CII Connect 2021 Speakers

Chief Guest

Thiru M K Stalin

Hon’ble Chief Minister

Government of Tamil Nadu

Key Speakers 2021

Thiru T Mano Thangaraj

Hon’ble Minister for
Information Technology

Government of Tamil Nadu

Thiru Thangam Thennarasu

Hon’ble Minister for Industries, Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture, Archeology,

Government of Tamil Nadu

Thiru Ma Subramanian

Hon’ble Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare,

Government of Tamil Nadu

Thiru T M Anbarasan

Hon’ble Minister for Rural Industries including cottage, small, Slum Clearance Board

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan

Hon’ble Minister for Finance & Human Resources

Government of Tamil Nadu

Thiru K Ponmudi

Hon’ble Minister for Higher Education including Technical Education, Electronics, Science and Technology

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr V Irai Anbu, IAS.,

Chief Secretary

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Neeraj Mittal, IAS.,

Principal Secretary – Information Technology

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr S Krishnan, IAS.,

Additional Chief Secretary – Industries

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr D Karthikeyan, IAS.,

Principal Secretary – Higher Education

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr P W C Davidar, IAS.,

Advisor

TNeGA

Dr J Radhakrishnan, IAS.,

Principal Secretary – Health & Family Welfare

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr Ajay Yadav, IAS.,

Managing Director

ELCOT

Mrs Aruna Sundararajan, IAS.,

Former Telecom Secretary

Government of India

Mr Arun Roy, IAS.,

Secretary – Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Sanjay Tyagi

Director

Software Technology Parks of India

Dr Omkar Rai

Director General

Software Technology Parks of India

Mr Kalyan Kumar

Global Chief Technology Officer & Head - Ecosystems

HCL Technologies

Mr C K Ranganathan

Chairman, CII Southern Region

Founder & Chairman, CavinKare Pvt ltd

Dr S Chandrakumar

Chairman, CII Tamil Nadu

Founder and Executive Chairman Kauvery Group of Hospitals

Mr S Mahalingam

Past Chairman, CII(SR)

Mr Josh Foulger

Chairman, CONNECT 2021

Country Head and Managing Director, Bharat FIH

Mr Lakshmi Narayanan

Founder Member

Cognizant

Mr Suresh Raman

Chairman – IT & ITES, CONNECT 2021

Vice-President and Head, TCS

Mr P Ravichandran

Past Chairman, CII, Tamil Nadu & President

Danfoss India

Mr AR Unnikrishnan

Chairman – Taskforce on Industry 4.0 Excellence Forum

CII Tamil Nadu

Mr Kumar Vembu

Chief Executive Officer

Gofrugal Technologies

Mr Reguraman Ayyaswamy

Senior Vice President & Global Head - IoT

TCS

Mr Rajendran

Chairman – Skills CONNECT 2021

President, Zoho Schools

Mr Chandu Nair

Chairman – Startups CONNECT 2021

Advisor Member Executive Board, The Chennai Angels

Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy

Director

IIT-Madras

Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Institute Professor

IIT

Prof Mohanbir Sawhney

Associate Dean for Digital Innovation, Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University - USA

Mr Graham Creasey

Director and Center Head

Global Business Service (GBS) IT, Ford Motor Pvt. Ltd

Mr Raja Manickam

Chairman – ESDM CONNECT 2021

Chief Executive Officer - OSAT, Tata Electronics

Prof. Rao R Tummala

Distinguished Professor & Director Emeritus

3D Electronic Systems Packaging Research Center (PRC), USA

Prof. Hari Balakrishnan

Fujitsu Prof – Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Mr Kuldeep Malik

Country Head Corporate Sales

India MediaTek

Mr Balaji Nuthalapadi

Managing Director and Head of Operations and Technology

Citi South Asia

Dr Aravind Bharadwaj

Chairman – Emerging Technologies CONNECT 2021

Former CTO, Mahindra & Mahindra

Mr S Rajasekaran

Group Managing Director

ACE Group of Companies

Mr Pierre Blanc

Chief Technology Industrial Officer

Leclanché

Mr Milind Kulkarni

President-PV Manufacturing

Reliance New Energy Solar

Mr Sam Karikalan

Senior Manager - IC Package Engineering R&D

Broadcom Inc. USA

Dr BVR Mohan Reddy

Founder Chairman & Board Member

Cyient

Dr C Velan

City Head – Chennai Operations

CapitaLand India

Ms Roopan Aulakh

Managing Director

Pi Ventures (Deep techs)

