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Dave is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout and at Yahoo!, where he built the world's largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a big data visionary and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in delivering Big Data, consumer Internet, Internet advertising and hosted services platforms, creating nearly $800M in company exits.

Deep Experience and Expertise in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, AdTech, Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems.

Led large Product Management Teams to build Multi-Hundred-Million-Dollar businesses in collaboration with Engineering and Sales & Marketing

Proven record in rapidly-growing startups as well as global software companies like Amazon and Microsoft. Excels in building and motivating highly focused companies and teams that regularly exceed objectives. Solid experience in the full product lifecycle from conceptualization, design, development and operations.

Expertise in Leadership, Operational and Engineering Excellence in Data Science and Cloud technologies.

Paul is a successful entrepreneur who has been a founder and CEO of 5 companies and has taken one company public and sold the other three. As the CEO of Startup Strategies, he works with entrepreneurs in scaling their B2B startups. He is the CRO for TadaNow and a strategic advisor to several startups, including Optiwise, The Modern Data Company. He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and marketing at Northeastern University and UC Berkeley. Paul is also a former TiE Silicon Valley board member.

Vic is an experienced CXO with 40+ years of demonstrated success. Before joining Si2, Vic was VP & Chief Strategist, Ansys (Nasdaq: ANSS) Semiconductor BU, connecting the dots from chip-package-board-system with Ansys multi-physics, multi-domain simulation technology.

In the electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor industry. He is a strong professional skilled in entrepreneurship, building R&D and product management teams for innovative EDA software targeted for semiconductor IP and chip designers. Vic was instrumental in growing technology portfolio with focused EDA R&D acquisitions and building the enterprise value.

Most recently, Vic was Chief Strategy Officer at Si2, Silicon Integration Initiative, a R&D joint venture enabling technology interoperability for its worldwide member companies. He architected and led the strategy to focus on solutions for the emerging silicon-to-system workflows, addressing technology interoperability challenges in the design and implementation workflows posed by vertical markets

Prabakar is Chief Strategist and Co-founder of The Fabric. Prabakar has a successful track record as a serial entrepreneur. Prabakar has over 25 years of leadership experience in the hi- tech industry where he has held a variety of executive positions spanning engineering, marketing, and business strategy at companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. Prabakar has served on the board of directors and/or technical advisory board of several companies

Previously, Prabakar drove Juniper's content and media strategy and the technology for its media delivery infrastructure solutions, which an outgrowth of Juniper's acquisition of Ankeena, which he co-founded with Rajan. Before Ankeena, Prabakar was at Citrix Systems, driving the technology vision and product strategy of the company's Application Networking Group. Prabakar joined Citrix via its acquisition of NetScaler Inc., where he served as CTO and EVP of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development.

Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding BlueJeans, he was Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, leading its entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to Blue Coat, Alagu worked at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup, where he built an R&D team to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market and he spent eight years at Apple in various R&D roles in networking and video over networks.

Alagu earned a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India and a MS in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Dr Ekta Dang has been a successful Corporate Executive, Speaker and Writer in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. She is currently the Founder and CEO of U First Capital which provides Venture Capital as a Service to mid-size and large Corporations. Ekta has solid experience both in Venture Capital and on Operating side at Intel. She has driven investment deals in several areas (eCommerce, Security, IoT, etc). She is a seasoned Industry Executive with over 15 years of experience in Product, Business Development and Venture Capital. She brings a stellar network from the Venture Capital and Corporate world to the startups. She is a startup enthusiast and is a mentor at Alchemist Accelerator, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Google Launchpad, etc.

Prashant K. Gulati (PK), is a technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator, and commentator with interests in innovation, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, mobility, wireless, intelligent buildings, online media and more.

PK has served in numerous leadership capacities including as Trustee on the Global Board of TiE, President of TiE Dubai, Founder of The Assembly, Founder of SmartStart Fund, Senior Advisor to Dubai Future Foundation, CEO of Optimistix Ventures, Steering Committee Member of in5 Innovation Hub. He is very closely connected with the latest in technology and innovation around the world, with very close association with innovation powerhouses like MIT Media Labs, Silicon Valley giants, TED, Leading Venture Firms and Technology Clusters around the world

Preethy has 20+ years high tech and leadership experience across marketing, product, sales & engineering. She is a strategic problem solver and connector who brings teams together to create exponential value for companies. Her strategies and execution span hardware, software and SaaS business models and have resulted in 5-10X business growth. Her podcast 10X Growth Strategies (www.grow10x.co) has become a popular hub for discussions on leadership and business growth.

