Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu Chairman, CII, Southern Region & SPEAKER Chairman and Managing Director PROFILE LMW

Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, an MBA from Philadelphia University, USA, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) Ltd, Coimbatore. LMW is one among the three leading Textile Machinery Manufacturers in the world, manufacturing the complete range textile spinning machinery.

Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu is a Trustee of the G.Kuppuswamy Naidu Charity Trust which runs a 600 bedded multi-specialty hospital, a higher secondary school and a feeder school in Coimbatore and an Arts College at Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu. He is a Trustee of GKD Charity Trust, which runs a Management Study College (DJ Academy for Managerial Excellence & DJ Academy of Design) and an Industrial Training Institute (GKD Institute for Technological Resources). He is the Chairman and Managing Trustee of the Coimbatore Masonic Charity Trust which runs a children’s hospital and a working women’s hostel.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Suresh Raman Chairman, CII Connect SPEAKER Vice President & Regional Head PROFILE Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai

Mr Suresh, as Vice President and Regional He has been associated with many large Head for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), successful wins of about $3 Billion; as well Chennai, manages its largest delivery centre, as incubated and built several strategic with about 70,000 associates. accounts that have grown to generate $ 100 to $ 200 million per annum businesses. In his current role, his focus areas are to Having earlier spent a decade as a provide right experience for customers and Management Consultant within TCS as associates; facilitate talent transformation well as briefly with PriceWaterhouse, he into digital technologies; promoting had played an advisory role to MNCs as diversity; provide agile and sustainable well as to Governments. With his wide infrastructure; optimize costs through experience over the past three decades effective asset leverage; and work across continents, he has worked at the closely with region stakeholders across intersection of management consulting and Government, Industry and communities. IT, helping customers leverage technology effectively and efficiently. Mr Suresh has earlier held diverse leadership roles including, Regional Director & Head He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of for Central Europe; Global Head of Large Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India. Strategic Opportunities and P&L Owner in a He likes to focus equally on customer large Business unit; and Global Relationship experience and associate experience. He Head for key global customers. While holds key honorary positions and/or is a managing very large global clients, he has member in core committees in industry strategized with them in formulating their bodies as below: digital transformation journeys. • Till recently was Honorary Secretary and currently the Honorary Treasurer of the Madras Management Association (MMA) • Chairman of CII CONNECT 2019, a premier ICT event of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), hosted by the Government of Tamil Nadu and co-hosted by STPI • CII Southern Region’s Co-Chair for Working Group on International Relations • Co-opted Member of the Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Dr Sanjay Tyagi Director SPEAKER Software Technology Parks of India, PROFILE Chennai

Dr Sanjay Tyagi is the Director of “Software Technology Parks of India, Chennai jurisdiction under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India and responsible for catering the needs of IT/ITES/EHTP/ESDM units covering Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry & Andaman Nicobar Islands under the ambit. He is an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) professional with 25 years of experience, including consulting, strategy development, policy formulation, evaluation and performance measurement, budgeting & resource mobilization, project management, public outreach etc. in Mission Mode implementation of projects. He was the key person in setting up the dedicated Wideband High Speed Data Communications Network at Noida and Chandigarh Centres.

Commendation certificate awarded by Govt. of Chandigarh Punjab for the Meritorious Services in making Chandigarh a favourite IT destination on Republic day function in 2005.

Instrumental in supporting 663 software exporting units with a total exports worth Rs. 40710 Crores and creation of 3.5 lakhs direct employment opportunities.

www.ciiconnect.org Dr Santosh Babu, IAS Principal Secretary – Information SPEAKER Technology PROFILE Government of Tamil Nadu

Dr Santhosh Babu is a Medical Doctor turned Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer of the 1995 batch, of the Tamil Nadu cadre. He is an alumnus of the Government Medical College, Trivandrum. He is also a CheveningGurukul Scholar from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an LKY Fellow and MPM Degree holder from the National University of Singapore and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His abiding passion has been to transform governance within his jurisdiction to world-class levels, using modern management practices and tools that information technology provides. He has about 150 plus transformational initiatives and innovations to his credit, including installing ERP driven “anytime, anywhere” Government offices, developing and implementing numerous web based application softwares, establishing India’s first Rural BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) units etc.

A few recognitions have come his way, like (1) The Best Collector Award of the Government of Tamil Nadu for child labour eradication (2) Dataquest Magazine e-Governance Champion Award, South India, 2008, (3) Being recognized as “The Pride of Tamil Nadu” by the Indian Express in its annual publication 2007 “The Pride of Tamil Nadu”, as one of five persons who has made a difference in various aspects of public life, (4) being recognized by the reputed Tamil Magazine Ananda Vikatan, as one of the “Top Ten People in Tamil Nadu” in 2008 etc. In 2017, Poompuhar won the National e-Governance Award and the Skoch Smart Governance Platinum Award under his leadership. Rotary Club, Madras Metro presented him with the “Changemaker” award on 24.03.17.

