Group, Sterling Holidays, Larsen & Toubro and The Hindu Newspaper Group.

He has authored five books and has been a technology columnist for newspapers such as Business Standard, Financial Express and The New Indian Express.

Kiruba has been teaching for 16 years and is a Professor of Digital Marketing. He has taught at leading B-Schools. He is a professional speaker and has delivered over 500 talks at conferences and corporate events.

In the weekends, Kiruba heads to his village where he passionately pursues organic farming in his 12 acre farm.

Kuppulakshmi aka Kuppu is a Product Evangelist at Zoho, and works closely with the startup ecosystem. A dreamer, a storyteller, and a great communicator at heart, she has over a decade of expertise in soft skills and communication.
 
A fan of 'explain-it-like-I'm-five' concept, her current focus is on helping entrepreneurs understand the value of Zoho's software applications. She has been part of Zoho's growth story for the past eight years, and has great insights to share on how Zoho has evolved to be the Operating System for Businesses, and on how startups and other businesses can use these apps for setting up, starting off, and for scaling themselves up.
 
Kuppu believes that the best way to live life is to be useful to others, and strives to find a balance between giving and taking. She is a multifaceted ambivert, a foodie, reads a lot of non-fiction, writes, sings, paints, dances, and is also a good cook. Is mom to a super-active 6-year-old, and has plants for pets.

He has more than 25 years of experience in setting up and managing businesses, Projects, Mergers & Acquisition, Fund Raising, Business Strategy.

He is a startup enthusiast and am at present involved in Advising, Mentoring and Setting up multiple businesses. As part of this he has Co-founded SEAF und, an early stage SEBI registered Fund and also have an advisory SalamanderI Advisors which manages the Fund and also provide services to Startups.

He is actively involved in Advising and Managing one of Karnataka's largest TV Distribution Company eDigital, which also has a substantial Broadband business.

Earlier he was playing the role of a CEO at Pursuit Technologies Pvt Limited, An IT Infrastructure Company which is building A New business in the space of FTTH ( Fiber to the home ) to deliver triple play services.

He is also an advisor & Investor in Latize - A Singapore based Data Management Company using Linked Data technology, It Product Ulysses was accredited by the Singapore Government owned IDA, Part of a process to help build Technology Companies with disruptive technologies. Besides this Manoj mentors and advises a few other start ups and has keen interest in the space.

Till 2013, he was CEO of Karuturi Global Limited, one of the World’s top 25 Agro Transnational’s with business interests across Agriculture, Floriculture, Food Processing & Internet Services. His responsibilities included Corporate Affairs, Overseeing and managing the India businesses of the company, which cover Floriculture, Food Processing, Internet Services and Floriculture retail (both Physical and Online). He also headed the Global Strategy & Business Transformation function which included developing the overall Business strategy, IT, Fund Raising, M &A, Investor Relations, Marketing and Communications.

He is a Computer Science Graduate from Bangalore University with wide experience in Management. Has completed an intensive One Year Executive Management Program from INSEAD.

Set up the India tech team - the product and tech team from scratch.

Launched Truecaller Pay, Flash and True SDK in the first 6 months. Steadily growing the user base and improving experiences and efficiencies in the last few quarters.

Have also built and launched smaller innovations that fill gaps in True portfolio such as Scan to pay, Truecaller Fast track numbers.

Paritosh is the Founder and CEO
at 59Second.com.

59Second.com designs byte size
content for SMEs globally.

Paritosh authored Patanjalize
Your Brand - the first book on
Patanjali the brand.  He has worked with top Internet ventures like PayUmoney, Hike Messenger, Jabong.com.

His second venture was accelerated by Intel & Berkeley in Silicon Valley.  Paritosh is passionate about teaching and believes that positive energy is what will change the world for the better.

