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Nallan Sriraman

Global Head of Technology, Unilever

As the Head of Technology, reporting to Global CIO of Unilever, Sri is responsible for Technology Strategy, and application development of all data, information and analytics capabilities for Unilever. He joined Unilever in Sept 2017, and is responsible for building the foundational capabilities like Data Lake, Machine learning and deep learning systems that will enable Unilever becoming AI driven. Before joining Unilever, he spent 21 years at Thomson Reuters in various senior roles including VP of application development, Chief Architect and led Reuters Innovation Lab in New York. Before Reuters, Sri has consulted for four years on large-scale systems implementations and provided architecture and technology strategy expertise to a variety of institutions. Sri earned his Advanced Masters diploma in Global Enterprise from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and MS from Bharadhisasan University. Sri is married with two teenage children and currently lives in Bangalore.

Nikhil Kumar

Fellow, iSpirt Foundation

Nikhil is a full-time fellow with iSPIRT Foundation, a not for profit think-tank and has been focussed on building an ecosystem for the Unified Payments Interface. Recently, as a volunteer with NPCI, he led the product development of BHIM Payments App launched by PM Modi. Nikhil also works with Banks, Start-ups to help them leverage Digital Infrastructure built by the govt. like - Aadhaar eKYC, eSign, DigitalLocker, & UPI collectively known as the IndiaStack. Prior to this, Nikhil worked at strategic roles at Exotel, Intuit & Tally. He was also the CoFounder of Voyce, a B2B start-up which was acquired by Exotel in 2015.

Zikry Kholil

Co-founder, The Incitement

Zikry is arguably one of the most significant upcoming thought leaders in the humanitarian sector, and is internationally sought-after to deliver keynotes at a wide variety of high-level industry conferences. He is listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016, Top 100 World Visionary Leader 2016 alongside notable figures like Malala, and voted as Top 10 Malaysia's Most Innovative Entrepreneurs. Recently, Zikry shared his vision on fintech application in the humanitarian sector at the Finance Tech Innovation 2017 event in Singapore. National ice hockey player, radio DJ, Sales Analyst, diplomat - Zikry is a man who's worn many hats. Zikry cofounded Incitement in late 2011, which started off as a movement aiming to transform people's inspiration into tangible action steps towards their personal growth and helping challenged communities.