Dhawal is a passionate advocate of consumers & evidence-based decision making. He is enthusiastic about applying knowledge of human behavior to change perspectives and thinking with new insight and evidence. An evangelist of digital / new research methods / complex technologies and its application in the real world to improve the workings of markets and organisations.

Rahul Mishra, a seasoned marketing professional, currently heads the Web 3.0 Initiatives at Shemaroo. He was instrumental in the transformation of Shemaroofrom a B2B company to a B2C new-age digital company with its rebranding strategy and campaign, ‘Brand Refresh’, and its new imagery rollout.

In his new role, Rahul will be working on identifying and building various opportunities in the third wave of the internet that is more transparent and uses technologies like blockchain, AI, and IOT to create a more interactive user experience for the company.Under his leadership, Shemaroowill be bridging the gap between NFTs and Metaverse by creating an authentic seamless platform for its users. Rahulwill drive strategic partnerships with leading national and global brands to enhance the whole entertainment experience and navigate Shemaroo’s journey into the next stage of the evolution of the internet.

He has over 17 years of experience and has a demonstrated history of helping brands excel in the Media & Entertainment sector. Before joining Shemaroo, Rahul was the Chief Revenue Officer at CinePlay, an innovation in cinema that presents timeless stories as a digitally-immersive experience. He has had a series of successful stints, leading Marketing for IndiaCast, a Viacom18 & TV18 venture, and BBC Global News, where he was the Asia Pacific Marketing Manager for 8 years.

An MBA in Marketing from International Management Institute, New Delhi, Rahul has also completed a one-year Post-Graduate Programme in General Management & Leadership from INSEAD, at the France & Singapore Campus.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thoughtsbyrahul?lang=en
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Rohit Bagad is the Founder & CEO, of Inuxu Digital Media Technologies, creators of adgerba, which started in 2013. Adgebra is a glocal adtech platform, India’s largest multi-lingual, multi-ad format digital advertising platform. Rohit has brought the spotlight on regional language ads in digital advertising in India. His local approach to marketing and advertising has opened ways for brands and publishers to connect in vernacular languages with internet users. His endeavours along the journey have earned him multiple awards, the prominent award being the 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat Award' in the year 2021 for his contribution towards self-reliant India in the adtech space.

Rohit is a digital evangelist and believes that the true potential of digital media can open up infinite opportunities for every entity in the digital ecosystem. With over 18 years of experience with companies implementing 360-degree digital marketing and advertising ecosystem. Rohit has made instrumental contributions to the digital India momentum. With Adgebra, Rohit brings into focus local-digital advertising solutions for the Indian market in the languages that the population can connect with #BeyondEnglish. Beginning with a startup, his persistence and belief in his intent have brought him immense success in founding Inuxu Digital Media Technologies, the parent company of the Adgebra platform. The company has grown five times in the last two years and continues to propel in every direction and become India’s homegrown adtech platform for solutions focused on Bharat for all Bhartiya.

Amit Doshi is the Head of IVM Podcasts. Post the Pratilipi acquisition in 2020, Amit continues to lead and oversee the network. Having founded IVM Podcasts in 2016, he soon catapulted it to be India’s foremost and largest podcast network. Today along with heading IVM he is also a podcaster himself Amit has been a serial entrepreneur and has had multiple successful startups in the tech and digital space. He enjoys building companies and overseeing the Operations, Technology, Marketing, and Product Development.

Amit Doshi is the Head of IVM Podcasts. Post the Pratilipi acquisition in 2020, Amit continues to lead and oversee the network. Having founded IVM Podcasts in 2016, he soon catapulted it to be India’s foremost and largest podcast network. Today along with heading IVM he is also a podcaster himself Amit has been a serial entrepreneur and has had multiple successful startups in the tech and digital space. He enjoys building companies and overseeing the Operations, Technology, Marketing, and Product Development.

With over 16 years rich experience in media spread across media agency and advertiser-I am currently heading the Integrated Media and Advertising for Mahindra's Automotive Dept.

Major achievements in the past 3 years – Launch of XUV400 (EV) , Scorpio-N, Bolero NEO, The All New-THAR, Mahindra XUV700, Born Electric Vision (EV) My experience spans across categories like FMCG, BFSI,Automotive, Uber Luxury Brands,Consumer Durables,Online Pharmacy Start up, Entertainment parks & Logistic Solution brands.