Punit is one of the co-founders of Octane and leads team Octane across all functions. He has two decades of experience spanning mature and emerging markets. Punit has been a seasoned entreprenuer and Octane transpires to be his third entreprenural venture, he has also held a number of senior positions in product management, sales and marketing with some of the world’s leading technology brands like Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Siebel Systems, NIIT etc. At Microsoft, he led marketing for India’s largest software license business with annual revenues exceeding USD 500million. His interests span across India, Internet and Inclusion. A new age nomad, Punit has lived and worked in San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Bangalore and he now lives in Delhi. He is a graduate in science, majoring in Physics from Ranchi University in India and has attended extensive management development programs during his career. Punit is an avid snowboarder and a published photographer.

A seasoned startup entrepreneur , having earned my stripes in Mumbai and accumulated a track record in Delhi. I have enormous experience (proven experience with a success record to boot, with global attestations to back it up) with ecommerce out of India, and I know this space from its inception to where it is today.

Yes, I have a professional degree from IIM Calcutta, and will gleefully share with you all the hallowed rules that I learnt, that I broke, and found myself writing a new chapter in Indian ecommerce.

Specialties: startups , ecommerce, retail on the subcontinent, all elements of the retail experience be it online or physical.
By extension, a command of all aspects of real estate: sourcing, pricing, negotiation, buying, leasing, renting, development.

Marketing malls in India is a eclusive space that I am completely conversant with.

Entrepreneur and innovator with experience of over 18 years applying cutting edge technologies in Finance domain. I know both Technology and Finance and synergies that lie between them.

Passionate About: Blockchain, Digital Lending, Digital Payments, AI/ML, IoT

Specialities: Strategic Management, Technology Innovation, Product Management

An entrepreneur who also loves mentoring other budding entrepreneurs and start-ups. An industry leader with 26 years of experience in managing large businesses and setting up successful e-commerce, direct to customers, franchise and other traditional verticals. An expert in changing businesses/brands on their head.

A team leader with superior interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple and complex issues and motivating team members to peak performance

A change leader with proven ability to quickly identify customer, technology & market drivers and translate them into business differentiators.

Keen digital evangelist, big data & analytics enthusiast. Well regarded by regulators, industry and marketing bodies as a thought leader.

Satish is a technology entrepreneur and an advisor and mentor for several high technology, hardware/IOT startups, incubators and accelerators. He built partner eco-system of silicon vendors, part suppliers, industrial designers, prototyping and high-volume contract manufacturers to facilitate rapid prototyping and mass production.

He was most recently, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Verismo Networks based out of Bangalore and Silicon Valley where he conceptualized and built the industry’s first Over-the-top Internet Video platform delivering broadcast and on-demand content directly to a legacy Television.

He has over 20 years of experience in architecting high-performance systems in voice, video and data networking products, Internet platforms and services. He has built products and deployed them in more than 150 countries. He career includes leadership roles in Teneoris Networks, Ishoni Networks and Multi-Tech.

Satish is BE in Computer Science from Mysore University.

Shailesh is Managing Partner of Massive Fund and GoMassive Incubator. Prior to Massive, Shailesh has spend 20 years in entrepreneurship / investments with SeedFund, GVFL, UTI. 

Shailesh regularly writes at his blog www.fringenotes.in on issues related to policy, economics, tech, environment, venture capital and entrepreneurship and has been regularly published on leading newspapers of India including Economic Times, Times of India, YourStory, Inc42, Huffington Post India, Swarajya Magazine among others.

Experienced Ambassador with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong community and social services professional skilled in Technical Support, Mobile Applications, Developer Relations, Developer Marketing and Technical Writing.

Sowmya is an evangelist of digital marketing and has been tangibly growing her clients businesses through innovative application of digital and mobile marketing. 
As a consultant to over 70 businesses in the last 12 years, she is a keen advocate of digital brand transformation. 
At 30, she is a trainer in leading management colleges and has contributed significantly in various strategic discussions on digital marketing for Government of India. 
As a CEO of Xebec, India’s leading integrated digital marketing company she leads a team of over 100 young professionals, and is nurturing a culture of free thinking, innovation and collaboration within the company. 
Sowmya is well recognised for her pioneering efforts in creating digital marketing models for the education sector, and her company today owns a significant market share of the digital business from leading universities in India.
She is currently engaged in creating path breaking digital media and social media campaigns for some of her clients like Cox and Kings, Ramoji Film City, Maharashtra Tourism, Indian Badminton League, Symbiosis International University, and Manipal University to name a few.

