Dr. Ravikiran Annaswamy of IEEE TEMS & Numocity Technologies

Biography:

Ravikiran Annaswamy is the Co-founder and CEO of Numocity Technologies. He is very passionate about clean mobility and is contributing to accelerating Electric Mobility in India and world market. His strategy is on using IOT, Analytics and Deep Learning to accelerate adoption of Electric vehicles and innovate through new business models of Energy as a service.

He has over 28 years of experience; as a serial entrepreneur and as a business leader at Nokia and Siemens. He was instrumental in launching and scaling, frugal and innovative solutions like Mobile Prepaid, Data Charging, and various VAS solutions in India and global markets. He championed Intrapreneurship by working as the Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks.

He is a serial entrepreneur and passionate to incubate new start-ups. He was the Co-founder of Deccan Institute of Innovation and Design, Co-Director at Founder Institute (Fi.com) Bangalore, Mentor at NUMA Bangalore and mentor and coach for many early stage start-ups. He is a charter member of TiE Bangalore.

He is passionate about the role of technology and engineering management in success of startups and product innovations. He is leading efforts globally as the board member and President of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Technology and Engineering Management society. Earlier, he was the chairman for IEEE Bangalore and on the board of IEEE Asia Pacific during 2014-17.

He is a thought leader and a speaker at numerous prestigious international business conferences. He has done his MBA from Indian institute of Management Bangalore and has graduated from UVCE Bangalore (University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering).

He also has a great passion for photography.

Dr. Mukesh Khare of IBM

Biography:

Dr. Mukesh V. Khare is General Manager of IBM Semiconductors division and Vice President of Hybrid Cloud research. He leads a global team of more than 1000 researchers and engineers that are re-defining the future of computing for next generation workloads such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing, and their delivery via hybrid multi cloud. His research agenda includes semiconductor process technology, chip design for accelerated computing, system architecture and hybrid cloud software. Throughout his career, Dr. Khare has built and driven collaborative research alliances that lead to breakthrough advances in computing, such as 7nm and 2nm chip technologies. In 2019, he championed the formation of the AI Hardware Center, a $2.3B initiative to drive innovations in AI hardware technologies through public-private partnerships.

He serves on the Board of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), which manages more than $100 million in funding for university research in the fields of semiconductors. He is also a member of key academic boards such as Purdue and the State University of New York where he focuses on helping to build the semiconductor industry workforce. In 2021, Mukesh was the recipient of the Asian American Executive of the year award for his vision and execution of breakthrough nanotechnology. Dr. Khare served as the General Chair of the 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology, has co-authored more than 100 research papers and holds many U.S. and international patents.

Dr. Khare is a recipient of an IBM Corporate Award, IBM’s highest technical award for his leadership in delivering innovative technologies and is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He holds a Master of Technology from IIT Bombay and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. He is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and sponsors initiatives such as PowerUp for women engineers.