She has 19 years of experience across multiple roles at media agencies as well as publisher end . She has a varied experience across business strategy , new business development , revenue strategy and currently data strategy.

Currently she is responsible for incubating the data strategy function across clients and help them in the transformation charter.

Hemant has been associated with Lokmat Media Pvt. Ltd. since 2016 as Sr.EVP& Head of digital business. At Lokmat, Maharashtra’s No.1 read newspaper, Hemant is responsible for building the largest community of Marathi speaking audiences across a diversified portfolio of digital products and platforms, content genres and hyperlocal experiences, thereby creating an ecosystem for brands to connect with local communities in their local language.

Hemant is an entrepreneurial leader with over 2 decades of digital experience in delivering step function growth for leading companies in the digital media and mobile entertainment space. Pivoting into digital in the late 90’s allowed Hemant to play an evangelist’ role in shaping the digital media and entertainment industry in India. Hemant leverages his understanding of digital technologies, product development, multi-media content creation, digital distribution, content monetization and marketing in digital age - to build & scale businesses within a competitive framework. Fosters a winning attitude, leading as a “Player-Coach”.

Hemant’s professional journey in digital began in 1996, with the launch of indianexpress.com. During the period 1997 to 2002, he was part of the founding team which set up digital media division for some of the leading advertising agencies in India - TBWA, Euro RSCG & DDB Mudra. As part of the start-up team at Reliance WebWorld (2002-2006), he was instrumental in launching broadband services across 241 retail outlets in 105 cities and towns in India. At RadioCity91.1FM (2006-07), Hemant evangelised India’s first social music site (www.planetradiocity.com) and launched alternate revenue streams. As Sr. VP & Head of India Business (2008-2014), Hemant led the growth transition at Hungama Digital Media Entertainment from a content licensing to a managed services company, responsible for scaling up the revenues 4x within a quick span of 3 years. In 2014, he started his own venture in the food tech space & launched Happitoo, India’s No.1 nightlife app. He joined Lokmat in 2016 to lead the group’s foray into digital business.

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She is a Digital Entrepreneur & Angel Investor since 2009 .A seasoned executive with in-depth understanding of P&L Management, Digital Marketing Processes Proficient with Media/Entertainment & Brands. She has built IPs and Content Pilots over time. Also has varied Product/Platform Building Experience.

She is currently heading Metaverse and Digital for Sony Entertainment Talent Ventures Pvt Ltd. It's a JV between Sony Pictures and Sony Movies globally. We are building Virtual Worlds, Identities, Ownership and Experiences for the new immersive world . Virtual needs people and we are populating the ghost towns of today with Celebrities, IPs, Characters and more. The Make in India Web 3 story for India is very large too.

She is a non-linear thinker with understanding of Human Psychology to drive Achievement oriented behaviors. A creative self-starter, well read, trained in – Neuro Linguistic Programming, Virtual Reality, Psychometric Testing as well as Kindergarten Teaching. She regularly Mentors and Coaches Storytellers & Innovators from IRMA, XIMB for last 5 years. She has Masters in HR and Law.

She has Worked with companies like Randstad, Pinstorm, Dentsu Webchutney, Colgate and more over the years. Setup India's First Digital Movie Marketing Company #Everymedia in 2009.Other startups like Antfort,Snapghar,Division91,Aurum and more too. She last created a Gamified Stock Exchange Nine90.

As SeniorVice President Business at Bobble AI, Disha heads the Conversational Tech Solutions vertical with an aim to be the leading technology solutions’ provider for enhancing, localising and personalising conversations in digital space through their flagship innovations in areas of keyboard-tech, language-tech and content-tech.

In her role, Disha drives the commercial licensing of Bobble AI’s proprietary technologies, paving the way for Indian and global tech companies for faster penetration into untapped mobile and internet user segments in native languages.

Disha strongly believes that Bobble AI’s innovations in Language-Tech and Content-Tech are unparalleled in that they support over 100+ global and vernacular languages and enable users to create and consume regional content in multiple formats including stickers, animated stickers and GIFs; thereby being a complete game changer for companies building a vernacular product and content strategy.

