SPEAKERS
GOVERNMENT DIGNITARIES SPEAKERS 2024
Shri Suresh Prabhu
Indian politician and Former Cabinet Minister
Gov of India
Dr R A Mashelkar
Former Director General
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Philip Green
OAM
Australia’s High Commissioner to India
May-Elin- Steiner
Ambassador
Norway to India
Rajesh Kumar
Chief Engineer, Energy Storage Systems
CEA, Ministry of Power
Bhupinder Singh Bhalla
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
V.L Kantha Rao
Secretary
Ministry of Mines
Dr. Hanif Qureshi
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Heavy Industries
Rajesh Agrawal
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Commerce
Vijay Mittal
Joint Secretary, DHI
Ministry of Heavy Industries
Dinesh Jagdale
Joint Secretary
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Dr. Veena Kumari Dermal
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Mines
Sudhendu J Sinha
Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & E-Mobility)
NITI Aayog
Dr Preeti Banzal
Adviser/ Scientist ‘G’
Government of India
Rajnath Ram
Adviser (Energy)
NITI Aayog
Gauri Singh
Deputy Director-General
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Ghanshyam Prasad
Chairperson, CEA
Ministry of Power
Jishnu Barua
Chairperson
Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)
R P Gupta
Chairman & MD
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
Hemanth Pandey
Chief Engineer
Ministry of Power
Abhay Bakre
Director General
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
Vishal Kapoor
CEO
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)
S R Narasimhan
Chairman and Managing Director
GRID India
Nashid Chowdhury
WA Trade & Investment Commissioner, Government of Western Australia
Shri Sunil Barthwal
Secretary
Ministry of Commerce, and Industry
V P Yadhav
Scientist E & DH, Central Pollution Control Board
INDUSTRY LEADERSSPEAKERS 2024
Vijayanand Samudrala
President
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd
Vikram Handa
MD
Epsilon Carbon
Suman Mishra
Managing Director & CEO
Mahindra Last Mile Mobility
Vikram Gulati
Country Head & Executive V.P. (Corporate Affairs & Governance)
Toyota Kirloskar Motor
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
President & MD, CES India & President
India Energy Storage Alliance
Rajat Verma
Founder & CEO
Lohum
Raj Surendran
CEO
Tianqi Lithium Australia Energy Limited
Hiren Pravin Shah
Executive Director & CEO
Replus Engitech
Anil Kumar
Chief Operating Officer
Nash Energy
Cristian Valdes Carter
Country Director & Commercial Counsellor - India
Innovation Norway
Denise Eaton
Trade and Investment, Commissioner
Austrade
John Wood
Chief Executive Officer
Gelion
Danielle Griffiths
Commercialization Manager
Future Batteries Industries CRC
Dr Kyle D'Silva
Director, Clean Energy, Analytical Instruments Group
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Stephen Fernands
President
Customized Energy Solutions
Julia Souder
CEO
LDES Council
Inge André Espedal
Chief Executive Officer
Sagavolt
David Pearce
General Manager, Sales and Distribution
Kardinia Energy
S Ramanathan
Managing Director
Automotive Test Systems
Dr. A K Jindal
Design and Development- Electric and Defence Vehicles
Tata Motors
Kenneth Bodahl
CEO
Pixii AS
Awadhesh Jha
Executive Director
GLIDA
Sunit Kapur
Chief Executive Officer
Epsilon Advanced Materials
Debi Prasad Dash
Executive Director
IESA
Thomas Coughlin
President
IEEE
Akash Kaushik
Co-Founder
Good Enough Energy
Satish Talmale
Chief Operating Officer
Indigrid
Inder Bhambra
Country Head- BD & Sales
Envision Energy
Rupam Raja
Chief Commercial Officer
Fluence
Avishek Kumar
Co-Founder and CEO
VFlowTech
Sriram Ramanoudjame
Director Strategic Marketing
Blue Solutions
Harsh Thacker
Director and Analyst- Emerging Tech
Customized Energy Solutions
Saurav Mitra
Director, Market Development, Energy Storage Business
Sumitomo SHI FW
Pinaki Bhattacharyya
Founder, MD and CEO
AmpIn Energy
Vikas Aggarwal
Managing Director
Ipower Batteries
A.K. Shukla
Founder and MD
Sanvaru
Vikas Almadi
Chairman and Managing Director
VNT
Dr Desikan Sundararajan
India MD
Equinor
Gurusharan Dhillon
Director, Electric Mobility
IESA & CES
Rajendra Narkhede
Senior Vice President
Gexcon
Sharan Aiyappa
OEM Director - Sales & Marketing
MacDermid
Surbhi Goyal
Senior Energy Specialist
The World Bank
Venkat Rajaraman
CEO
Cygni Energy
Vishal Chaturvedi
Business Head - Ola Cell
Ola Electric
Dr. Vishnu Budama
CEO
Pune Hydrogen Valley
Scott Hamilton
Senior Advisor
Smart Energy Council
Dammica Wickramaratne
Chairman
Eco33 Pte
Ankit Adhiya
Sr. Manager, Application Engineering
Ansys India
Victoria Pope
Global Sales Development Manager, Clean Energy
Thermofisher Scientific
Jørgen Festervol
CEO
Heimdall Power
Vinay Solanki
Business Head
Nash Tech Labs
William Tope
CEO
LiNa Energy
Artur Zawadski
CEO
Sunrise CSP Pty
Varun Shahani
General Manager-Head Energy Infrastructure
Hero MotoCorp
Nehal Divekar
Director- Emerging Technologies
Customized Energy Solutions
Jagjit Singh
Director of BD, APAC and Global Markets
EVOS Energy Pty
Sandeep Gambhir
CEO
Vertelo
Netra Walawalkar
VP, India Markets
Customized Energy Solutions
Dr Saifur Rahman
Past President
IEEE
Dr. Manne Venkateswarlu
CTO
Khushmanda Power
Mukesh Kolhe
Advisor
Green Gravity
Puneet Thakur
Head of Investment and Innovation Collaboration
Business Finland
Bhupesh Verma
Manager, Market Research
CES & IESA
Shekhar Kashalikar
Chief Executive Officer
John Cockerill Greenko Hydrogen Solutions
Siddharth Mayur
Founder
Managing Director & CEO, h2e Power Systems
Aniruddha Kulkarni
Managing Director
Cavendish Renewables Tech
Yngve Schrøder Tufteland
International Sales Manager
UMOE Advanced Composites
Dr Jeewan Prakash Gupta
Managing Director
Greenstat Hydrogen India Pvt. Ltd.
