Satish is a senior forecast analyst and team leader on the ForecastView team in the New Delhi office, which is responsible for producing all of Forrester’s consumer market forecasts. He focuses on consumer technology adoption, online retail, digital-influenced retail, mobile payments, and smart home devices.

Satish often appears on TV and comments in the press on the online retail and consumer internet industry. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Bloomberg, Quartz, CNBC, and Forbes.

Previous Work Experience
Prior to joining Forrester, Satish worked with investment banking support teams and as an analyst for a global market research firm. He was responsible for the analysis and forecasting of mobile telephony and broadband markets in the MEA region.

Education
Satish received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay, India.

Jagadeesh is working with Dunnhumby for 2 years in Business Development. He is handling India & South Asia markets for Business Development.  He believes the core reason of his role in dunnhumby is to provide solutions to the Client Business issues and utilise the various dunnhumby offerings to create a compelling solution that provides best value for the Client and the Client’s client.

Throughout his career of 24 years he has been in Solution Selling – a profession that requires a lot of time and dedication in understanding the Client needs and have a firm understanding of this working in various industries and verticals and managing multiple large complex deals. Prior to joining dunnhumby Jagadeesh has worked for Nucleus Software as a Sales Head – India & SAARC and Orange Business Services as a Sales Director.

Banwari Lal Sharma is Chief Executive Officer (New Cars) at CarWale and CarTrade. A Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, he was one of the founding members of CarWale. Apart from managing business, his experience of more than 16 years spans across product management, technology, marketing and content. He has adequate understanding of Indian auto ecosystem, automotive consumer behaviour and digital.

Ayyappan R is Head of Business at Myntra & Jabong. He took over the role after serving the Flipkart group for over 6 years in various leadership roles across categories. Prior to assuming his role at Myntra Jabong, he was the Senior Director for the smartphones category, the largest category at Flipkart. During his tenure, he has helped build and scale the furniture, IT and electronics businesses for the group.

Ayyappan has over 10 years of experience, with a proven track record of building businesses from scratch and scaling them. He has contributed significantly to making Flipkart the number one retailer in the country for Smartphones, with a 25% market share – the highest for any single retailer in the world. He won ‘The Economic Times Young Leader’ award in 2010

Prior to his stint with Flipkart, Ayyappan was associated with ITC Ltd, where he served in the Grocery, Foods and Cigarettes division. He began his career as a Software Development Engineer at Siemens where he was writing software for mobile network components

Ayyappan holds a PGDBM in Marketing and Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur and a Bachelor of Engineering in IT from St. Joseph’s college of Engineering.

A 20+ year technology and product veteran, Sanjay brings in diverse experience – building database engine at Oracle Corp, payment web services at Amazon Web Services and e-commerce platforms ground up at Tradus.com (Naspers owned) and 99Acres. Sanjay is an entrepreneur at heart and is passionate about leading high impact teams and creating Internet scale technology products. His startup Clearsenses was acquihired by Naspers

He earned a MS in Computer Science from University of California Santa Barbara, MS in Computer Science from University of Pune and Bachelors in Mathematics from St. Stephens College, New Delhi.

He is also an ultra-runner and triathlete.

Radhika Binani is the Chief Product Officer at Paisabazaar.com.  She comes with a rich experience of over 14 years in the financial services and distribution space, having worked with organizations like Citibank and Unilever. Before taking up this role, Radhika was the Director of Digital Marketing for both Policybazaar.com and Paisabazaar.com.

Prior to joining the company, she was Program manager at Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, her goal was to provide capital towards building strong organizations in the for-profit social space.

Radhika is an engineering graduate from Anna University, Chennai and holds a Post Graduate Diploma from IIM Bangalore

Jacob Singh is the CTO of Grofers – the largest online grocery retailer in India – where he heads the product & engineering team. His goal is to push innovation to the edges of the organization, where every member feels fully empowered to not just do, but think, dream, test and refine their own vision.

Some highlights of his work so far:

1. In 2 years, Scaled the tech organization from 80 to 220 people, $60MM to $500MM in GMV

2. Led agile transformation which moved the team from 2 months to 2-week releases and now into continuous deployment.

Previous to Grofers, he served as the country head of Acquia – the Drupal company – and held numerous roles across the US and India. Some of his accomplishments include:

1. Extend team of 70 members building enterprise CMS for clients such as Fox, Warner Bros, Novartis, and Pfizer.

2. Partnerships with major SIs including Wipro, Mindtree, TechM, TCS, Cognizant, Sapient Nitro

3. Keynoted all major Drupal conferences, regular speaker at eTailing and Open Source events.

Ajay Aggarwal qualified as an engineer and turned to entrepreneurship after twenty years of corporate life, rising to senior positions in fledgling IT companies of the time. His creative vision manifested in various ventures, including India’s first Point of Sale (POS), SmartShop by Seacom, in 1996, and India’s first online marketplace, KLISMA, in 2009.

Approaching sixty, Ajay retained the youthful energy of entrepreneurship and began working with startups in retail technology and ecommerce, sharing concepts and strategies, and aiding their growth in different roles, including as an investor. Some of these are online food portals, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and POS technology platforms. He enjoys learning new things and innovating in this space.