Extending the Bobble AI vision to make conversations fun, engaging and personalised to chatbots, Disha’s team has launched a Bobble Bot Assist for Conversational AI players, thereby completely revolutionizing the chatbot user experience. Another strategic area of focus for the business is the white-label keyboard solution with customised features and functionalities to drive higher user engagement and retention. Disha drives the global technology alliance partnerships for their white-label keyboard solution especially for companies in the BFSI segment.

Prior to Bobble AI, she was associated with FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH, the official investment promotion and marketing arm of the German Metropolitan region - FrankfurtRheinMain where she led the overall strategy, investor-relations and image-marketing activities of FrankfurtRheinMain in India. She has also worked with Philips Healthcare, USA in their R&D team and led Sales and Marketing initiatives at iPharro Media GmbH, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany.

Disha has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.

Disha is truly passionate about the cause of diversity at the workplace and believes that diversity initiatives by employers should go beyond gender to onboard people from diverse cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. In her free time, Disha enjoys farming, playing badminton, reading and creative writing.

Elizabeth Venkataraman heads the Marketing & Alliances function at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

In her current role, she is responsible for driving the brand’s strategic direction and contributing to business growth. She was a part of the team that anchored the launch of Kotak 811 - India’s first downloadable digital bank account. Campaigns such as #IndiaInvited, #DreamsInvited, Video KYC and the quirky and humourous Home Loan campaign are a testimony to her strength of spearheading campaigns that build strong marketing efficacy. She has played a pivotal role in the launch of Kotak IndiGo Ka-ching credit card for travel enthusiasts across the country.

Elizabeth is driven by her passion to empower women to become financially independent. One of the key marketing initiatives that she drives and holds close to her heart is Kotak Silk, a banking programme exclusively for women. Her love for innovation is represented by her pioneering initiative of taking art off the wall and into the customer’s wallet. She launched the special edition series of debit cards where renowned Indian artists such as Paresh Maity and Seema Kohli made 2” x 3” debit cards their canvases.

Elizabeth joined the Kotak Mahindra Group in 2004. Over the last 18 years, she has worked with a number of businesses including Wealth Management, Securities, Life Insurance and General Insurance.

At Kotak Life Insurance, she delivered a significant brand promise project along with a very successful campaign ‘Sau Saal Jiyo’, which was rated #1 by ETBrandEquity. It delivered a four-point jump in spontaneous awareness and was one of the best product launches by Kotak Life Insurance in terms of sales.

Elizabeth is a graduate in Commerce from Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru, and an MBA (Marketing) from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Outside of work, she is a doting mother and homemaker. She is also a fitness, music, movie and travel buff. While not exploring offbeat locations, she is known to attend first day first shows with her daughter, Mandira and husband, Venkataraman.

Subha is a Media Management Specialist with expertise in Media Planning & Strategy. She has led many impactful Integrated Marketing Campaigns at Godrej, across the CPG segment.

She's passionate about Targeting, Measurement & Metrics and serves as part of the Technical Committee at BARC as well IRS (Indian Readership Survey). She is also part of the Media Committee at the Indian Society of Advertisers. In her current role as Head of Media & Digital Marketing, at Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, she is responsible for the Media Planning and Strategy as well as Digital Marketing for brands of Godrej Consumer Products. She’s passionate about Web 3.0 and has been creating Visual Art NFTs and understanding Blockchain. She is based in Mumbai with her family and works from the Godrej Group’s Vikhroli headquarters.

Consumer Marketing professional with over a decade of experience working in FMCG, Retail, F&B & Ad-Tech set-ups with global brands like Puma, L'Oreal, Cafe Coffee Day and recently Bytedance & InMobi. He was voted & awarded as one of India's Most innovative Mar-Tech leaders in 2019 by World Marketing Congress. With a career spanning over 14+ years - Nikhil has worked across multiple functions with his domain expertise primarily being Brand Marketing (digital & offline), Business strategy/ Sales & Go-To Market plan/ execution across consumer goods, retail & start- up eco system. In his recent roles, he has led business functions across India, SEA, EU & has previously led marketing/business functions at Cafe Coffee Day, L'Oreal, Puma, HouseJoy & InMobi.

He currently leads the business of India & Southeast Asia for mediasmart, an Affle company.

