Speakers
Inaugural
Dr Pawan Goenka
Chairman
Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (In-Space)
Hitesh Makwana IAS
Surveyor General of India
Survey of India, GoI
Agendra Kumar
Managing Director
Esri India
Boris Skopljak
Vice President - Geospatial Sector
Trimble
USA
Plenary
A. S. Kiran Kumar
Vikram Sarabhai Professor & Member Space Commission
A.V.Ranganath IPS
Commissioner
Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency(HYDRAA) & Chairman Lake Protection Committee, Government of Telangana
Ajay Kaul
Head - States, Local Government & Education
Amazon Web Services
Amit Ghosh IAS
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Welfare and Social Justice, GoI
Anil Radhakrishnan
Chief Executive Officer
GMR Group
Anoop Singh IFS
Director General
Forest Survey of India, GoI
Ashish Agrawal
Vice President & Head - Agribusiness
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company
Asit Saha
Director General
Geological Survey of India, GoI
Deepak Pareek
Agricultural Economist
Dr M Ravichandaran
Secretary
Ministry of Earth Sciences, GoI
Dr Nilesh M Desai*
Director
Space Application Centre (SAC), GoI
Dr Prateek Sharma
Vice Chancellor
Delhi Technical University
Dr Sameer Agrawal
Head - Farmer, Supply ChainFinancing and Product Management
Rural Banking Group, HDFC
Dr Surendra Ahirwar IAS
Joint Secretary
DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GoI
Dushyant Tyagi
Chief Executive Officer
Farmgate
E. Ravendiran IAS
Mission Director - State Water & Sanitation Mission (SWSM)
Jal Jeevan Mission, Govt of Maharashtra
GV Sreeramam
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
NeoGeoInfo Technologies
Ina Kozi
JAXA
Jayesh Ranjan IAS
Special Chief Secretary
Department of Industries & Commerce, and Information Technology, State of Telangana
Lalitha Ramani
General Manager
Google Maps India
Mona K. Khandhar IAS*
Principal Secretary
DST
Nicholas Cumins
Chief Executive Officer
Bentley
France
Nicholas Cumins is chief executive officer of Bentley Systems. In this role, he is responsible for the company's overall strategy and growth. An experienced software executive, he has served in leadership roles with established and startup companies for more than 20 years. He most recently served as Bentley's chief operating officer.
Prior to joining Bentley as chief product officer in 2020, Nicholas served as general manager of SAP Marketing Cloud, a comprehensive marketing automation platform. He also served as chief product officer of Scytl, a platform for online voting, and as senior vice president of product with OpenX, a pioneer in programmatic advertising. Before OpenX, Nicholas had already served in a variety of senior roles at SAP, including product management, corporate strategy, and business development. He earned master's degrees in law and in business from Paris II Pantheon-Assas University. Nicholas is a dual French and U.S. citizen and is based in France.
Nick Bolton
Chief Executive Officer
Ordnance Survey
UK
Prashant Parashar
Senior Vice President & Head of Technology
Delhivery
Prateep Basu
Chief Executive Officer
SatSure
Rajeev Kumar Mital IAS*
Director General
National Mission for Clean Ganga, Department (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti
Rajesh Bansal*
Chief Executive Officer
Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
Ramya Mohan
Chief Strategy Officer
Cyient
Ravi Shankar
Head of the GIS Centre for Health
World Health Organization
Rupesh Gandupalli
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
XDLINX
Sanjay Nekkanti
Chief Executive Officer
Dhruva Space
