TheTechPod

Vinayak Shrivastav is the Co-founder and CEO of Toch - an AI based media tech platform. He specializes in company growth plans and implementation. He helps the company find its unique identity and produce high-quality strategic plans that meets their objectives. Through his position in Toch, Vinayak has grown the company from both product and customer side.

Toch is a first-of-its-kind media tech platform for automating meta-data inside video content (object detection, facial recognition) Platform currently caters to major OTT platforms. Powered by advanced technology, the platform acts as an aggregator for advertisers, media companies and startups to achieve success in digital videos across all platforms through its first-class insights.

Mr. V.K. Rajeev is the Regional Teacher of Change Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. He is a part of Atal Innovation Mission, NITI AAYOG, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. 

Rajeev believes that life is all about learning from womb to tomb. He tries to inculcate scientific temperament in the new generation so that they are ready to think critically and solve their problems scientifically. 

Marc Miance is the Founder & CEO, Wave - The first mobile app which delivers full privacy. With over 20+ years in the field of technology, computer graphics, and digital production, Marc brings with him a rich experience that combines on-ground knowledge and high level management skills. One of his most famous productions was awarded Best Animated Feature at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

His new start-up venture – Wave is the world’s first social browser, allows people to manage their digital life on mobile and share it the way they want with their friends.

In his current role at Wave, Marc is responsible for the supervision of product design, while leading R&D processes of the company. Based out of Provence, France, Marc is fond of cutting-edge tech and digital cinema. Marc espouses a life underlined with minimalism. While his home is his office, he also enjoys vanlife from time to time.

Gaurav is digitech, communications and media enthusiast, who brings innovative full impact talent initiatives to life, helping organizations leverage their most important resource - their people. He has done his MBA from Newport International University, a course on digital transformation from MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge and has over 22+ years of experience in the Human Resources space. Before he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, Gaurav worked with prominent agencies such as Kantar, Group M, A.C. Neilsen and Network18. He was honored with the Doctorate in Excellence - Human Resources (Honoris Causa) in 2019 from C.I.A.C. (Confederation of International Accreditation Commission) & University of Entrepreneurship & Technology, USA.

At GoEvals, Gaurav is responsible for building a stellar team of experts in people management, creating & inventing digital tools for the platform, managing investor & stakeholder relationships, overseeing the commercial operations & aggressively spearheading the global expansion across the world.

Mr. Kuldeep Malhotra is the Director & V.P. Sales and Office Marketing & Planning for Konica Minolta India. He has a vast experience of 35 years in the printing industry in India. He has earlier worked in Xerox India at various positions leading to the organization’s growth in the past.

He has served in various key positions throughout his career span and worked in various domains from Sales, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Channel Management to Managed Services.  Mr. Malhotra has shown tremendous strength in growing BIN’s turnover YOY. Despite of the fact that the printing market pace in India is slow, Konica Minolta has shown double-digit growth year on year, under his leadership. He has been instrumental to take Konica Minolta India sales figure from 100 crore to 500 crore in the shortest span of 7 years.

Maaz Ansari is the CEO and Co-founder of ORI and leads the business and strategy at ORI. Before co-founding ORI he has helmed Equity research for a boutique advisory brokerage firm and led pre-sales for applied data science products at Fractal Analytics. He has also worked with 3 other start-ups in various capacities. 

Maaz is a dedicated serial entrepreneur focused on business solutions, client success, and product refinement. He started at Fractal Analytics and went on to start-up with Anurag in the space of Deep Learning, IoT, and Web SaaS. 1 exit, 1 closure. Maaz is an engineer from Bombay University.

Karen Horting, CAE, is Executive Director & CEO for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), a 42,000 member organization founded in 1950. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women.

With more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and fund development, Ms. Horting came to SWE in March 2004 from the New York Academy of Sciences where she served as Director of Strategic Planning, overseeing the Academy’s development activities and long-range organizational planning.  Prior to NYAS, Ms. Horting worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) managing both marketing and fund development on a global level for Science’s Next Wave, a ground-breaking career development website for graduate students and postdocs in STEM. Her previous experience also includes more than ten years in the paint industry.

Mr. Shree Sule is the Client Manager at Altimetrik. He is a customer oriented, strategic-thinking professional with 15 years of experience in building relationships, cultivating partnership, retaining top accounts, and growing profit channels. He is a multitasking, self-motivated leadership professional with expertise on expanding network connections. 

Shree is a tactical team builder and strategic planner seeking to leverage background into a sales representative or account management role with a progressive or organization. He studies emerging trends in the information technology field and their ramifications in BFSI sector and other industries ensuring products and solutions are applied in a manner that maximizes their worth. He is developing constructive, productive and sustainable relationships with colleagues, clients, clear and effective communication and delegation skills.

Pranav is a seasoned professional, with over fifteen years of leadership experience, who firmly believes that for individuals, entrepreneurs and enterprises to build successful and financially sustainable businesses, financial well-being and wellness rests at the core of such success.

Pranav is responsible for devising and executing strategies encompassing Fund structure, people, deal flow, fundraising, investment management, governance, compliance and risk management. In addition, to his role at Woodstock Capital Fund, he is an Advisor to Alliance Block (Decentralized Investment Bank) and Orion Protocol (Decentralized liquidity Aggregator).

Mr Chetan Kalyan is the Vice President - Engineering at Meesho. He is a Techpreneur with more than a decade of experience in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering solutions. Chetan Kalyan now heads a team of 75 people at Meesho.

As VP engineering of Meesho, he builds highly scalable systems catering to 50 million users across India and Indonesia. Prior to joining Meesho, Chetan was the Co founder and CEO of Klassifai, an applied AI solutions  provider for different businesses for demand prediction and fraud detection. Later, Klassifai was acquired by Circles.Life in 2018 Chetan worked  with Flipkart, FireEye and Qualcomm before starting Klassifai in 2017. He is an alumni from Stanford University and his expertise lies in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and large scale distributed systems.