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www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Dr Santosh Babu, IAS Principal Secretary – Information SPEAKER Technology PROFILE Government of Tamil Nadu

He has served the Government of Tamil Nadu in various capacities; as Sub- Collector, Additional Collector, Special Officer to Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Executive Director of Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women Ltd, Joint Secretary–Department of Rural Development, District Collector of Sivaganga and Krishnagiri, Managing Director of ELCOT & Director e-Governance, Commissioner of Horticulture & Plantation Crops, Commissioner of Indian Medicine & Homeopathy and as Secretary to Government, Information Technology Department (2011), Chairman & Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation, and is currently serving as the Secretary to Government, Information Technology Department, and also serving as 1) Officer on Special Duty, Chief Ministers Special Cell in charge of the “Amma Call Centre”, 2) Prabhari Officer for Aspirational District Virudhunagar, 3) Regional Coordinator for the campaign again one time use and throw plastics, 4) Nodal Officer for flood mitigation in Zone 3 (Madhavaram) Chennai Corporation.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr R B Udayakumar Hon’ble Minister for Revenue, SPEAKER Disaster Management & Information Technology PROFILE Government of Tamil Nadu

Mr R B Udhaya Kumar is an Indian politician and incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Tirumangalam constituency. He is the Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management and Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr S Chandramohan Chairman, CII Tamil Nadu SPEAKER Group President, Finance & Investment Strategy PROFILE TAFE Ltd

Chandramohan, Group President – Finance & Investment Strategy, and Director of TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited (TMTL) a 100% subsidiary of TAFE Ltd, is a professional Fellow Chartered Accountant. He has been associated with TAFE since 1999, the second largest tractor company in the country . In addition to his role of Group President, he is overseeing the operations of Engineering Plastic Division and Power Source Division (Battery) in TAFE.

He started his career with WIDIA India Limited a Multi-National Company in Bangalore as Head of Finance and after 15 years, moved to Chennai as General Manager (Finance), looking after Finance, Systems, Secretarial and Legal with Tube Investment of India Ltd., before Joining TAFE.

In TAFE, he actively involved in the acquisition of Tractor, Engines and Gears Divisions of Eicher in 2005. Post-acquisition, played a key role in the integration of both the Companies.( TAFE AND TMTL). He contributes articles on Finance, Economics, Forex, Agriculture etc., in leading newspapers and Journals.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr R Ramkumar Chairman & Managing Director SPEAKER Cognizant Technology Solutions PROFILE

Mr Ramkumar is Chairman and Managing Director, India at Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and is responsible for the company’s India operations spanning 13 cities with over 200,000 employees. With global revenues exceeding $16 billion, Cognizant is a Fortune 200, NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500 Company.

Mr Ramkumar has about 28 years of experience in the information technology industry as well as academia. During his 21 plus years with Cognizant, he has helped architect and shape Cognizant’s leadership position and brand. He is a member of the company’s global Executive Leadership Team (ELT) responsible for driving the company’s strategy and operations and has held various senior positions in the company including Executive Director, India, Senior Vice President (Marketing, Research and Communications), and Chief Knowledge Officer.

Mr Ramkumar is on the Board of Cognizant, India and Cognizant Foundation, India. He is also the global sponsor for Cognizant Outreach, the company’s employee volunteering program. Between Foundation and Outreach, Cognizant has shaped millions of lives in India.

Prior to joining Cognizant, he was with Tata Consultancy Services.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Sridhar Vembu Co-Founder & SPEAKER Chief Executive Officer PROFILE ZOHO Corporation

Mr Sridhar Vembu is the co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corp. He is known for his unconventional choices. He started a product company in India when the service sector was all the rage in the IT sector. In 2005, he began the Zoho University programme with six high school students, who were trained for two years in software engineering and eventually absorbed in the company. Currently, 15% of Zoho’s workforce is made of ZU graduates. Instead of opening new offices in metros, he prefers smaller towns or suburbs.

Mr Sridhar has also been instrumental in deepening and broadening the product portfolio of Zoho, stressing on the need for an integrated suite that solves all business problems end-to-end. He also advocates investing in long-term R&D. He passionately believes in making in India and that software is his craft.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Josh Foulger Managing Director & Country Head SPEAKER Foxconn India PROFILE

Mr Foulger is the Managing Director and Country Head of Foxconn International Holdings (India), a key investment holding company of a Fortune Global 24 organization having annual revenues in excess of $150 billion and employing over 800,000 people worldwide. Foxconn is principally engaged in providing integrated smart manufacturing services to world’s leading electronics companies which rely on Foxconn’s scale and speed of execution in delivering quality products.

Mr Josh assumed the role of MD on 1st April 2015. As MD, he drives Foxconn India’s day to day mega operations, counsels and guides leadership teams, engages customers and manages government relations. Under his stewardship, Foxconn India has come a long way and is currently the largest contract electronics manufacturer in India churning out over 50 million handsets annually topping revenue of $ 5 billion. Presently, Foxconn India has a workforce of 30,000 people, 95% of whom are women.

Prior to Foxconn, Josh spent nearly two decades with Nokia Corporation where he led Americas and Global operations from the US and later became the President of Nokia SEZ and launched Nokia’s manufacturing operations in India and Vietnam.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Sameer Garde President, Cisco India and SAARC SPEAKER CISCO PROFILE

Mr Sameer Garde is President of Cisco’s India and SAARC theater.

As President, he is responsible for sales, operations, growth initiatives and investments in strategic alliances in the theater. Sameer spearheads Cisco’s objective to be a transformational partner to the government across states and cities and provide customers with the right foundation for their digital businesses.

Over a career spanning 27 years, Mr Sameer has led several top-performing organizations with an enduring track record across multiple roles and regions. His keen understanding of technology and market opportunities enables him to drive transformation and capture critical market transitions. A proven leader, Sameer has built and managed global and regional businesses in India, Europe, USA and Asia.

Prior to joining Cisco, he worked with and mentored a few emerging technology and B2C/distribution-related start-ups and as an executive coach and business consultant.

Earlier, as the President and MD for Dell India, he consolidated and stabilized the consumer and enterprise business for the company. During his nine-year stint in Dell in various sales and management leadership roles, he was instrumental in making Dell the number one hardware vendor in the country.