Sanjay Rakesh IAS
Chief Executive Officer
CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), GoI
Sonmoni Borah IAS*
Principal Secretary
ST & SC Development, OBC & Minority Development, Government of Chhattisgarh
Srikant Sastri
Chairman
Geospatial Data Promotion & Development Committee (GDPDC)
Agriculture
Ansh Patidar
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Agriwa Organics International
Dr Biswabandita Kar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ecopreneur- Evaluating Carbon Credits
Dr P.D. Sreekanth
Principal Scientist
ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)
Dr Rajasekhar Meka
Scientist/ Chief Meteorologist
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), GoI
Dr RN Sahoo
Principal Scientist
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), GoI
Dr Sarvanan Raj
Director General
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), GoI
Dr Siddharth Khare
Founder
Bhoomicam (Drone)
Dr Sultan Singh
Director & Chief Scientist
Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC), GoI
Dwaipayan Dighal
Senior Zonal Manager
Esri India
Jaya Ganesh Neelamsetti
Deputy Manager- Data Analytics
Adani Wilmar
Kumud Joshi
Program Manager
Hindustan Unilever Foundation
Mihir Dakwala
Business Unit Head - Agriculture Technology
Amnex Technologies
Milind Wadodkar
Chief Soil Survey Officer
Soil & Land Use Survey of India (SLUSHI), MoAFW, GoI
Mukesh Ramagoni
Project Manager (ACRAT)
AgHub
Pranay Panjal
Senior Scientific Officer
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Telangana, GoI
Preeti Chaudhary
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Harvest Global SSP
Radhika Trika
Chief Executive Officer
iHub- Awadh (IIT Ropar)
Rajiv Ranjan
Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Ecopreneur - Evaluating Carbon Credits
Sanjiv Rangrass
Advisor
McKinsey
Shubham Bhatnagar
Senior Manager
ICICI Lombard
Srinadh Choudhary
Senior Manager- Procurement
Inbound logistics & Warehousing, ITC Limited, Foods division
Swayambhu Mohanty
Co-Founder
Airace Technologies
Vijay Nadiminti
Chief Eexecutive Officer
AgHub
Vishal Lakhmani
Associate Director - Data Conversion APAC
Cargill
Vishala Reddy Vuyyala
Founder & Director
Millet Bank
Utility
Akshay Jain
Chief Executive Officer
LGeom
Amrit Pal Singh
Managing Director
IPSTAR (India) Private Limited
Ankur Sharma
Co-Founder
Flock Energy
B. B. Mukherjee
Director
Northeastern Transmission Company
Dhruba Banerjee
GIS Head
TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL)
Dr Anil Kumar
Professor & Head
Clean Energy: Nodal Centre of Excellence in Energy Transition (NCEET), Delhi Technological University
Dr Vishal Verma
Professor
Delhi Technical University
Hari Kumar
Chief Operating Officer
Geokno
Jayateerth Deshpande
Enterprise GIS Lead
Jio Telecom
Jiju K
Scientist E, Joint Director
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
P Abarna
Research Scholar
Anna University
Pankaj Mishra
Solution Architect
Bentley Systems
Pankaj Mishra has more than 15+ years of experience holding Technical and Sales positions in Consulting sales and business development across multiple industries including T&D, O&G, Government, Data Centers. He joined Bentley in 2023 and is focused on growing Bentley's Energy solutions to accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance for the Energy infrastructure that sustains our economy and our environment.
Prior to joining Bentley, Pankaj was Business Development Manager at the ETAP Software (Now Schneider Electric) and served in various Consulting and sales roles at Neilsoft and Visilean.
