Speakers of 2023
Uday Pisute
Sales Director, ADI
Uday has 25+ year’s experience in Semiconductor and embedded industry in India. He has worked as a Sales and Product Marketing leader for the last 15 years, and has experience across industries/ segments in India.
Uday was also part of Eco system development for various segments for India Market.
Uday is an engineering graduate with Masters in Business Management.
Uday was also part of Eco system development for various segments for India Market.
Uday is an engineering graduate with Masters in Business Management.
Praveen Jose
Field Application Manager, ADI
Praveen Jose has over 18 years of professional experience varying from electronic designer to technical team leader.
He is currently working as Field application Manager (FAM) for ADI India region. Praveen earned bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication.
Praveen’s key strength is on strong technical knowledge and analog architecture design.
He is currently working as Field application Manager (FAM) for ADI India region. Praveen earned bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication.
Praveen’s key strength is on strong technical knowledge and analog architecture design.
Magal Srinivasprasad
Associate District Manager, India, Microchip Technology Inc.
Magal Srinivasprasad, based in Bangalore, is an Associate District Manager at Microchip Technology Inc. He specializes in IoT/edge computing markets and assists clients in meeting their needs by offering the best products and solutions.
Before joining Microchip, Magal worked at Larsen & Toubro and ST Microelectronics. He has over 20 years of experience in product development, application engineering, product marketing and client engagement. Magal graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Technology from University of Mysore and completed an Executive Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 2009.
Before joining Microchip, Magal worked at Larsen & Toubro and ST Microelectronics. He has over 20 years of experience in product development, application engineering, product marketing and client engagement. Magal graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Technology from University of Mysore and completed an Executive Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 2009.
Saravana Rangadhasan
Senior Client Engagement Manager, India, Microchip Technology Inc.
Saravana Rangadhasan, based in Bangalore, is a Senior Client Engagement Manager at Microchip Technology Inc. He specializes in Automotive/E-Mobility markets and assists clients in meeting their needs by offering the best products and solutions.
Before joining Microchip, Saravana worked at Texas Instruments. He has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
Saravana graduated in 2001 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
Before joining Microchip, Saravana worked at Texas Instruments. He has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
Saravana graduated in 2001 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
S Sathish
Regional Sales Manager for South & All India & Srilanka Distribution Manager, Molex
Responsible for Business Growth in South India & Srilanka for all Market segments. With over 20 years of professional experience in various areas like Design, Key Account management, Channel Management, Application based support in Automotive, Industrial, Medical & Consumer Electronics segments. Also responsible for all India distribution activities & handling Sales development group responsible for lead generation & business conversion.
Ashoka.C
Business Development Manager – Datacom/Telecom, Molex
Responsible for business development activity in India for datacom/telcom/datacenter segments.
With over 18 years of professional experience in various areas like Design, Supply Chain, Distribution & Datacom business development activity.
Currently focusing on datacom/telecom OEM’s & design houses across India to penetrate Molex solutions into emerging nextgen markets.
Kousik Barathwaj
Senior Application Engineer, Murata Electronics India
Kousik Barathwaj is a senior application engineer at Murata Electronics India and also possesses a fervent passion for embedded engineering. With his expertise, he is tasked with developing turnkey solutions that cater to the dynamic requirements of clients from diverse market segments.
Currently, he is dedicatedly working on predictive maintenance solutions, specifically tailored to meet the needs of industrial customers.
As a Mechatronics graduate, Kousik has undertaken numerous industrial and consumer IoT projects during his career.
Furthermore, he actively supports clients in their respective projects by helping them to overcome hurdles in enabling wireless communication.
Currently, he is dedicatedly working on predictive maintenance solutions, specifically tailored to meet the needs of industrial customers.
As a Mechatronics graduate, Kousik has undertaken numerous industrial and consumer IoT projects during his career.
Furthermore, he actively supports clients in their respective projects by helping them to overcome hurdles in enabling wireless communication.
Siva Kotaru
Technical Sales Manager, Vishay Components
Siva has 18 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry.
He leads a team of Engineers who specialized in E-mobility/Automotive/ Telecom/Industrial markets and supporting customers by offering innovative and focus products.
Before joining Vishay, Siva worked at SEMIKRON Electronics India Pvt Ltd.
Siva holds Master’s degree in Power Electronics & Drives specialization from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Saravanan Subramanian
Engineering Manager-RF & Antennas, Abracon LLC
Saravanan has 15+ years’ experience in RF and Microwave. Currently working as an Engineering Manager – Abracon, he has a Masters in Communication Systems. His career started with design and development at Data patterns as an Engineer, RF & Microwave. He has been involved in various RF system design and development, System Engineering activities like requirement engineering, architecture design, inter-department and stake holder co-ordination, implementation, testing and tuning, mentoring young engineers, trouble shooting, prototyping & and system integration.
He is involved in the Design and Development of Micro-strip Patch Antenna for Radar applications, Planar Broad Band Antenna for UWB Applications, multi-band reconfigurable square spiral antenna for WLAN & GPS Applications and Compact Multiband partially reflective surface antenna for X-band and WLAN applications.
He is involved in the Design and Development of Micro-strip Patch Antenna for Radar applications, Planar Broad Band Antenna for UWB Applications, multi-band reconfigurable square spiral antenna for WLAN & GPS Applications and Compact Multiband partially reflective surface antenna for X-band and WLAN applications.
Theja Nayak
Regional Sales Manager, Abracon LLC
Theja is responsible for Regional sales Development for India & Sri-Lanka Region. He graduated from Impact College of Engineering & Applied Science in Electronics & Communication Technology, and has previously worked in Arrow Electronics India, JP-Electronics. He comes with over 8+ years of product technology experience in the semiconductor and electronic components industry.