Consumer Marketing professional with over a decade of experience working in FMCG, Retail, F&B & Ad-Tech set-ups with global brands like Puma, L'Oreal, Cafe Coffee Day and recently Bytedance & InMobi. He was voted & awarded as one of India's Most innovative Mar-Tech leaders in 2019 by World Marketing Congress. With a career spanning over 14+ years - Nikhil has worked across multiple functions with his domain expertise primarily being Brand Marketing (digital & offline), Business strategy/ Sales & Go-To Market plan/ execution across consumer goods, retail & start- up eco system. In his recent roles, he has led business functions across India, SEA, EU & has previously led marketing/business functions at Cafe Coffee Day, L'Oreal, Puma, HouseJoy & InMobi.

He currently leads the business of India & Southeast Asia for mediasmart, an Affle company.

Rajagopal Menon comes up with 20 years of experience. He is currently the Vice President of WazirX. He is evangelizing crypto and helping onboard millions to crypto by BUIDLing India's largest, most trusted exchange. He was previously with Jio, Games2Win,etc

Featured in 100 Emerging Women Leaders by YourStory and honoured with BW Businessworld Disrupt 40 under 40, Harini Sivakumar is the Founder & CEO of Earth Rhythm, an environmentally conscious and sustainable home-grown D2C brand that offers professional-grade products in hair care, skincare, and makeup lines. She challenged the norms of the skincare and beauty industry with a mission to manufacture clean and sustainable personal care products. Earth Rhythm has grown by over 500% between FY ending 21 and 22 and is targeting a 150 crore ARR for FY 2022 – 23. The brand has also witnessed exponential growth on the customer acquisition side. For comparison, the number of customers for FY’22 increased by 533% vs. FY’21. In addition, the brand saw a 500% increase in orders per month, along with a 3x increase in website visits.

Born and brought up in Chennai, Harini Sivakumar has previously worked in the banking industries such as Kotak Mahindra Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. An MBA in retail management by profession, and an entrepreneur at heart & by passion, Harini decided to quit her job to take care of her elder son who was born with Down Syndrome and went on exploring products that were fragrance-free and 100% natural.

Her knowledge and experience have aided Earth Rhythm in becoming one of the fastest-growing D2C brands in the skincare and beauty segment today. Harini has been a keen observer when it comes to consumer trends in the skincare and beauty industry, as she believes in the growth of natural products in the market that work for your skin, and have a net-zero plastic footprint on the environment. For the initial months, she focused mostly on studying skin formulations, what difference she can bring to the market, and then started making soaps from scratch for her son. That’s how Soapworks India, a small home-based proprietorship company in 2017 was born, which went on to become Earth Rhythm in 2019. A true-born leader with a set company vision, Harini brings her expertise as a Cosmetic Scientist to the table, with a degree in Formula Botanica & Diploma in Advanced Cosmetic Science.

Rahul Marwaha is Vice President, Media Activation, India at Essence, a global data and measurement-driven media agency that is part of WPP’s GroupM. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing media buying and optimisation for all of the agency’s clients in the market.

Rahul comes with over 15 years of experience in the media and marketing industry. Prior to Essence, he worked at IPG Mediabrands’ full-service digital agency Interactive Avenues where he rose quickly through the ranks. His client experience includes Maruti Suzuki, Coca-Cola and American Express.

Rahul graduated from George Brown University in Canada.

Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for ITC’s Dairy& Beverages business. In this role, he handles the P&L for the business encompassing all aspects including R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and Operations. Prior to that, he was Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited handling brands like Real Fruit Juices. In a career spanning nearly 25 years, he has handled senior P&L responsibilities and Functional leadership in Marketing and Sales for Personal Care and Foods businesses in India and abroad.

Sanjay started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited in 1995, after completing his MBA from IIM Bangalore. At Unilever. he handled various responsibilities across Sales & Marketing for over 11 years in India and overseas on brands like Fair & Lovely and Dove with Asia responsibilities. Post that, he joined Yum Restaurants International as Senior Marketing Manager where he handled the 'Pizza Hut' brand for South Asia from 2005 to 2007.

Sanjay is associated actively with various Industry associations like Indian Beverage Association and Indian Dairy Association.

At ITC, Sanjay has led the entry of ITC into Dairy category with the launch of Fresh Dairy and Dairy Beverage businesses. He is also a member of the Divisional Management Committee of ITC Foods.

He is based in Bangalore. His wife is an artist and homemaker, his Son is pursuing Undergrad course in US and daughter is in school.

