Aamir Thoker

Business Head, India and SaarC - Cloudflare

Currently heading India and SaarC business for Cloudflare, helping organisations across industries to secure their business application from any form of cyberattacks to avoid Data Breach, data theft, loss or downtime. Previously, Country manager of Hortonworks (now Cloudera), worked with India's largest telecom and BFSI organisations in their digital transformation helping them make sense of their big data. Aamir has also worked with Akamai technologies and has a very good understanding of business problems that technologies can solve . i.e Cloud, Open-source, Hadoop, analytics, security analytics, data lake, Cloud security, Content delivery among others.

Abhishek Bali

CEO - ZIGRAM

Abhishek is the CEO of ZIGRAM – a high impact data asset organization. He has expertise in Data Assets, Risk, Compliance, Data Science, Analytics, Research and allied technologies. His current work is based on building solutions for specific use-cases & sectors, where data assets, machine learning, artificial intelligence and technology applications play a critical role in solving real world problems, especially those related to risk, compliance and security.

Gaurav Shinh

Managing Partner - Data & Analytics Services

Passionate about Data & Analytics, Gaurav started a boutique consultancy firm called Data & Analytics Services in 2014 after working for 17+ years in corporate sector for companies such as RBS, Barclays, LexisNexis, Unilever, Nissan and Mazda. He is a MBA (investment banking & corporate strategy) from University of Toronto and received his Engineering (Honors) degree from Punjab Technical University. Gaurav’s current focus areas are building Data Platforms, leveraging Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning and Analytics to drive organizational transformation agenda.

Dr. Karnika Seth

Managing Partner, Seth Associates

Dr. Karnika Seth is an internationally renowned cyberlaw, IP & Media law expert practising in the Supreme court of India.Dr. Seth is the Managing Partner of Seth Associates, an established law firm based in Delhi that renders legal services to both domestic and global clients. She is an accomplished Author, Policy maker and a highly inspiring Speaker in conferences, print & electronic media and television.Dr. Seth's contribution to growth & development of cyberlaws in India and internationally is widely acknowledged in the corporate world. She has been on Expert Panel of UNICEF working on online safety and actively associates with International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) in its Think Tanks in India. educator on cyberlaws.

Manish Tiwari

Airtel

Cdr Manish Tiwari(Retd) has 29 years of work experience including 25 years in the Indian Navy where he set up the Information Security & Incident Response organization. His responsibilities included the formulation of Policy Frameworks, conduct of Security Audits & Product Testing, Implementation of Solutions, Cyber Forensics and IT Risk Management. As Director CERT-Navy. He was also responsible for managing, motivating, guiding and mentoring teams, in the course of building up the Information Security organization of the Indian Navy.

Manikant R Singh

CISO

Manikant, with over 2 decades of working as technology leader for well-renowned companies is an execution-leader and go-to-person in technology, risk, and cybersecurity arena. Along with his Masters in Computer Applications, he is an ethical hacker known in the security fraternity for over 10 years. His previous stint has been with Orbis Financial, Chambal Fertilizer, Adventz, Thermax, and, Nova Soft. Manikant has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Next 100 CIO, CISO 100, Infosec Maestro, Iconic CIO, Innovative CIO, and many more.

Narendra Nath

Joint Secretary, NSCS

He is working as Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat with responsibilities for coordination in matters of cyber security activities by different entities of the nation. Prior to this he was Deputy Director General (Security Assurance), Department of Telecommunications, Government of India with overall responsibilities for the policy formulation and implementation and matters pertaining to Telecom network security of India. Responsibilities include coordination on matters of national security with other wings.

Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General, ICERT

Dr. Sanjay Bahl is currently the Director General at the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. He has over three and a half decades of experience in the ICT industry. His background includes broad and deep skills and knowledge encompassing unique experiences in technology, business, global trade, and policy in the private and public sectors along with academic, public policy and legal areas.As resource person for UN-APCICT, Dr. Bahl has delivered the security and privacy training module of the Academy of ICT Essentials for government leaders. He was the Global Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the CSO for Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd.

Neeraj Tiwari

CTO, Zee Media

Rohit Ranjan

Bajaj General Insurance Company Pvt. Ltd. (Manager – Liability Insurance)

Rohit Ranjan is currently heading liability underwriting for North Zone for BAJAJ Allianz GIC. He has rich experience of 8+ yrs in Liability Underwriting pan India with ICICI Lombard and Tata AIG as his previous employers. He holds a master degree in MBA Finance and graduated as B. Tech Computer Science. He has an avid interest in Cyber Insurance – Crime and loss mitigation.

Sumit Gupta

CTO, SpineMedia LLC

Sumit is a veteran of several startups, almost all of them involving massive scale internet platforms and very large amounts of data captured and processed in near-real time. With over 25 years of experience, he has founded/led technology for companies in diverse verticals, from video distribution to AR/VR, education, and more recently digital publishing, all on hybrid cloud solutions, across three continents.

Shivkumar Pandey

Chief Information Security Officer - BSE Ltd.

Shivkumar Pandey is Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in BSE Ltd. Shivkumar has 18+ years of industry experience in Cyber Security and IT Service Delivery across fast paced industries like BFSI, ITES & Telecommunication, he has been performing at leadership roles in Cyber Security across these organizations for past 18+ years. He has his Master in Information Management (MIM) and Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecomm from Mumbai University. He has in-depth understanding of securing Stock Exchanges Systems, Core Trading Systems, Core Insurance Systems, Core Banking Systems, and Payment Systems (RuPay Cards, IMPS, CTS, NFS, UPI and NABCH payment systems).

Tarun Gupta

CTO | Chief Architect | Technology Partner | Advisor

CTO-Retail and Head of Technology and Architecture Office of Cognizant Retail & Consumer Goods, Travel practice › 24+ years of hands-on experience practicing Enterprise Architecture, aligning Business-IT and driving digital innovation & transformation for global enterprises › Board member of Association of Enterprise Architects – India

Vinayak Godse

Vice President - DSCI

Vinayak has a total 24 years of experience in Information Security, IT Transformation, Telecom Switching Infrastructure, Intelligent Networking and Broadband Infrastructure. He is working as Senior Director, Data Security Council of India, a not-for-profit company set by NASSCOM, an industry body of IT and BPM companies. He oversee DSCI’s initiatives to enhance security and privacy culture in the country, create trust in the cyber space, build cyber security industry in the country, enact conducive policy environment, build critical capabilities and skills for cyber security, develop security community and foster global partnership.