
Eminent Speakers

Dr. N. Kalaiselvi
Director General, CSIR - Central Electro Chemical Research Institute

Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
President,
IIT Madras Research Park and Incubation Cell

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
President, India Energy
Storage Alliance (IESA)

Dr. Milind Kulkarni
President, PV Manufacturing,
Reliance New Energy Solar

Dr. Akshay Singhal
Founder and CEO,
Log 9 Materials

Sujoy Ghosh
Vice President and Country
Managing Director
India-First Solar

Mr. Shahji John
Head - Sales and Business
Development, Ohmium (South Asia,
Middle East and Africa)

Dr. Anuradda Ganesh
Director and Chief Technical
Adviser, Cummins Technologies

RaviChandran Purushothaman
President,
Danfoss India

Dr. Satish Kumar
President and Executive Director
AEEE

Prof. Aravind Kumar Chandiran
Assistant Professor - Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras

Prof. Rajnish Kumar
Professor - Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras

Ankit Poddar
Chief Executive Officer,
ZedBee Technologies

Madhavan Nampoothiri
Director,
RESolve Energy

Ramakrishnan Gopalakrishna
General Manager Business Developement,
Wärtsilä

Rahul Bagdia
Chairman & Managing Director,
pManifold

Prof. Karthick Athmanathan
Professor of Practice,
IIT Madras

M M Murugappan
Chairman,
CUMI Murugappa Group

Anson Sando
Head - Energy Programs,
IIT Madras Research Park

G SivaRamakrishnan
Agency for New and Renewable Energy Research and Technology,
Kerala

Baskara Pandian
Technical Head - Solar Cells,
Vikram Solar

Prof. Kaushal Jha
Centre of Excellence for Energy and
Telecom, IIT Madras Research Park

Mahesh Godi
Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
Godi Energy

Prof. Satyanarayanan Seshadri
Associate Professor - Applied Mechanics,
IIT Madras

Dr. Kartik Kumar
Deputy Director,
Saint Gobain Research India Pvt Ltd

Bharatwaj Ramakrishnan
Director at the Office of the
Chief Technology Officer, Applied Materials

Prof. Manu Santhanam
Building Technology and Construction Management division, IIT Madras

Prof. Ajay Shukla
Associate Professor,
IIT Madras

Prof. Uday Khankhoje
Associate Professor - Electrical
Engineering, IIT Madras

Dr. Samik Nag
Research & Development,
Tata Steel

Debi Prasad Dash
Executive Director,
India Energy Storage Alliance

Prof. L Kannan
Professor of Practice – Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras

Ram Bhavaraju
Head - Software Development,
Ather

Anitha Dhianeshwar
Co-founder & Director, Flowtrik Technologies Private Limited

Thakur Prithvi Pal Singh Negi
Program Coordinator –
Hydrogen, Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Dr. K. Balaraman
Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Srijith Menon
Senior Trade and Investment Adviser – Energy, Lead – Offshore Wind India Department for International Trade, British Deputy High Commission Chennai

Dr. Arun Kumar Nayak
Head - Nuclear Control and Planning Wing, Dept of Atomic Energy - BARC

Chandrashekar Chincholkar
Director - Corporate Advisory, Customized Energy Solutions
India Pvt Ltd

Jayant Deo
Indian Energy Exchange,
former

Vinod Kumar N
Director – Trade & Investment,
AusTrade

Sushil Muhnot
Senior Advisor,
CUTS International

Aman Hans
Ex - Public-Private Partnership Specialist, NITI Aayog

Vidyashankar Subramanian
Vice President - Project Advisory & Structured Finance, SBI Capital Markets

Dr. R. Gopalan
Regional Director, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials