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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