Dr. Shantaram Kane

Dr. S. G. Kane, Panel Co-ordinator, is an expert in the field of Chemical and Agro/Bio Technology.

Dr. Kane presently is Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He has held several senior positions and as functional head in Indian and MNC companies like NOCIL, Swadeshi Polytex, Gharda Chemicals and Amoco Chemicals U.S.A.). He has lead and established R & D centers and set up processes for formulation & development of products and processes. As a researcher in traditional medicine, he developed a novel patented technology to make super-active extracts, which find applications in all Life Sciences. Dr. Kane has won several accolades including the Distingushed Alumnus Award and the Distingushed Service Award from IIT Bombay. He is an IIT Bombay B. Tech. Chemical Engineering and MIT (USA), M. S., and Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering.

Dr. Ashok Joshi Ashok Joshi is an expert in the field of Software and IT.

Dr. Ashok Joshi recently retired as a Managing Director of Aprova Systems. As a founding director, he was responsible to set up the organization. In his previous role, as a head of R&D (India) Dr. Ashok Joshi drove the growth of the Indian subsidiary of Entevo Corporation. As a founding Director of C-DAC, he formulated the technical and marketing strategy of India's Supercomputing Initiative. He also provided technical leadership in developing hardware and software solutions in weather modeling, seismic data processing and space vehicle design. While as a Director of Systech, he designed and developed innovative electronic products for industrial and defense applications. Dr Joshi is a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay; an M. S. from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph. D. from Syracuse University.

Atul Narkhede Atul Narkhede is an expert in Networking, Electronics & Communications.

Atul Narkhede works as VP Engineering at GS Lab. Atul has over eleven years of experience in software product design. As a Fellow at Strand Genomics, Atul has architected data-mining and data visualization software. Prior to Strand, Atul was the Chief Architect at Tessera Systems where he developed infrastructure products with distributed web services. While at Silicon Graphics Inc, Atul worked on Geometry and developed microcode and vector compilers for high end graphics-accelerator ASICs. He is a B. Tech. CS from IIT Bombay and a M. S. CS from University of North Carolina.

Harshad Patwardhan

Harshad Patwardhan is an expert of Finance & Business Management.

Harshad Patwardhan works as a fund manager with JP Morgan Asset Management (JF Asset Management), one of the largest FIIs investing into India with assets under management of ~$7bn. He has more than 13 years of experience in analyzing businesses and stocks. Having worked with several foreign stock-broking companies such as Deutsche Equities, JPMorgan / JF broking, WI Carr, Harshad has done an in-depth study in wide range of sectors such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Automotive, Power Sector, etc. Harshad is a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, MBA from IIM Lucknow and a CFA (USA).

Harshwardhan Gupta

is an expert in the area of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design.

Harshwardhan Gupta is founder of Neubauplan Machine Design Studio, one of India’s few, and the oldest Machine Design House. Over the last 31 years, he has been involved in designing large number of India’s first and some of the World's first complex machines. Most of his work has proved to be runaway success and has often been displayed in IMTEX (India), INTERPACK (Germany), etc. He has recently been named as a co-inventor in a U.S. Patent Application for Banknote Counting, Validating and Storage system for use on Gaming Tables in Casinos. Harshwardhan Gupta holds a B. Tech (Mech) from IIT Bombay (1976) and has written many articles on design and technology issues, including the popular column, ‘Harshwardhan Gupta's Design Tips’ in the IPF for 20 issues.

Satish Gokhale

Satish Gokhale is an expert in Industrial Product Design.

Satish has successfully designed and launched over 450 products in the Indian and international markets. During his career, he has received several awards in product design including Industrial Design Excellence award by IDSA and Businessweek – USA and Industrial Design Excellence awards for medical equipment, industrial equipment design. Satish is a graduate of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, and manages his own firm Design Directions.

Sudin Apte

Sudin Apte is an expert of Emerging Business Trends, Offshore IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

Sudin set up Forrester’s India operations and presently works as Country Head & Senior Analyst. Over past 2 years, he has been actively driving Forrester's best-practice lineup for the captive set ups of large MNC firms. In a career spanning over 18 years, Sudin has been associated with leading global & Indian firms, advised several end user and high-tech sector companies in building their offshore strategy and researched trends in offshore market. A practiced pubic speaker, Sudin has addressed key events organized by industry bodies such as Nasscom, TiE, HYSEA, and the Indo American Chamber of Commerce. His research views have been published as articles by The Economic Times, Business Today, and Outlook Business. Sudin is a graduate in mechanical engineering, post-graduate in management science, and is also a qualified cost accountant.