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MEET THE IIT2026 

SPEAKER LINEUP

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2026 Speakers

Confirmed speakers so far. The list is updated regularly, please check back often. If you or someone you know should belong among these speakers, apply below.

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Sadhguru
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Global Visionary Leader, Founder Of Isha Foundation.

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Suresh Prabhu
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Indian politician; Ex - Ministers of Government of India; Chancellor, Rishihood University

IIT2026 Conference Speaker Jeetu Patel
Jeetu Patel
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President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco

IIT2026 Conference Speaker Tyler Shultz
Tyler Shultz
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Whistleblower, Founder & Speaker
 

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Sudipta Bhattacharya
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CEO, Adani Group - North America

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Tadashi Funahashi
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Chief Innovation & Transformation Officer, Kaiser Permanente

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Asutosh Padhi 
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Senior Partner & Global Leader of Firm Strategy, McKinsey & Company

IIT2026 Conference Speaker Chitra d. Nawbatt
Chitra D. Nawbatt
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Investor, Entrepreneur & Author

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Jay Chaudhry
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CEO, Chairman & Founder, Zscaler

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SP Kothari
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Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury & Professor, MIT Sloan School Of Management

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Thomas Kalil
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CEO, Renaissance Philanthropy

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Abhishek Singh
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Director General National Informatics Centre, Govt of India

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Tilak Mandadi
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EVP - Ventures And Chief Experience And Technology Officer, CVS Health

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​Anima Anandkumar
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​AI Trailblazer and Professor, CalTech

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Srinivas Narayanan
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CTO of B2B Applications, OpenAI

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Mary Millben
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Award-winning International Singer

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Guy Kawasaki
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Chief Evangelist, Canva

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Mark Papermaster
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Chief Technology Officer & Executive VP, Advance Micro Devices (AMD)

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Chamath Palihapitiya
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Founder & CEO, Social Capital

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Pradeep Khosla
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Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego

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David Shulkin
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Ex- Veteran Affairs (VA) Secratery

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Vishal Sharma
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Vice President, Amazon AGI

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Dr. Vivek Lall
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Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation

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Shashi Tripathi
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 Program Chair, IIT2026

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Jon Fortt
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Fortt Knox Host + Fortt Media Creator

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Rashmi Badwe
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EVP and Chief Operating Officer, TIAA Wealth Management

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Anand Oswal
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Executive Vice President, Palo Alto Networks

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Ranveer Chandra
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Vice President, M365 Copilot Tuning, Microsoft

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Ali Ansari
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CEO, Micro1

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Soham Mazumdar
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Co Founder and CEO, WisdomAI

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Pradeep Gupta
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VP, NVIDIA

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Smita Hashim
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AI Track Co-Lead, IIT2026

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Durga Malladi
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EVP & GM @ Qualcomm, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center

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Prem Natrajan
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Executive Vice President, Head of Enterprise Data and AI, and Chief Scientist, CapitalOne

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Varma Kunaparaju
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SVP/GM Cloud Ops Software & Platform, HPE

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Drishan Arora
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Co-Founder & CEO, Deep Cogito

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Cortnie Abercrombie
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CEO, AI Truth

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Padmini Soni
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Founder & CEO, Rezonance AI

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Shub Agarwal
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Founder, AI Trust Lab at USC

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Sachin Jain
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Chief Operating Officer, CoreWeave

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Shanker Trivedi
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​SVP, Enterprise Business at NVIDIA

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Dr. Satish Lakshmanan
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Chief Product Officer, Cloud Ecosystems and Data & AI, Accenture

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Ambhi Ganesan
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​Partner, IBM | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

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Debu Chatterjee
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Co-Founder & CEO, Konfer

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Zahra Timsah, PhD, MBA
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Co-Founder & CEO, I-GENTIC AI

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Surbhi Kaul
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AI Track Lead, IIT 2026

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Payman Roshan
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Senior Vice President, Kaiser Permanente (Hospital CEO)