Mr Sameer has served as President, South Asia at Philips Healthcare and Country Head for Enterprise Business at Samsung India.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Surya Narayan Singh Head – Cloud Computing & Data Centers SPEAKER National Payments Corporation of India PROFILE

Mr Surya Narayan Singh is Head – Cloud Computing & Data Centers at NPCI and drives IT Infrastructure Transformation for Digital Payments platform , he has been instrumental in deployment of fluid infrastructure which has transformed NPCI’s Digital Payments Platform and eco systems.

Mr Surya is a transformational technocrat with 19 years of experience in IT Infrastructure domain - Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Containers, IaaS, PaaS & SaaS, Virtualization, UNIX, Storage, and Clustering. In his last assignment he was associated with Fidelity Investment ( AUM $7.4 Trillion ) as an Infrastructure Technology Architect.

He have also worked as Dy. General Manager – Enterprise IT Infrastructure with leading media house Hindustan Times Media Ltd . He had also been associated with Birla Soft Ltd, DCM Data Systems Ltd, and Zenith Computers Ltd. He holds Master’s Degree ( MCA & MBA-IT) in Computers & Technologies.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Ms Dana Kursh Hony Consul General SPEAKER Consulate General of Israel PROFILE

Ms Dana Kursh is the Consul General of Israel to South India since August 2017, after serving two years as Deputy Ambassador of Israel to India in New-Delhi.

Ms Kursh has vast experience as a diplomat in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Amongst her managerial positions in Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Policy Advisor to the Director General and Director of the department for training of the next generation of diplomats. Her first diplomatic assignment abroad was at the USA.

For the first years of her professional life, Ms. Kursh had the privilege of working in Israel’s cutting edge hi-tech industry. Later on, she chose also to take part in Israel’s flourishing NGO’s ecosystem as a General Manager of a non-profit organization (JVP Community) aiming at transforming Israel’s Capital, Jerusalem, via education & culture.

During her military career, she achieved the rank of a Captain at the Israeli Defense forces (IDF).

Ms Kursh holds a BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA in Public Policy- Executive program). She was born and raised in a farmer family in a village called “MoshavMeravia”, located in the north of Israel.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Rajeev Mechari Hony Consul General SPEAKER Consulate General of Ireland PROFILE

Mr Rajeev is an entrepreneur and investor in technology start-ups and also serves as the Honorary Consul of Ireland in Tamil Nadu.

He along with his brother built one of India’s largest Security, Safety & Building Automation companies, which was acquired by Siemens. Subsequently, they have been focussed on building technology for Building (www.invicara.com) and Aviation (www.elenium.com) verticals.

Rajeev is an alumnus of Loyola College and University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

He was the founding President of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Chennai and served as the Regional Chair of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in South Asia.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr R Ramaraj Senior Advisor SPEAKER Elevar Advisors (P) Limited PROFILE

Mr Ramaraj is a Senior Advisor to Elevar since 2014. He believes that “There is an extraordinary collective awakening that is resulting in large changes in social systems and opportunities.”

He works with Elevar entrepreneurs and the Elevar partnership as a mentor and guide. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in ventures in IT, cellular technology and the Internet. His last venture was Sify, where he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Sify was the first Indian Internet Company to list on NASDAQ National Market in the US (NASDAQ –SIFY). He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000 and was also voted the IT Person of the year (2000 and 2001), in a CNET.com poll in India. In 2010, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recognized him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for nurturing the Spirit of Entrepreneurship and inspiring and mentoring numerous entrepreneurs. Prior to Elevar, he was the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital. He is a Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr S Mahalingam Past Chairman, CII Southern Region & SPEAKER Former Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer PROFILE Tata Consultancy Services

Mr Seturaman Mahalingam or “Maha”, as he is better known, started his professional career with Tata Consultancy Services in 1970. In his 42-year career with TCS, he has been involved in myriad aspects of the Company’s operations and growth, before being appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in February 2003 and as Executive Director in August 2007.

A chartered accountant by qualification, he began his career as an IT consultant and thereafter played a major role in marketing TCS services across the globe, developing processes and creating large software development centers for the Company.

As an early starter in the Indian IT industry, he has played a key role in helping TCS become a $6.3 billion global company with over 160,000 employees.

Prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer in February 2003, Maha has managed many of the key functions in TCS including Marketing, Operations, Education and Training as well as Human Resources. He managed the company’s operations in London and New York in the early days of TCS’ global journey.

He was conferred the ‘CFO of the Year’ award 2006 announced by International Market Assessment (IMA). He was also the winner of CNBC TV18’s Best Performing CFO Award in the Technology Sector for 2007.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Santosh Misra, IAS Chief Executive Officer & SPEAKER Commissioner PROFILE TN e-Governance Agency

Mr Santosh Misra, IAS, is the CEO and Commissioner e-Governance Govt of Tamil Nadu.

His other hats includes Vice-Chairman, PMG, Fintech Center of Excellence, Chennai – established as a joint venture between Govt of India and Govt of TN, Board of Governors, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu Board of Directors, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Board of Directors, TAC-TV Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Monitoring Officer, Kancheepuram District.

