IIT bay area leadership conference 2025

IIT bay area

leadership conf '26

The largest IIT networking event on the West Coast that brings together industry veterans, company founders, visionary investors, and trailblazers to share their stories and visions.

When

October 16-17, 2026
Friday – Saturday

Where

Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California

Conference Theme

Scaling Intelligence

Engineering Abundance

We are pivoting from an economy constrained by scarce expertise to one powered by scalable synthetic intelligence. AI is becoming a new industrial force: manufactured in data centers, embedded in products, orchestrated by agents, and applied across every sector of human need. The IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference 2026 theme, “Scaling Intelligence: Engineering Abundance” captures this tectonic shift: the idea that abundance in healthcare, education, energy, mobility, manufacturing, and creativity will not simply happen; it must be designed, built, governed, and scaled.

LC26 Updates

LC25 SPEAKERS

Meet Our Speakers

Explore the inspiring lineup of keynote speakers, industry leaders, innovators, founders, and experts sharing insights and experiences at LC25.

LC25

Keynote speakers

Amit Zavery

President & COO, ServiceNow

Anima Anandkumar

Professor, CalTech

Bipul Sinha

CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder, Rubrik

Bratin Saha

Chief Product & Technology Officer, DigitalOcean

Hemant Taneja

CEO, General Catalyst

Joubin Mirzadegan

Kleiner Perkins

Tyler Shultz

Whistleblower, Theranos

Vinod Khosla

Founder, Khosla Ventures

LC25

Speakers

Abhita Chugh

Senior Director of Engineering, Google

Alexandru Costin

Vice President, Generative AI, Adobe

Anand Kashyap

Co-Founder & CEO, Fortanix

Anand Thangaraju

CISO, EPlus

Ankur Saxena

Investment Director, TDK Ventures

Anshu Agarwal

Board Member, IITBAA; GP, Converge VC Ex-CEO & Co-founder, Nimbella

Anshul Kundaje

Associate Professor, Stanford University

Anush Elangovan

Corporate Vice President at AMD

Apoorva Pandhi

Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners

Arnab Debnath

Fortanix; Vice President, IIT BAA

Ashish Khan

Board member and Conference Chair, IIT BAA

Bettina Kurkjian

MD, Chief of Quality, Washington Health Medical Group

Deepika Bodapati

Deepika Bodapati, Co-founder and COO, Commure

Dipty Desai

Board Member, IITBAA; CEO, CareAsOne; President, HIMSS NorCal; AVP, gslab I GAVS

Dolly Jain

Head of Engineering, AWS App Studio

Dr. K. Srikar Reddy

Honorable Consulate General, San Francisco

Gaytri K

Global Vice President of Sales, Genpact

Geetha Dholakia

Portfolio Program Director, TDK Ventures

Harjot Gill

CEO, CodeRabbit

Henry Shi

Cofounder Super.com, LeanAILeaderBoard.com

Ishita Sharan

Board Member, GM Healthcare, IIT BAA, Konfer

Manya Sinvhal

First-Year Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley

Monica Bajaj

Vice President, Engineering, Okta

Neil Kumar

CEO, BridgeBio Pharma

Nidhi Kannoujia

Cloud Product Line Manager, Illumino; President, IIT BAA

Parnika Agarwal

Head of Product, SirenOpt

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi

Board Member, IITBAA; Founder & CEO, MobilityVision Inc.

Rajat Roy

CEO, PathomIQ

Rao Charagondla

Board Member, IITBAA; Cloud FinOps - Cloud Engineering & Operations, Adobe

Sam Hamilton

SVP, Data and AI

Samant Kumar

CEO, XNA-Labs

Satish Veerapuneni

Co-founder and CEO, Lumeus.AI

Shobhna Upadhyaya

Senior Vice President, People and Strategy, Hinga Health

Siddharth Gupta

Managing Director at Samsung Ventures

Sudip Chakrabarti

Partner, Pruven Capital

Swapnil Sinvhal

Senior Director of Software Development, Oracle; Board Member, IIT BAA

Vedant Agrawal

Vice President, Premji Invest

Vishal Sarin

Founder, Sagence AI

Vikram Chatterji

Co-founder and CEO, Galileo

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Our

Past Speakers

Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder and CEO, Databricks

Padmasree Warrior

Founder and CEO, Fable

Bill Gates

Co-founder, Microsoft

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

Arun Majumdar

Dean, Stanford University

Arvind Jain

CEO, Glean

Vinod Khosla

Founder, Khosla Ventures

Bipul Sinha

CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder, Rubrik

Tyler Shultz

Whistleblower, Theranos

Hemant Taneja

CEO, General Catalyst

Amit Zavery

President & COO, ServiceNow

Bratin Saha

Chief Product & Technology Officer, DigitalOcean

Anima Anandkumar

Professor, CalTech

Smita Hashim

Former CPO, Zoom

Jyoti Bansal

Builder. Founder at Harness, Traceable

LC 2025 At a glance

Speakers

50+

Ceo's

100+

Attendees

1,000+

What to expect

Highlights

Startup Showcase

The Expo Booths showcase innovative products and ideas from IIT alumni and other startups. This platform provides a unique opportunity to witness cutting-edge technologies and engage with the minds
behind them.

Women Leadership

This flagship segment highlights the achievements of women leaders in tech, business, and academia. It fosters dialogue, inspiration, and community through keynotes, panels, and networking—all in a festive, empowering setting.

Reconnect with Alumni

The conference offers several opportunities for informal gatherings to bring together alumni from various IIT campuses. Reconnect with former classmates, share experiences, and expand your professional network within the IIT community.

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Keep up the good work with the IITs. We really count on the amazing graduates of IITs. I'm surrounded by them, I think its got to be a close to couple of thousand IIT employees at NVIDIA, an amazing system.

Jensen Huang

President, NVIDIA At IIT Bay Area LC '23

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