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