Padmini Gopalakrishnan is currently Sr. Director in the AI Group at AMD Hyderabad, where she leads a team building a performant AI stack on CPU servers. She has previously over 25 years of experience building EDA tools for both ASICs and FPGAs. Her technical interests span VLSI CAD algorithms and methodologies, optimization, AI and machine learning, computer vision, and computer architecture. She holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.Tech from IIT Madras.

Bhavana Kanukurthi is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Science. Bhavana’s area of research is Cryptography.

Professor Cyient Chair Professor (Future Communication) Director – NMICPS TiHAN Foundation Wireless Network Lab (WiNeT) Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana – 502285

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Prior to this, I was a postdoc and then an Assistant Computer Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA. I was also a Visiting Affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. I completed my PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore under Prof. Vijay Natarajan and Prof. Sathish Vadhiyar.

Mythreyee leads Customer Engagement for Ads and Consumer products in Hyderabad, India. Her team builds products that allows Google to engage with billions of customers and users intelligently, managing the front-end experience of customer engagement across Google’s products and the backend services that collect and analyze customer engagement data. Prior to Google, Mythreyee was at Microsoft working across many product areas including Azure, Bing Search and Ads, Microsoft Research and Visual Studio.

Gauri Das is an engineer turned HR Professional with double Masters in Human resources and Psychology. Gauri is a strategic HR leader with 17+ years of experience in crafting and aligning HR strategy with business goals. She mentors students and young professionals and is associated as a mentor with various institutions including IIT Bombay. She is a passionate speaker and has graced multiple national and international forums as a keynote speaker and panellist. She is two times TEDx speaker and her TEDx talks are about creating a possibilitarian mindset and flux transcendence in HR She is co-author of the book – the power of connections ! She is National president for WICCI future of work council. She is passionate about women empowerment and is founder of Leanin circle called Leaders Lifting Leaders and Navi WOmbai Circle. These communities help women achieve their professional goals. Some of her awards and accolades include, top 5 women HR leader globally, top 200 global leadership voices, HR 100 under 40/, Economic Times Young HR Leader/ LinkedIn person of the year, most followed HR professional on social media, to name a few. She is LinkedIn top voice too. Passion with Compassion is her mantra.