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At apidays, the health and safety of our community, speakers and partners always comes first. As the COVID-19 situation remains uncertain, we will continue to present our 2021 events in a digital way. Looking forward to seeing you at our apidays LIVE series.
With over 500 million smartphone users, India is rapidly adopting e-commerce, mobile banking, payments and digital services. Across financial services, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, transport and healthcare, companies are accelerating their digital transformation to connect to customers, partners, distributors and supply chains, developing new business models and ways to serve.
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With over 500 million smartphone users, India is rapidly adopting e-commerce, mobile banking, payments and digital services. Across financial services, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, transport and healthcare, companies are accelerating their digital transformation to connect to customers, partners, distributors and supply chains, developing new business models and ways to serve.
This is supported by the Indian Government’s foundational India Stack digital infrastructure, including the Aadhaar national digital identity, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), account aggregation (DEPA), and the National Health Stack.
Apidays India 2021 brings together local and international experts to share how APIs are enabling innovation and resilience, and democratising access to services for India’s 1.3 billion people.
Co-Founder of FlexiLoans.com
An alumnus of IIT Bombay and ISB Hyderabad, Abhishek is an accomplished entrepreneur with multiple startups (Thought Partners, Join My Moment, FlexiLoans.com). He is currently the co-founder of FlexiLoans.com - a machine led lending platform using advanced applications of algorithms. He is one of the top speakers and content contributor in Indian Lending ecosystem for data science applications and has spoken at events like Tie Mumbai, IAMAI, Digital Money 2017, Data Giri Meetups, Barclays ISME sessions, Payments Summit by Economic Times, India Fintech Awards and many more.
Prior to FlexiLoans.com, Abhishek was associated with Fractal Analytics in London as a Vice President. In 2016, he permanently moved back to India to be a part of the emerging FinTech landscape and founded FlexiLoans.com. In 2021, he was featured in the Business World 40 under 40 list.
IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Financial Services at IBM
Bharat is a client-facing IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Financial Services. He has direct responsibility for Client Value, Technical Excellence, Business Outcomes and IBM’s Eminence. He is focused on three specific areas – innovation that matters to clients and the society at large – delivering growth for IBM – empower the technical community to spearhead new opportunities through positive leadership.
Bharat has served in a variety of technical leadership roles. He has twenty-six years of hands-on experience across industries and sectors. His areas of expertise and interests include Open Finance, Platform Business Models, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Technology Strategy and Transformation of the Enterprise Architecture.
Chief Operating Officer at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
COO at NPCI, running the business and delivery.
Prior to that, managed cash management for Kotak Mahindra Bank and was with HSBC managing payments for Asia.
Over 25 years of professional career, have built expertise in various facets of banking across transaction banking, retail banking, cards, wholesale and commercial banking working with KMBL, HSBC and Citi.
Have worked in India, Hong Kong and Japan, and am currently based in Mumbai
Passionate about the contribution emerging payment systems and technology solutions can make to users and businesses Have been on the committees of payment organisations and advisory groups.
Head of Product Management, Mobile Financial Solutions at Comviva
CEO and Managing Director of DigiAlly
Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist at Setu
Nikhil Kumar is the Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Setu. Nikhil was earlier with the iSPIRT Foundation, where he worked on building a vibrant developer ecosystem for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN). Before starting up, Nikhil worked together with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani on the “India Stack" of Aadhaar and UPI.
VP, AI for India at Jio
Dr. Shivani is thought leader in analytics and AI with two decades of experience in global diversified delivery, innovation and business development. She is an expert in Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning and AI driven automation. She has experience in Banking,CPG, Retail BPO and ITO industries. Working with unstructured data like voice, image, document and video is her current passion and was instrumental to develop many new solutions using AI.
She has joined Jio 6 months back and working of critical initiatives in telecom, healthcare and sports verticals
In her earlier role, Dr. Shivani was leading the Data Science & AI competency for Financial Services @ Capgemini, APAC. Prior to Capgemini, Shivani has worked in Multinational corporations like HP , HSBC, Fiserv, Mphasis, & Mindtree, where she was leading the analytics delivery and innovation centers for US, Costa Rica and India, prior to her corporate experience she was teaching @ IIM Indore. She holds a PhD (Design of experiment) from Indore and Hiroshima University and currently is in board of directors for data science in NMIMS
Engineering Manager at FourKites
Result oriented software engineering leader with proven experience in solving real world problems, building and delivering quality products, thriving in challenging environments, hitting market within stipulated schedule, understand and analyze product performance, customer feedback, iteratively improvise, and contribute to growth of organization and self. Having significant experience in leading agile teams building high performing, scalable, and reliable solutions.
Technical Writer at Zoho Corporation
Principal Solution Engineer at Confluent
Co-Founder & CTO at Karate Labs
ABOUT
Peter is recognized as one of the world’s top experts in test-automation. He brings 25 years of industry experience from which he has been in open source for the last 18 years. Peter was one of only 15 chosen by GitHub for a grant in India 2021.