Gulshan Verma is a digital technology and media executive with over 20 years’ experienceof building fast growing organizations across the USA, UK, APAC and India.

Currently, Gulshan leads JioAds - the advertising arm of Jio Platforms Limited which reaches more than 450Mn users.

Prior to JioAds, Gulshan was the Head, Advertising and part of the management team at Disney+Hotstar, India’s largest streaming platform where he grew the platform’s revenues more than 8x over three years.He has held other leadership positions inTimes Internet Limited, Outbrain, Komli Media, Yahoo!, Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Co and IMG.

Gulshan holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, MSc. Political Economy of Transition in Europe and a BSc Economics from the London School of Economics.

A Marketer by mind & Musician by heart, I have been fortunate to work in digital marketing space for almost a decade. Having straddled across both sides of the field (Agency & Brand). I am currently leading Digital Communications at Pernod Ricard India. Prior to this led content and creative marketing at ITC Foods Ltd.

An engineer by education, Akshay Matkar started his journey at Candere in July 2015. I currently lead all things around Marketing & Brand experience at Candere. I am passionate about building growth teams that disproportionately grow business from scratch to scale. I optimise for learning and start relationships from a place of trust and empathy.

I love technology and all things internet, and apart from marketing and technology, I am passionate about helping others uncover their full potential. I always get asked, "How do I plan my next few years?" The short answer - I will revolve around the startup ecosystem.

Why? I genuinely like to solve startup problems. They sort of always keep me in my best mental state. Plus, this has opened opportunities for me to work with some interesting founders & operators in the last 9 years.

South Asia Chief Executive Officer Media, dentsu (Carat, dentsu X, iProspect and Posterscope).

Board Director: Dentsu Advertising & Media Services, Dentsu Communication India, Milestone Brandcom, Amnet Trading India and Jagran Prakashan.

Divya has led

dentsu to become the #1 agency, RECMA February 2021, scaling up business on a market[1]beating trajectory, year-on-year in these past 10 years.

Over 3 decades of experience building successful businesses at agency networks, marketer and media organisations.

Multi-market experience in India, South Asia, United Kingdom and Asia Pacific.

Participated and contributing to the industry consistently through these years, harnessing the opportunity, the privilege and the responsibility to use our powers for the lasting good of everyone.

Rohan, a Tedx speaker has 13+ years of experience in the field of Digital marketing. He has been with Havas for 10 years. His other assignments include setting up digital chapter of Network advertising & working on augmented reality with Blippar India.

Rohan rejoined Havas Media Group in 2017 with a mandate to grow the digital business across markets.

He has been awarded distinction in Cyber Contracts & Cyber Crimes subjects by NALSAR Institute, Hyderabad.

He key client experience include DeBeers, Micromax, Wai Wai, Emami, Emirates, Tata Motors Commercial, ShareKhan, Voltas, Voltas Beko, ICICI Securities, Bira91, DSGroup’s Rajnigandha, Swiggy-Instamart, JBL, TVS Eurogrip & Justdial to name a few.

His awards include Social Samosa 40under40, Agency Reporter 40under40 and has been recognized by Havas as Planner of the year.

He is working on launching CONVERGED in India - an identity-based audience planning platform with a 3rd party audience pool of over 1Bn in volumes and 13+ taxonomies & a mentor with Havas Spark - A program intended to provide interns educational and career development opportunities through practical experience in a professional work environment that can lead to exciting career prospects in the future.

Judge with Emvies, Adfest & FoxGlove awards & his campaigns have won Abby’s, Digixx, SAMMIE, e4m play & SAARC.

Shefali Khalsa is currently the Head of Department for Brand & Marketing, Corporate Communication and CSR at SBI General Insurance.

She is an acclaimed thought leader in the Indian Insurance Marketing industry. She is a Management Graduate and has worked across companies, geographies and functions in the complex Indian Marketing industry for close to two decades. Her 18 plus years of experience is largely in Banking & Financial Services. She has also done a stint in the consultancy and telecom space and has worked with brands such as HDFC ERGO, HDFC Bank and TATA Teleservices.

Disha Singh is the Founder of Zouk, a D2C brand which brings stylish & functional products with an essence of India. With over 60,000 happy customers, Disha has scaled Zouk into a highly loved lifestyle and fashion brand. Zouk has raised over $1.5M from Stellaris Venture Partners, Titan Capital & founders of popular D2C brands like Mamaearth, Wow Skin Science and Beardo.