He has done B Tech EE from IIT Kanpur with MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

His publications include, Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy. Blockchain Research, Practice and Policy: Applications, Benefits, Limitations, Emerging Research Themes and Research Agenda

www.ciiconnect.org Mr David Nabet Founder & Chief Executive Officer SPEAKER Sagiles PROFILE

Mr David Nabet is the founder cum CEO of Sagiles, he had been working for about 20 years in the consulting industry. In 2008, he created Valmen (for Human Values) which became a group of about 100 consultants and composed of 3 companies (MOA, Consulting, Software). The three structures are specialized in life and health insurance, with expertise in health and welfare environments. The group has become an essential and recognized player in the profession. At the end of 2013, nourished by an obvious fact: digital is changing the environment of our customers, he decided to support this change and created a new company specialized in the digital transformation of companies, Sagiles.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Kalyan Siva Managing Director SPEAKER 5C Network PROFILE

Mr KalyanSivasailam is the CEO of 5C Network and started the company in 2016. At 5C, he leads Product, Business Development and Growth Strategy. He has been recognized for his work by being an Honoree and Listee in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for India and Asia. Prior to 5C, MrKalyan led the Healthizen initiative for the Government of Karnataka, that promoted preventive healthcare through community participation and civic authority action. He was awarded the Hindutsan Times Young Social Innovator for his work with Healthizen. He has a BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology in Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal and a Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Pradeep John SPEAKER Tamil Nadu Weatherman PROFILE

Mr Pradeep John is presently working as a Manager in TNUIFSL (quasi Govt Company) under the Project Development sector for the past 10 years. His bachelor’s degree is in Computer Science Engineering in the year 1999 from Sathyabama Engineering College followed by M.B.A (Finance) in 2003. He has always been a Pluviophile (which means lover of rain and rain gives happiness) in his life. The significant cyclone which made landfall in Chennai in October 1994 and subsequent floods in June 1996 created huge interest in weather in him. Even though, his education (BE in computer science and MBA Finance) has nothing to do with weather, he continued his passion during his free time.

He started giving real-time weather updates to the People on Chennai and Tamil Nadu Weather as Tamil Nadu Weatherman from 2014 in Facebook and Twitter. He was part of important weather events such as 2015 floods in Chennai, Cyclone Vardah, Cyclone Ockhi and Cyclone Gaja. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious “Pride of Tamil Nadu” award for his contribution under the Social Impact category. His aim is to make common man / farmers to understand the weather pattern and causes for rain, importance of water harvesting in our basin using simple terms and pictorial representation of weather charts using the social media. And also, to quell rumors at the time of disasters. As on date, he has 7 lakhs followers in Facebook and 3 lakhs followers in Twitter.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Narayanan Partner & National Head-Education SPEAKER KPMG PROFILE

Mr Narayanan Ramaswamy is a partner with Management Consulting practice at KPMG India. He leads their Advisory Practice in South. Narayanan has over 20 years of experience in consulting and industry, with primary focus on Education. He has experience across consumer markets and Infrastructure sectors, spanning various products and services across business strategy, process and performance improvement, and organisation and change management, systems and IT strategy.

He is closely associated with the Industry forums representing Education part of the Extended Pawar Committee for Technology in Education constituted by MHRD and is a member of National committee for Higher Education at CII and actively participates in various other regional forums. He was instrumental in setting up the Global Center of Excellence for Education in KPMG, a part of the KPMG Global Steering Committee for Education of 23 nations.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Venkatesh Viswanathan SPEAKER Founder & Chief Executive Officer PROFILE Latent View Analytics

As Founder and Chairman of LatentView Analytics, Mr Venkat is the visionary behind LatentView Analytics. He has helped several Fortune 500 clients leverage an India- based offshore services delivery model in the financial services and telecom sectors for over a decade. He has over 20 years of experience in management consulting, technology and global IT services management. Mr Venkat has now transitioned to an advisory role in the organization.

Before he founded LatentView Analytics, he was part of the global leadership team for Cognizant’s Communications practice, where he was in charge of strategy and business development and worked closely with field sales teams in winning key global service provider clients and growing the business to the $20m milestone.

Mr Venkat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT, Madras, and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Madras in 2017.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Deepak Pande Head – IoT SPEAKER Vodafone India PROFILE

Mr Deepak Pande is currently engaged in building the Vodafone Idea IoTstartup. This is a full service IoT organization that works across the entire IoT ecosystem from sensors to applications & analytics. Prior to this, he has been engaged full time since July 2017 in Vodafone India as the Associate Director for Vodafone Business Services. He is responsible for the commercial function, and amongst other areas, also for the new lines of business i.e. IoT & Cloud.

He was earlier based in London and responsible for the Small Business Segment globally. He was a part of the team that started the Enterprise business for Vodafone in India and has over a decade of experience in the Indian telecom industry.

Deepak has also spent the earlier part of his career in the FMCG industry working across various product categories such as watches, soft drinks, personal grooming among others.

During his career, Mr Deepak has been involved in various startup situations, as well as, managing large business environments. He enjoys working with large teams and turnaround situations.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr P R Krishnan Executive Vice President - Global SPEAKER Head, AI & Automation PROFILE Tata Consultancy Services

Mr PR Krishnan is Executive Vice President & Global Head, Enterprise Intelligent Automation & Artificial Intelligence at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). In this role, he helps business and technology leaders drive innovation and integrate digital technologies – AI, smart automation, machine learning and cognitive computing – into their business model for growth and transformation.

Mr Krishnan has strategized innovations that drive human - machine collaboration that serve as the guiding force for elevated growth and success in the Business 4.0 era. He spearheads the MFDM™ (Machine First Delivery Model) initiative in TCS to institutionalize the Machine First™ approach across client engagements and within TCS.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Kapil Dev Iyer National Head - Demand generation SPEAKER and Marketing PROFILE Tata Tele Business Services

Mr kapilIyer is an experienced Professional with a demonstrated history of over 15 years across the Telecom and Auto-component Industry.His Expertiseincludes Business Planning, Product Management, Pre-sales, Business Development and Marketing roles serving both B2C and B2B customer segments.

www.ciiconnect.org Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthi SPEAKER Director PROFILE IIT Centre for Innovation

Prof BhaskarRamamurthi is the Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Prof BhaskarRamamurthi got his B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of IIT Madras, his alma mater in 1986. He took over as Director, IIT Madras in September 2011.

