2025 Leadership Conference-Unplugged: Program at a glance

November 15, 2025
Opening Remarks


Nidhi Kannoujia, President, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association
Swapnil Sinvhal , EmCee | Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

Rise of Agentic Enterprise: Unify Data, AI & Workflows


Amit Zavery, President & COO, ServiceNow
Ashis Khan, Board Member, & Conference Chair, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

The Transformation Principles: A Path to Redefine Capitalism in an AI-Enabled World


Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst
Deepika Bodapati, Co-founder and COO, Commure

Strong Conviction, Weakly Held: How We Make Investment Decisions


Vedant Agrawal, Vice President, Premji Invest

From Defense to Differentiation: Building Security as a Competitive Advantage


Nidhi Kannoujia, Cloud PM, Illumio & President, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association (Moderator)
Anand Kashyap, Co-Founder & CEO, Fortanix
Anand Thangaraju, CISO, EPlus
Satish Veerapuneni, Co-Founder and CEO, Lumeus.AI

Rewiring Strategy: AI As the Engine of Transformation


Apoorva Pandhi, Managing Partner, Zetta Venture Partners (Moderator)
Alexandru Costin, Vice President, Generative AI, Adobe
Sam Hamilton, SVP, Data & AI, Visa

Next Wave of Al: Where Creativity, Science and Biology Meet


Anima Anandkumar, Professor, CalTech | 2025 Time 100 Impact Award
Manya Sinvhal, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley (Interaction)

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi, Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

Rethinking Scale in the AI Era: The 10-100-1000 Formula: 10 employees, $100M ARR, $1B valuation


Sudip Chakrabarti, Partner, Pruven Capital (Moderator)
Henry Shi, Co-founder, Super.com, LeanAlLeaderBoard.com
Harjot Gill, CEO of CodeRabbit

The Agentic Cloud


Dr. Bratin Saha: Chief Product and Technology Officer, Digital Ocean
Anush Elangovan, Corporate Vice President at AMD

Building Agents That Actually Work


Vikram Chatterji, Co-founder and CEO, Galileo

Matter matters - CVCs leading DeepTech Investments


Dr. Geetha Dholakia, Portfolio Program Director, TDK Ventures (Moderator)
Vishal Sarin, Founder of Sagence AI
Ankur Saxena, Investment Director, TDK Ventures
Siddharth Gupta, Managing Director at Samsung Ventures

Innovation Without Deception


Tyler Shultz, Whistleblower, Theranos
Anshu Agarwal, Board Member, IIT BAA; General Partner, Converge (Fireside Chat)

Decoding the Multi-Omics Blueprint for Personalized Medicine: Strategy, Science, and AI


Ishita Sharan, GM Healthcare, Konfer & Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association (Moderator)
Neil Kumar, CEO, BridgeBio Pharma
Prof. Anshul Kundaje, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Rajat Roy, CEO, PathomIQ
Samant Kumar, CEO, XNA Labs

Bridging the Gap Between Reality and Big Tech Dreams


Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder, Rubrik
Joubin Mirzadegan, Kleiner Perkins, Host of “The Grit” podcast (Moderator)

Honorable Dr.Srikar Reddy, Consul General of India, San Francisco

“Is AI a Strategy or a Tool?”


Monica Bajaj: Vice President Engineering, Okta
Dolly Jain: Head of Engineering, AWS App Studio

IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

2025 Leadership Conference: Program at a glance;

September 27, 2025
Opening Remarks


Nidhi Kannoujia, President, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association
Ashis Khan, Board Member, & Conference Chair, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association
Swapnil Sinvhal , EmCee | Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

Rise of Agentic Enterprise: Unify Data, AI & Workflows


Amit Zavery, President & COO, ServiceNow
Ashis Khan, Board Member, & Conference Chair, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

The Transformation Principles: A Path to Redefine Capitalism in an AI-Enabled World


Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst
Deepika Bodapati, Co-founder and COO, Commure