After an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Disha started Zouk in 2018. From early on, her focus has been on designing great products by fusing Indian handicraft design with modern functionalities using 100% vegan materials. Her products have even appeared organically in the movie Sherni and the Netflix series Little Things 3.

In her Zouk journey, the part Disha is most proud of is that as a woman, she has been able to upskill and support over 200 expert artisans, who make Zouk’s Proudly Indian products. That is rare given production has typically been a male-dominated industry.

Besides production, she handles a varied spectrum of roles at Zouk from product design to brand building to digital marketing. Her IIMA batchmate & husband Pradeep Krishnakumar, runs other aspects of the business.

The idea for Zouk came to her during the second year of IIMA, where she got a chance to meet the local artisans at Kutch. She saw these artisans making beautiful handicraft products but with no modern utility. She thus saw a gap in the market.

Post her MBA, she did short stints with a Lakme Fashion Week designer & a boutique women’s wear brand. This helped her understand the nuances of a lifestyle business, before starting Zouk

Disha believes that entrepreneurship is not about lofty valuations and wealth creation. Her passion for entrepreneurship comes from her desire to build an enduring business that will be her legacy.

Being from a middle class family, without any background in business, she initially faced challenges to convince her family. But with strong determination and faith in her idea, she took the leap and was supported by her alma mater IIM Ahmedabad, which awarded her the IIMaverick scholarship for entrepreneurship. IIMA professors continue to provide her with mentorship.

Disha and Pradeep are rapidly scaling up Zouk, with the vision of building an iconic global consumer brand from India.

Dimpy entered the digital marketing sphere a decade ago with prior experience in creative and animation. She takes an in-depth and hands-on programmatic business approach with global clients to build their market prominence by strategically using new age media. In her current role at Xaxis, she focuses on bringing the ROI for businesses with emerging technologies and innovation. Leading the business as General Manager for India, she oversees a wide spectrum of clients while helping their business grow and innovate digitally. Her growth strategies are driven by data and audience research optimizing the full conversion pathway and uncover possible new opportunities.

Kosal comes with a decade and a half experience. He heads West Business for Madison Digital.

He comes with a rich experience of handling clients across categories including Marico, HUL, GCPL, Godrej Properties, Asian Paints, Viacom, TCPL, McDondald's among others.

Salil has more than 16 years of experience in digital marketing in the Indian market across categories of brands.

He is a specialist in emerging marketing & advertising technologies and has spearheaded the industry-wide initiatives on AdTech, including but not limited to programmatic adoption, data relevance, mobile-based marketing and blockchain-based privacy-first solutions. He is currently leading the Programmatic strategy for Dentsu India.

He has led the tech space to look beyond digital and has successfully delivered several industry-first solutions by integrating other media channels. He has steered the launch of India first products- Programmatic Radio, Programmatic Content and Programmatic Digital Out of Home by associating with brands like Microsoft, DS Group, Maruti and JK Tyres. With such industry-first innovations, he continues to defy the gap between the physical (offline media) & digital world and persevere to help the advertising industry with the solution-based approach to overcome the predicaments with respect to the Indian market.

Ketan is leading the Marketing operations globally at Truecaller since April 2022. Truecaller is the leading global platform for verification of contacts and blocking unwanted communication. It’s making communication smarter,safer& more efficient ,today & tomorrow.

With 17 years of experience spanning Industries like Telcom,FMCG,Media and Entertainment & Broadcasting. Worked on brands like Vi(Vodafone earlier),Reckitt,Disney India & Group M.

Before becoming VP, Ketan served as planning and investment lead for Disney India & PepsiCo in Group M for 4years.

He was the Regional Manager – Mediafor Reckitt.The role entailed Media Strategy across key categories. Managing portfolio forclose to 25+ brands and 5+categories. Prior to Reckitt Ketan was leading Product & Revenue Strategy at Disney India for Fox International channels.

In addition to the above, he managedVi (Vodafone earlier) ATL+BTL centrally and across 23 circles. The role was a key catalyst in managing media campaigns, efficiency & consumer engagement through On-ground Sponsorship like IPL for 5 years. Ketan earned his MBA(Marketing) and BE(Computers) from Mumbai University.

