Bharat Khatri is the Chief Digital Officer, APAC at Omnicom Media Group, one of the world's leading global media agency networks, where he leads digital marketing operations, productization, commercials and governance efforts for the network in this region. With a future-forward and holistic approach to digital marketing, he spotlights his focus on leveraging technology to drive efficiency and creativity in digital marketing at scale. A strategic digital marketer with more than a decade of agile experience in digital and sales across the EMENA & APAC markets, Bharat is a young thought leader with a knack for driving efficiency and creativity at scale in his projects. He comes with strong business acumen to leverage data, technology, and real actionable insights into lucrative solutions for brands. Armed with end-to-end expertise in delivering campaigns with programmatic stack development, omnichannel activation, performance marketing, and media commerce, Bharat loves accelerating the growth story of clients and partners. Before joining the Omnicom Media Group, Bharat was leading operations for Xaxis in India as the Country Head, where he was responsible for managing P&L for the biggest agency programmatic desk in the country, growing the business exponentially over the past five years, fostering partnerships with leading technology, media and measurement players to drive a digital-first strategy and mentoring the next generation of digital leaders. He started his career with Serco as an Account Coordinator and later on moved to Wipro and Exponential, diversifying his portfolio to media planning, buying, P&L Management, research and development. A true advocate for digital transformation and passionate about applications of artificial intelligence that enables accurate digital planning across all addressable channels, Bharat loves helping brands transform the marketing message into a welcome occurrence rather than an unwanted intrusion with his data-driven approach.  A complete foodie at heart, Bharat enjoys cooking in his past time. Digital detox and good food make his weekends perfect. As an avid mountaineer, he sees practical parallels between what it takes to be on an expedition and being in the media advertising industry. The determination, perseverance and out-of-the-box thinking required to take on mountaineering fuels him to find purpose in work and life.

Sonali Malaviya is Managing Director, India at Essence, a global data and measurement- driven media agency which is part of GroupM. Leading Essence across its offices in Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai, she drives continued client-centric innovation in data, analytics and technology, as well as business growth and company culture for the agency in India. As part of her role, she is also a member of Essence's APAC leadership team and GroupM India's executive committee.
Joining Essence in 2018, Sonali previously led the agency's Google business in India and Southeast Asia as Senior Vice President, Client Services. Earlier, she served as Chief Operating Officer at Colorbar Cosmetics and Country Marketing Lead at Twitter in India. With over 20 years of experience in management, marketing and media across industries and markets, she has also held senior roles at Mindshare, PHD, Roy Morgan Research and MediaCom in India, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
A postgraduate in business management from the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sonali strives to build strong, collaborative partnerships with clients and employees alike, and is an advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In addition, she is a firm believer in change as the only constant, and continuous learning and exploring are what keep her going.

Maninder Bali is the Head of Brand Marketing at Vedantu - India's leading online tutoring company which enables students to learn LIVE, with some of India's best-curated teachers. At Vedantu, Maninder builds the brand and brings alive the Vedantu experience at every touchpoint. He navigates the brand marketing playbook and drives impact at scale for Vedantu. He steers Vedantu's marketing efforts in crafting and executing high-growth marketing programs towards becoming the most loved and student-centric brand in India. Maninder also identifies high-growth levers and helps build assets around the brand. An industry veteran of 16 years, Bali has worked at some of the most prominent advertising companies across India and Singapore, including Leo Burnett, Publicis Singapore, BBH, and Open Strategy and Design. Creating impactful and breakthrough brand ideas has always been his core focus. Maninder has also authored and won multiple Cannes and Effie awards globally, apart from being selected as one of the editor's best cases on WARC - Asian Prize of Strategy.

Suchit Sikariaas the Chief Business Officer of one of the fastest-growing beauty brands- SUGAR Cosmetics leads and handles the core Direct to Consumer (D2C) division. An MBA from IIM - Ahmedabad, Sikaria boasts over 14 years of leadership experience in Sales, Marketing and Business Operations while working with Performics India (that was formed by the merger of legacy brands Convonix and Resultrix in 2018) and Nokia India prior to that. Suchit also has over 4 years of start-up experience from his own entrepreneurial venture in the food-tech space.

Rohit Ohri is the Group Chairman & CEO of FCB India, one of IPG's lead creative agencies in India. He has been the driving force behind the Agency's cultural and creative transformation in recent years.