Strong Conviction, Weakly Held: How We Make Investment Decisions


Vedant Agrawal, Vice President, Premji Invest

From Defense to Differentiation: Building Security as a Competitive Advantage


Nidhi Kannoujia, Cloud PM, Illumio & President, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association (Moderator)
Anand Kashyap, Co-Founder & CEO, Fortanix
Anand Thangaraju, CISO, EPlus
Satish Veerapuneni, Co-Founder and CEO, Lumeus.AI

Rewiring Strategy: AI As the Engine of Transformation


Apoorva Pandhi, Managing Partner, Zetta Venture Partners (Moderator)
Alexandru Costin, Vice President, Generative AI, Adobe
Sam Hamilton, SVP, Data & AI, Visa

Next Wave of Al: Where Creativity, Science and Biology Meet


Anima Anandkumar, Professor, CalTech | 2025 Time 100 Impact Award
Manya sinvhal, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley (Interaction)

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi, Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

Rethinking Scale in the AI Era: The 10-100-1000 Formula: 10 employees, $100M ARR, $1B valuation


Sudip Chakrabarti, Partner, Pruven Capital (Moderator)
Henry Shi, Co-founder, Super.com, LeanAlLeaderBoard.com
Harjot Gill, CEO of CodeRabbit

The Agentic Cloud


Dr. Bratin Saha: Chief Product and Technology Officer, Digital Ocean
Anush Elangovan, Corporate Vice President at AMD

Building Agents That Actually Work


Vikram Chatterji, Co-founder and CEO, Galileo

Matter matters - CVCs leading DeepTech Investments


Dr. Geetha Dholakia, Portfolio Program Director, TDK Ventures (Moderator)
Vishal Sarin, Founder of Sagence AI
Ankur Saxena, Investment Director, TDK Ventures
Siddharth Gupta, Managing Director at Samsung Ventures

Innovation Without Deception


Tyler Shultz, Whistleblower, Theranos
Anshu Agarwal, Board Member, IIT BAA; General Partner, Converge (Fireside Chat)

Decoding the Multi-Omics Blueprint for Personalized Medicine: Strategy, Science, and AI


Ishita Sharan, GM Healthcare, Konfer & Board Member, IIT Bay Area Alumni Association (Moderator)
Neil Kumar, CEO, BridgeBio Pharma
Prof. Anshul Kundaje, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Rajat Roy, CEO, PathomIQ
Samant Kumar, CEO, XNA Labs

Bridging the Gap Between Reality and Big Tech Dreams


Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder, Rubrik
Joubin Mirzadegan, Kleiner Perkins, Host of “The Grit” podcast (Moderator)

Honorable Dr.Srikar Reddy, Consul General of India, San Francisco

Partner talks: PANIIT/IIT2026, PARFI

IIT Bay Area Alumni Association

Power, Presence, and Purpose in the AI Era

September 26, 2025

Networking

Welcome Note

Ishita Sharan (Board Member, IITBAA & General Manager Healthcare, Konfer)

Opening Remarks

Nidhi Kannoujia (President, IITBAA & Cloud Product Line Manager, Illumio)

Interactive Quiz Segments between Sessions

Manya Sinvhal: First-Year Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley

“Is AI a Strategy or a Tool?”


Monica Bajaj: Vice President Engineering, Okta
Dolly Jain: Head of Engineering, AWS App Studio

Redefining Leadership in the AI Era


Abhita Chugh: Senior Director of Engineering, Google
Gaytri K: Global Vice President of Sales, Genpact
Shobhna Upadhyaya: Senior Vice President, People and Strategy, Hinge Health
Parnika Agarwal: Head of Product, SirenOpt- (Moderator)

Women's Health and Wellness for Thriving in Life and Work

Bettina Kurkijian, MD (Chief of Quality, Washington Health Medical Group; Retired Obstetrician & Gynecologist)

Networking over Heavy Hors d’oeuvres

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