He has worked at Yahoo and Intuit. As part of the API platform leadership at Intuit, Peter created “Karate” – an open-source unified platform combining API testing, API performance testing, API mocks and UI testing. Since the first version of Karate was released six years ago, Karate has >1 million monthly downloads, is used by 415+ companies including 42 of the Fortune 500.
He co-founded Karate Labs Inc. in 2021 to accelerate the adoption of Karate with the mission of making test automation fun and collaborative.
Group Chief Information Officer at Lulu
Piyush Chowhan is a digital evangelist with a passion for transforming businesses with the use of technology. With over two decades of experience working with global consumer and retail companies, he has an excellent track record of delivering results and creating value across organizations. His vision is creating innovation-focused digital strategies to maximize today’s opportunities and prepare organizations for future disruptions. His passion for working with startups and innovation-led companies has given him the edge to create digital assets for organizations with the use of the latest technologies like Analytics, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence. He has been a widely recognized leader in digital transformation and has been a much-wanted speaker at over 100 global events. He is an avid writer and his thought leadership is published in multiple magazines and portals.
Co-founder of Hyperface Technologies
Banker at heart, Passionate about reimagining banking and money management! Reach out to me if you are a Bank/Fintech/ Neobank looking to build great products that bring the best of technology and customer experience together.
Head Digital Initiatives & Algo Trading at Angel Broking
With my experience in the Fintech industry, I have worked with some of the best organizations of the country - Angel Broking and Kotak Mahindra Bank.
I am a seasoned product person, have played pivotal roles in driving growth both in my current and previous organizations by delivering game changing products. Currently I am working on building Algo trading business for Angel broking where I have pioneered Open API platform through which all Algo traders and Fintechs of broking industry can leverage our APIs to execute their trading ideas.
Head - Products and Standards at DigiSahamati
Solutions Engineering Head at Confluent
Managing Director at TaUB Solutions
Suresh GP is Managing Director of Taub Solutions with over 20+ years of Industry Experience in ITSM, Agile, DevOps, BRM, and Cybersecurity. As part of Taub Solutions, Suresh GP delivers high-quality consulting, training, and business simulations around IT Management Best Practices to Fortune 2000 Organizations globally. He specializes in Gamification and Business Simulations to demonstrate how theory can be brought into real-time action.
Suresh is also the Global Ambassador of DevOps Institute and Regional Ambassador of BRM Institute for Asia Pacific Region. Suresh has been awarded the Top 25 Influencers in ITSM for 2018, 2019, 2020 by HDI USA. Suresh was also a recipient of Top 2021 BRM by BRM Institute and Global Community Impact for 2020. Suresh is a Thought Leader who speaks in International conferences and Public Forums with pragmatic insights on IT Management trends and Experiential Learning.
Software Development Consultant at Guardian Life
Rohit is an adroit professional with more than 10 years of work experience with demonstrated success in the design, development, and maintenance of highly scalable enterprise applications for various product domains such as Education, Wealth Management, Travel, Automobile & Insurance (Absence Management).
To keep his entrepreneurship desire active he has tried his hands on both service and product based software development.
He developed one product as Cafoo to provide a hassle free dine in experience to via combining some cab/travel experience with restaurant services.
Analytics Manager at Goldstone Technologies Limited
Domain Architect at NGINX (Part of F5)
Highly experienced in IAM(OKTA/Azure AD/Auth0),API Gateways(KONG/Apigee), API security(OIDC/OAuth2) Enterprise integration pattern, Microservices, SOA design, JEE,Springboot development & design.My unique experience in Microservices architecture design, security, agile methodologies & delivery using patterns would bring huge value and culture to the organisations. My keen & positive attitude towards any new technology makes my learning curve very agile and my extensive experience in service and integration delivery add key value to the Organisation. My key skills relies on delivery focus design, cutting edge design , no compromise in quality delivery, inspiring leadership to guide team members towards successful delivery and make the environment fun and productive. I have outstanding devops experience, which would help organisation to keep up in right cutting edge devops path.
Head of Corporate Development - APCJ & MENA at DevOps Institute
Dheeraj is currently working as the Global Community Ambassador along with the Region Head for APJ & MEA region at DevOps Institute, headquartered in the USA.
Dheeraj is a certified Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP®) & holds multiple credentials as a certified DevOps Leader (DOL)®, certified SRE & DevOps professional and also the first officially announced CDF Ambassador.
Dheeraj has built sustainable strategic partnership with Fortune500 Enterprises globally and has built massive online, social global communities while evangelizing and launching several successful global initiatives with thousands of members, Industry leaders, partners and practitioners.
Senior Product Owner, API Marketplace at Standard Chartered Bank
Co-Founder & CTO of Qualysec Technologies
Solutions Engineer at Confluent
Naveen Nandan is a Senior Solutions Engineer with Confluent and works with customers and partners to help design, architect and implement event-streaming systems. Previous experience includes various aspects of systems architecture. Outside of work he is interested in sports, food and movies.
CTO at Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)
I am a technology entrepreneur with close to two decades of experience in building products. I am passionate about products and get my creative kick in building them the way they should be - Easy to Use and Easy to Maintain.
