Amol Dhondse is a Senior Technical Staff Member(STSM), Open Group Master Certified Architect & TOGAF Certified Senior IT Architect. He is an IBM Master Inventor and filed over 50 patents in areas such as Big Data, Cloud, AI and the Internet of Things (IoT). He has over 20 years of experience in the IT Industry and 11 years in the Architecture profession. Amol is active in multiple IBM technical communities as a technical evangelist and thought leader and is leading multiple initiatives within the IBM Academy of Technology & its affiliates. Amol has presented white papers in Regional Technical exchanges,… Read More

Kranti Athalye is a Sr. Manager with IBM University Relations. She is currently working on Employer branding and Technology Evangelism at Universities and Colleges in India. She has 20+ years of industry experience after getting a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

She has worked as a delivery manager in the IBM Cloud domain in India and in the Network Management domain when she worked for AT&T Bell Labs in the US.

She delivers sessions on many leading edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Data Science, Blockchain and does Design… Read More

Dr. Phillip G. Bradford is on the faculty at the University of Connecticut. He is the director of the computer science program at the University of Connecticut in Stamford. He is a computer scientist with extensive experience in academia and industry. Phil was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, he earned his PhD at Indiana University, an MS form the University of Kansas, and a BA from Rutgers University. He was on the faculty at Rutgers Business School and the University of Alabama’s Engineering School. He worked for BlackRock, Reuters Analytics, founded a startup and worked with… Read More

Sushmita Mitra is an INAE Chair Professor and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher, at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. From 1992 to 1994 she was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow. She was a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2004, 2007; Meiji University, Japan in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark in 2002, 2003. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing,… Read More

Education: Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany

Teaching Interests: Formal methods, System level design for hardware, software, and embedded systems, Network application design, Formal verification, Stochastic methods in embedded systems design, Embedded software engineering, System synthesis

Research Interests: Formal methods, System level design languages and frameworks, Component based and platform based design, System level power management, Formal verification and its use in system design, Concurrency analysis, Embedded systems design and co-design, Software engineering for embedded aystems, Distributed object technology and its application in embedded systems design, Networked embedded systems, Self-stabilization and fault-tolerant distributed systems

Prof. Dr. Regiane Relva Romano has over 30 years of international experience working in technology and innovation. Special Adviser to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil. Worked as Head of Research and General Coordinator at Smart Campus FACENS, a prototype of a Smart City inside the College, that received the “Top Educacional/ABMES” and the “Innovation GS1” awards in 2016; “Smart City UK-London” in 2017; “Best IoT Implementation Europe IdTechEx”; “Top of Academy/RFIDBR/2018” and “InovaCidade” at Smart City Business America 2019.  Also worked as CEO at VIP-SYSTEMS Informática. Writer. Professor at universities: FGV, FIA, ESALQ/USP, FDC, EINSTEIN and FACENS. International speaker. Consultant… Read More

Yogesh Kulkarni has over two decades of professional and research work in the field of Geometric Modeling. For past few years, working on various problems in the domain of Natural Language Processing using Machine/Deep Learning. Currently working as a Principal Architect (CTO Office) at Icertis-Pune and on sides, conducting meetups/workshops in topics related to Data Science.

Dr. Aloknath De is Corporate Vice President of Samsung Electronics, S.Korea and Chief Technology Officer of Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore. Dr. De has over thirty years of industrial and research experiences including BEL, Nortel (Montreal), Hughes and with ST-Ericsson where he was R&D Director and Country Manager. During 2005-11, he has served as Visiting/Adjunct Professorship with IIT-Roorkee and IIT-Delhi. He holds B.Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur; M.E. from IISc, Bangalore; and Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal. He is a recipient of ‘Alexander Graham Bell Prize’ in Canada. He has received ‘IETE  Memorial Awards’ for distinguished contributions in Electronics and… Read More

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Science Lead at Applied Materials, leading advanced analytics efforts around computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. He has consulted and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat \ IBM. He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems. He holds a master of technology degree with specializations in Data Science and Software Engineering. Dipanjan has been an analytics practitioner… Read More

Alfred M. Bruckstein, BSc, MSc in EE from the Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel, and PhD in EE, from Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, is a Technion Ollendorff Professor of Science, in the Computer Science Department there, and is a Visiting Professor at NTU, Singapore, in the SPMS. He has done research on Neural Coding Processes, and Stochastic Point Processes, Estimation Theory, and Scattering Theory, Signal and Image Processing Topics, Computer Vision and Graphics, and Robotics. Over the years he held visiting positions at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, (1987-2001) and TsingHua University, Beijing, China, (2002-223), and made short… Read More

Sourabh Mukherjee has more than 24 years' experience in Information Technology. He presently works as a Vice President in the Data and Artificial Intelligence Group in Accenture. Prior to this, Sourabh was an Associate Partner with IBM leading IBM India's Analytics practice, and an Associate Director with Cognizant Technology Solutions. 

Sourabh has done his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University; Post Graduate Diploma in Management from School of Management Studies, New Delhi; Master-level certification in Data Architecture from Accenture-Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaboration; and Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. He also sits in the Industry… Read More

Usha Rengaraju is a polymath and India's first women Kaggle Grandmaster. She leads several communities like Women in Machine Learning and Data Science(WiMLDS – Bangalore and Mysore Chapter), TensorFlow User Group (TFUG Mysore ) and Women in Data Science Ambassador(WiDS Mysore). She organized NeuroAI (www.neuroai.in) which is India’s first-ever research symposium in the interface of Neuroscience and Data Science. She spoke at various conferences like ODSC, Pycon India, Indo Data Week, and GHCI. She specializes in Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. She has prepared curriculum for BITS Pilani’s masters in Data Science program (consumed by… Read More

Avni is passionate IT professional with over a decade in the industry with vast experience in building data driven applications, and presently working as Senior Data Analyst – IoT, Netradyne. She believes in sharing her knowledge and experiences to help inspire and grow the Data Science community. Avni holds an Engineering and MBA degree with a specialization in Data Science. She enjoys a mix of technical and leadership roles.

Pallab Dasgupta, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, is known for his work on AI and Formal Methods and their application on industrial verification problems. He has made fundamental contributions in temporal logic, model checking, and symbolic reasoning. He has applied his research on the verification of integrated circuits, embedded real-time control systems, and intelligent autonomous systems. He leads the research group on Formal Methods and Trusted AI at IIT Kharagpur and the Synopsys CAD Labs. His work has been published in more than 200 research papers, and brought into industrial practice by leading companies including Intel,… Read More

Sonali Dey is working with IBM for the last 10 years. She started as a Java developer then moved over to Project Management and handled projects from multiple industries mainly from Telco (Bhart Airtel) and Distribution sector (Mckesson/Ecolab) to name a few. For the last few years she moved to Operations support and is managing the cost/recovery and financial prospects for IBM CoC industries. Her current job profile revolves around mdata handling and highlighting issues so as to catch and rectify them early.

Apart from her regular job she has been working in developing Activity Kits for the IBM CSR team, currently working on… Read More

Vandana Verma Sehgal is a seasoned security professional with experience ranging from application security to infrastructure and now dealing with Product Security. She has been Keynote speaker / Speaker / Trainer at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events to regional events like BSides events in India. She is part of the OWASP Global board of directors. She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives InfosecGirls, WoSec and null.

She has been recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Cyber Security Woman of the Year Award 2020 by Cyber Sec Awards, Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC… Read More