Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation, R&D &
Chairman, Forbes Marshall
Mr B Thiagarajan
Co- Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation,
R&D
Professor Ashutosh Sharma
President, INSA, Professor IIT Kanpur
Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, now Professor, IIM Bangalore
Mr Sameer Gandhi
Chairman, CII National Task Force on Robotics and MD, Omron Automation,
India
MS Vaishali Nigam Sinha
Chairperson, CII Women in STEM Initiatives and Chair, ReNew Foundation
and Chief Sustainability and CSR Officer ReNew Power
Mr Alok Nanda
Co- Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation, R&D and
CTO, GE Aerospace
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Chairman, CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2025 & Former MD and CEO,
Ashok Leyland and JCB India
Mr Vivek Shah
Vice-Chairman, CII National Committee on IP, and CEO Meril Life
Sciences
Mr Subhomoy Bhattacharya
Consulting Editor, Business Standard
Mr Harsh Vardhan
Head – Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres
Dr Saundarya Rajesh
Founder, AVTAR
R Saha
Senior Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
International Speakers 2025
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Head of Section, Economics and Statistics Division, and co-editor of The Global Innovation Index (GII) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Ms Roberta Romano-Goetsch
Chief Sustainability Officer, European Patent Office (EPO)