Rajan Raghavan is CEO and co-founder of The Fabric, a startup co-creation foundry, and accelerator. He actively collaborates with entrepreneurs to help create and launch companies in the cloud and network infrastructure space.

At The Fabric, where along with Fabric team and entrepreneurs, Rajan has co-created 12 portfolio companies, of which 3 have been acquired (VeloCloud by VMware, Perspica by Cisco, Appcito by A10 Networks).

Prior to The Fabric, Rajan has been an entrepreneur for over three decades and has founded several companies, including Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper), Mediaway, Virtual Chips (acquired by Phoenix Technologies), RealChip Communications, Xambala (acquired by Final, Israel). He is also the founding advisor and on the board of FrontdeskAI.

Rajan currently serves on the boards of companies in the cloud, IoT, and network infrastructure: IoTium, Spanugo, Mesh7, OpsCruise, Cloudbrink, Copperwire.

Vipin Jain has more than 28 years of experience in engineering, consumer product development, and successful serial entrepreneurship. Prior to co-founding Blendid in 2015, Vipin was the CEO of Retrevo before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble. The eCommerce company was recognized by Time Magazine as the Best Shopping Website of 2011. Additionally, Vipin also co-founded Telseon, a metro broadband service provider that was acquired by OnFiber/Qwest Communications. Apart from heading successful startups, Vipin served in a variety of leadership roles at 3com, Extreme Networks, and Barnes & Noble Nook Media.

"As top Career Coach of LinkedIn, Dilip has worked with over 7,500 clients globally since launching his fifth career during the 2001 downturn. Dilip specializes in reinvention, and he has pioneered the concept of an Inductive Resume, which helps clients take their career from the known to the unknown. Together, with his genius-discovery tool (your superpower), Inductive Resume, and forward-looking messages, Dilip has made several breakthroughs in how professionals should project their message through powerful storytelling and manage their careers through compelling verbal branding. This messaging strategy is particularly valuable to those pursuing their start-up dreams to get themselves the right investor and market audiences.

Based in the Silicon Valley, Dilip often works with professionals, from those just launching their careers, to start-up entrepreneurs, C-level executives, and business owners to coach them to be effective in their pursuits and in their leadership. His clients from 23 countries are diverse: From entrepreneurs, physicians, movie stars, to technology professionals. His previous careers include heading an engineering organization in a Fortune-100 high-tech company, working as a technology consultant, as a marketing consultant, and as a leadership-effectiveness coach.

Dilip has authored five books and has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive, and other publications. His weekly career thoughts appear on his website, on LinkedIn, and in widely syndicated 500+ blogs by other publishers, enjoying wide readership. He also holds two technology patents. Dilip holds degrees from IIT-B and Stanford"

Nat D. Natraj is the CEO of AccuKnox. He talks about devs, zerotrust, kubernetes, cloudsecurity, and cybersecurity. He co-founded mobile-worx Inc. and serves as its Chairman of the Board. He served as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Arcot Systems, Inc.

Nat founded eFORCE Global Inc. in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales at CA Technologies. Nat has over 10 years experience in delivering enterprise solutions to global organizations such as Fleet Bank, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, ING Bank, Barclays Bank, Mellon Bank, Visa, John Hancock Insurance, and NationsBank. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Financial Services Division at Siebel Systems (now Oracle). He also held technical, marketing, sales, and general management positions at Scopus Technology, IA Corp., and TRW Financial Systems(now CSC Financial Services), Alysis Technologies (now CSC Financial Services) and Wang Labs.

He has an extensive background in financial services and enterprise software. He was part of the management team at an early CRM software pioneer company acquired by Oracle. He managed Oracle's financial division after the acquisition. He serves as Director of eFORCE Global Inc. Mr. Natraj served as a Member of the Advisory Board of GlobalLogic, Inc. since May 2008.