Harun Oezquer
Product Management Head, Würth Elektronik, India
Harun Oezquer is a product management head at Opto-Electronics Germany. He has 17 years of experience in optoelectronic design, product development and design solutions. He is involved in Technology design & qualifying the products for various applications & standards and is an active participant on providing technical Seminars & discussions for Technical professionals in various conferences & meetings.
Vamsi Krishna Gajula
Field Applications Engineer, Würth Elektronik, India
Vamsi comes with 15 years of experience in the field of electro-mechanical solutions and is involved in solving customers’ technical issues by providing appropriate solutions for a broad spectrum of design challenges. He focuses on reasoning and technical selection of electro-mechanical interconnect, Switches, Cable routing/ Assembly techniques, and High power press fit solutions on printed circuit boards. Home Automation, IoT, POS, Solar, 2/4-Wheelers BMS, and charging stations were some focus applications that he recently worked on. He has presented many technical sessions for design houses, electronic manufacturing services, startups, universities and technical professionals.
Vivek Parasuram
Field Application Engineer, Würth Elektronik, India
Vivek has six Years of R&D experience in Power electronics, EMC Testing & Design solutions for customers. He is involved in circuit reviews to qualify electronic products for various testing standards and has analytical expertise in SPICE tools for simulations and design. He has worked with products from different domains – Industrial, Automotive, Consumer & Power Electronics.
Bibhu Sankar Sahu
Technical Manager, Würth Elektronik, India
Bibhu Sankar Sahu has 15 Years’ of R&D experience in power electronics, EMC Testing & Design Solutions for customers. He is involved in circuit reviews to qualify electronic products for various testing standardsand has worked with products from different domains such as Industrial, Automotive, and Power Electronics. He has also presented more than 500 technical seminars for design houses, electronic manufacturing services and technical professionals.
Padmaraj Saptasagar
Business Development Head – India EMS Sales and Design-In, Phoenix Contact
Responsible for Business Growth in India, Bangladesh & Srilanka for all Market segments. With over 25+ years of comprehensive professional experience in various areas like, Key Account management, Channel Management, Application Engineering in Industrial, Medical & Consumer Electronics segments. Also responsible for all India EMS Sales management for Phoenix Contact India.
Passionate to work with customers to offer customized solutions, New product development and localisation.
P. K. Banik
Sr. Manager – Marketing, Business Area Device Connectors, Phoenix Contact
He has an industrial experience of about 25 years with an experience of industrial connector industry for the last 19 years.
An expert in prescribing connectivity solution for your desired device.
S. Seshachalam
Country Manager, Bel Fuse India
Seshachalam is an electronics Engineer with a total of 39 years’ work experience in design, manufacturing, product
management and sales in the electronics and semiconductor industry.
He is the Country Manager for Bel Group in India since the last 12 years.
He is the Country Manager for Bel Group in India since the last 12 years.
Harshad Deshmukh
Manager in Sales & Marketing, Amphenol
Harshad Deshmukh is the Manager in Sales & Marketing and in charge of Automotive business in West And North India. He is technical sales person Post graduated in VLSI technology. He has worked with Element 14, TTI Electronics etc. before joining Amphenol. He has completed 7 successful years with Amphenol-FCI and has an overall work experience of 18 years in the field of Electronics.
Hrishikesh Kamat
CEO, Shalaka Connected Devices LLP | IoTAdda
Hrishikesh Kamat has been working in the IoT industry since more than a decade. My company Shalaka Connected Devcies is a design house and we work with companies as a Research and Product development team helping them develop Embedded and IoT products. In the past 5 years I’ve worked with over 30 companies from various sectors and helped them realise their IoT vision. IoTAdda is a platform started that is dedicated to help companies, working professionals and enthusiasts stay updated with the IoT. Apart from my interest in Internet of Things, I’m also a avid motorcyclist and I love solo travelling.
Balaji Nagarajan
Founder, Latrics India
Balaji Nagarajan is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with a strong passion for new age technologies. He holds Master’s degree in Physics and Geoinformatics. He is the founder of IITK incubate company Geokno, a market leader in LiDAR technology in India. Balaji was among the 200 CEO’s selected for Prime Minister’s Champion of Change program. He also had the honour of being part of the delegation representing India at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2017. Apart from his success with Geokno, Balaji has also invested in start-ups working in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Drone technologies. Currently he serves as a Director in Geokno, Mobionix AI, and Latrics Aerospace.
Nihal Kashinath
Founder & CEO, Applied Singularity
Nihal Kashinath is the Founder & CEO of Applied Singularity, a platform for Deep Tech professionals in AI and IoT. He provides consultation to companies and startups that are adopting AI, helps them recruit top developers, and actively evangelises Deep Tech – including organising meetups, conducting workshops & hackathons, and curating the latest Deep Tech content on the Applied Singularity app for iOS and Android (www.appliedsingularity.com/app).
Balaji Nagarajan
Founder, Latrics India
Balaji Nagarajan is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with a strong passion for new age technologies. He holds Master’s degree in Physics and Geoinformatics. He is the founder of IITK incubate company Geokno, a market leader in LiDAR technology in India. Balaji was among the 200 CEO’s selected for Prime Minister’s Champion of Change program. He also had the honour of being part of the delegation representing India at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2017. Apart from his success with Geokno, Balaji has also invested in start-ups working in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Drone technologies. Currently he serves as a Director in Geokno, Mobionix AI, and Latrics Aerospace.