Mr Narayanan Ramaswamy

National Leader – Education and Skill Development

KPMG in India

Mr Gulzar Azad

Entrepreneur - in Residence

Google

Mr Anand Mecheri

Chief Executive Officer

Invicara

Mr Govind Sankaranarayanan

Co-Founder

Quantum ESG Fund

Mr Yossi Matias

Vice President, Engineering – AI for Social

Google

Mr Ajay Kaul

Head – States & Local Government of India Business

Amazon Internet Services (P) Limited

Dr Edwin Liebemann

Managing Director Regional President XC - “Cross Domain Computing Solutions” Japan

Bosch Corporation

Mr Markus Meyer

Commercial Director

Trimble AG, Germany

Mr Mayank Manish

Founder and Executive Director

OpEzee, Australia

Mr Wai San

Managing Partner and Founder

Novo Tellus Capital Partners

Mr Ashwini K Aggarwal

Director-Government Affairs

Applied Materials India Pvt Ltd

Mr V Shankar

Founder

Computer Age Management Services Pvt Ltd (CAMS)

Mr Jonas Von Malottki

Vice President – General Functions & Technology

Daimler Trucks, Germany

Mr Venkat Viswanathan

Founder & Chairperson

LatentView Analytics

Mr Anand Ramamoorthy

Managing Director

Micron Technology, India

Padmashri Dr R V Ramani

Founder

Sankara Eye Hospitals India

Ms Kirti Seth

Chief Executive Officer – IT & ITES Skill Council

NASSCOM

Mr R Raghuttama Rao

Chief Executive Officer

GDC for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dr V Sumantran

Chairman

Celebris Technologies

Mr Jorg Ohisen

Chief Executive Officer

Cognizant Mobility

Ms Radha Basu

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

iMerit Technology

Mr J Kesavardhanan

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

K7 Computing

Mr Deryk Nicholls

APAC Vice President

Delivery Centric, Australia

Mr R Vivekanand

Vice President & Head

TCS Financial Solutions

Mr Prakash Bell

Head - Security Engineering, India & SAARC

Check Point Software Technologies

Ms Charumathy Srinivasan

Vice President – Engineering

Microsoft

Mr Jayanth Kolla

Partner

Convergence Catalyst

Dr Ankineedu Velaga

Senior Vice President - New Product Development

Mindox Techno, Singapore

Mr Anand Patil

Chief Technology Officer

CISCO

Mr Kathirvel Dhandapani

General Manager – SME Cluster Sales – Enterprises

Tata Teleservices Limited

Mr Siva Padmanabhan

Managing Director

AstraZeneca India Pvt Ltd

Mr Debashis Neogi

Managing Director

Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India

Mr Pradeep

CTO

Yum Restaurants

Mr Michael Costa

Deputy Consul General

Australian Consulate General, Chennai

Dr Margaret Faux

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Synapse Medical Services

Mr Liam Scanlan

COO

Hindsite, Queensland

Ms Michele Tarnow

Chief Executive Officer

Alliance Care Technologies Inc.