His area of specialization includes communications and signal processing. His research work includes wireless networks, modulation, wireless data, audio and video compression.

He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (IEEE).He was awarded the Vasvik award for Electronic Sciences and Technology for the year 2000, the Tamil Nadu scientist award for Engineering and Technology for the year 2003, India semiconductor association, TechnoVisionary award for the year 2011, Doynes of Madras award for the year 2014 and ACCS-CDAC foundation award for the year 2015.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Sandeep Gupta Head - Strategy and Architecture SPEAKER Airtel PROFILE

Mr Sandeep Gupta is working with Airtel’s Network service group as Executive Vice President, Strategy & Architecture. Over last seven years of engagement, he has given strategic direction for transformation of Airtel’s wireless network by driving spectrum strategy, device and network ecosystem, and conceptualizing new initiatives for customer experience.

Mr Sandeep has also delivered Airtel’s global engineering & customer experience lab, which is being used for seeding of new technologies and validation of commercial solutions before their mass rollout in the network. He has been associated with Telecom Industry for more than 28 years and has wide experience in technical marketing, business development, product management, designing of solutions & services. Prior to Airtel, he has served various organizations in senior management positions such as Director for Solution sales in Huawei, Head of product marketing at Motorola, while starting his career with C-DoT, India’s premier telecom R&D design center.

Mr Sandeep is also holding key position and engagements with various industry associations such as Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI), ORAN, TIP, Seamless Alliance and COAI, driving standardization, harmonization & innovation. He holds Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics & Communication from IIT Roorkee and MBA in Finance & Marketing from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Radhey Shyam Chief Technology Officer SPEAKER Huawei PROFILE

Mr Radhey Shyam, CTO, Huawei India, is responsible for driving the wireless business by positioning innovative and best-in-class solutions. His responsibilities include guiding operators in spectrum and network evolution to maximise the value of their networks and build future-ready networks for the smooth introduction of 5G.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Sudarshan Pitty Head SPEAKER Nokia Solutions & Networks PROFILE (P) Limited

Mr Sudarshan Pitty is a professional with over 23 years’ experience in Hi-Tech Electronics and Automotive Manufacturing Operations. Currently he Heads the Chennai Factory, Nokia Solutions & Networks, Oragadam, Chennai, making the latest telecom equipment for the world.

He has hands on experience in various disciplines like manufacturing, plant engineering, and application engineering, quality and supply chain. And has extensive international exposure and well acquainted with governmental regulations pertaining to factories in India. In addition to regular role, actively participates in various Industry interactions through various forums.

www.ciiconnect.org Dr Gulshan Rai Ex-Chief Information Security Officer SPEAKER Government of India PROFILE

Dr Rai has over 30 years of experience in Information Technology, including e-governance, cyber security and cyber laws. He led a team to set up National Watch and Alert System in India. Dr Rai has over the years helped in the drafting of national policies on cyber laws and cyber security.

As the Executive Director at ERNET India, Dr Rai was instrumental in setting up the first large scale education and research network in close collaboration with leading educational and research institutions. During his tenure, the project — National Knowledge Network — was designed and evolved.

Dr Rai has represented India in official forums, bilateral discussions and negotiations in the areas of cyber security and internet governance.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Suresh Sethi Chief Executive Officer SPEAKER India Post Payment Bank PROFILE

With three decades of diversified global experience in the financial services industry, Suresh is currently the Managing Director & CEO of India Post Payments Bank.

He is credited for building the most accessible, affordable and trusted bank for the common man in India. Prior to India Post Payments Bank, he has worked with some of the world’s and India’s leading financial services companies such as Citigroup, YES Bank and Vodafone M-Pesa across India, Kenya, UK, Argentina and US.

Suresh has been a key industry spokesperson and is closely engaged with the government and regulatory institutions in policy formulation in a rapidly evolving industry.

He is skilled at driving innovation for top and bottom line growth. Suresh has successfully led global cross-functional teams to deliver change in complex and multicultural environments. He has extensively worked in the financial inclusion space leveraging fintech and digital led innovation to make a difference. For his contribution to the financial services sector, Suresh has been recognized by the ASIAN BANKER and is part of The Asian Banker’s “List Of Leading Practitioners”.

www.ciiconnect.org Dr K K Raman Partner SPEAKER KPMG PROFILE

Mr K K Raman is the Head of Business Excellence practice at KPMG in India, where he oversees strategic quality advisory services encompassing model-based, six sigma, testing and process improvement services. He is a part of the core technology sector team for the firm.

As a business leader, he has guided and directed over 200 advisory engagements, covering areas such as quality governance, process and performance improvements, IT projects evaluation, organisational performance/human capital reviews, and assessments for KPMG member firms, both in India and overseas. Internationally, he has also conducted a high number of process maturity assessments for several organisations.

His areas of expertise includes Process improvement, quality management, IT strategy, business excellence, IT sourcing advisory and evaluation, process performance, and model deployment effectiveness.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Manish Kumar Managing Director & SPEAKER Chief Executive Officer National Skill Development PROFILE Corporation

Mr Manish Kumar is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of National Skill Development Corporation. He is responsible for providing a strategic vision to NSDC in ensuring that the team moves cohesively towards achievement of Skill India Mission.

Prior to joining the NSDC, he was working as Country Coordinator and Senior Institution Development Economist, The World Bank. He was Task Team Leader for USD 1.5 billion Bank’s loan to India for “Swaachh Bharat”. He earlier worked for the Bank in Middle East and North African countries covering Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, etc.

