Industry Speakers

Jayanth Lakavalli has 22 years of experience and is currently leading the R&D India team at Schneider Electric as Director, Software. At Schneider, he works with a specific focus on Industry 4.0 products and Device Integration for both the process and machine automation segments of Industrial automation. He is responsible for Innovation, designing, developing and validating software reusable components that can be reused across Industry Lines of Businesses. His diverse background covers engineering, user experience, network operations, quality assurance, customer support, and upstream marketing functions in the Healthcare IT, Industrial Automation and Telecommunication Industries.

Murali is an entrepreneur who co-founded a series of product start-ups in SaaS, Big-Data Analytics, IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Electric Mobility. Currently the Founder & CEO of an emerging AI start-up, Wellnesys Inc., recognized as the most innovative and promising start-up of the year by TiE Silicon Valley and Established Co. Murali has multiple global patents and has been recently nominated as external industry advisor to Ministry of HRD’s Innovation Cell.

R Nagendra Prasad is the author of the book, “Fundamentals of Business Analytics 2nd Edition” (Wiley). He has more than 35 years of experience in Product Management, Business Analytics/ Data Science Research, and consulting. He is an Advisory Board member of globally successful business platform providers. His certifications include Teaching for Understanding (TfU) by Harvard University, online education faculty for Carnegie Mellon OLI initiative on Statistics. He is also a Gold Certified Coach of 4DX (Four Disciplines of Execution) program by Franklin Covey.

Ravi Ramaswamy is part of the Leadership Team of Philips Innovation Campus and heads the New Business Creation Hub. With over 35 years of experience, Ravi is deeply involved in creating products and solutions for the underserved segment in emerging geographies. Ravi is associated with Institute of Engineers India and HITLAB USA and also chairs the Healthcare Track for IET in India.

Ravikiran Annaswamy is the Founder and CEO of Numocity Technologies. His current business focus is on bringing Electric Mobility to Indian market and he has launched various technology products in this space. Ravikiran is in the global team of IEEE 5G and is responsible for vision & strategy for future applications and services like Tactile/Haptic Internet, IOT, AR, VR Applications.

Ravindranath Palahall is a Product Engineering professional with significant IT industry experience and track record in Cloud products, Data Centers, IT Production operations combined with extensive experience in program management. He has lead teams in strategic IT initiatives like Continuous Product Delivery, Software Product Test Engineering, Dev-Ops & Cloud operations, and Enterprise grade IT Operations including Cybersecurity. He was also the Co-founder of Vinciti Networks – An IT Remote Management Services Company and has been the ex-President of PMI Bangalore chapter.

Saurabh Gupta is a technology leader, published author, data enthusiast and General Manager Data Science and Analytics at Michelin India. He is the co-author of "Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights" for Apress publishing in 2018. Earlier, he worked with Packt to author "Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide" in 2016, and "Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide" in 2012. He holds management degree from Harvard Business School and Masters from BITS Pilani.

Sudeep Prasad has over 23 years of experience, supporting and managing the product lifecycle, from concept to utilization to end-of-life. He also carries an experience of over 17 years as Principal Architect, Philips Healthcare, where he architected and delivered the platform that enables data scientists to build predictive models and deploy them.

Vijayananda J is a Fellow, AI and Data Science at Philips Research and leads a team of Data Scientists working on projects for internal business units as well as for external partners. His focus has been primarily on Machine learning and Deep Learning in the Medical domain, especially on Health care related numerical data, medical images, text and waveforms. He has several technical publications to his credit and is a well-known speaker at conferences and healthcare summits.