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Nathan Shinagawa
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Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, UCI Health

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Romilla Batra, MD, MBA
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Chief Medical Officer, Premera Blue Cross

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Murthy Simhambhatla
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President and Chief Executive Officer, SetPoint Medical

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Chris Horan
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Chief Technical Operations Officer, Artiva Biotherapeutics

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Maneesh Goyal
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COO, Mayo Clinic Platform

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Anjalee Khemlani
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​Contributing Writer, Forbes 

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Thomas Miller
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Co-founder and CEO, Iambic Therapeutics

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Parminder Bhatia
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Chief AI Officer, GE Healthcare

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Rick Dutta
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Health / Sustainability Track Lead, IIT2026

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Deepak Nath
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CEO, Smith+Nephew

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Raymond W. Cohen
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Chairman of the Board, Spiro Medical

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Dr. Raj Shah

    Chairman: Health Council and Board Member, WHEELS Global Foundation, USA

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    Peter Shen
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    Global Head of Commercial Operations and Senior Advisor for Digitalization & AI, Siemens Healthineers

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    Howard Jacob
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    VP of Quantitative Medicine & Genomics, AbbVie

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    Aparna Gadekar, MD, CHCQM, AMDCP
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    Senior Medical Director, Medicare, Community Health Plan of Washington

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    Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA
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    President and CEO, SCAN Group & Health Plan

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    Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH
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    Founding Chair, Association of Digital Medicine

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    Simon Nazarian
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    System EVP - Chief Digital and Technology Officer - City of Hope

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    Rangarajan Sampath
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    Health / Sustainability Track Co-Lead, IIT2026

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    Aneesh Krishna
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    Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company

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    Barry Arbuckle
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    CEO, MemorialCare

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    Ruchir Puri
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    Chief Scientist, IBM

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    Sebastian Kronmueller
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    Global Head of Strategy and M&A, Philips

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    Sukanya Soderland
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    Partner, Oliver Wyman

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    Sumant Ramachandra, M.D., Ph.D.
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    ​Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, Lutris Pharma

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    Abhinav Shashank 
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    Chief Executive Officer, Innovaccer

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    Navin Goyal, MD
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    Managing Partner, LOUD Ventures

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    Zack Scott
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    ​Healthcare General Partner Norwest Venture Partners

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    Raghu Raghuram
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    General Partner, Andreessen-Horowitz and ex CEO, VMware

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    Josh Seidenfeld
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    Partner, DLA Piper

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    Kanika Radhakrishnan
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    ​Founder & Managing Partner, Evergreen Valley Law Group

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    Apoorva Pandhi
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    ​Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners

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    Gayathri Radhakrishnan
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    Partner, Hitachi Ventures

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    Abhishek Sharma
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    ​Partner, Nexus Venture Partners

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    Mackenzie Regent, CPA, CA, CBV
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    Co-Founder & Partner, Kalos LLP

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    Joshua Lee
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    Founder, Ardius (Acquired by Gusto)

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    ​Ravi Bhagavan
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    Investment Track Co-Lead

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    Hans Swildens
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    Head of Industry Ventures, External Investment Group (XIG), Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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    Ron Levin
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    Managing Partner, Alumni Ventures

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    Anupam Satyalsheel
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    Founder & CEO, Occams Advisory

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    ​Ashmeet Sidana
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    Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital

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    Harsha Pakhal
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    Corporate Development, Walmart

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    Tanvi Narain
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    Principal, Counterpart Ventures

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    Raviraj Jain
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    Partner, Lightspeed

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    Anand Jagannathan
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    Founder/CEO, Engage.Social

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    Crystal Shen
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    Regional Head, Capital Markets, NYSE

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    SC Moatti
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    Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

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    Christian Grant
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    Principal, K1 Investment Management

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    Vishal Vasishth
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    Co-Founder & Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

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    Siddharth Gupta
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    Managing Director, Samsung Ventures

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    Ashok Kumar
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    Managing Partner, Catalyst-X

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    Biplab Adhya
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    Managing Partner, Wipro Ventures