Vaibhav Agarwal is an engineer turned entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of Inc42, one ofIndia’s leading online technology media platforms. While working with leading publications instartups and tech space, he found that there were gaps in the quality of content. This led him tolaunch Inc42 to encourage talented minds by helping them reach out to a wide audience andprospective clients. Two and a half years since launch, Inc42 is now counted among the topmedia sites in the startup and tech domain.

Inc42 was started with a small idea of raising the standards of digital content two years ago.Today Inc42 stands as a valued brand in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. It has carved its namein the online media industry as the go to destination for any and every information related to thetech and the startup ecosystem.

Inc42 is also known for its innovative, creative and fun formats of the events. Last year thecompany launched a tech party brand for entrepreneurs and startups by the name of Pulse42.The event series is held twice a year, each in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and has an inviteonly format with a strictly curated guest list of game changing 100 entrepreneurs, investors,ecosystem veterans etc. Pulse42 series has become a go to destination for Indian startups,investors and entrepreneurs who want to network with the most premium audience in a funenvironment.

Inc42 counts the likes of Mohandas Pai, former CFO and Board Member at Infosys, Anupam Mittal of Shaadi.com, Freecharge Founders, Inmobi Founders and many other India’s leading tech entrepreneurs & HNI’s as its investors and supporters.

With over two decades of experience, Varghese’ core areas of expertise include Business Planning, Market Research, Communications, Sales & Marketing Operations, Key Account Management, Talent and Operations Management.

Before joining Engineer.ai Inc, he worked with Edelman, one of the leading global communication-marketing firm in India as Director, Technology practice. A fast phased career with Edelman ensured that he was given the role of General Manager, North & East, managing Edelman India’s biggest offices, globally. He grew and managed a team of close to 200 members and some of the key client relationships.

Additionally, he also led the technology sector for Edelman, South Asia, Middle East and Africa (SAMEA) sub-region. As part of this role, his focus areas covered knowledge management, including coordination with global practice leads/teams, business development, including identification and management of potential cross-border clients & relationships and IP/marketing, across SAMEA.

He has attended three global leadership academies while with Edelman held at Chicago, New York, USA and Hamburg, Germany.

Prior to joining Edelman, he has also worked with leading PR firms such as MSL, Good Relations India as well as with an IT firm, Mascon Global Limited, headquartered in Chicago and offices in Chennai and New Delhi. At Mascon, he managed Sales & Marketing, Communications and Quality Assurance.

Along with his experience, he brings onboard understanding of the technology domain, logical thinking, strong decision making capabilities and insights driven approach to sales and marketing campaigns other than managing business operations. He is a Post Graduate in Statistics, Masters in Business Administration specializing in Marketing and has attended a business program in business communications, at Kellogg School of Management as well as several leadership programs.

VeerChand Bothra heads Netcore Innovation Labs at Netcore Solutions, India’s largest Marketing Automation and Analytics Platform provider. He provides strategic vision, direction, and roadmap to the company’s innovation efforts. Netcore Innovation Labs is focused on building areas of business growth through emerging technologies such as Blockchain, AI/ML, Cognitive computing, and Conversational UI.

Veer’s work over the last two decades has revolved around internet & mobile technologies in the areas of product management, new product development, and go-to-market of new initiatives. As an intrapreneur, he built one of the world's earliest blogging portals BlogStreet.com in 2002; his entrepreneurial venture Ravience created an integrated multi-channel customer response management tool in 2008.

Veer likes to spend time tracking emerging digital technologies and innovations in consumer tech, drawing insights from changing customer behaviour, and blending together these learnings to map their impact on enterprise technology.

His love for nature often takes him to National Park in Mumbai to feed the Chital deer. He is also an avid follower of World Cinema.