Dr Sanjit Dang has been a successful Venture Capitalist, Corporate Executive, Board Member, Speaker and Writer in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital. They provide Venture Capital as a Service to Corporations by bringing Startups, University IP, etc in the Corporate's specific areas of interest (dedicated model). Prior to that, he was at Intel Capital where he had an excellent track record of driving 1 Exit every year: DocuSign (IPO 2018), Body Labs (AI startup, Acquired by Amazon in 2017 within 2 years of leading Series A investment), Voke (Acquired by Intel in 2016 within 7 months of leading Series A investment), Maginatics (Acquired by EMC in 2015 within 1 year of leading investment) and Basis Science (Acquired by Intel in 2014 within 1 year of investment). He has been an Investor and on the Board of several companies, including True Fit (AI for eCommerce, Raised $100M), Reflektion (AI recommendation for eCommerce, Raised $42M), Helpshift (AI-driven Customer Service, Raised $38M) and Enlighted (Smart Lighting, Acquired by Siemens in 2018). He is also an investor in Mirantis (Cloud Computing, raised >$100M), GoodData (SaaS Business Intelligence, raised over $100M) and Arcadia Data (Big Data 2.0, Raised $26M).

Sanjit has over a decade of Exec leadership experience in Product Design, Business Development and Strategy across several domains: Big Data, Natural Language Processing, 3D Camera/Apps, Supply-Chain Analytics and Flash Memory. He has managed $2Bill/year accounts and executed >30 partnership deals in $100M-$2Bill range. Always striving to be ahead of the curve, Sanjit worked on Big Data Analytics before industry created the term 'Big Data'. Similarly, he launched 2 online courses during graduate school in 1999 and published iconic papers on learnings, way before the MOOC revolution started.

Sundar is an expert on Blockchain. He is currently focused on scaling up startups, Product Strategy, Client/Partner Engagement, Delivery, Staffing, Mentorship, Managing global cross-team dependencies. He has Proven ability to foster productive partnerships at all organizational levels, motivate & mobilize diverse global technology teams, and develop collaborative solutions. He has strategized and driven company priorities - including capital raise, budget, product definitions, and go-to-market strategy.

Yogita is a recognized expert in Cybersecurity, audit, risk and governance. Yogita is recognized as a Security Veteran by SC Magazine in their Women in Security feature. She has extensive speaking experience including Private Directors Association (PDA) panels on AI in the Boardroom and Cybersecurity. She is an investor in venture funds that back strong women entrepreneurs- How Women Invest and Neythri Futures Fund.

A visionary leader and a serial entrepreneur, Lena leads the healthcare & life sciences strategy and business operations for Healthcare Triangle (HCTI). Lena has taken the cloud company from bootstrapped stage to IPO on NASDAQ. He is currently the Executive Sponsor for strategic partnerships, M&As, and oversees some of the key strategic alliances. 

Lena is one of the original founders of SAML 2.0 protocol and Federated Identity Management model for the industry while at Orange-France Telecom, which changed the way identity information is shared between service providers and enabled the huge success of SaaS, Cloud and Social Networking. 

Lena brings experience and thought leadership in cloud, mobile, cyber security, AI and data from private and public sectors. He is an advisor and angel investor in various startups. Lena is a regular invited speaker in various industry related and entrepreneurship conferences.

Sheela Ursal is the founder and CEO of Fintech Next . She has worked for over two decades in product management and marketing for SaaS payments and e-commerce global enterprises and startups, for the likes of Amazon, Western Union, and Netopia (bought by Google), launching payment products and expanding internationally. In the last four years, her focus has been on advising and investing in Fintech startups. She has been a speaker and presenter at many events and conferences

Bikram started his current venture as an Advisor, Mentor and Executive Coach after multiple technology executive leadership experiences building products for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises. With his skills in software engineering, product management, engineering operations and interacting with customers across multiple verticals, he mentors and partners with C-suite leaders from growth stage startups to grow business that have plateaued. He has expertise in bootstrapping companies as well as managing large 3000 person teams. Bikram's blog on "Anxieties of a Tech CEO" is featured as a "Brilliant article. All Tech Entrepreneurs, Founders and CEOs should read" by M.R. Rangaswami on sandhill.com

Muckai Girish is the Co-founder & CEO of Rockfish Data, a Generative AI company helping enterprises tackle dataops bottlenecks. He has over a quarter century of experience in leadership roles across a number of Silicon Valley companies. Girish received his BTech from IIT Madras, PhD from Boston University and MBA from the Wharton School. Girish also volunteers as the CEO and Board Member of IIT Madras Foundation

Kumar Sripadam is a technology entrepreneur, business consultant, investor, and a mentor with more than 30 years of experience. Kumar was a founding member of Redback Networks, a hugely successful IPO company. He has held several senior and executive positions in various startups.

Kumar is an executive board member of Arc Angel Fund, NYC. He is involved with several venture and angel Funds. He served on the boards of Incentive Logic and MetaCert. He is an advisor at Moesif and True Lark. As an active investor he has invested in more than 70 companies with many successful exits. He is also a mentor and an advisor at many Silicon Valley accelerators and incubators.

