Architects - AnitaB India

December 2–4, 2025 | KTPO, Bengaluru

Pioneers of Grace Hopper Celebration India 2025

Introducing the brilliant minds driving Asia's largest gathering of women and allies in tech.

Advisory Committee

Anand Rao

Director

Avalara

Anuradha A

Executive Partner

IBM

Ashok Pamidi

Member, Governing Council, Trustee

SuperHuman Race Pvt. Ltd.

Jayashree Sundaresan

Senior Director of Engineering

Freshworks

Namrata Sherkhane

Senior Technical Specialist

Microsoft , Sales

Reena Rathi

Head of Business Development

Ex-Amazon

Sarika Atri

Co-founder

Xmplify.tech

Sobhitha Neelanath

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Salesforce

Jurors

AI: Today & Tomorrow

Track Lead

Palak Kamdar

Vice President

Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri

Director, Research Engineering

Thomson Reuters

Jurors

A Mani

AI Consultant (Mathematics), Former Woman Scientist, Senior Member

Independent, International Rough Set Society, Indian Statistical Institute

Agnibina Sengupta

Engineering leader

Delta Airlines

Anitha Palaniappan

Group Development Manager

Intuit

Aparana Gupta

Director of Engineering

Microsoft

Dr. Nimrita Koul

Associate Professional, Machine Learning

REVA University

Kalpana Kempanna

Senior Manager

Dell Technologies

Kaustubha V

Solution Architect

Microsoft

Kirti Rasal

Leader, Software Engineering

Cisco Systems

Mamatha Venkatesh

Senior Solution Architect

IBM Ecosystem Engineering SI Labs, Client Engineering

Maulika Patel

Principal

Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Institute of Tec

Ranjitha P R

HOE

Phonepe

Rekha Joshi

Distinguished Architect

Walmart

Remya Mohan Nair

Associate Director

Siemens EDA, Product Engineering

Sagunthala Anbazhagan

Product Manager

Oracle

Sandhya Venugopala

Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM

Sarika Sinha

AI Architect

IBM Systems Development Lab

Sivaraman Arumugam

Associate Director

Verizon

Sowmya Sharanabasavaraj Hiremath

Senior Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sripriya Venkatesan

Director and Chief Architect

Capgemini

Digital & Data, Cyber & Cloud

Track Lead

Jyotsnaa Rrajivv

Engineering Manager

Cloud security

Yeshoda Reddy

Leader Software Engineering

Cisco Systems

Jurors

Bindu Mithun

Cyber Security Architect

Wells Fargo

Dr S Umamaheswari

Associate Professor

Dr G Ramodaran College of Science

Gokilavani Dhanaraj

Dev-ops SRE

IBM

Josephine Eskaline Joyce

STSM (Chief Architect)

IBM India Pvt Ltd.

Kakoli Sen

Engineering Manager

Citicorp

Kanchivanam Muthukamu

Senior Software Engineering Leader

Dell Technologies

Kavitha Suresh Kumar

Principal Software Architect, Director

Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd, CTO

Madhavi Shankar

Senior Manager

Saks Global

Manjari Chitti

Senior Technical Architect

IBM, Cloud Advisory

Mini TT

Principal Security Architect

Celestica

MuthuKarapagam Rajamani

Solution Architect

Norton Liflock from Gen Digital

Nidhi Agarwal

Senior Staff Engineer/Manager

Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd

Poonam Shidiyali

Rachana Shenoy

Engineering Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Ranjini Kumaraswamy Joshi