Pankaj holds a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
Prakash Yadav
Senior Vice President - Energy
Ceinsys
Prakriti Vashist
Global Head - GIS
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Rounak Vishwakarma
Chief Manager
Sterlite Power
Sanjay Srivastava
GIS Head
Reliance Energy
Saurabh Kumar Srivastava
Utility - Head
Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO)
Suman Dasgupta
Industry Principal (GIS COE)
Infosys
Sunil Sharma
General Manager - Sustainability & Clean-Tech
BSES Yamuna Power Limited
T Jagath Reddy
Director- Transmission
Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited (TGTRANSCO)
Tony Sewell
Global Head of Partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Aerospace and Satellite
Water Resource Management
Bhavyata Jethva
Technical Secretary
Art of Living
Dr Ajit Salvi
Deputy Chief Engineer Sewage Operation
Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC), GoI
Dr Binu Francis IAS
Joint Managing Director
Kerala Water Authority
Dr Guru Balamurugan
Professor & Head of Department
Central University of Tamil Nadu
Dr Lingaraju
Director - River Rejuvenation
Art of Living
Dr Shafeeullah
Technical Officer/ Senior Hydrogeologist
Atal Bhujal Yojana
Dr Sugata Datta
Addl General Manager
Hindustan Aeronautics
Kiran H Masuti
Chief Engineer/ Project Director
Atal Bhujal Yojana
Neeraj Hudda
GIS and IoT Head
Suez
Pandith Madhunare
Head of Office
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) - Maharashtra, GoI
Priyanshu Kumath
Founder
Clean Water
Satbir S Kadian
Chief Executive Officer
Haryana Water Resource Authority (HWRA), GoI
Sharan Singanamala
Director- Asia Pacific
Violia Water Technologies
Suneet Manjavkar
Industry Head - Water
Esri India
Vivek Goyal
SE, IGNP
Rajasthan Water Resource Department, GoI
Vivek Singh Grewal
Managing Partner
Well Labs
Digital Public Infrastructure & Governance
Anal Ghosh
Group Product Manager
Google
Dr Satya N Gupta
Secretary General
ITU APT Foundation
Gokul CV
Assistant Director
General Digital Address Code, Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications
Jagdish Narayanan
Chief Technology Officer
Equifax
Jigar Halani
Director - Solution Architect & Engineer
NVIDIA
Prabhat Manocha
Associate Director, India/ South Asia
International Business Machines (IBM)
Sanjay Rakesh IAS
Chief Executive Officer
CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), GoI
Sharmistha Dasgupta*
Deputy Director General
National Informatics Center (NIC), GoI
Vivek Ramesh
Senior Manager, Solution Engineering
Bentley Systems
Vivek is a Senior Manager, Solution Engineering at Bentley Systems, based in Mumbai. He leads a team of extremely talented individuals responsible for pre-sales engagements contributing to business growth in the India region.
He has over 20 years of relevant industry experience primarily focused on the Civil Infrastructure Sector. Before joining Bentley Systems, Vivek was with Autodesk, where he held key roles in Customer Technical Success, Consulting, and Technical Sales, driving market expansion and deepening customer engagements. Prior to that, he worked in various capacities at L&T, EGIS, and Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick.
Vivek is a Civil Engineering Graduate with a master's degree in Highway Technology.
Climate Change & Disaster Management
Bina Shetty
Program Manager
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Col KC Tiwari
Professor
Delhi Technical University
Col Nadeem Arshad
enior Consultant Ops
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), GoI
Dr Mani Murali
Scientist G
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), GoI
Dr Seema Joshi
Vice President - Strategic Initiatives
Esri India
Dr SP Aggarwal
Director of the North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC)
Department of Space, GoI
Dr Surya Parkash*
Professor and Head
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN), National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
Dr V.S.Prasad
Director
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), GoI
Kapil Malik
Regional Sales Manager
Synspective
Prasoon Singh
Fellow and Area Convenor
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Pushpendra Johari
Senior Vice President, Sustainability
RMSI
Sanjay Pathak
Director - Aerial Services
GuradaUAV
Saurabh Rai
Chief Executive Officer
Arahas
Subrata Kumar Singh
Executive Director
Foundation for Ecological Security( FES)
Downstream Space
Advait Kulkarni
Director
Vasundhara Geo Technologies
Anish Satyan
Joint Director
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Arpan Sahoo
Chief Operating Officer
KaleidEO
Awais Ahmed
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pixxel
Dheeraj Mehra
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Micronet
Eric von Eckartsberg
Chief Revenue Officer
Earth Daily Analytics
Krishanu Acharya
Chief Executive Officer
Suhora
Lt Gen Anil Bhatt (retd)
Director General