Ms Valentina Kristensen

Director - Growth & Communications OakNorth

United Kingdom

Mr Vijayakumar Mani

Founder

I Support Farming (P) Ltd

Dr N Kamakodi

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

City Union Bank

Mr Nanu Swamy

Founder

Maxelerator Foundation

Mr Sriram Subramanian

Founder

Pavo & Tusker Innovations (P) Ltd

Dr Kavitha

Founder

FibSol Technologies

Dr K Senthil Kumar

Professor & Director In-charge, CASR Department of Aerospace Engg

Anna University

Mr Deepak Kumar

Founder

Habitate

Mr Chandru R

Founder

Airdonex Technologies (P) Ltd

Mr Swapnil Jain

Co-founder & CTO

Ather Energy

Ms Vishakha Singh

Co-founder & Vice President

Wazirx NFT

Mr Daniel Raj David

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

DeTect Technologies

Mr Arjun Vijay

Co-Founder and COO

Giottus Cryptocurrency Exchange

Mr Jaisimha Rao

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Tartar Sense

Key Speakers 2020

Mr Edappadi K Palaniswami

Hon’ble Chief Minister

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr R B Udhayakumar

Hon’ble Minister for Revenue, Disaster Management

& Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr N Muruganandam IAS.,

Principal Secretary, Industries

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Rajendra Kumar IAS.,

Additional Secretary

MEITY

Mr M Vijayakumar IAS.,

Managing Director

ELCOT

Dr Neeraj Mittal IAS.,

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Guidance Tamil Nadu

Dr K Gopal IAS.,

Principal Secretary (MSME)

GoTN

Dr Apoorva IAS.,

Principal Secretary - Education

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr Santosh Misra IAS.,

Chief Executive Officer

TN e-Governance Agency

Mr Md. Nasimuddin, IAS.,

Additional Chief Secretary – Labour

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr Vishnu Venugopalan IAS.,

Managing Director

TNSDC

Mr Praveen Nair, IAS.,

Collector

Nagapattinam District

Mr Hans Raj Verma IAS.,

Additional Chief Secretary - Information Technology

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr Saurabh Gaur, IAS.,

Joint Secretary Ministry of Electronics & IT

Government of India

Dr G Prakash, IAS.,

Commissioner

Corporation of Chennai

Dr Aneesh Sekar IAS.,

Executive Director

SIPCOT

Ms Jothi Nirmalaswamy IAS.,

Inspector General of Regn

Govt of TN

Mr C Vijayakumar

President & Chief Executive Officer

HCL Technologies

Mr Salil Parekh

Chief Executive Officer

Infosys

Mr C Velan

Chief Executive Officer

Ascendas

Mr Kunal Bahl

Founder

SnapDeal

Mr Sridhar Vembu

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Zoho Corp

Mr Dibyo Haldar

SMB Director – APAC

Facebook

Mr Jean-Francois Baril

Executive Chairman

HMD Global

Mr C K Ranganathan

Deputy Chairman, CII (SR), Chairman & Managing Director

Cavin Kare

Mr Senthil

Chief Executive Officer

Real Image Digital

Dr Manish Kumar

Managing Director

NSDC

Dr K V Subramanian

Chief Economic Advisor

Government of India

Dr Sanjay Tyagi

Director

Software Technology Parks of India

Dr Omkar Rai

Director General

Software Technology Parks of India

Mr Hari Thiagarajan

Chairman, CII, Tamil Nadu

Executive Director, Thiagarajar Mills Limited

Mr Suresh Raman

Chairman, Connect 2020 & Vice President & Regional Head,

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Josh Foulger

Co Chairman, CII Connect 2020 &

Country Head and MD- FIH India

Mr S Mahalingam

Past Chairman

CII, Southern Region

Mr R Ramaraj

Senior Advisor

Elevar Equity

Mr Zarir Langrana

Executive Director

Tata Chemicals

Mr Sanjeev

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Meddiff Technologies Pvt Ltd