Senior Cloud Security Specialist

World Wide Women in Cybersecurity

Ranjitha P R

HOE

Phonepe

Rohini Chavakula

AI Security Solution Architect

HPE

Sarika Jain

Senior Principal Software Engineer

RSA Security Applications

Shikha Maheshwari

Senior Software Architect

IBM

Shital Bhatiya

Director Product Engineering

Vidya Mani

Director

Oracle India Private Limited

Entrepreneurship

Track Lead

Fincy Mohamed Yousuff

Vice President for Growth

Equipo Health

Nida Sahar

CEO

Nife Labs

Jurors

Chitra A Gurjar

Fractional Head, Product Engineering

Scripbox

Dr Shraddha Danani

Founder-CEO

Aavo

Jayalekshmy Nair

Co-Founder & CTO

Skolarli Edulabs Pvt Ltd

Malthi SS

CEO

SparkProd Consulting

Ramya Ramalinga Moorthy

Assistant Vice President

Hexaware Technologies

Shilpa Nagavara

Software Architect

Globalization Partners

Shobana Navaneethakrishnan

Self-employed

Leadership Evolution: Emerging to Executive

Track Lead

P. Sapna Nair

Ex-General Manager/Managing Director at Ex-Saviynt/Eventbrite/Groupon/Intuit

Sugantha Rajkumari M

Vice President

Genpact India

Sukanya Patwardhan

Founder & CEO

MindBoutique

Jurors

Aakanksha Mathur

Senior Staff Software Engineer

IBM ISL

Anand Aphale

Technology Director

Wells Fargo

Anu Ravi

Vice President

ANZ

Anuradha Dwarakanath

Staff Technical Program Manager

Lam India Software Team

Ashu Thangaraj

Senior Director-Software Engineering

OpenText

Debjani Mukherji

Consultant

Deepanwita Bagchi

Founder

Art Escapes By Deepanwita

Dr Vishal Shah

VP – Leadership & OD

L&D

Garima Dhamija

Co-Founder

SDF Consulting

Gauri Chandra

Partner

Positive Momentum

Haripriya Rengerajan

Professor/Researcher

Multiple Universities

Indira Jois

Director

Kyndryl India US Delivery Integration

Mamtha Gopalikrishna

Software Engineer

NetApp

Mitcch Duddani

Business Head – Search and Selection

Hallmark Search Partners

Mrudula Jonnavithula

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Walmart Global Technology Services India Pvt Limited