I am also a Startup enthusiast and love working with Startups. I have worked with a whole set of them in the telecom, banking, enterprise, supply chain and Internet Spaces.
I am excited by the way the new digital world is transforming the business landscape. I keenly follow Internet of Things, Cloud Technologies, Analytics and Disruptive Commerce Models.
Head of Marketing at Sendbird
I am a senior marketing leader with 20+ years of experience in a variety of technology marketing roles. I have worked for both early-stage startups as well as multi-billion dollar companies responsible for both marketing strategy and execution.
As a veteran product marketeer, I have helped bridge the business technology divide within companies. I have experience working with product managers and engineers to build products as well as with sales and marketing teams to take those products to market.
Director, API Management and Gateway Cloud Integration at IBM
For the past 20 years, Tony has been focused on helping organizations leverage data and application integration technologies to maximize the impact of their digital assets to fuel business transformation. After years of building solutions with customers, he joined the IBM Offering Management team where he led the strategy and roadmap for a set of integration, quality and governance technologies. Now as the Director of API Management and Gateway, Tony leads a worldwide team focused on helping customers through their digital transformation, spanning both cloud and on-premise topologies.
President of Global Foundation for Health and Hygiene
Public health leader with over 25 years of experience working across the globe mainly on infectious diseases control programming in a wide variety of health systems. Currently works in multiple roles: (1) President, Global Foundation for Health and Hygiene, USA (2) Professor and Head of Public Health, Global Institute of Public Health, India and (3) Part-time Director, Public Health; Dure Technologies, Geneva (https://duretechnologies.com/). In addition, took over as the President of the Kerala Chapter of All India Professionals' Congress (https://www.profcongress.com/) from 1st June 2020.
Regional Vice President, India at F5 Networks
Executive Director and Head of Strategy at SBI Mutual Fund
Head Digital | Innovation | Architecture at DCB Bank
Prasanna Lohar has over 18 years of industry experience in engineering & development, product development, organization strategy & governance, risk audit compliance management, business process management, enterprise architecture, mobile apps, digital transformation, fintech, e-commerce, payments, platform and product innovation, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, open stack, cloud computing, analytics, big data, IOT, blockchain, UI-UX, product roadmap strategy, business development , leadership & team building.
Head Technology Management Group & Software Development at ICICI Bank
Tech Specialist at IBM Automation
Senior Software Development Engineer at FourKites
Founder of OpenDevX
Seasoned technology & architecture leader, lapsed entrepreneur.
My major tech interests are centred around Systems Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Distributed Systems & Functional Programming. I continue to remain hands-on with tech and while at it, I enjoy coding.
Co-organiser at apidays India 2021
Founder & Chairman of apidays
ABOUT
Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.
Founder & CEO of Decentro
Rohit Taneja is the Founder & CEO of Decentro, a full-stack API banking platform for financial integrations. A fintech serial entrepreneur with over 6 years of experience, he founded Decentro in the pursuit of simplifying the product integration cycle by ~10X and reducing capital expenditure by ~80%.
Decentro is backed by notable names such as Y Combinator and Plug & Play, along with angel investors.
Prior to this, Rohit, an IIT graduate, co-founded his first venture Mypoolin in 2015, which was the country’s first social payments platform and a payments infrastructure provider. After raising two rounds of funding, Mypoolin was acquired by a California-based global payments player Wibmo in 2017, which in turn was acquired by Naspers-backed PayU in 2019.
As the Director of Engineering, he had encountered the same hurdles when leading the India and SEA markets in terms of their payment gateway and banking integrations, which inspired him to raise a solution.
Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organisations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease of use, scalability, security, and flexibility to run in real time.
As we move into the API economy, there are huge opportunities for new and innovative solutions. In order to unlock value with new business models and winning experiences you need the help of an API management solution that enables automated API creation, simple discovery of assets, self-service access for developers, and built-in security and governance. IBM would like to be your partner on this journey, sharing our expertise and experiences to help maximize the value of APIs for your enterprise. More information: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/api-connect
Engineering teams around the world rely on New Relic to visualise, analyse, and troubleshoot their software. New Relic One is the most powerful cloud-based observability platform built to help companies create more perfect software. Customers trust New Relic for improved uptime and performance, greater scale and efficiency, and accelerated time to market.
NGINX, Inc., now part of F5, is the company behind the popular open source project, powering half of the world’s busiest sites and applications. The company’s comprehensive application delivery platform combines load balancing, API gateway and management, content caching, web serving, security controls, and monitoring in one easy-to-use software package, allowing enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications and deliver new, microservices-based applications. NGINX customers rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.
At Sendbird, we are building the most scalable and powerful chat API in the world, serving a wide-range of use cases across communities, marketplaces, on-demand services, games, and e-commerce. We’re a Y Combinator alumnus and have raised over $120M from leading investors including Shasta Ventures, August Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Tiger Global Management, and FundersClub. The company is global with a headquarters in San Mateo and an Asia-Pacific headquarters in Seoul.
Fivetran automated data integration dynamically adapts to schema and API changes, ensuring reliable data access, and accelerates analytics with ready-to-query schemas and managed in-warehouse transformations.