Mr S Rangarajan

Chief Executive Officer

Data Patterns

Dr A Sivathanu Pillai

Former Chief Executive Officer

Brahmos

Mr Regu Ayyaswamy

Sr VP, Global Head (IoT) & EIS

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Dilip Sawhney

Managing Director

Rockwell Automation

Mr Dinanath Kholkar

Vice President, Global Head of Analytics & Insights

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Muthu Kumaran

SVP & Global Delivery Head

Cognizant Digital Business

Mr Shantanu Jha

SVP – HR

Cognizant

Mr S K Swamy

Chairman

R K SWAMY BBDO

Mr R Srinivasan

Head - Smart Business Solutions

L & T

Dr Laxmidhar Biswal

Head - CITE, Jewellery Division

Titan

Mr Banmali Agrawala

President, Infrastructure, Defence and Aerospace

Tata Sons

Mr V Suresh

Chairman - IGBC & Former CMD

HUDCO

Mr Alan Read

VP - Technology & Business Partner - UK

Pearson

Mr Venkat Maroja

Chief Executive Officer

Source Trace

Mr Ashish Agarwal

Head - Policy

NASSCOM

Mr P Kaniappan

Managing Director

Wabco India

Mr Ramesh Anumukonda

Chief Executive Officer

Unity Technologies

Mr Sudarsan Pitty

Head - Mfg

Nokia Solution Networks

Ms N S Nappinai

Founder

Nappinai

Mr Krishnan Venkateswaran

CDIO

Titan

Mr Greg Miller

Executive Director

Faethm, Australia

Mr Manish Patel

CIO

MG Motor

Dr KK Raman

Partner

KPMG

Mr Alex Lalumiere

Head, APJ Markets

HP 3D Printing & Digital Manufacturing

Mr Sridhar

InTech

Metal 3D Printing

Mr Jitesh

CRO

Cropin

Mr N K Ranganath

Past Chairman, CII, Tamil Nadu &

Water Ambassador, Grundfos Pumps

Mr Vikas Kannongo

Senior Consultant

Digital, World Bank

Mr Guruprasad

Managing Director

Bosch Automotive Electronics

Mr Narayanan

National Leader - Education and Skill Development

KPMG

Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Director

IIT Madras

H.E Mr. Oliver Ballhatchet

British Deputy High Commissioner

Chennai

H. E. Mr. Gert Heijkoop

Consul General of Netherlands

Mr Rajiv Sikka

CIO

Medanta Hospitals

Mr T Narayanan

SVP & General Counsul India & APAC

Cognizant

Mr Sujeesh

Immt Past President, AIEMA & Proprietor

Sri Hari Industries

Mr Martin Worlein

Head of India and South Asia Advisory

Head of Gurgaon Office, Make in Mittlestand

Ms Megha Tata

Managing Director - South Asia

Discovery India

Mr V Janardhanam

General Manager

Redington

Mr Raghuvir

Business Editor

Business Line

Mr Ramesh Santhanam

Former Chief Innovation Officer

IIT

Ms Priya Dar

Chief Digital Officer

Amway

Dr Arogyaswami J. Paulraj

Professor, Stanford University &

Inventor of the MIMO

Dr S Chandrakumar

Vice Chairman

CII, Tamil Nadu

Mr Gowthaman

Chief Executive Officer

Aqilliz

Mr Ramesh Mangaleswaran

Senior Partner

McKinsey & Company

Mr Tej Paul Bhatla

Vice President and Deputy Head

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr C A Krishnan

Product Head

TCS iON

Mr K S Ganesan

Global Technology Leader & Automation Head

Cognizant

Mr Sethuraman

Office Managing Partner

KPMG

Mr Jeffry A Greenbaum

Managing Partner

Frankfurt Kumit, Germany

Ms Sunhwa Lee

Principal Social Sector, Specialist-South Asia

Asian Development Bank

Mr Banshidhar Majhi

Director, Indian Institute of InformationTechnology,

Design and Manufacturing

Ms Uma Ratnam Krishnan

Co-CEO

Barclays Bank

Mr S Janardhan

Global Head – Talent Development

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Pankaj Mohindroo

Chairman

ICEA

Mr Rahul Sharma

Co-founder

Micromax

Mr Rajen Vagadia

VP and President

Qualcomm India & SAARC

Mr Richard Hopkins

Senior Vice President Operations

Flex

Mr Akhilesh Tuteja

Partner

KPMG

Mr Prakash Balasubramanian

Vice President & Global Delivery Head

Cognizant

Mr Vetriselvan

Director – RMM

PowerFleet

Mr Kandasamy Subramanian

Director, Global Mfg. Engg

Ford Motor Pvt Ltd

Mr Karthik Padmanabhan

AVP & Delivery Leader – Global Growth Markets

Cognizant Interactive

Mr. Narasimha Jayakumar

Chief Executive Officer

Aakash Education

Mr Naryanan Sundaresan

Vice President - Technology

Strategic Education Inc

Mr Micheal Arul

Managing Director

Tecways India

Mr Mohamed El Fanichi

CIO

Landmark Group

Mr Sanjay Bahl

Director General

CERTIN

Mr Alok Mittal

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Indifi Technologies

Ms Paroma Chatterjee

Chief Business Officer

LendingKart

Dr Susanne Geri

Chief Executive Officer

Tecways, Germany

Mr Vishal Kanvaty

Chief Market Innovation

National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)