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    Anshu Agarwal
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    Investment Track Lead, IIT2026

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    Rajat Gupta
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    Worldwide Managing Director, Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

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    Raghav Chadha
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    Member of Indian Parliament

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    Shobhit Mathur
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    Co-Founder and Vice Chancellor, Rishihood University

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    Dr. Purnima Voria
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    Founder and CEO - National US India Chamber of Commerce

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    Joseph Vinciquerra
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    GM & Senior Executive Director of Research, GE Aerospace

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    ​Shyam Krishnamurthy
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    ​Senior VP, Product Management, Auto & IEIOT Qualcomm

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    Vanitha Kumar
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    Senior Vice President Enterprise AI, Modem/Connectivity SW, Qualcomm

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    Nitin Dahad
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    Executive Editor, Electronic Engineering Times

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    Badri Narayanan
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    Head, Vision India@2047 Development Unit

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    Kristyn Burtt 
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    Reporter, Hubbard Broadcasting

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    Vasudha Paul
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    Global Connect Track Co-Lead

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    Sajjan Agarwal
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    Chairman & CEO, GreenHawk Corp

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    Mukesh Aghi
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    ​President and CEO, US-India Strategic Partnership Forum

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    Ashish Chauhan
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    ​CEO, NSE

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    Shawna Pandya, MD
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    Astronaut at International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)

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    Mallik Tatipamula 
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    CTO, Ericsson Silicon Valley

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    Sandeep Moorthy
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    SVP/GM, Advanced NTN Solutions, Viasat

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    Preet Virk
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    Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Photonic Fabric Business Unit

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    Spencer Cohen
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    Economics and Trade Policy, U.S.-China Relations

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    Xiaomeng Lu
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    Director, Geo-technology at Eurasia Group

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    Suzanne Sena
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    President & Founder, Sena-Series Media Training

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    Vinita Gupta
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    Entrepreneur, Author & Journalist

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    Sahil Aggarwal
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    Co-founder & CEO, Rishihood University

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    Darshana Patel
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    Assemblymember, District 76

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    Naveed Hussain
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    Chief Engineer, Boeing Defense, Space & Security

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    Ajay Rane
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    Global Head, Product Strategy & BD - Telco BU, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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    Rajendra Narasimhan
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    SVP & GM, Compute & Networking BU, Micron Technology

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    Prith Banerjee
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    Senior Vice President of Innovation, Synopsys

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    Graham Webster
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    Lecturer; Research Scholar; DigiChina Editor-in-Chief

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    Preity Upala
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    X-Inv Banker|Founder& CEO OMNIA|Intl Speaker|Award winning Author|Advisory to Govts|Geo-Political Strategist

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    Vivek Chhabra
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    Global Connect Track Lead, IIT2026

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    AJ Thomas
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    Founder & General Partner, Good Trouble Ventures & IIT2026 Emcee

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    Brian Sparkes
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    Chief Venture Officer, Silicon Valley Venture & IIT2026 Emcee

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    Parthib Srivanthsan
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    Investor | Operating Partner, Companyon Ventures

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    Shankar Mahadevan
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    Acclaimed Indian Singer, Composer

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    Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
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    Legendary Indian Classical Sarod Player

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    Guitar Prasanna
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    Musician, Composer, And Teacher Known For Bringing Carnatic Music To The Electric And Acoustic Guitar.

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    Rajiv Satyal
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    Comedian, Host & Speaker

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    Ehsaan 
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    An Indian Composer And Guitarist

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    Amit Tandon
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    Stand-Up Comedian

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    Mary Millben
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    Award-winning International Singer

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    Gulzarish
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    A Soul-Stirring Tribute To The Legendary Poet, Lyricist And Filmmaker Gulzar

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    Loy
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    Keyboardist And Arranger

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    Varun Grover
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    Lyricist, Writer, Filmmaker & Stand-Up Comedian

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    Jesse Smith
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    5 Time Olympian

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    Unreal Crew
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