Blockchain Conference

Our speaker for the day is a Rocket Scientist turned entrepreneur. He has done his schooling at the prestigious Doon School located in the foothills of the Himalayas. He was awarded the Gold Standard of the International Award for Young people that was presented by The Duke of Edinburgh that is awarded for excellence in a blend of cultural undertakings, sports, and service to the community.

Anish is also a professional Sitarist. He has given concerts alongside the famous drummer Sivamani, in a fusion music duet of Hindustani and western music. He has performed for well-known dignitaries of which a few include, Former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, His Holiness - Dalai Lama, Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Singh of the Dogra Dynasty whose family ruled the kingdom of Jammu & Kashmir.

Anish had also received a provisional patent for a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine in 2012 and has worked at NASA as a Collision Analyst for the Multiscale Magnetospheric Mission. He has also worked at Siemens in collaboration with the Department of Defense for Northrop Grumman warships where he programmed missiles’ projectiles, waypoints and optimized propulsion systems for these missiles.

One of his many startups, Hi-Tech Rickshaws was the first on-demand logistics platform that served auto rickshaws in India. The company was ranked amongst the top 5% startups of the world in 2014 at the RISE conference in Hongkong. The fleet was later acquired by Green Cabs.

Entering the blockchain space early, Anish has advocated the use of cryptocurrency and has recently Co-Founded Cryptocratz, a blockchain incubator that mentors companies and helps them adopt Smart AI engines,           blockchain technology and IOT for their existing frameworks.

Chirag is an Energy Trading and Risk Management Consultant with Wipro Technologies. Most recently, he led his team at Wipro to win a blockchain hackathon conducted by a trillion dollar consortium comprising of the largest energy and banking companies globally.

He also likes to share his learnings and has spoken at events in Singapore, London, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Apart from work, Chirag likes trekking, cricket and writing poetry.

A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Dane has a strong quantitative background and a passion for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

Over 12 years of experience in Product Development & Management in Investment banking/capital markets domain 

• Skilled in Product Management Lifecycle, encompassing market research, competitive analysis, product ideation & conceptualization, business analysis, release planning, product development, testing and release

• Proficient in end-to-end management of Business Analysis process entailing As-Is / To-Be Analysis, mapping & finalising requirements, developing functional specifications, determining the business scenario and mapping them into solutions

• Solid understanding of software product lifecycles for multi-stage long-term strategic initiatives for enterprise software or web-based products; expertise in proposing long term direction for the Product Technology Function and driving product growth, based on market insight and client feedback

• Domain expertise in Global Clearing & Settlement, Middle Office functions, Corporate Actions & Prime Brokerage in both US & Japanese markets

• Experience in working at international client locations in both US & Japan with Global top-tier investment banks for their critical transaction processing systems

• Extensive experience on large distributed transaction processing systems (GLOSS) and databases for the financial industry

• Possess strong leadership, communication, organizational and product management skills, with skills in pushing creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices and client mindsets.

Nagi Reddy is a tech guy and at the same time a person with a clear sense of business purpose. This wondrous composition and his ability to oversee the technology, strategy and research divisions with elan makes him the most prized possession at Cognier. Nagi Reddy dedicated the better part of the last decade exploring and researching new and ground breaking software technologies

Professional Summary

• Over the decade of IT industry experience and as a member in Kaggle, Nagi Reddy has delivered several data science projects to fortune 500 companies.

• Over the last 6 years  Nagi Reddy have been extensively working on Tableau Desktop & Server, R- Language, Python, ElasticSearch, Blockchain, Hyperledger, IBM Blockchain, Talend, Apache Spark, IBM Watson, and PowerBI.

• Authored research articles on Customer Loyalty, Sentiment Analysis, Google Analytics, BPO & Mysterious Shoppers and published them on my blog http://bnreddybi.blogspot.in/

• Nagi Reddy have been working as a trainer and trained around 3000 professionals from various MNCs on Tableau products, IBM Watson Explorer, Statistics, R, and Python (Data Science)

• Gained experience in implementation of Star and Snow Flake Schema

• Specialized in the descriptive and inferential statistics such as measure of central tendency, Probability, ANOVA, Correlation, Decision Trees, Time series, Hypothesis Testing and Clustering.

• Gained immense experience on supervised and unsupervised techniques such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, SVM, Naïve Bayes, KNN, K- Means, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Network, Association Rule Learning, Hierarchical Clustering, Outlier Detection, and Reinforcement Learning.

Ramki has 20 years of experience spanning across Military, Corporate and Startup ecosystems. Has managed and rolled out multiple digital transformational projects of Indian Navy & worked in the areas of Information Security, Cryptography & Ethical Hacking for 12 years. An entrepreneur by heart, started his second career with Wipro in 2010 and  After a enriching stint of 4 years heading Government/Defence Sales at Wipro. Then jumped into the entrepreneur-Ship in 2014 to startup in the area of B2B/B2C OTT business messaging.

Nexivo is his second startup started 2017 working on AI based Chatbots. Also currently building blockchain based products and smart contracts in MerkleTree Labs (a blockchain company of Nexivo)

An alumni of National Defence Academy & IIM Bangalore.

18 years experience in Architecture, Design, Strategy, Development and implementation of products and solutions focused on solving complex business problems at scale across various domains - Security, Cloud, Finance, Manufacturing, Virtualization, Monitoring, and Service Management. Held leadership roles in Architecture, Development and Strategy for more than 11 years and currently working as Sr. Architect for CA Identity Service (SaaS) 

Cloud/SaaS Solutions - Have experience in development of multi-tenant, SaaS based Service Delivery Platform for Service Providers, private cloud solutions for enterprises

Expertise in the development of multi-tenant, reusable, scalable, reliable, highly available and self-healing applications/products/solutions using various modern technologies and frameworks (SOA, BPEL, ESB, Messaging, Docker, OpenShift etc.). Adopted DevOps, API virtualization and Continuous integration during the application development.

Microservices architecture based application development and application delivery using modern container based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Expertise in development of API based reusable normalized generic integrations for various domains.
Recognized as a hands-on, innovative & pragmatic technologist.
Application development using the various development methodologies - Extreme Programming, Agile and Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe).