Dr. Gargi Dasgupta, Director, IBM Research India and CTO, IBM India and South Asia
Gargi B. Dasgupta is the Director for IBM Research in India and the CTO for IBM India/South Asia. In her role as Director, Gargi is responsible for establishing and executing the technical agenda of IBM’s India Research Lab in collaboration with IBM’s worldwide research labs and business units. In her role as CTO, Gargi is responsible for representing and communicating IBM’s overall technical vision & strategy. Gargi is a champion of women in STEM and has received several recognitions from Fortune India, Business Today, IndiaAI for her unique role at the intersection of Technology and Business. In 2022, she has been recognized with the ACM India OCCW award. She is an alumni of Jadavpur University and University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Title: "AI and its role in furthering Applications on Cloud"
Panel Discussion on
Influence of Social Media on Professional Visibility
Ms. Shai Venkatraman
Moderator
Director - Strategic Communications and Operations, Footprint Global Communications, New Delhi.
Dr. Abha Rishi, CEO,
Atal Incubation Centre, Chairperson for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED) at Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida.
Dr Abha Rishi, CEO, Atal Incubation Centre-BIMTECH is also the Chairperson for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED) at Birla Institute of Management Technology & a senior faculty. She has 27 years of experience- in industry and academics. She is a PhD holder, an EEC Honors from STVP, Stanford University, PGDIBO, MFT and MIB. An avid traveller, she has traveled extensively across 21 countries, in 5 continents, as part of her work and research. Her passion and focus is student and women entrepreneurship and has mentored more than 1000 women and student entrepreneurs.
Title: "Women Entrepreneurship- the opportunities and challenges"
Time
Description
1.50pm
Welcome Address by Dr. Heena Timani,
Chair, ACM - W India, Co-Founder and Director, iAnanya Datalytix Pvt. Ltd
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Invited Talk by the recipient of ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman Award.
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Gargi Dasgupta - Director, IBM Research India and CTO, IBM India and South Asia
Title: "AI and its role in furthering Applications on Cloud"
3.00pm - 4.30pm
Panel Discussion - Influence of Social Media on Professional Visibility. Moderator : Ms. Shai Venkatraman, Director - Strategic Communications and Operations, Footprint Global Communications, New Delhi.
Panelists 1. Ms. Neelima Vobugari, CEO at Tarah Technologies, Bengaluru 2. Dr. Cigdem Sengul, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Brunel university, London 3. Dr. Meena Mahajan, Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 4. Ms. Bhavani Giddu Veeravalli, CEO, Footprint Global Communications, New Delhi
4.30pm
Break
5.00pm - 6.00pm
Invited TalkKeynote Speaker - Dr. Abha Rishi, CEO, Atal Incubation Centre, Chairperson for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED) at Birla Institute of Management Technology(BIMTECH), Greater Noida. Title: “Women Entrepreneurship- the opportunities and challenges"
6.00pm - 6.10pm
Vote of Thanks by Dr. Rutvi Shah, Treasurer, ACM W India, Assistant Professor, Chimanbhai Patel Institute, Gujarat University.
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Organizing committee
Dr. Heena Timani
Chair, ACM - W India
Co-Founder and Director, Iananya Datalytix Pvt. Ltd
Dr. Neeldhara Misra
Assistant Professor
IIT Gandhinagar
Dr. Rutvi Shah
Assistant Professor
Chimanbhai Patel Institute of Computer Applications
Dr. Chitra Babu
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
SSN College of Engineering (Autonomous)
Dr. R. M. Periakaruppan
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences
P.S.G College of Technology(Autonomous), Coimbatore
Ms. Shai Venkatraman
Shai Venkatraman is currently Director, Strategic Communications at Footprint Global Communications. A former NDTV bureau chief, she has over 25 years of experience in print, television, and the web. She was also the former editor of Gateway House, a prestigious foreign policy think tank, and NewzHook, an accessible website for people with disabilities in India. She is a recipient of Women's Edition, a fellowship from USAID's Population Reference Bureau, and was awarded the UNFPA-LAADLI award for the best documentary in 2012. In addition to anchoring on NDTV, she has hosted interview sessions at the Tata Lit Live festival.
Dr. Meena Mahajan
Meena Mahajan is a Professor in the Theoretical Computer Science group at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, HBNI, Chennai, India, which she joined in 1994. She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay in 1986 and 1988, and her PhD degree from IIT Madras in 1993. Her research interests encompass many aspects of computational complexity theory, including Boolean function complexity, algebraic circuit complexity, proof complexity, and space-bounded computation.
Ms. Neelima Vobugari
Neelima Vobugari is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive IT experience of over 20 years. She is a certified Data Scientist with a degree in data science from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA. She has an MBA from Symbiosis and a B Tech from JNTU. Her entrepreneurial stint is focused on consulting and training in the area of data science and Artificial Intelligence and related technologies. She is currently CEO of Tarah Technologies, a marquee AI and Machine Learning competency and consulting firm. Her IT experience spans giant IT companies including IBM. She is now embarking on an innovative product in AI space via testAIng.com
She has recently been conferred the prestigious "Women in AI" award given to select women leaders in data science and AI.
She is a strong innovator, has filed three patents in the area of AI, and provided innovative solutions to over 20 AI consulting projects at marquee clients. She has the distinction of having trained over 2000 students and professionals via various enterprise and B2C trainings in various areas of data science, AI and machine learning. Her trainings have been well received by students as well as corporate employees.
She is an invited speaker at marquee conferences like GHCI, Data Science Congress , International Women Entrepreneur conference etc. She was invited by the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the pre-budget session of Karnataka as an expert representing women entrepreneurs of Karnataka.
Dr. Cigdem Sengul
Cigdem has more than ten years of experience in research and development in mobile and wireless networks in both academia and industry. She has been working on standards for building privacy and trust in the Internet of Things during her time at Nominet as a Senior Researcher (2015-2019). Between 2012-2015, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, where she lectured and conducted research on wireless and mobile networks, with a particular focus on energy and interference efficiency, and Internet of Robotic Things. From 2008-2012, she was with Telekom Innovation Labs (the main research unit of Deutsche Telekom) as a Senior Research Scientist leading projects on Wireless Mesh Networks. Her work has been published in more than 50 journal and conference publications. She is a Fulbright, Department of Computer Science, UIUC and Vodafone fellow.
Cigdem is a passionate advocate of increasing diversity awareness in computing. She is the Communication and Outreach Chair of ACM Women-Europe. She collaborates with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation to support their mission of teaching coding to school children. She is the co-author of the Networking with the Micro:bit book.
Ms. Bhavani Giddu Veeravalli
Bhavani is the CEO of Footprint Global. She is a senior communications professional with experience spanning over 17 years in public relations and strategic media relations, having extensive work experience with leading multinationals and some of the world’s largest communications agencies in senior leadership roles. She has held senior leadership roles with organizations such as GE, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, IPAN Hill & Knowlton prior to establishing Footprint Global Communications.
Dr. Abha Rishi
Dr Abha Rishi, CEO, Atal Incubation Centre-BIMTECH is also the Chairperson for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED) at Birla Institute of Management Technology & a senior faculty. She has 27 years of experience- in industry and academics. She is a PhD holder, an EEC Honors from STVP, Stanford University, PGDIBO, MFT and MIB. An avid traveller, she has traveled extensively across 21 countries, in 5 continents, as part of her work and research. Her passion and focus is student and women entrepreneurship and has mentored more than 1000 women and student entrepreneurs. She has been conferred the following awards: 2021: the Global Women in Leadership Award 2021 by the Global Council for Promotion of International Trade ( GCPIT) on March 8, 2021 2020: the National Leadership Awards 2020 by Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME) and Centre of Excellence for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CEIIE)
2019:
Felicitated for her contribution in developing an ecosystem for entrepreneurs by DIPP, Government of India, in March, 2019
the winner in the academic category by the Sandvik India Gender Awards (SIGA) and the Embassy of Sweden in August 2019
Conferred the Silver Award in the Indian Management Conclave Awards 2019 by Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, ex-President of India in August 2019
2018: the ‘NEN Entrepreneurship Educator of the Decade’ award, from the National Entrepreneurship Network, India 2017: the Accenture I&D Award for her work with the underprivileged sections of society. This award was given to only 5 other people from across the country 2016: the ‘Distinguished Services Award’ from BIMTECH 2015: Entrepreneurship Education Champion’s Award from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), along with NEN, EDII, the British Council and Intel
She is one of the few Indians to hold both a Chevening (CRISP 2014 scholar, Said Business School, University of Oxford) and a Fulbright Scholarship ( Rutgers University, Newark, USA for 2009-10). She was selected as one of the semi- finalists in the GDN Japanese Award for Outstanding Research in Development Work in 2011. She was the Programme Director from BIMTECH for the states of UP and Orissa for the Goldman Sachs ISB BIMTECH 10000 Women global project. She has published and presented papers in various domestic and international forums.