Under Rohit's leadership the agency has shot to prominence for its stellar work. FCB India is now the No. 1 creative agency in India as recognised by One Show Global Creative Rankings 2020 and WARC Ranking Creative 100, 2019. FCB India is also the most awarded Indian agency at many prestigious National and International forums. The awards are a testimony to Rohit's deep passion for game changing ideas that not only build brands with purpose for the agency’s clients but also transform our communities, societies and the world at large. No wonder then that Rohit is recognised as one of the Top Ten Most Influential People in Indian Advertising.

Nakul Puri, Business Head at Verse Innovation has almost 2 decades of experience in advertising sales across print, online and digital platforms. He has helped innovative start-up brands like Hello English and Tiny owl realize the power of digital by harnessing voice-based solutions & last-mile delivery in driving revenue for these organizations His deep understanding of the digital media landscape is a great value add to Verse Innovation ( Dailyhunt & Josh).

Niraj Ruparel heads Mobility and Emerging Tech at GroupM India and Voice practice at WPP India. His substantial experience in mobile marketing, Voice Marketing, XR Marketing, Consumer Platforms, Brand communications, and Marketing Analytics has enabled WPP agencies and clients in India to build engaging and informational skills on Voice. He has been recognized as one of the TOP 40 RISING TALENTS in Asia Pacific by Campaign Asia Pacific. Niraj has also been named in the list of TOP 25 MOBILE MARKETING LEADERS in the country by World Mobile Congress and was a part of India TV’s Powerful Influencers 2020. He is the jury member for the renowned award forums i.e. MMA Smarties, E4M Maddies, IDMA etc. His creative technology work has won FOMG, WARC, Cannes and I-com Data Creativity Awards lately.

Vidya Narayanan - CEO and Co-Founder of the parent company of Rizzle. She earned her BTech from GCT, Coimbatore, and an MS from Texas A&M University. She has been in senior engineering leadership positions in Motorola, Qualcomm, and Google before her work on Rizzle. She currently lives in the Silicon Valley area.

Noelia Amoedo is the founder and CEO of mediasmart Mobile, part of the Affle group since March 2020. She is an expert in managing businesses based on mobile technologies, having worked in the industry since 2000 in more than a dozen international markets. Noelia has taken several executive roles in the past few years, including VP of marketing and business development for webOS in EMEA at Palm - HP's subsidiary, VP of Mobile at the social network hi5, back when social networks were starting to succeed, and multiple senior positions with the mobile value-added service provider Buongiorno, the last one of which was Managing Director of Buongiorno USA. Prior to her life on mobile, Noelia also worked at iPIN Transaction Systems in San Francisco back in 1999, where she first got acquainted with an internet-based business. Noelia has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics (major in optical communications) from Santiago de Compostela University, and a Master in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

Currently, Head of Digital Services - India for Havas Media Group, Rohan has 13+ years of experience in the field of Digital Marketing.
During his 10-year long stint with Havas, Rohan has been instrumental in driving the growth & digital transformation for the agency. Rohan rejoined Havas Media Group India in 2017 with a mandate to grow the digital business across markets. He has spearheaded and launched CONVERGED in India - an identity-based audience planning platform, with a 3rd party audience pool of over 1Bn in volumes and 13+ taxonomies. His client experience includes brands like 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 amongst others.
He has been awarded distinction in Cyber Contracts & Cyber Crimes subjects by NALSAR Institute, Hyderabad, and recognized as one of the most disruptive minds in 'Media' category by Agency Reporter 40under40, Social Samosa 40under40 and Planner of the Year by Havas.
He has been a mentor at Havas Spark - a program intended to provide interns educational and career development opportunities, a judge, speaker at various industry forums & awards - Emvies, Adfest, FoxGlove, IAMAI Conclave, and a motivational Tedx speaker.
Prior to Havas, Rohan has worked with BlippAR on Augmented Reality, Network Advertising and & The Hindu.

As the Head of Marketing at FreshToHome, Vanda is fueling growth by creating a strong brand image and building relevance for consumers to buy online. Vanda has worked as a marketing leader for established organizations as well as startups including Lindt Switzerland, Britannia, and Licious. She has also driven growth from large national brands like GoodDay, Tiger, and NutriChoice and worked ground up at startups.