Indian Space Association (ISpA)
Mohamad Hamze
Product Owner
Blue Water Intelligence
Radhakrishnan Durairaj
Chairman & Managing Director
New Space India Limited (NSIL)
Rajeev Jyoti
Director Technical
Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)
Rupesh Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
Suhora
Victor Joseph
Associate Scientific Secretary
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
Vivek Singh
Vice President, Advanced Technology Group
NVIDIA
Hydrospatial Infrastructure and Blue Economy
Cpt Kapil Dev Bahl
Managing Director
Murray Fenton (India) Surveyors Pvt Ltd
Deepak Samuel
Scientist D
National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoES)
Devleena Bhattacharjee
Chief Operating Officer
ClimaCrew
Dr Arnab Das
Managing Director
NirDhwani Technology Pvt Ltd
Dr Rahul Mohan
Scientist F & Group Director at National Centre for Polar & Ocean Research (NCPOR), GoI
Dr Suresh Kumar Mojjada
Chief Technical Officer
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Gujarat, GoI
Jagvir Singh
Scientist G
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), GoI
Murugan Chidambaram
Digital Transformation Officer
Aquaconnect
Prof Balaji Ramakrishnan
Director
National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), GoI
Vice Admiral Suraj Berry, AVSM, NM, VSM
Commander in Chief, Strategic Forces Command
Indian Navy
Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI)
Ananyaa Narain
Vice President - Consulting
Geospatial World
Col. Pankaj Fotedar, VSM
Chief Executive Officer
Geokno
Dean Angelides
Corporate Director
Esri
Dr Ravi Kumar DVS
Vice President, Government Solutions
IIC Technologies
HOK Kimthourn
Deputy Director
Department of Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Cambodia
Josh Coutts
International & National Engagement Branch Chief
US Census Bureau
USA
Kim Daehyun
Assistance Director of Geodesy Department
National Geographic Information Institute
South Korea
Pallav Mathur
Sales Manager India & SAARC
SBG Systems
(PAN India)
Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Business Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Pradeep Singh
Deputy Surveyor General (Tech)
Survey of India, GoI
Rosa H Dolamas
Chief of the Geospatial Database Management Division
Naitonal Mapping and Resource Information Authority
Philippines
Siva Ravada
Vice President - Development
Oracle
Sujeet Kumar
General Manager (Technical)
National Highway Authority of India
Tandang Yuliadi Dwi Putra
Associate Mapping Surveyor
Geospatial Information Agency
Indonesia
V. Uday Kumar
Deputy Director General/ Scientist G
Geospatial Technology and Services, National Informatics Centre (NIC), GoI
Vijay Kumar
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Esri India
Vilimone Koiroko Raqona
Principal Geospatial Officer
Geospatial Information Management Divison, Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources
Fiji
GeoIntelligence
Amit Kumar
Chief Operating Officer
Suhora
Cmde Sujeet Samaddar (Retd.)
Founder and Secretary
SAMDeS
Col S K Sarkar
Commander
Faculty of Geospatial Science
Jamy Satyanarayana
Associate Operations Head
Tech Mahindra
Satyanarayana Jamy has over 26 years of experience across various domains, including Order Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Master Data Management (MDM), and back-office BPO functions. He is highly skilled in delivering innovative solutions and managing operations to ensure exceptional service delivery across global locations. Trained in Six Sigma Green Belt, Internal Quality Audits, and Lean Concepts, he has successfully collaborated with multicultural stakeholders and teams in diverse geographies.
An experienced leader, Jamy excels in building strong offshore delivery teams and fostering value-added opportunities for clients. With a proven track record of managing multiple deliveries across regions, he has played a key role in transitioning new businesses across domains by working closely with stakeholders and aligning strategic goals to operational excellence.
Krishna Reddy
Business Development Manager
KaleidEO
Lt Col Narendra Tripathi
Consultant
IIT Kanpur
Lt Col Rakesh Verma
Manager
Maxar Technologies
Lt Col V S Velan
Founder
Elena Geo Systems
Lt Gen (Dr) Anil Kapoor AVSM, VSM
Professor of Practice IIT Tirupati
Lt Gen AKS Chandele, PVSM, AVSM
Geospatial World
Lt Gen K S Brar
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Dakshin Bharat Area
Indian Army
Lt Gen Neeraj Varshney, VSM
Comdt MCEME
Lt Gen RS Raman, AVSM, YSM
DGMI
Lt. Col (Dr) Anupam Tiwari
Advisor (Cyber) to Principal Advisor
Ministry of Defence, GoI
Lt. Col Vivek Gopal
Defence Specialist, Military Wing
National Security Council Secretariat
Maj Gen Harsh Chhibber, VSM
Comdt College of Defence Management
Saranya M
Manager, Pre-Sales (Data Science)
Esri India
Shailesh Shankar
Head - South Asia
BlackSky
*Tentative Speaker
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