H. E Ms Jette Jerrum

Consul General

Head of Trade Council and Innovation Centre, Denmark

Dr Sudhir

Dean, Design Innovation & Incubation

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing

Mr Chulanga Perera

Chief Information Officer

Daimler India Commercial

Key Speakers 2019

Mr Edappadi K Palaniswami

Hon’ble Chief Minister

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr R B Udayakumar

Hon’ble Minister for Revenue, Disaster Management

& Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Santosh Babu, IAS

Principal Secretary - Information Technology,

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Rajendra Kumar, IAS

Principal Secretary - MSME

Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr Muruganandam, IAS

Principal Secretary - Industries

Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr J A Chowdary

Advisor - IT

Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency

Mr Suresh Raman

Chairman, CII Connect

Vice President & Regional Head, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai

Mr Sridhar Vembu

Founder

Zoho

Mr Derek Hao

President

Huawei India

Mr C Vijayakumar

President & Chief Executive Officer

HCL Technologies

Mr S Chandramohan

Chairman, CII Tamil Nadu & Group President,

Finance & Investment Strategy, TAFE Ltd

Dr Omkar Rai

Director General

Software Technology Parks of India

Mr Santosh Misra IAS

Chief Executive Officer & Commissioner,

TN e-Governance Agency

Dr Sanjay Tyagi

Director

Software Technology Parks of India, Chennai

Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu

Chairman, CII, Southern Region,

Chairman and Managing Director, LMW

Mr S Mahalingam

Past Chairman, CII, Southern Region

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr R Ramkumar

Chairman & Managing Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Mr R Ramaraj

Senior Advisor

Elevar Advisors (P) Limited

Dr Gulshan Rai

Ex-Chief Information Security Officer

Government of India

Mr R Ramanan

Director

Atal Innovation Mission

Mr Manish Kumar

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer,

National Skill Devt. Corporation

Mr Suresh Sethi

Chief Executive Officer

India Post Payment Bank

Ms Gowri Mukerjee

Chief Executive Officer

Creditmantri

Mr Shardul Sheth

Chief Executive Officer

Co-Founder, Agro Star

Mr Ravi Tennety

Chief Executive Officer

Quess Corp

Mr Randeep Sekhon

Chief Technology Officer

Airtel

Mr Antony Prakash

Chief - Tech Infra

NPCi

Mr Pradeep John

Tamil Nadu Weatherman

Mr Tiruppathi Srinivasan

Vice President

Ather Energy

Dr Sumantran

Chairman

Celeris Technologies

Mr Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Director

IIT Madras

Prof. M K Surappa

Vice Chancellor

Anna University

Mr Venkatesh Viswanathan

Chairman

Latent View

Dr Ashraf

Founder

Blockchain Academy

Mr Praveen Ganesh

Founder & Chief Executive Officer,

Letzconnect

Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar

Founder

Startup Village

Mr Kalyan Siva

Managing Director

5C Network

Mr Josh Foulger

Managing Director & Country Head,

Foxconn

Dr K K Raman

Partner

KPMG

Mr B Santhanam

President

Saint Gobain India (P) Limited

Mr V Swamy

Global Head of iON

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Sudarshan Pitty

Head

Nokia Solutions & Networks

Mr Deepak Pande

Head - IoT

Vodafone

Mr P R Krishnan

EVP - Global Head, AI & Automation,

Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Narayanan Ramaswamy

Partner & National Head-Education

KPMG

Mr Kapil Dev Iyer

National Head - Demand generation and Marketing,

Tata Tele Business Services

Mr M Ganesh

Chief Operating Officer

Airtel Payment Bank Limited

Dr Meera

Program Director

Forge Accelerator

Mr Sameer Garde

President, Cisco India & SAARC

CISCO

Her Excellency Ms Dana Kursh

Hony Consul General

Consulate General of Israel

Mr Rajeev Mechari

Hony Consul General

Consulate General of Ireland

Mr David Nabet

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sagiles

Mr Sandeep Gupta

Head - Strategy & Architecture

Airtel

Mr Radhey Shyam

Chief Technology Officer

Huawei

Ms Sangeeta Gupta

Senior Vice President - Strategy

NASSCOM

Mr Reddy Yereddi

Deputy CEO

Ascendas Amaravathy Development