Welcome our Speakers

Meet our Speakers, who will host an interactive, enjoyable and interesting session on solving real world problems using technology, the digital world, and a few other topics like artificial intelligence and machine learning as well. Our speakers will take you through their experience and share their knowledge on their field of expertise.

Dr. Sharanya Desai

Ms Arcot Desai Sharanya (or AD Sharanya) is a Principal AI scientist with extensive experience applying statistical signal processing machine learning and deep learning methods for analysing large biomedical datasets. She leads the AI team at NeuroPace - The world’s only company that makes fully implantable closed-loop commercial neurostimulator devices for epilepsy.

Mr. Ian Harris

Ian is the founder of ihD. Starting off with a team of 2 in 2003, the team has grown to 70 strong talents. He has worked in places such as France, Germany, Libya, Qatar, Switzerland, UK, USA and multiple asian countries before while calling Hong Kong his home. He has over 35 years of international technology consulting experience, he develops tools for his team and encourages “out-of-the-box” thinking when it comes to design solutions.

Dr. Krishnan Sadiapet

Dr Krishnan is a computer scientist and engineer with 20+ years of experience in applied research, technology-driven innovation and consulting services. In the past years, he has focused on projects such as Big Data and Machine Learning using public clouds and open source software. He is one of the 2 people who simultaneously hold both titles of “Google Developer Expert” and machine learning.

Nivedita Aggarwal

Ms Nivedita Aggarwal works as an engineering manager at Google. She is also a community leader for Hyderabad.Anita.Org. As a technology leader with over 20+ years of experience, she was the MIT 2020 Hackathon Winner. She is a multi-talented individual who handles the product development for large enterprise products right from the product engineering to documentation to translation. She has also successfully led global engineering teams across geographies including APJ, EMEA and NA..