Mr Manish earlier served in the Indian Administrative Service, occupying many responsible positions, his last being Secretary to Government of Tripura, Power & Home Departments. As a field officer, serving as District Collector and Sub Divisional Officer, he was responsible for conceptualizing and implementing economic development tools for overcoming insurgency in Tripura. He was selected as a Mason Fellow at Harvard University for his leadership in empowering tribal women from remote hills of Tripura.

Mr Manish holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mining Machinery from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University, USA, and PhD in Public Policy from The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. He has to his credit a number of research papers published in national and international journals, focusing on institutional economics, public private partnerships, and economic development issues.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Praveen Ganesh Founder & Chief Executive Officer SPEAKER Letzconnect PROFILE

Mr Praveen Ganesh, Founder & CEO of Letzconnect Technologies Private Limited Praveen Ganesh, is the Founder and CEO of Letzconnect Technologies Private Limited. He created LetzConnect with the vision of solving the rising un-employability scenario and empowering the graduates by skilling them with future technologies and connecting them to the right employment opportunities.

His drive and passion for the sector has made LetzConnect the largest student network in the country, as well as develop a significant presence in UK, Ireland and Canada. He has been key in bringing the right partnerships to LC, which is now supported by investors and advisors from Google, AICTE and MHRD. Prior to LetzConnect, he was the C.E.O for the Global Operations of Enfinity Renewable Energy, the 2nd largest solar developer in the world, based out of Manila, Philippines. Praveen is an entrepreneur from London, with hands on experience across various disciplines including Solar-Wind Hybrid systems, Construction strategic planning, Telecom infrastructure management, Aerospace quality engineering (Non-destructive testing (Level 3 specialist) at BAE Systems) and Logistics supply chain management. Praveen was earlier with Acme Tele power Ltd, heading the business development division. Through his leadership roles in Acme, Praveen established Acme’s non- conventional energy generating products across South East Asian countries. Praveen has over 5 years of experience in the renewable energy sector.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University and Masters in Business Administration from Coventry, England. Additionally, Praveen has a broad range of experience in identification of new market opportunities across the globe and establishing strategic business partnerships. Examples include facilitation of the following transactions (a) Global-Sim, UK Ltd. as technology partner with a major MNO in India to launch an International Global Roaming Triple IMSI product(b) Laing O’Rourke UK, for the refurbishment of Cannon street project (£360 million) - participating in pre-construction and construction activities. www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Ms Sangeeta Gupta Senior Vice President - Strategy SPEAKER NASSCOM PROFILE

Mr Sangeeta Gupta holds the position of Vice President – Events at NASSCOM. She is responsible for organizing and facilitating NASSCOM events in India and overseas.

Ms Sangeeta started her career with NASSCOM and has since then worked towards strengthening the association and interacting with NASSCOM members, government and media towards NASSCOM’s objective of being a catalyst for the growth of the Indian software and services industry.

She has a degree in Economics from Delhi University and a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Ravi Tennety Chief Executive Officer SPEAKER Quess Corp PROFILE

Mr Ravi Tennety is the CEO of Excelus Learning Solution, skill development and training wing of Quess. He has been associated with Quess since 2018 and comes with more than 25 years of experience across various industries including manufacturing, retail, internet and telecommunications. Prior to joining Quess, he was the COO for Tata Teleservices consumer Business, handling the circles of MP, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat where he was responsible for 1200 cr. Revenue business and managing 500 member team in the B2C space. Along with this, he was Head of Sales and Operations at Bharati Airtel.

He has a B.Tech degree from Birla Institute of Technology and MBA from IIM Kolkata.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Prof. M K Surappa Vice Chancellor SPEAKER Anna University PROFILE

Prof M K Surappa, hails from an agricultural family in Mirle, in Mysore District. He completed his school education in Mirle in Government schools. He obtained BSc degree (1970) from Yuvaraja’s College of Mysore University. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1970 and received BE degree in Metallurgy in 1973, M.S and Ph. D degrees from the faculty of Engineering in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

Pro. Surappa joined then newly established Regional Laboratory, Trivandrum in 1979 as senior scientist and worked there for two years. During 1981-87, he was Research Associate/Engineer at Drexel University (USA), Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland). He returned to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in 1987 and rose to the position of Professor in 1998. He was Honorary Secretary of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology during 2004-09. He has served as Founder Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar for a period of six years (2009-15). He served as Dean, Faculty of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science during the year 2016-2017. He assumed the post of Vice Chancellor of Anna University on 12th April 2018. He is also Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science.

Prof. Surappa has made outstanding R&D contributions to the Science and Technology of Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs). For over three decades, he has pursued many innovative investigations on synthesis, processing-microstructure-property correlation and application development of MMCs based on light alloy matrices. These include:

• (a) Development of “Stir Cast Process” for the fabrication of aluminium matrix composites. Process developed by Prof. Surappa at the Indian Institute of Science is often hailed as an Indian Innovation by MMC producers across the world. • (b) Development of innovative technique for synthesis of metal-ceramic nano composites by in-situ pyrolysis of polymer pre-cursors in the liquid melt. He has carried out all his research work entirely in India. Prof Surappa has published 100 research papers in International journals and presented nearly 150 papers in national and international conferences and has authored a book. He has secured one US and 3 Indian patents.

www.ciiconnect.org Dr Ashraf Founder SPEAKER Kerala Blockchain Academy PROFILE

Dr Asharaf S is the founder and Professor-in-Charge of Kerala Blockchain Academy, a Government of Kerala initiative, under Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala. He is a founding team member of Maker Village, India’s largest IoT incubator and also a Mentor in Kerala Startup Mission. He received his PhD and Master of Engineering degrees in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

He graduated in Computer Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology. After his PhD he has worked with America Online (AOL) and IIM Kozhikode. He is a recipient of IBM outstanding PhD student award 2006, IBM Shared University Research Grant, 2015, IBM Open Science Collaboration Programme Grant, 2017 and BIRAC/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation research grant 2018

He has published three books and more than 40 research papers in international journals and conferences. His areas of interest include technologies and business models related to data engineering, machine learning, information retrieval and blockchain.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Dr J A Chowdary Advisor – IT SPEAKER Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency PROFILE

Mr J A Chowdary is a visionary in IT industry of India. He is currently acting as IT Advisor to Government of Tamil Nadu and helping them in Emerging Technologies space. Prior to this, he served as Special Chief Secretary (Rank of) to the Government in the Chief Minister’s Office during 2014-19. His has been advising and assisting the government in bringing in investments, generating employment, and encouraging innovation and start-up activities in Andhra Pradesh.