Vanda possesses a coveted mix of core FMCG skills and growth hacking expertise for scaling D2C startups. With a total experience of over 16 years, she is currently enjoying the challenge to revamp FreshToHome since the meat and seafood category remains largely unorganized.

A strong believer in gender equality and diversity, Vanda has been on the CIIs panel on women empowerment at the workplace.

Vanda has shared her insights on topics such as branding, user growth, retention, innovation, and category building.

Puneet heads the Digital Business for Network18 and also drives the Group Corporate Strategy as President - Digital & Corporate Strategy. In his dual role he is responsible for overall growth of the Digital Business and also evaluating and forging Alliances, Partnerships, Investments, Convergence and Growth strategy for the Network18 group

Jayant Kshirsagar recently joined CleverTap as Senior Vice President & Marketing. With around 25 years of valuable experience as an eminent marketing leader, Jayant brings with him diverse expertise and knowledge in the spaces like brand reputation, business development and human resource.

In his previous associations, Jayant has worked across industries like Consumer, Telecom, IT, ITES and Enterprise software. Jayant has been a vital part of major companies such as Idea Cellular, Wipro, Intuit and SAP in the Indian sub-continent. Jayant is not only well versed with all aspects of Growth Marketing, Marketing for Business Impact but also has expertise in small business ecosystem, towards which he is very passionate about.

Mr. Siddharth Shekhar is the Industry Head - Telecom, Media & Entertainment at Google. He is an experienced sales lead with a background in business transformation projects in the Media, Internet and Retail industry.

Currently heads the Telecom, Media & Entertainment verticals at Google India, where he oversees relationships with the key players in the Industry. He primarily focuses on the Indian Subcontinent and the South-East Asian Markets.

Mr. Siddharth has a rich background in retail & media industries with a history of leading large teams, solving for business growth and delivering on large business transformation projects.

Prior to Google, Mr. Siddharth has had prior experience in Fashion, Retail, and Media & Entertainment.

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.

Passionate about Data-driven Marketing, adtech, and start-ups. Industry experience: food, retail, FMCG, e-commerce, in-home healthcare, health and fitness, Travel, Media, Real Estate

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.

A marketing maverick, Ashish Aggarwal joined BharatPe as Vice President-Growth in September 2020, with over a decade of experience of steering brand growth across sectors. In his present role, he is leading Performance and Digital Marketing for all the BharatPe brands.

Ashish has been a veteran in the startup world- having worked with multiple young brands across industries and spearheaded Digital Marketing strategy for over a decade. Before joining BharatPe, Ashish had a couple of short stints- the first one being at Navi Technologies as Head of Digital Marketing in 2020, and the second at Paytm as General Manager-Growth in 2019. At Navi Technologies, he established the digital marketing arm and scaled it up from ground zero.

Ashish was also associated with Snapdeal from 2018 to 2019 as the Head of Digital Marketing. It was under his leadership that the company clocked a 3x growth in orders in 1.5 years. He gained extensive experience in digital marketing during his time at 1mg (2015-2018), where he was associated as Senior Manager Growth and at MakeMyTrip.com (2013-2015). In the early years of his career, Ashish has also worked for brands like GoIbibo and Foodpanda.

A Chemical Engineering and an MBA degree holder from BITS Pilani, Ashish was known as one the brilliant students amongst his peers, ranking in top 10 in his management course. He also founded Bankpariksha.com for banking aspirants in 2009, which in a couple of months generated 10k+ registered users organically.

Puneet heads the Digital Business for Network18 and also drives the Group Corporate Strategy as President - Digital & Corporate Strategy. In his dual role he is responsible for overall growth of the Digital Business and also evaluating and forging Alliances, Partnerships, Investments, Convergence and Growth strategy for the Network18 group

Priya Patankar is a Marketing, Communication and CRM professional, currently working as the Head of Communications at PhonePe. She has been a part of PhonePe for close to 5 years and has helped set up the CRM, content and external Communications teams grounds-up Priya has over two decades of overall professional experience and has worked with several companies such as Flipkart, Dr. Reddy Laboratories, TutorVista Global Pvt Ltd. in Marketing and Communications roles. She has been felicitated with several awards such as "Women Disruptors Award -2021", "Powerful Influencers -2021" "PRovoke Innovator 25 Asia Pacific - 2020 and Fulcrum Award - 2020 amongst others.