Praveer is the president of engineering, product, and operations at GuardHat. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology and solutions development from roles with Acxiom, Yahoo, and Finxeria - where he was a co-founder, board member, and chief product and technology officer.

He directly led the development and launch of an innovative, online payments and banking platform which processes over $2B annually and established the success of the startup Finxera, Inc

Anand is a successful serial entrepreneur. He provides the vision and the leadership for how social media automation enables businesses to build the social brand and establish strategic influence with prospective customers. He has founded and led four successful companies prior to NewzSocial, two of which have gone public - Banyan Systems (BNYN, networking pioneer) and Responsys (MKTG, leader in online marketing), and two which were acquired - Reach Software (workflow and email) and iStorez (online shopping). He holds 3 patents in computer technology.

Surbhi has launched many successful and Insightful products over the last decade utilizing AI and machine learning expertise. She is the Track Chair of the AI track in this year's TiEcon. She has expertise in Product management, design, business planning, technology roadmap definition and alliances development expertise. Customer focused and delivery oriented approach to ensure sales and user satisfaction & growth for profitability

Dr. Ravi Mahalingam is a Pharmaceutical entrepreneur with 28 years of experience in service/manufacturing industry and academic institutions. Built and successfully operated 3 pharma companies in US. Supported over 150 pharma/biotech companies with their preclinical/clinical formulations (NCEs), and value-added post marketed products (over 1000 projects). Published many research and review articles, book chapters, and scientific abstracts.

Sukhwinder (Sukhi) is an entrepreneur, technologist, and advisor to startups. He usually mentors founders on Enterprise B2B Sales and Business Development. He also advises on fundraising and tackling general first-time founder challenges. He started his career at Ford Motor Company in engineering and then moved to management consulting and the dark side of pure sales at IBM. Hehad great success in sales that he later applied at different startup ventures. Since 2011, he has mentored many startup founders, first as a co-chair of the "Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mentors" and then at "IIT Startup" organizations. At IIT Mentors, he organized 50+ events focused on overcoming career challenges that technical founders struggle with.

Hasan Khan is a serial entrepreneur with a decade of experience in building venture-backed startups. As the CTO at Cadonical, he is bringing the agility of software development to hardware development. Earlier, he was the co-founder & CTO at RED where he built the first generative AI tools for the manufacturing industry.

Hasan is a mentor at NEC X and part of the Alchemist Accelerator's selection panel. He also leads the Product-Led Growth working group at Alchemist. He's an advisor and investor in two startups in the AI and devtools spaces.

Subbu Meiyappan is a leader in wireless telecom with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and technology development experience. He is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded NextNav, an inventor and an author. He is currently the CEO of ECSite where he has responsibility for leading the company's vision to automate everything, everywhere, helping transform the Telecom industry into the all-digital era. In his previous company, NextNav, Subbu spearheaded the development of a terrestrial based network of highly synchronized beacons that emit GPS-like signals on a licensed spectrum. This technology has been adopted by NASA for location apps where GPS does not work. NextNav went IPO in 2021, valued at $1.2B.

Prakash is the CTO of 3KTechnologies. Prakash started his career at Sun Microsystems as an engineer in the compiler group. He held several positions at Sun in a career that spanned over 20 years. During that time, he co-authored a book (published by Pearson) "Implementing SOA applications using Java EE" and was awarded several patents. Prakash became an entrepreneur when he left Sun in 2009 to co-found Micello as their CTO. Prakash left Micello in 2012 to consult with multiple start-ups as a "freelance CTO" - primarily helping them move their applications and services to the cloud. This includes IntelliVision, a company that provides fine grained video analytics. The German outdoor map provider, Here Technologies, acquired Micello in Feb. 2018. The wireless security and home automation company, Nortek Security acquired IntelliVision in May 2018. Prakash is a member of the Angel Investor group Keiretsu Forum. He volunteers his time in several organizations, including TiE Silicon Valley and ATEA.

Deepak Bhagat is a Senior Engineering Executive and a leader in Silicon Valley with over 3 decades of experience in Tier 1 corporations of SAP, Sun and HP in the area of computing and cloud infrastructure. Some of the products he led have generated billions of dollars of revenues for his companies. 

Deepak is a Distinguised Alumnus of IIT Kanpur. He has been a TiE charter member for over 20 years, was on the board of TiE SV chapter, co-founded the TiE Mentor Connect and the TiE Angels programs.