Mr Chowdary is the Chairman of Blockchain committee at Bureau of Indian Standards, Government of India. Through this, Mr Chowdary is helping Telangana and other state governments in developing blockchain ecosystem in India

He was the founder of Fintech Valley, Vizag (Visakhapatnam), which is attracting destination for Fintech companies, and companies that are working in emerging technologies and he earlier served as Chairman of the Board of Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI), Hyderabad and Chennai and Bangalore. He was one of the key personalities and who was instrumental in bringing about an IT revolution in Hyderabad.

A Co-Founder and a Board member of Hyderabad Angels presently, JA has been involved with many professional corporate bodies in his long career, and has donned the roles of Chairman, Industry Development Forum for AP, Co-Chairman, FICCI (Telangana& AP), President, ADI Foundation (Anantapur Development Initiative) and President, Food 360 Foundation. He has been actively associated with the establishment and growth of several bodies like American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), Hyderabad Chapter, Founder President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Hyderabad chapter, and Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA later renamed to ITsAP).

www.ciiconnect.org Dr Rajendra Kumar, IAS Principal Secretary - MSME SPEAKER Government of Tamil Nadu PROFILE

Dr Rajendra Kumar is a senior officer in the Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.) and is currently working as the Principal Secretary/Industries Commissioner and Director of Industries and Commerce in the Government of Tamil Nadu. Prior to this, he was the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT). As the CMD ofELCOT, he led the ICT infrastructure, e-governance, ICT procurement and IT industry promotionactivities within the state.

Earlier, he has worked as the Joint Secretary (e-Governance) in the Ministry ofElectronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. He has led the entireDigital India, e-governance and technology development for Indian languages initiatives at thenational level and has been responsible for the overall conceptualization and implementationof the flagship Digital India Programme and the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of theGovernment of India.

He has conceptualized and implemented several major e-governanceinitiatives in the country. These include the new Digital Locker initiative aimed at providing aprivate space on a public cloud to all residents for storing and sharing government issueddocuments, the new Mobile Seva project aimed at bringing all government services on themobile platform, E-Pramaan for electronic authentication of all users of e-governance services,and localization aimed at promoting the usage of Indian languages in e-governance and mobilebased services. Prior to his stint in Government of India, he held senior positions in districtadministration and state government in Tamil Nadu in India.

Dr Kumar has received a number of academic and professional awards at national andinternational levels during his career. He has received the UN Public Service Award in 2014 forthe Mobile Seva project conceptualized and implemented by him.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr Tiruppathi Srinivasan Vice President SPEAKER Ather Energy PROFILE

Mr Thiru is the Executive VP, Operations at Ather Energy, Bengaluru, an emerging global leader in Smart Electric Vehicles (2 Wheelers). Ather Energy was founded by two young graduates from IIT Madras and was incubated at IIT Madras before it grew and moved to its current offices and operations in Bengaluru. Earlier he was the VP- Vehicle Development, guiding development of the acclaimed Ather 450 scooter.

He brings nearly 30 years of global industry experience in Manufacturing, Sourcing and Product Development of a broad range of Engineered Products. He currently guides Industry, Start-ups, Research Institutions and Engineers in Manufacturing Operations and Product Development systems, technologies and capabilities.

As Senior Advisor in Industry Relations at IIT Madras, he helped foster Institute- Industry partnership in Technology and Capability development in Manufacturing towards global leadership. He enabled formation of focused Technology Development Centers at IITM. He also mentors IITM incubated startups in taking technologies and product ideas from the drawing table to production and market.

Thiru served as Chairman, and earlier as Core Member of PALS, a social effort by the Pan-IIT Alumni, working with Engineering Institutes in TN in augmenting Engineering Education for better preparing the engineering graduates for Industry.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar Founder SPEAKER Startup Village PROFILE

Mr Sanjay belongs to the new breed of Indian Entrepreneurs who are young and fearless. Starting an entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22 while in third of engineering, he led and created a team of engineering graduates who were passionate about technology to build MobME Wireless, one of India’s most exciting and innovative mobile–internet companies. MobME quickly raised angel funding from investors based out of India, Middle East and Silicon Valley.

Defying convention in India, he turned down MNC job offers to scale up MobME, building a team of over 250+ people spread across offices in Trivandrum, Cochin, Mumbai and Delhi and presence in 17 locations in India. Mr Sanjay is also a Rajeev Motwani Fellow instituted in the memory of late Stanford Professor Rajeev Motwani, mentor to Google Founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, A Scholar of Aspen Institute, Colarado, he was selected by World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper for making significant contribution to the community.

India Today has rated Sanjay as one of the 37 Indians driving the future of India and Forbes selected him for the Just 30 Club. Asia Society also selected Sanjay amongst the Asia’s 21 young leaders under 40.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Dr Meera Program Director SPEAKER Forge Accelerator PROFILE

Ms Meera is a prolific innovation & entrepreneurship enabler, experienced in multiple disciplines spanning technology, business, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, research & academia. One of the most powerful insights she has gained from her experience of working in several domains for more than 20 years is that a huge innovative potential and technological capacity of the youth of this nation remains latent and untapped. She firmly believes that such potential when channelized productively has the power to disrupt the status quo and solve some of the critical challenges in our country.