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.

Shreya Sachdev is the Head of Marketing at PUMA India. She is responsible for leading brand marketing and managing brand personalities. Shreya joined PUMA in 2019 to lead Strategic Initiatives. Her rich and diverse experience saw her successfully lead numerous key projects. Prior to joining PUMA, Shreya worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She holds an MBA in marketing from IIM Lucknow, and an undergraduate degree in Literature from Lady Shri Ram College.

Ritesh is a student of human behaviour and its many manifestations in consumption and shopping habits. A market researcher by training and a marketer by profession, he combines the ability to unearth fresh insights with creative marketing programs.

Over the last 26 years, he has launched new brands like Tata Docomo and Minute Maid and built successful businesses around exceptional consumer understanding for Croma, Thums Up and Maaza. First bitten by the retail bug in 2006, he had an eventful 6 year stint at Croma starting 2015. He successfully piloted the transformation of Croma from a brick-and-mortar giant into India's first truly omni-channel retailer focusing on a digital-first connection with a generation of digital natives seeking to buy their next tech-toy.

Ever restless, forever seeking the thrill of a new challenge, he worked in 10 organizations across FMCG, Telecom and Retail before venturing into the word of start-ups. Apart from assisting a handful of diverse start-ups seeking to build their growth story, he is engaged in mentoring the next generation of marketers at various MBA institutes.

Pallavi Chelluri is the Director Marketing at Moglix. Pallavi brings 12 years of experience and expertise in the domains of B2B marketing, strategic sales, and consulting. In her current role at Moglix she leads the company's initiatives for brand building, demand and lead generation, corporate communications and sales enablement. During the course of her career thus far she has held leadership roles while working with leading enterprises across the supply chain, technology, heavy engineering, and PSU verticals. In her last role at Siemens India, she led the development of Siemens' Digital Center that provided IoT solutions and anchored business development, marketing, and sales of custom digital services and products of the company to mid-market and enterprise customers. An alumnus of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Pallavi is a gold medalist in Mechanical Engineering from the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She takes keen interest in business model innovation, creative problem solving, brand storytelling and mentoring young leaders.

Ms Khatija Lokhandwala heads Brand Marketing at Zivame and is passionate about building brands that solve for real consumer needs. An alumna of LIBA, Ms Khatija has over 12years of experience in brand marketing across multiple categories like Personal care, Foods and Fabric care. Through the course of her career, she has been instrumental in building brands and driving growth for various FMCG brands.

About Zivame

Zivame was founded in 2011 with the vision to facilitate women to shop uninhibitedly for intimate wear and to make lingerie shopping personalised and convenient. Zivame is now the No. 1 B2C intimate wear brand in India with 40+ retail stores and presence in 1000+ partner stores across India with the mission to be a one-stop destination for every woman's intimate wear needs. Zivame believes that every woman is unique, and wants to deliver a platform that allows her to browse, discover and shop what she desires.
All the products at Zivame stem from the desire to design something that is a blend of quality, innovation and comfort. Zivame offers trendy lingerie, activewear, sleepwear, and shapewear in over 3000 + exclusive designs and 100 + sizes catering to women across all body types

Neha comes with an experience of Digital Sales, Mobile, E-commerce, Telecom and Internet Industry for more than 8 years. She has hands-on experience in Strategic Alliances, Business Development, Marketing, Account and Team Management.

Her expertise widens in Strategic Alliances & Business Development where she maps the untapped clients for E-commerce Business, pitching new products, exploring new revenue areas within the current set up for the internal organization. Ensuring top notch Brand Alliances. Adding some more deep-down expertise include Account Management, Marketing, Business Intelligence and handling International Business.

Neha comes with an experience of Digital Sales, Mobile, E-commerce, Telecom and Internet Industry for more than 8 years. She has hands-on experience in Strategic Alliances, Business Development, Marketing, Account and Team Management.

Her expertise widens in Strategic Alliances & Business Development where she maps the untapped clients for E-commerce Business, pitching new products, exploring new revenue areas within the current set up for the internal organization. Ensuring top notch Brand Alliances. Adding some more deep-down expertise include Account Management, Marketing, Business Intelligence and handling International Business.

