Shar Dubey is a highly accomplished executive and board leader, currently serving as the Chair of the Board at Fortive Inc (NYSE: FTV). She is best known for her tenure as CEO of Match Group from March 2020 to June 2022, where she oversaw major global brands including Tinder, Match, and Hinge. During her leadership, she navigated the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and drove strategic growth, product innovation, and market expansion. Before her time at Match, she led technology and product teams at The Princeton Review and Tutor.com.

Shar Dubey is widely recognized for her impact, being named to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” in 2021. She serves on the boards of Match Group (MTCH), Prosus (PRX.AS), and Naspers (NPSNY), and is an Operating Partner at private equity firm Advent International.

Shar holds a Masters (Distinguished Alumni of Engineering School at The Ohio State University) and Bachelors (Distinguished Alumni IIT Kharagpur) degrees in Engineering.

Arun Chandrasekaran is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst at Gartner, within the global CIO practice, where his research focus is on artificial intelligence. Arun spearheads Gartner’s research and advisory on Generative AI, including leading popular research notes such as AI Predicts and Hype Cycle for Generative AI. Arun is a trusted advisor to executive and IT leaders, which includes the board of directors, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and their direct reports. He has advised thousands of CIOs, CTOs, and conducted hundreds of workshops for several Global 2000 organizations on AI, Cloud, and Innovation. In addition, he covers the start-up ecosystem closely, advising venture capitalists and tech CEOs. His views have been featured in media such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, and Computerworld.

As a recognized AI and data analytics expert, Cortnie Abercrombie was asked to be a Founding Editorial Board Member for Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics journal. She was named one of “Top 25 Women of AI in Healthcare and Pharma in 2022”, one of “12 Brilliant Women in Artificial Intelligence & Ethics to Watch,” one of the “Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics,” and one of “10 Big Data Experts to Know.” She’s a top advisor to Fortune 500 companies on responsible artificial intelligence strategy and data innovation practices. She is on several boards advising startups, universities, and other non-profits. She is also the CEO and founder of AI Truth, a non-profit organization dedicated to responsible creation and use of AI. Cortnie acquired her deep knowledge of AI when she led a Shark Tank-style AI solutions incubator as an executive at IBM. She traveled the globe working with IBM’s Fortune 500 clients, their data science teams, AI researchers, and C-level executives in support of achieving $1B in AI sales.

 Prior to that, she created and led one of the world’s largest Chief Data & Analytics Officer communities for IBM which supported over $500M in sales within its first 12 months of launch.

 She has co-authored over 20 research reports on data and AI and has delivered keynotes to audiences of up to 100,000. Her work has been covered by more than 20 online media outlets, including Wired, Forbes and Inc Magazine.

Gokul Rajaram is an investor and founding partner at Marathon Management Partners, an early stage venture capital firm.  Previously, Gokul served on the executive team at DoorDash. Prior to DoorDash, led Product Engineering at Block, and served on Block’s executive team. Prior to Block, he served as Product Director of Ads at Facebook, where he helped Facebook transition its advertising business to become mobile-first. Earlier in his career, Gokul served as a Product Management Director for Google AdSense, where he helped launch the product and grow it into a substantial portion of Google’s business. Gokul is also on the board of The Trade Desk and Coinbase. Gokul holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he received the President’s Gold Medal for being class valedictorian. He also holds an M.B.A. from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, where he received the MCD University Fellowship.

Dr. Sanat Mohanty is CEO of Pienomial, a DC-based startup pioneering self-aware trusted AI solutions. The company’s proprietary AI stack delivers non-hallucinating, fully traceable research and decision optimization for drug development, pricing, and commercial strategy at leading pharma and biotech companies. A seasoned technology leader with nearly three decades in life sciences—including roles at 3M and the implantable medical devices industry—Sanat holds 30+ patents and has published 25+ peer-reviewed papers. He previously served as Professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT Delhi and earned his BTech from IIT Bombay and PhD from University of Minnesota.

Ravi Narayanan is the Chief Technology Officer at CorroHealth, the market leader in mid-revenue cycle technologies and services. Ravi Narayanan co-founded Medical Savant, a coding automation software company, which was acquired by CorroHealth in June, 2021. Prior to CorroHealth, Ravi founded multiple technology start-ups as well as held executive leadership roles in telecom, networking, mobility, supply chain/logistics and healthcare industries. With his broad cross-industry experience, Ravi brings unique, innovative, and cost-effective approaches to solving business and technology problems.