An avid Bollywood fan and a father,weekends play an important role compared to weekdays. This is where all the calories are burnt (watching OTT’s & chilling) which are accumulated from Mon to Fri. Want to explore new places, people and experience spiritually is the next thing on the list.

Bhasker is a media and advertising veteran with over 24 years of experience across APAC markets ( India, Malaysia, China & Singapore). He specializes in data solutions for advertisers and media companies spanning monetization, research, and media investments. He has worked for WPP (Mediacom), Publicis (Starcom/Spark), Omnicom (OMD), Disney and Kargocard. His experience involves working with well-known blue chip companies like Intel, Uber, Danone P&G, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Visa, Estee Lauder, McDonalds, Renault, Mars-Wrigley’s, to name a few.

Bhasker has been recognized by Campaign Asia as ‘top thinkers’ and has been chosen for - 40 under 40, China Digital A list & China Planner of the Year (finalist). His key strengths include understanding the eco-system of consumers, advertisers, media owners and the decision-making heuristic which exists in the industry. He has been passionate about disrupting current thinking since the start of his career. This has led him to develop industry-leading and proprietary products which deliver on efficiency and effectiveness across geographies and clients.

In his current role, Bhasker leads integration, transformation, and operational excellence agendas while driving innovations and excellence for dentsu clients and businesses through its three award-winning media agencies; Carat, iProspect and dentsu X. He works closely with Divya Karani, Chief Executive Officer, Media, dentsu South Asia, to deliver business transformation, set up and standardise operations and systems, govern product leadership, and enable sustainable revenue growth.

Bhaskar is a member of India leadership team at Google & heads their Omnichannel business that comprises Technology, FMCG, Retail, Auto & BFSI sectors. In this role, Bhaskar has been leading high performing teams that do consultative selling by strategically partnering large traditional companies & brands delivering measurable business results through digital. He anchors Google’s efforts in accelerating the digitization agenda solving for omnichannel commerce.

He has been with Google for 8 years in various roles in the intersection of Consumers, Technology & Branding in India & US. Prior to the current role, he led the YouTube monetization for India and was responsible for its revenue & product strategy. Before that, he built the CPG practice for Google India. He is a passionate marketer & business leader with 18 years of experience across CPG, Media & Entertainment and Technology Industries.

He is also featured among India’s Top 40Under40 by IMPACT Magazine in 2019. He specializes in advising CXOs on marketing in digital world & how to transform their business in an increasingly Digital First India.

“Never give up on something you believe in.” The adage aptly describes the life and work of ambitious entrepreneur Ankit Prasad, who dropped out of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in the final year to pursue his trillion−dollar dream. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bobble AI, India’s largest conversation media platform that makes communication more personalized, articulate, and intelligent by incorporating artificial intelligence. At the company’s helm, Ankit is responsible for overseeing business strategy, growth, and operations. Having an open mindset, Ankit has forged a healthy, enriching, and agile work culture that motivates and inspires Bobble AI’s employees day in and day out.

Ankit has always been a tech hustler, exploring how technology can cost-effectively reach everyone so that everyone has an equal opportunity to learn and improve their lives. Furthermore, Bobble isn’t his first stint. Having a strategic bend of mind and flair towards tech− he made his first technology start-up profitable at the age of 16.

In a nutshell, Ankit’s unequivocal leadership has enabled the team to partner with top names like Apple, Xiaomi, Amazon, HCL Technologies, several production houses, and sporting events. He firmly believes that the multifunctional conversation media platform, Super App, Data Intelligence business & Tech Licensing business have the ability to magnify human expressivity while allowing marketers to play a vital role in the messaging experience.

His unwavering perseverance, searing passion for taking risks, and relentless pursuit of goals enabled him to unlock several astounding achievements. He was honoured on Fortune 40 Under 40 list among a few other popular millennials. Ankit has also been recognized by BW 40 under 40 in 2019 and 50 fabulous innovative leaders in 2020. He is also a recognized TEDx Youth Speaker. He was also featured as the Most Daring CEOs of 2021 by Entrepreneur magazine. Under his leadership, Bobble AI was featured among Entrepreneur Tech 25 companies

Apart from work, Ankit loves enhancing his spiritual knowledge or helping fellow entrepreneurs and start-ups.