Michelle Francis is a General Manager in the Corporate Brand and Communications Team of Godrej Industries Ltd and Associated Companies (GILAC). She started her stint with Godrej in the year 2009. In the last 13 years, she has been instrumental in building the reputation of various business entities of Godrej Industries through effective integrated communications linked to business objectives.

Currently, she leads Brand and Digital PR across the GILAC. She is also responsible for leading the owned media properties of the group in the lifestyle and food space i.e. Godrej L'Affaire and Vikhroli Cucina.

Prior to Godrej, she worked with leading PR agency, Perfect Relations. During her stint with the agency, she had the opportunity to lead key accounts across FMCG, real estate, hospitality, retail and automobile sectors.

She holds a post graduate degree in Public Relations and Corporate Communications from Xavier Institute of Communications; and an MBA from Symbiosis (Pune).

Mr Rupesh Jain is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Candere.com. A proven leader with the ability to quickly analyse key business drivers and develop strategies to successfully grow the bottom line. He has been instrumental in integrating the traditional jewellery business with technology, thereby creating a JewelTech ecosystem.

A strategic thinker, accomplished in creating a vision, execution and a leader that drives engagement and business outcomes. His work ethic stems from his passion and single focus on driving organisational and employee growth.

A people's person with sheer energy and enthusiasm for life and progress, Rupesh is an enthusiast for mental & physical health, partaking in yoga and other fitness activities regularly.

Amit Verma is an avid marketer with more than a decade of global experience in Performance & Growth Marketing, Brand Development and Pricing. He has expertise in mining consumer insights and building brands through storytelling and advertising.

In his long-spanning career, Amit has led marketing, digital transformation and growth for many brands in his previous assignments with Zoomcar, Noon, Shopclues, PayU, ZO, Maxus & Percept and considers himself as a professional who placates a method in the madness for the marketing and non-linear hyper- growth setup and currently is the Head of Marketing and Growth of India's Largest Bike Taxi Platform, Rapido.

Sincere, competent and goal-oriented professional having over 19 years of experience in Digital Marketing, Media Planning & Digital Publisher Sales; spearheading efforts as Country Manager with Taboola India in Ad-tech.

Work closely with advertisers, Publishers & programmatic Partners Understand power of audience data & usage of analytical Tools

He has a wide spectrum of knowledge across publisher sales @ Times Internet Limited, Business Development @ Group M, Media planning & buying @ Cheil (Samsung in-house agency). His last company was at Sizmek (an Amazon co.) as Vice President - Sales for India, Bangladesh and Srilanka. He is known for pushing the boundaries with ideas, latest digital tech and driving excellence.

He joined Taboola on 2nd Sep,2019 as Country Manager A health freak, an avid reader, he also likes to go on solo trips or head out with friends to the mountains to unwind from the grinds of work!

An experienced executive with over 15 years in the information technology industry, Vimal Venkatram is responsible for growing Snowflake's business in India.

Vimal specialises in data management solutions across all verticals such as retail, manufacturing and financial services, and has deep regional experience especially in India and Southeast Asia. He is currently based in Singapore and will be based in Mumbai subsequently.

Before joining Snowflake in 2019, Vimal led the retail and manufacturing businesses for Mulesoft, a Salesforce company, across Southeast Asia. He also previously held senior positions with Oracle and Citrix.

Vimal has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and an MBA from the Welingkar Institute of Management in Mumbai. He is also a professional Tabla player who has performed on the global stage, trained under legends Ustad Alla Rakha and Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar.

Strategic marketer with 12 years of experience across marketing and consulting, specializing in Marketing Strategy & IMC, Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, Brand Management, Influencer Marketing, Media Planning & Buying, and Strategic tie ups. Transitioned the Reebok brand to an always-relevant Digital Approach in India built on content, influencer & performance marketing, and a Mobile First + Omni Channel Strategy/Implementation centered around driving business objectives. Focused on driving impact across the funnel.

Samir Sethi heads Marketing for Policybazaar.com. He has an extensive experience in leading the brand and consumer marketing, digital marketing, media planning and investments, market research and social media initiatives. Samir started his career in advertising, working in leading advertising agency- Ogilvy & Mather. Samir is Post Graduate in Marketing Management from MICA and a graduate in Business Economics from Delhi University.

