Innovate Delhi Speakers


Below are a few of the amazing speakers we will have at Innovate Delhi. Check back over the next few months to see who else will be speaking, inspiring and mentoring at Innovate Delhi Entrepreneurship Academy.



  • Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder and Governing Council Member of the iSPIRT foundation -- India’s leading think-tank for the Software Products Ecosystem in India. Mr. Sharma is also CEO and Co-founder of BrandSigma and was previously CEO of Yahoo! India R&D. He earned his electrical engineering degree from Delhi University.

  • Amit Ranjan is Co-founder of SlideShare a leading social content network that provides consumers the ability to share presentations, documents, podcasts, webinars and conduct webmeetings--which was recently acquired by LinkedIn. Previously, Amit worked in companies such as PepsiCo, Asian Paints, and Godrej & Boyce. He is a graduate of the NIT Jaipur and earned his MBA from the FMS at Delhi University.

  • Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Founder of One97 and Paytm. One97 is India’s leading mobile-internet company, offering digital goods and services to the public. Previously he was Technology head for India Today Group. He is a graduate of the Delhi College of Engineering.

  • Bala Parthasarathy is Managing Partner at AngelPrime, a company that helps with “rock-star” entrepreneurs to start multiple great companies. He has previously been a Co-founder and CT of Snapfish, a leading photo and ecommerce company, acquired by Hewlett Packard. Bala is a graduate of the IIT-Madras and the University of California – Santa Cruz.

  • Ankur Singla is the Founder and CEO of Akosha a platform for helping Indian consumers and brands resolve complaints and increase customer satisfaction. Previously Ankur worked as a Legal Advisor at Linklaters and Drew & Napier. Ankur is a graduate of the prestigious National Law School of India University.

  • Maninder Gulati is Vice President at Lightspeed Venture Partners a venture capital firm focused on early and expansion stage investments in the consumer, enterprise technology and cleantech markets. Previously he was an associate at McKinsey & Company and a manager at ITC Limited. Maninder is a graduate of the Indian School of Business and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

  • Sumeet Kapur is CEO of EmployWise, an integrated employee life-cycle management solution for maximizing return on talent investments (ROTI), delivered as a SaaS. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of leadership experience in companies such as Chipsoft and Wipro. Sumeet is a graduate of Hans Raj College and XLRI, Jamshedpur.

  • Avinash Raghava is the Chief Evangelist at ProductNation and a Fellow at the iSPIRT foundation. He provides intellectual leadership to efforts by iSPIRT to transform India into a hub for the next generation of software products. Previously he was AVP at One97 and director of NASSCOM’s EMERGE-Products forum. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Institute of Management Technology.

  • Amit Somani is the Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, India’s leading travel site. He’s worked at Google, IBM Labs in Silicon Valley, and IBM Almaden. Amit is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IT-BHU.

  • Siddhartha Chandurkar is the founder and CEO of ShepHertz, a platform to help App developers effectively use the Cloud. Previously he was head of the Technology Architecture and Solutions groupat Wipro and Lead Architect at Ericsson.

  • Rajat Garg is the founder and CEO of SocialAppsHQ, which offers one of the largest platforms for Facebook applications that businesses can use to engage fans and promote their brands. Rajat is a graduate of the Delhi College of Engineering and Stanford University.

  • Tushar Bhatia is the Founder & CEO of EmpXtrack a breakthrough technology for performance management, human capital management, and strategic HR. He is also consultant for Hewitt Associates. Tushar is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

  • Avlesh Singh is Co-founder and CEO at WebEngage a platform focusing on collecting amazing insights and feedback from visitors of sites in real time. He has previously been on the startup team at several other startups including Askme.in and Burrp! Avlesh is a graduate of the Indian School of Mines.

  • Sharique Hasan is a co-founder of Innovate Delhi and an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He studies social networks and entrepreneurship. Sharique is a graduate of Rutgers University and Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Rem Koning is a co-founder of Innovate Delhi and a doctoral student at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation, crowdfunding, and organizational design. Rem is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

  • Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) is a co-founder of Innovate Delhi and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-D and an expert on privacy and security. He serves as an advisor and mentor to startups including MixOrg and is the founding head of the Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre of IIITD. He is a graduate of the University of Madras and Carnegie Mellon University.