Rama Akkiraju, VP of AI & Automation at NVIDIA IT, previously held leadership roles at IBM for two decades. While at IBM, was an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and in her last role, she was the CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations product, a product for optimizing IT operations management with AI. She co-authored 100+ technical papers, holds 50+ patents, and was recognized by Forbes’ as ‘Top 20 Women in AI Research’ in 2017 and has been featured by Fortune Magazine as ‘A-Team in AI’ in 2018. To name a few from other honors Rama received, in 2022, she was honored as ‘USA Industry Innovator of the Year’ and ‘AI Industry Leader of the Year’ by various tech industry organizations. Rama holds a master’s degree in computer science and a gold medal MBA from New York University.

Kamal Ahluwalia is the Chief Executive Officer of Resilinc, the global leader in agentic AI-powered supply chain risk management and compliance. Before joining Resilinc, he served as President at Eightfold AI, where he led the use of deep learning to match people with opportunities and reshape workforce strategies. Widely recognized for his expertise in ethical AI, data-driven decision-making, and intelligent automation, Kamal is a leading voice in harnessing next-generation technologies—from agentic AI to generative solutions—for global resilience. He is also the co-author of two influential books, What’s Next for You and Deep Talent, which explore the future of careers and the evolving landscape of workforce development.

Chris Schwegann is one of the go-to trial lawyers in Texas for business disputes, with an emphasis on claims involving intellectual property. He also tries trademark and copyright infringement, false advertising, antitrust, and other business cases. His clients include software, technology, manufacturing, professional services, agricultural, cosmetics, and health care companies, among others.

Rajan Dwivedi is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving digital innovation and transformation. At Microsoft, he held key roles including Principal, CTO, and Chief Digital Officer, where he led global teams to create market-disrupting solutions through strategic partnerships and a unique Co-Invest, Co-Create, Co-Market approach. As founder of four startups—with three acquired by public companies—he brings strong operational expertise and visionary leadership to high-impact ventures.

Beyond technology, Rajan is an extreme adventurer and world-class mountaineer pursuing the Seven Summits Challenge, having already climbed Everest, Manaslu, and major peaks across Asia, the Americas, and Africa. His extensive experience in harsh environments reflects his resilience and precision under pressure.

An alumnus of IIT (BHU) and IIT Bombay, Rajan is also a transformational community leader who helped develop North Texas cricket into a thriving ecosystem, growing it to over 7,000 players and professional-grade leagues, boosting Dallas as a key U.S. cricket hub.

Karthik Krishnan is the Founder/CEO of Concentric AI, a leading data security company leveraging Gen AI to help enterprises protect their business critical data. He is a veteran of the security industry, having held leadership position for over 20 years at diverse cybersecurity companies such as Symantec, Juniper Networks, HPE, and PGP Corporation. He holds a Bachelors in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar. He has been featured in articles from leading publications such as eWeek, Dark Reading, Security Today and is a featured speaker at industry leading conferences such as RSAC.

Power Leader Debjani Mukherjee Biswas is an internationally bestselling author, recipient of multiple global awards including the ‘Top Ten Influential Women Leaders”, sought after keynote and two-time TEDx speaker, Executive Coach and Board member. She applies engineering principles of pattern recognition and data harvesting to her platform of transformational leadership. Ms. Mukherjee Biswas holds a B Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras (Institute Gold Medal winner), an MBA from IIM Bangalore and an MS in Organizational Strategy from UT Dallas. An Emotional Intelligence practitioner, she is also an ICF Certified Executive Coach (UT Dallas). Ms. Mukherjee Biswas is currently the CEO of Coachieve, LLC and a former Fortune 50 executive (PepsiCo) with 20 years of international corporate (Tata Administrative Services, Texas Instruments)
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Deepak is a well  respected Data leader at Gartner dealing with complex technology topics ike AI/ML and Analytics. Hea has been recognized as a Top 10 global thought leader by Thinkers360 for IT Leadership and a Top 25 global thought leader for Generative AI and for IT Strategy.

Shailesh Sood is an AI leader at Humana, a Fortune 50 integrated consumer healthcare company, where he has spent the past five years driving enterprise-wide adoption of AI.

He previously worked in management consulting at McKinsey and Accenture, and held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies including Hilton and Grainger. At Humana, his work has focused on applying AI across plan design, provider and member experience, quality of care, and operations — supporting the company’s broader shift toward a more consumer-focused, data-driven healthcare model.

Shailesh holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi, an MBA from FMS Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

Sharad Elhence is the Co-Founder and Partner of 4See Advisory, a management consulting firm that advises CEOs and leadership teams of mid-sized enterprises on growth strategy, execution, M&A, and capital raising. Over his career, he has held senior leadership roles at companies such as McKinsey & Co, Infosys, i2 (Blue Yonder), North Highland, AmplifAI, HighRadius, and American Airlines, bringing deep expertise across strategy, operations, technology, and business transformation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, MS in Operations Research from SUNY Buffalo and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.