Currently, as Program Director at Forge, she heads the design, operations and overall execution of the Innovation Programs. In this role, she is leading the execution of a portfolio of innovation programs, that are designed to successfully build an open- innovation platform by bringing together academia, industry and government and to lead the transformation of their ideas into technologically advanced solutions and ventures.

Ms Meera received her Bachelor degree in Computer Technology from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, followed by MBA, M.Phil and PhD degrees from Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore. She has recently completed an Entrepreneurship Educators Program from BABSON College for Entrepreneurship, Boston, USA.

www.ciiconnect.org Mr N Muruganandam, IAS Principal Secretary - Industries SPEAKER Government of Tamil Nadu PROFILE

Mr N Muruganandam, IAS belongs to the 1991 batch of Indian Administrative Service. He has held various key positions in departments of Government of Tamil Nadu. Currently Mr N Muruganandam, IAS holds the position of Principal Secretary to Government, Industries Department.

www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org Mr V Swamy Global Head of iON SPEAKER Tata Consultancy Services PROFILE

Mr Venguswamy Ramaswamy alias “Swamy”, globally heads TCS iON, platform solutions addressing the needs of Assessments, Learning and Business Process Operations. He was instrumental in setting up the unit, and driving the domain solutions relevant to several industries including Education, Manufacturing and Recruitment boards.

Mr Swamy serves as an Additional Director on the Board of MP Online Limited, a joint venture company between the Government of Madhya Pradesh and Tata Consultancy Services. Earlier, as director of TCS’ Global Consulting Practice (GCP), he was pivotal in building the consulting organization. Consulting Magazine noted this to name him amongst the top 25 consultants of the year 2007.

Mr Swamy has held important positions including managing the largest customer relationship “GE” for TCS. With an abiding interest in modern software quality methods, he also headed the Process Consulting group. He was closely involved in TCS’ globalization initiatives for the last several years. He helped in making delivery footprints for TCS in strategic locations like Hungary and China. His role as head of Corporate Resource Management saw centralized processes for mobilizing delivery skills across TCS global operations.

A Six Sigma Master Black belt, Swamy has an exponent of new ways to quality. His speeches in business forums are marked by ideas about new business models, often making innovation stand in subtle contrast to quality. He holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and a Master degree in Computer Applications from Madras University.

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Mr C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US$ 9.3 billion global technology company. Mr Vijay leads HCL Technologies, a team of over 147,000+ professionals, in 44 countries, helping forward looking enterprises re–imagine and transform their businesses. Driving growth and transformation in an age of connected assets and connected experiences, Vijay is responsible for devising HCL’s differentiated strategy, overseeing execution and guiding enduring partnerships.

He joined HCL in 1994 as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. With a strategic vision and global outlook, he relentlessly reinvented himself to emerge as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and deftly navigate the shifting industry landscape.

Most recently, as Chief Operating Officer, he led the company’s strategy to leverage the transformative nexus of forces like Digitalization, Internet of Things, Cloud, Cyber-security and Artificial Intelligence. His Mode 1-2-3 Strategy today serves as the company’s blueprint for serving IT needs of forward-looking enterprises. Previously, as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years leading up to a contribution of nearly 40% to HCL’s revenues today. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, he played an instrumental role in building the Remote Infrastructure Management value proposition which is today a multi-billion-dollar market.

Over the years, Vijay has held several Technology, Business & Operational leadership positions at HCL and is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently a member of Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council and is on the Steward Board of World Economic Forum’s Strategic Initiative on ‘Future of Education, Gender and Work’ as well as a member of the Steering Committee of its IT Governors group.

Mr Vijay is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and lives in New York City in the USA. www.ciiconnect.org www.ciiconnect.org

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TIDEL Park Limited, a flagship company of Industries Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, jointly promoted by TIDCO & ELCOT, has been successfully operating a 1.28 million sq.ft. IT Park, constructed at a cost of Rs.293 crores, since year 2000 and functioning with 100% occupancy consistently during the last 18 years. TIDEL provides IT space with comprehensive world-class facilities coupled with efficient support services for major Indian IT & ITES companies, MNCs providing employment to 12,000 plus IT Professionals. The IT Park is designed with contemporary / state of the art facilities Multi-tenanted, Energy efficient, Intelligent & fire Safety building, working environment, good-ambiance of interior space etc.

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IT Park at Pattabiram - In view of growing demand and need for the IT infrastructure in other locations of the city, especially in the North Western part of Chennai, TIDEL has proposed to construct an IT Park of 5 lakhs sq.ft. (Phase-I) at an approximate cost of Rs.200 crores in an area of 10 acres of land at Pattabiram.

Multi-floor Manufacturing Complex for Aerospace & Precision Engineering Industries – TIDEL also proposes to take up a new project viz. Multi-floor Manufacturing Complex with 4 lakh sq.ft. at an approximate cost of Rs.78 crores designed for plug & play operations by the operators in Precision Engineering/Aerospace/Defence Manufacturing in the Aerospace Park developed by SIPCOT in Sriperumbudur. Nodal Agency – Aerospace & Defence - TIDEL Park Ltd has been nominated as the Nodal Agency for promotion of Aerospace and Defence (A&D) Sector in Tamil Nadu. As a Nodal Agency, the role of TIDEL is promotion of TN Defence Industrial Corridor, Marketing of Aerospace Park and Development & Marketing of ACDEC project.

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