NGIS Guwahati

Mr. Kumaran Venkatesh has over three decades of work experience in consulting, business development, sales management, marketing operations and executive leadership roles across IT, Semiconductors & Software at MNC’s and Indian companies at Hong Kong, Boston and India. He is a partner at AXLerateNOW focusing on scaling IOT Startups. Prior to his current Startup, he was a Senior Director of Business Development at ARM (Softbank Group) developing IOT, AI/ML, Security, HPC & cloud datacentre market. Prior to ARM, he was with an Industry body on Electronics and Semiconductors where he passionately worked to grow the Electronic System Design & Manufacturing industry as well as created an IOT ecosystem in India. He curated 16 IOT Startups across MedTech, Wearables, Spacetech and mentored, coached and advised them on Execution, Market and funding capital.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Venkatesh was spearheading Intel’s Wind River India business as India Country Manager. He passionately worked to open Wind River India Design Center, which helped Indian customers design world-class embedded solutions for Aerospace, Defence, Networking, Industrial and mobile market. Prior to Wind River, Mr. Venkatesh was Regional Manager (US East and Canada) with Tata Elxsi in the US.

From 1987 to 2003, he held various senior management positions in India and overseas at Modi Olivetti, On Mobile, Motorola, and others.

He is also a well-known personality in the media. His article and opinions are often published in leading technology and business publications. He was also featured in “Next Big Thing” on NDTV Good Times channel as a thought leader.

He is the co-chair of IOTNEXT, TiE Bengaluru board member and founder member of NETRA Accelerator Foundation. Mr. Venkatesh is also a corporate faculty of the ART OF LIVING and has taught to various sections of the society.

IoT Startups

Guwahati

Bhubaneswar

Guwahati

IT/Telecom Network Solution, Cyber Security & Cyber Forensic, IT/ICT Infrastructure and Services.

Guwahati

Mrs. Atreyee Borooah Thekedath holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka and a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Central Queensland University, Australia.

After a brief stint at Hewlett Packard Pte Ltd. in Singapore as an IT Solutions Specialist, she quit to start her own company, Web.Com (India) Pvt. Ltd. in 1999, one of Assam’s reputed software company.

She is an alumna of the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program for Women Entrepreneurs and was nominated for the coveted Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership Program. She is a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Jabalpur under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. She is also an Academic Council member of Assam Women’s University, Jorhat. She was an Independent Director at Balmer Lawrie, a Mini Ratna-I Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India from January 2017 to January 2020. She was a National Council member of CII’s Young Indians and has successfully executed several projects during her tenure.

She has been involved with the start-up community in various capacities like mentoring and being a jury member in several pitches like the recent Chief Minister’s E-Champion Challenge Programme, Meghalaya and Pitch Hatch 2.0 , initiative by Assam Startup-The Nest & IIM Calcutta Innovation Park. As a NASSCOM member, she has been a jury member for the Thrive 30 Pitch.

Entrepreneurship

Guwahati

Mr. Sanjeev Sarma is the founder director of Webx Technologies Private Limited, a technology consulting company that he founded in the year 2001. He has over 19+ years of IT experience in delivering enterprise solutions on Enterprise Software Architecture, Web Platforms and Mobile Technologies. He is a postgraduate in Computer Applications and has worked for multinational companies like ZAP Infotech and IBM Global Services. He started his own software firm “Webx” in the year 2001 and later in 2009 it became private limited (Webx Technologies Private Limited).

At Webx, he is working at consulting, architecture and development of enterprise solutions on the latest web technologies. His award-winning solutions are running in various corporates and govt. departments. He was acknowledged as “Technology Hero” by Microsoft Corporation for the first online bus ticketing system implemented way back in the year 2004 for Assam State Transport Corporation.

Currently, Mr. Sanjeev is also serving as:

• Member, Advisory Board, Software Technology Parks of India (Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya)
• Consultant at NF Railways (Cons.) for various IT project & Management Information System
• Member, Leadership Excellence, Harvard Square
• Member, Intel Atom Developer, Intel India Technology Pvt. Ltd.
• Member, IT Pro Marketing Panel, Microsoft
• Chief Technology Advisor at South Asian Regional Development Gateway
• Member, Advisory committee for B.Voc curriculum at Gauhati University
• Mentor, StartUp NE, an initiative of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship

Mr. Sanjeev is instrumental in mentoring young entrepreneurs of North-East Region through various platforms like StartUp Assam, UpStart and Megaminds. He has also served as jury member in various B-Plan competitions organized by State Government and Premier Institutions.

Software Architecture, Web Platforms and Mobile Technologies

Guwahati

Guwahati

Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Software Product Development, Mobile Internet, Wireless Communications, GPS and Smartphone Platforms.

Guwahati

Mr. Jyotirmoy Chakravorty (JC) is the founding CEO of Ubona Technologies. Mr. JC holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Assam Engineering College. He has 30 years of professional experience in consulting and software development in leading software companies like CMC ltd, Wipro, eCapital and July systems in the leadership/mentoring roles. He has led several projects in telecommunication, billing and mediation, supply chain, business and operations strategy and customer relationship management. He started Ubona Technologies in the year 2008. Under his leadership, Ubona Technologies developed India’s first speech recognition product, acquired funding, took the product to the market and became a successful and profitable venture.

With deep expertise in last mile communication, internet protocols and technologies, large scalable system design, consumer behavior, payment technologies, he spends most of his time working with senior executives on transformational and disruptive change. He is an established leader in the areas of consumer service, telecommunication and payment space in the startup circle and advises / mentors many startups and entrepreneur.

JC’s areas of expertise in technologies and systems are listed below:

• Telecommunication and last mile involving various protocols and standards
• Internet communication and near field communication protocols/technologies
• Large / scalable system design using emerging paradigms and technologies
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Payment protocols, technologies and securities encompassing card, UPI, POS, IMPS, online /offline
• Web technologies and User information modeling
• Security and encryption
• Cloud based architecture
• Customer relationship management, billing, workflow, service provisioning

JC is holder of many patents from USPTO in the areas of digital rights management, policy-controlled application services, service enablement and mobile payments.

Last mile communication, Internet Protocols and Technologies, Large Scalable System Design, Payment Technologies and Consumer behavior.

Guwahati

Environmental Nanotechnology

Guwahati

Guwahati