Shri Abhishek Singh is an officer of the 1995 batch of IAS with diverse experience of governance and policy formulation with regard to use of Technology for improving Governance. He is presently posted as President & CEO NeGD with additional charge of MD&CEO, Digital India Corporation. He was also CEO MyGov for October 2019 to February 2022. In his role at National e Governance Division, he coordinates projects relating to Digital India, specially Digilocker, UMANG, Geo-Informatics. He has also been leading the efforts on Communications on COVID19. He has done Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Mason fellow in May 2013. He is a B Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has worked in diverse Indian States of Nagaland and Uttar Pradesh.

Satu Kiiskinen is the Managing Director for Tietoevry Transform and Country Manager for Tietoevry Finland. Kiiskinen has worked at Tietoevry since 2013 in different executive positions varying from Public Sector, Consulting and System Integration to Industrial and Consumer services. Before joining Tietoevry, she has worked in various leadership positions with Elisa, BearingPoint, Netigy and KPMG. Satu is especially inspired by sustainability, diversity and inclusion – as well as building better digital societies.

Prakash Grama is the CEO of EVRY USA Corporation and based in Orange County, CA. Prakash co-founded SPAN in the U.S. and India in 1994 before selling it to EVRY in 2012. Prior to EVRY USA, Prakash worked at Harris Bank, Chicago, owned by Bank of Montreal. Before that, Prakash worked at Tata Burroughs and BHEL in India. He has been profiled on CNBC, the Washington Post and Zee Business and Radio City in India and interviewed in Wall Street Journal and other media. Prakash has over 35 years of IT industry in the US market and an expert in outsourcing. Prakash has also mentored and angel invested in a couple of startups in the US and India that have subsequently received VC funding. He has an MBA from IIM Calcutta, a top 3 business school in India and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore, India.

Ashok Vantipalli assumed his role as Chief Information Officer at TireHub in 2018. Shortly after Vantipalli joined TireHub, he helped scale the new company for growth – building a technology vision and strategy, a team, key partnerships and digital products ground up. In his current role, he oversees product development and deployment of customer facing SaaS capabilities and internal IT capabilities for 70 distribution centers and employees.

Prior to joining Tirehub, Vantipalli served as the Global Vice President of Application Delivery at Sage Software where he was accountable for the Digital Transformation of the business from an on-prem to a SaaS company. He was also responsible for transforming 10 regional technology teams into one global function with shared services.

Previously, Vantipalli spent more than 15 years in technology and management consulting, serving financial services, media and healthcare clients while at Mckinsey and Alvarez and Marsal (A&M). During his tenure at A&M, he served as interim CIO/CTO and was responsible for technology transformation initiatives for his clients. He also served as the Head of Technology Operations (U.S., Europe and Asia) for the largest bankruptcy & turnaround in U.S. history – Lehman Brothers.

Vantipalli received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and statistics, with a concentration in computer science, from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He later earned a master’s degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Residing in Milton with his wife and three kids, Vantipalli is an active member of the Atlanta technology community and a board member at TechBridge – a nonprofit that supports smaller non-profits with technology needs to increase their mission outreach.

Nidhi is a social development sector professional with over two decades of experience. An alumnus of the prestigious Delhi School of Social Work (Delhi University), Nidhi wears many hats and has proven skills in program and team management, regulatory understanding of CSR law, finance and compliance, among others.

Nidhi is extremely passionate about providing equal opportunities to all, technology for social good, and women and youth development.

At NASSCOM Foundation, she is working towards pivoting the organization into focussed strategic growth by providing employability driven skills to the underserved youth, encouraging and incubating tech for social good and fostering women entrepreneurship. She has been working towards NASSCOM Foundation’s vision to build a truly inclusive India through technology and partnerships with the industry, NGOs, emerging social enterprises and the Government.

Before joining NASSCOM Foundation, Nidhi was working with Concern India Foundation as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.   Nidhi loves to read and travel and in her spare time, often takes off to the mountains with her books.

Raj Mohan is the Managing Director and Country Manager of Tietoevry India. Raj has been the driving force behind Corporate Strategy, Business Development, and Client Engagements for multiple domains and geographies. With over 28 years of experience in IT Delivery, Operations & Sales, and Client Relationship Management, he is well versed in the technical as well as the business sides of the industry. Previously, Raj has had a long stint with TCS in roles including Sales, Large Account Management, and Strategy & Planning. He brings in over a decade of working experience in the US, UK, Nordics, and European markets. Raj has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT Kanpur, India. Raj lives in Chandigarh with his wife and two sons. Among his wide interests are following global markets, trekking, and cricket.

Brett Lansing's nearly two decades of experience in IT strategy and execution include leadership roles at global manufacturing, telecom software and healthcare companies. Before joining AccentCare as CIO, I served as CIO for an integrated health software as a service company providing a suite of applications for engagement and workflow for more than 85 of the leading health plans and systems in the US.

My aspirations are to leverage technology as an enabler to advance home health and to ensure that AccentCare has defined processes for engineering, support and operations that can scale.

I’m a believer of celebrating the small wins along the way and driving a “Thank you culture” across my organization. Our IT employees work tirelessly in support of our clinicians, therapists and physicians and take great pride in what they do.

I also desire to emphasize innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit in the minds of our youth. I have watched my young son emerge as the youngest person in the world to convert a gasoline car to 100% electric car, appear on the Jay Leno Garage TV show and create a business for himself that specializes in converting cars to electric.

Stephen “Steve” Ciambrone joined AgFirst in June 2019 as Vice President of Application Development and was named the Bank’s Chief Information Officer in October. He previously served as a Managing Director in Citigroup’s Global Consumer Banking Technology organization.  During his tenure with Citi, Mr. Ciambrone led the development of next-generation payment solutions, including the Digital Wallet, the Global Payment Hub, and the Money2 for Health product, which was named the 2015 “Innovation of the Year” by the American Banker.  Mr. Ciambrone is currently leading a complete digital transformation of the technology at AgFirst Farm Credit Bank.

Hailed as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong”, Colonel Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, former Director of Operations for NASA, a test pilot, engineer, author, musician and TV host.

Zabeen Hirji is a corporate director, not-for-profit chair, strategic advisor to business, government and universities, focused on the Future of Work, leadership and talent, workforce and culture transformation, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Before joining Medavie in 2016, Bernard Lord was CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association of Canada and Mobile Giving Foundation Canada chair. The former New Brunswick premier continues to chair the Ontario Power Generation board.