Moderator & Chair
Cmde Sujeet Samaddar (Retd.)
Founder and Secretary
SAMDeS
Born on April 8, 1958, Samaddar is a graduate of IIT Roorkee (B.E, 1978) and had a distinguished career in the Indian Navy, retiring in 2009 as Principal Director Naval Plans. He held various key positions, including staff and command appointments, and has been an International Fellow at JIIA, Tokyo, and Admiral RD Katari Fellow at USI, New Delhi. Post-retirement, Samaddar served as Vice President Operations at NOVA Integrated Systems (TATA) and CEO of ShinMaywa Industries India. He was a Senior Consultant at NITI Aayog until 2019 and currently serves as an Advisor at FICCI and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Air Power Studies, New Delhi.
Keynote on Maritime Security
Commodore Prashant D Shidhaye, VSM, HFPAT
Head of Faculty
College of Defence Management (Maritime Security)
Keynote
Dr Mani Murali
Scientist G
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), GoI
Keynote
Dr Mahendra
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)
Keynote
David Crossman
Managing Director
IIC Technologies
Australia
Keynote
Dr Suresh Kumar Mojjada
Chief Technical Officer
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Gujarat, GoI
Keynote
Murugan Chidambaram
Digital Transformation Officer
Aquaconnect
Moderator
Devleena Bhattacharjee
Chief Operating Officer
ClimaCrew
Cpt Kapil Dev Bahl
Managing Director
Murray Fenton (India) Surveyors Pvt Ltd
Dr Arnab Das
Managing Director
NirDhwani Technology Pvt Ltd
Praful Talera
Managing Director
Dynamic Logistics