Salil has more than 16 years of experience in digital marketing across categories of brands in India.
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 perseveres to help advertising industry with the solution-based approach to overcome the predicaments with respect to the Indian market.

Chirag Taneja is the founder and CEO of GoKwik Commerce Solutions Pvt Ltd. Based in Delhi, he is a 2nd-time entrepreneur and was previously CRO at Bombay Shaving Company. He has scaled the business significantly during his time there. He has an MBA from FMS, Delhi and B.E from DCE. Chirag's experience expands over a span of 12+ years across diverse industries including consumer brands, D2C, e-commerce, technology, digital marketing, corporate finance, valuations, management consulting, and product management.
As discussed, GoKwik would like to participate for 22nd February Panel on Digital Marketing: The new dynamic shift post pandemic.

For me, the biggest leap is to put India on the global map for AI and innovation in marketing and business growth. I aspire to equip brands with robust AI capabilities to help them effortlessly scale their marketing growth. Having had extensive experience working in the FMCG, Telecom, Marketing, and Advertising industries with global brands such as L'oreal, Vodafone, and Unilever, I'm able to accurately identify the pressing brand pain points that can be alleviated with AI.

With over half a year of stepping into the role of the Chief Executive Officer (Europe & APAC), at Pixis - a global AI infrastructure start-up in 2021, I've been able to cast a high impact disruption in the way the organization breathes, thinks, and operates at a micro and macro levels. I've been playing to my strengths and driving growth across Europe & APAC, spearheading product innovations and integrations, and building a strong community of AI experts within Pixis. Looking forward to many more achievements!

Siddha Jain is the Chief Business Officer (CBO) at Bombay Shaving Company Women - an Indian beauty and personal care brand. Siddha is responsible for driving business critical mandates and building equity across channels and services at BSC Women. Her multi-dimensional qualities as a leader has ensured a fundamentally strong, people centric, sustainable business, with enormous potential. Her vision is to make BSC Women the go-to-brand for hair removal products for women in India. She strives boldly to break archaic narratives and celebrate the fact that hair removal is a personal choice.

Mehul is the India Country Head, VP Engineering & Operations at Integral Ad Science. He has been supercharging IAS's product innovation and growth mandate in India, driving the adoption of the company's best-in-class measurement and verification solutions. Mehul leads a team of ad-tech experts to establish strategic relationships with brands and agencies, helping them maximize their investments and media quality for their digital advertising efforts.
He brings more than 20 years of experience in building and leading innovative technology businesses and has robust expertise in Engineering and R&D. Most recently, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Scan-IT, where he led technical and business operations. Previously, Mehul was the Director of Software at Fiserv, overseeing the delivery unit of the company's Technology Centre of Excellence. He also previously worked at Avaya as Senior Engineering Manager.
Mehul holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with honors in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.

Kunal Bhardwaj is the Senior Director - Marketing at Upstox. In his current role, Kunal oversees end-to-end branding, acquisition, growth and expansion through a highly creative and impactful strategy.
Before Upstox, Kunal worked with the global marketing team at ByteDance India as Head of Monetisation Marketing and Partnerships. A strategic leader with over 20 years of experience in branding and marketing functions, Kunal has been associated with well-known organisations like ABP News Network, Dainik Bhaskar Group, Havas Media Group and JWT in various capacities. He holds a Triple Masters with specialisation in Business Marketing, English and Economics.

Sharmin is responsible for driving strategy, leadership and sales as the Founder & CEO at Instoried. Prior to deep-diving into a technology start-up with Instoried, Sharmin had founded a media start-up to build India's own Netflix. Prior to that she was with Mu Sigma, working in sales with Fortune 500 companies in the US.
Sharmin holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications. She has received an honour from the HRD Ministry of India and COWE Womennovator under Innovation and Entrepreneurship category and won the best product and best innovation under the startup category by The Economic Times Innotribe Awards in Mumbai.
Instoried is at the cusp of Sharmin's love for storytelling and a background in technology.
Sharmin is an author of two books, the first one 'Y.O.U' that was announced a best-seller by The New Indian Express & the Oxford bookstores. Her second book, titled 'How I was forced to become a staunch RACIST', released recently. She has also spoken at various TEDx events and international platforms.
Sharmin loves exploring new places, writing, is an avid reader and a foodie at heart