Over the years, much of Ajay’s creative energy and passion for quality living manifested in social causes (such as attempts to bring a sense of the benefits of order to Pune’s road traffic – a continuing crusade!)

His family and friends always enjoyed his gourmet cooking and his abundant garden, and this has grown into a passion to influence others to grow their own fruit and vegetables, as he does in his rooftop farm.

Kunal started his career 19 years ago as a Senior Programmer with Baz Software where he carried out business analysis, database and systems design, client engagement, software development, UAT and training on multiple technologies for over two years. In 2003, he joined Nilkamal Ltd and later became the IT Head for its @Home retail stores. In also did a short stint with Johnson & Johnson where he mapped the business processes of its pharmaceutical division to the existing systems and develop customized applications. In May 2005, he joined Reliance Retail where he was part of the core team for systems design and rollout of Storeline systems (Retalix) software for various formats of Reliance Retail stores. He also managed IT operations, governance, rollout and support of 30 Reliance Fresh stores, helping it migrate from the legacy systems of Sahakari Bhandar. In October 2007, he joined Unisource, the global procurement hub for Steve & Barry’s retail chain. As a SAP Project Manager and Business Analyst, he led a team of business systems analysts to implement SAP and develop supporting systems for various functions for India and US operations.

In September 2008, he joined Trent Hypermarket Ltd as Head – IT. During his seven years in the company, Kunal drove a digital transformation initiative to integrate all IT systems and processes under a uniform infrastructure. Currently, as GM-IT, Lifestyle Business for Raymond Ltd, Kunal is responsible for creating the company’s IT strategy and framework for the enterprise as well as digital and omni-channel business.

Niki is the CEO and cofounder of Fountain9 that specializes in automated AI based forecasting and optimization solution for companies that deal with scale and complexity of wide variety of products and vast distribution networks (for eg. retails, FMCG and ecommerce companies).

Prior to starting Fountain9, Niki worked in the US for 8 years and more recently at Google in San Francisco as the Head of Strategy and Analytics for Google Fiber. Before that she was with American Express in New York as the Director for Risk and Information Management. Her career has been focussed in the field of data science and its applications for solving various business problems ranging from forecasting demand, understanding customer segments to ROI optimizations and pricing strategies.

In terms of her education, she did masters in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh with focus on machine learning and engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering in Mumbai. She recently moved back to India and started Fountain9 earlier this year.

Investment banking,Merchant banking, fund raising, advisory, structuring

I possess 18 years+’ of diverse experience across E Commerce, FMCG & Telecom e.g Swiggy, Airtel, Reliance Telecom, PepsiCo Fritolay, HUL, Mondelez & Amazon -in Individual & Leadership roles, handling General & Modern Trade sales assignments, in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia & Malaysia.

I have been privileged handle a wide spectrum of roles across both Business and Operations i.e. Logistics & Transportation for Last Mile at Amazon, India as well as Sales, Trade Marketing, Customer Marketing, Go-To-Market, Key Account Management in various FMCG organizations. This wide spectrum of experiences i.e. across geography/function/channel and role has helped me succeed in leading at scale as well as exceeding organization goals in a highly dynamic career and business environment

I am currently working as COO for Scootsy, a premium delivery business in India

Samik leads Microsoft Modern Workplace in India, which includes the productivity platforms of Microsoft Office, Windows, as well as Enterprise Mobility and Security. He assumed this role from July 2018 and leads strategy for the entire suite of Microsoft Modern Workplace.

Prior to this, Samik was Country head of Microsoft Dynamics. He designed and executed go-to-market strategy for Microsoft Dynamics across all market segments, industry verticals, products and partners, and catapulted the business to great levels of success.

Before joining Microsoft, Samik worked with Oracle for 11 years, serving over the years as Head of CRM business, Head of Banking & Financial applications business and Head of the Mid-market applications business.

In addition, Samik serves on the Board of EmployWise, an integrated SaaS based Hire-to-Retire HR solution. As a board member, he lends his years of experience to advise EmployWise™ on best practices around Marketing, Sales & Channel strategy

Samik is also on the Advisory Council of Breakthrough, a non-profit organization committed to eradicating violence & discrimination against women & girls. In this role, he advises Breakthrough on ways to improve effectiveness. He also works at grass root levels to interact, inspire & help young girls realize their potential

With nearly 25 years’ of experience spanning multiple functions, industry and geographies, Samik brings deep knowledge, innate understanding of customers and a rare finesse to everything he does. By combining skills like strategy, execution and strong people management, Samik turned around businesses and made his mark in India, Singapore and Malaysia.

Samik has a graduate degree from Delhi University, and an MBA from the FORE School of Management, New Delhi.

Vikram Idnani joins the retail company from Trent, where he served an 11-year stint as the Head-IT. At Trent, he also the Chief Ethics Counsellor.Aside from being a retail CIO, Idnani has worked as a consultant for TCS, Syntel, and Hi-Tech Consultants. Idnani has 23 years of global experience, spanning 9 years in the US and the rest of India. Prior to joining Trent in 2006, he consulted for International Retail and Consumer Goods firms including Borders, Home Depot, K-Mart, PepsiCo and interned at JD Williams (UK). He has also worked with Airlines, Finance, Home Building and Healthcare industries.