Health Care

Milind has 25 years of experience in building Enterprise Software. He is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
He is currently the co-founder & CTO of Pratiti Technologies Driving technology implementations in IoT, Digital enterprise and Healthcare domains.
Instrumental in building Business applications and data platform for Industry 4.0 application stack.
He also has experience in building IoT applications for renewable energy asset monitoring, discrete manufacturing, logistics Smart Home platform etc.
He has a vast Exposure to building enterprise solutions for large industrial customers, Enterprise Integrations & Data exchanges.
He also holds expertise in designing and Manufacturing Engineering solutions.

Stefan is Services Innovation Leader for Philips. In this role, he leads a team of over 400 software engineers and product managers to develop and deliver the remote and IoT capability for Philips devices. The team also provides innovative, data and software driven services to enable the digital transformation of Philips customers.

Before joining Philips, Stefan has served in several senior business and technology leadership roles at Siemens. He was head of strategy for the Digital Industries Software business, facilitating the expansion of portfolio and the transition to a SaaS business model, and head of the automotive industry practice, introducing solutions to tackle key challenges of the industry.

Stefan is a dual citizen of the US and Germany with broad international experience, born and raised in Germany and living in the US since 2001. He holds a PhD in Physics.

Rajiv in his current role as VP Global alliances with Siemens digital industry software business unit, Rajiv is involved with driving global strategic partnerships to help customers realize their digital enterprise aspirations. Rajiv comes with over 30 years’ cross Industry and cross-cultural experience that includes global and regional P&L leadership responsibilities across manufacturing, energy & infrastructure sectors and holds an honors degree in electrical & electronics engineering. In his tenure with Siemens, Rajiv has been instrumental in incubating startup business around Industrial IOT & Cyber security, built vertical market practice for data center vertical and developed the ISV ecosystem around the IOT platform MindSphere. Rajiv has also been a founding member & past director of the European association for Data Centers and is the chairman of executive committee for not-for-profit Industrial IoT business community (MindSphere world) in North America which he helped set up. Rajiv is part of the advisory board for the Georgia Institutes of Informatics’, University of Georgia.

Prashant is Co-founder and COO at Pratiti Technologies. Throughout his career, his passion has been to help improve and transform business processes, by delivering NextGen products leveraging latest technologies. In the first 15 years, his focus was on the manufacturing industry and technologies such as 3D CAD/CAM. Since the last 10 years, his focus has been on applying Digital technologies such as cloud, IoT and AI in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, energy and manufacturing.
Prashant is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta. He will be our moderator for the session today.

In his 25+ years of career, Nitin has played key roles in building software solutions right from ideation to deployment. As a Co-founder and CEO of Pratiti Labs Inc., he is committed to applying his management learning as well as the passion for building new solutions to realize end-client innovation with certainty. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Helios IoT Systems – an energy analytics solution company that developed a patented digital twin, IoT and advanced analytics based solution – Apollo. He recently drove a strategic technical partnership between AVEVA and Helios IoT Systems and led Apollo solution to the ‘Next Gen Product of the Year’ recognition. Through his unique leadership style and innovation mindset, Nitin has also led Pratiti to several awards and recognitions from the partner ecosystem including ‘Siemens Partner of the Year’ as well as leading analyst organizations like Frost & Sullivan, Zinnov and NASSCOM.
Through his many achievements in product engineering and leading two successful organizations, Nitin has gained impeccable and tangible skills in crafting and leading custom digital solutions to solve business problems across various industries.

Girish is the founder of Shoonya and an expert in delivering Effective Business Solutions using Immersive Technologies. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Games Technology from the University of Abertay, Scotland. 
After working in the Video Games industry for 5 years in Scotland, he came back to India in 2009 and founded Shoonya, with the aim of exploring applications of Immersive Technologies beyond Video Games. He has been through the evolution of Immersive Technologies like Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality right since their inception and has a deep understanding of how to effectively deliver AR/VR solutions that provide real business value.
Over the past 13+ years, Girish has worked on several projects in industry sectors including Aviation, Transportation, Real Estate, Automobile, Energy, Telecom and Manufacturing, with clients across India, UK, Europe, Middle East and Singapore.

Ron Fritz is CEO and co-founder of Tech Soft 3D, the company that supplies underlying 3D technology to more than 700 companies developing engineering software, including Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault, PTC, Bentley, Trimble, ANSYS and many others. More recently, Tech Soft 3D has been providing technologies for CAD import to Digital Twin players including Unity, Unreal and nVidia Omniverse. Ron had led the company since it was founded in 1996 with a focus on business strategy and growth initiatives. The company is headquartered in Oregon in the United States with R&D offices in California, France and Norway.

Deepak Konnur has 40+ years of experience in the Energy Utility business. Presently he is engaged with Adani Transmission as Advisor Digitalization helping technology and business teams to increase their productivity, predictability, reliability, efficiency through improved data and analytics backed informed decision making and to achieve enhanced returns on the assets deployed.
He had worked as Chief Digital Officer, Tata power and was responsible for evangelizing and accelerating digitization initiatives & interventions across all entities of Tata Power.
Prior to Joining Tata Power, Deepak was working with IBM as Vice President – Energy & Utilities Industry Solutions
Deepak has long background in OT & IT Management and has developed and deployed OT & IT plans that achieve strategic business goals.
Deepak is an Electrical Engineer and has done post graduation in Business Administration.