Smt. Kavitha C is the Jurisdictional Director – Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Hyderabad catering to the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. She is responsible for promotion of Software Exports from these States along with implementation of various policies in IT/ITES and ESDM sector. She is also the CEO of IMAGE CoE for Gaming, Animation, VFX, Computer Vision and AI Start-Ups and KALPATARU CoE on Industry 4.0 for Industrial IoT, Industrial Robots, Simulation, Systems Integration, and Additive Manufacturing. She is member of various Committees constituted by Govt. of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

She has 23+ years of rich experience in supporting Government, Industry and Start-up Ecosystem.

She holds Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Telecommunications and MBA in Operations Management.

Jasvinder Singh, Senior Administrative Officer (SAO) in STPI-HQ with more than 20+ years of experience in the field of administration, legal & compliance, disciplinary and other related matters.

Indumati Pandey is working as an Assistant Manager – Finance at AIC STPINEXT INITIATIVES-HQ. She is looking after the F&A related activities of the Company for HQ as well as various Centres of Excellence (CoEs). She holds degrees in B.Com (H), M. Com and PGDBM (Finance). She has 10+ years of varied experience in fields related to Accounting, Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Variance Analysis in MNCs like BA Continnum India (Bank of America) and IHG IT India.

Senior IT professional with 20+ years of diverse experience in the IT industry covering sides of the spectrum – Private & Government as well as India & USA/UK.

Currently working on various innovation, start-ups & entrepreneurship development initiatives & Schemes at STPI/STPINEXT viz. domain-specific Centres of Excellence in emerging technologies across India, Next Generation Incubation Scheme etc.

Shri. Sampath (Sam) Iyengar- General Partner Forum Synergies (India) PE Fund Managers has 22 years in Technology and Finance.

Shri. Manas Das – Director, Intel Technology India Pvt.Ltd. has 20+ years of work experience across multiple domains – Logistics, People movement, Program Management, Operations management and Customer Engineering. Through his 14+ years in Intel he has held diverse roles in HR, IT, Site Operations, Client Computing Group, out of which 10+ years have been in Intel India based in Bengaluru and the last 4 years in Intel US based in Portland, Oregon.

Shri. Ravi Gururaj is Founder/CEO of QikPod President, TiE –Bengaluru has 26 years of experience in various domains, as entrepreneur, product management at Intel, served as Managing Director of the Trilogy Software’s India engineering center, and founded multiple software product ventures.

Shri. A R Jayakumar CEO, Karnataka Information Technology Venture Capital Fund (KITVEN) has 32 years in banking and Venture Capital industry.

Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-Bengaluru has 45 years of experience in Education domain.

Shri. Sanjay Nayak – CEO, Tejas Networks Ltd has 30 years of experience ranging across Telecom, Electronic Design and Semiconductor industry- both in India as well as in the US.