KEYNOTE DISCOURSE

Sachin Lodha is part of TCS's Corporate Research and Innovation team and heads its Cybersecurity and Privacy research that is working on diverse problems pertaining to trustworthy AI, de-risking cloud, quantum resilience, privacy by design, and human aspects. He has a special interest in data privacy and related topics. His efforts on that front have led to multiple research papers, patents, and award-winning innovations that are available as commercial TCS products.

Dr. Himanshu Tagra is the Business Head – Online & ISV Business at HCL Technologies, leading a $200M Software Product Engineering unit with over 3,000 engineers across India, US, Europe, and APAC. He has a proven track record in data engineering, cloud, AI, and delivery excellence.

R. Govindarajan received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Madras University in 1981 and B.E. (Electronics and Communication) and Ph.D. (Computer Science) degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He has held postdoctoral research positions and visiting faculty positions at Universities in USA and Canada. Since 1995, he has been with the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre and the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interests are in the areas of High Performance Computing, Compilation Techniques, and Computer Architecture. He has more than 135 research publications in international journals and refereed conferences. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Niranjan leads the AI BP solutions Go to Market & Strategy for India & South Asia at Microsoft. He focuses on helping organizations automate manual processes, providing deep insights into data, and scoping the use of AI to improve productivity using Copilot at scale.