Nagini Chandramouli

Vice President

Boa/Change Management

Nandini M

Engineering Program Manager

AI Technology PMO

Neelam Batra

Engineering Leader

Broadcom

Pooja

Sr Lead Software Engineer II

Globalization Engineering

Praveena Santosh Naik

Deputy General Manager

Continental Automotive Bangalore

Rachita Choudhary

VP Engineering

Raja Jamalamadaka

Mental wellness expert and Industry coach

Shilpi Mitra

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft India

Shruti Bansal

Lead Architect

SAP

Sireesha Suri

Data & AI Product Leader

Haleon

Smita Singh

Engagement Manager

Tata Consultancy Services

Sowmya Dhandapani

CTO

Flexibes

Sowmya Moni

Founder

WIBD India Foundation

Swapna Viswanath

Business Expert

Philips

Zainab Hyderi

Strategic Resource & Program Management Lead | Philanthropy Advocate

Strategy and Business Operations

Tech for Social Good & Ethics

Track Lead

Hina Sharma

Test Architect

Software

Yogini Ghante

Program Manager

Tech Mahindra

Jurors

Alpana Dhole

Consultant – Founder

TS solutions and consulting

Anupam Singh

Engineer Director

American Express

Baggyialakshmi N

Service Delivery Lead APAC

TCS

Bhagyasrie Masorkar

Technology Sales Leader

Sales/Business Development

Divya Muraleedharan

Deputy General Manager

Daimler Truck Innovation Center India

Divya Raj

Scrum master

Anz

Dr. Gomathi T

Associate Professor & HoD

CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

Moumita Mandal

Analytics Sr Product Manager

Analytics, Business Intelligence, Visualization

Poonam Singhal

Senior Engineering Manager

Adobe Systems

Priya Maria Rao

SRE Manager

IBM

Rishu Dalpati

Product & Strategy Lead – Developer Experience

Maersk Tech Global

Shailaja Padma

Lead Consultant

GDC, Expert Labs, IBM India

Sharmila Sekaran

Product Manager

Snehal Samprati

Director, Product Management

Partner Experience, Commercial LoB

Sowmyashree G S

Senior Cloud Engineer

ANZ

Veerubhotla Venkata Suneetha

Senior Manager – Chief of Staff

Uber Platform Engineering

Vivek Shah

Vice President

Goldman Sachs

Advancing Inclusion Program

Jurors

Anupama Itikirala

Founder

Mayukh,ai

Aparna Peri

Program Manager

Cognizant | Cloud Infrastructure Services

Dr. Neenu Garg

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Kirithiga Selladurai

Program Manager

Sandisk

Mahati Chandramohan

Senior Software Engineer

PayPal

Padmavathi Thontla

Senior Project Manager

Technology Expert Labs

Poonam Gupta

Technologist

SanDisk

Priya Venkateshan

Founder

Poomaalai.com

Ripal D Ranpara

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Computer Applications, Marwadi University

Shikha Pandey

PhD Scholar

Civil Engineering, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

Shikha Tomar

AI Engineering Manager

IBM

Siddhi Doshi

Senior Manager

IT – Enterprise Data Office

Sindhura Kandipati

Director of Product Management

Wadhwani Foundation

Sofiya C M

Consultant

TCS

Vaidehi S

Software Engineer

Vandana Soni

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart

Vatika Gupta

Principal Engineering manager

Microsoft

Yogita Vetale

Senior Solution Engineer

CSG

Abie Awards

Jurors

Anasuya Mohan Rao

Clinical Partnerships Leader

Magnetic Resonance Business Unit, Philips India Limited

Anjali Gupta

Group Engineering Manager

Intuit

Ramesh Rajini

Senior Principal Consultant Learning

Infosys

Ruchi Tandon

Leadership & Product Coach

Self-employed

Sai Sudha Shenoy

Product Manager

Dell Technologies

Sindhu N Kurup

Technology Head

Computershare

Sunitha Santosh Kumar

Project Manager & FinOps Practitioner

VOIS

Celebrating the Winners of Unbound with GenAI: Breaking Barriers, Creating Impact - Hackathon 2025

Congratulations to the brilliant minds who turned ideas into impact.

Winner

Team Light : Theme 4 (AI Voice Assistant for Financial Operations)

1. Bhanu Joshi

2. Ashok Jangeti

3. Leelajyothi Ramala

First Runner Up

Team NLU Crew : Theme 4 (AI Voice Assistant for Financial Operations)

1. Kriti Biswas

2. Karvendhan Mani

3. Priyadarshini Muthukrishnan

4. Stanley Kanagaraj

Second Runner Up

Team Token Flow : Theme 3 (AI for Social Impact: Empowering Communities and Social Good)

1. Thanu George

2. Taran Thimmaiah

3. Prakrithi Jain

Celebrating the Winners of Unbound with GenAI: Breaking Barriers, Creating Impact - Hackathon 2025

Congratulations to the brilliant minds who turned ideas into impact.

Winner

Team Light : Theme 4 (AI Voice Assistant for Financial Operations)

1. Bhanu Joshi | Email: bhanu@backbase.com

2. Ashok Jangeti | Email: vardhan_a@ymail.com

3. Leelajyothi Ramala | Email: leela.jyothi91@gmail.com

First Runner Up

Team NLU Crew : Theme 4 (AI Voice Assistant for Financial Operations)

1. Kriti Biswas | Email: kritibiswas.workmail@gmail.com

2. Karvendhan Mani | Email: karvsmech@gmail.com

3. Priyadarshini Muthukrishnan | Email: priyadarshinimk25@gmail.com

4. Stanley Kanagaraj | Email: stanimman@gmail.com

Second Runner Up

Team Token Flow : Theme 3 (AI for Social Impact: Empowering Communities and Social Good)

1. Thanu George | Email: thanu.george137@gmail.com

2. Taran Thimmaiah | Email: taranthimmaiah.cd23@bmsce.ac.in

3. Prakrithi Jain | Email: prakrithijain.cs23@bmsce.ac.in