Dr Ajinkya Kamat
Sr. Manager
IESA & Customized Energy Solutions
Arjun Mehta
India Lead - Business Development & Strategy
Fortescue
Nishaanth Balashanmugam
Country Manager–India
Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2)
Anjan Merkap
Engagement Manager
Customized Energy Solution
Dr Debaraj Mishra
Managing Director
Sangeel India Recycling
Dr. R. Venugopal
Ex-Joint Chief Controller of Explosives
PESO
Deepak Mohapatra
Senior Officer – Business and Market Development
Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)
Sanjiv Kanwar
Country Manager
Yara India
Vinay Sawant
Sr. Simulation Engineer, FEA
3D Engineering Automation LLP
Akash Saraf
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Consultant
Customized Energy Solutions
Sri Purisai
Founder & Managing Director, Chakra Growth Capital
Dr Deepak Kundalkar
Manager - Green Hydrogen Initiatives, Customized Energy Solutions
Utsav Sharma
Manager (R&D)
Prasanna Deshpande
Application Engineering Manager
MathWorks
Sadashiv Samantaray
CEO
Kabil
Anshuman Divyanshu
Chief Executive Officer- EV
EXICOM
Himanshu Chattwal
Sr Sales Manager- India
MathWorks
Haresh Bhere
Chief Technology Officer
Reliance Jio-BP
Kirti Varma
Co-Founder & COO
Altmin
Peter Mockel
Principal Industry Specialist
IFC
Rubin Pather
Chief Operating Officer
Reliance Jio-BP
Wilhelm Von Butselaar
VP-APAC Growth
Fluence
Rohit Luamas
Mining & Supply Chain Consultant
CES
Aravind Kumar Chandiran
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Madras
Kuldeep Rana
Director
MNRE
Rajwar Chandra
Product Specialist
Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
Manjunath Vittala Rao
Regional Standards Manager - South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
UL Standards & Engagement
Sebastian Weyermann
Sr. Business Development Manager,-CMD
Thermofisher Scientific
Dr Barry Pearce
Strategic Key Accounts Manager- Clean Energy
Thermofisher Scientific
Adam Bloom
CEO
Edina
Utkarsh Mishra
Global Innovation Portfolio Lead
Hero MotoCorp
J K Jethani
Scientist F
MNRE
Kunal Daga
Founder & Director
Molsynth
Abhijeet Dande
Deputy Director
Aker solutions
Gurpreet Bhatia
Managing Director & CEO
Livguard Energy
Sai Charan Kuppili
Technical Director
South & Central Asia, Jinko Solar
Chetan Jain
Sr. Vice President-Business Operations
LOHUM CLEANTECH
Mukesh Dadhich
Head-Business Development, Sustainability & Clean Technology
BSES Yamuna Power
Sunil Sharma
Commercial Executive
BSES Yamuna Power
Vinayak Walimbe
VP- Emerging Technologies
Customized Energy Solutions
Swadesh Kumar Srivastava
Head Business Unit, Emerging Mobility
Hero MotoCorp
Suman Mishra
CEO
Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Private Limited
Christine Vincent
Venture Principal
Shell Ventures
Vivekanand Kumar
Whole Time Director
Exicom
Rajiv kumar Singh
R&D Lead - Platform
Rakesh Malhotra
Founder
Livguard
Niranjan C.
Chief Operating Officer
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd.
Anant Misra
Vice President - EV Business
Livguard Energy
Arvind Kakru
Vice President – Industrial Automation
Schneider Electric
Oda Marie Ellefsen
Technical Sales Manager
Morrow
Dr Harin Kanani
Managing Director
Neogen Chemicals
Srivats Gopalan
Senior Manager
Lohum
Rohit Laumas
Mining & Supply Chain Consultant
CES
Naresh Lalwani
Executive Vice President
JSW Energy
Dr. K. Balasubramanian
Principal Investigator and Director
NFTDC, Hyderabad
ALN Rao
Consultant-circularity & Sustainability in E-waste, Battery, Plastic and Critical Minerals
Akshay Kashyap
Managing Director
Greenfuel Energy Solutions
Amol Chavan
Head of Strategy - Emerging Mobility Business Unit
Hero MotoCorp
Dr Om Krishan Singh
Scientist ‘D’/Joint Director (R&D in Electronics & IT)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Gautam Patil
Head of Strategy and New Initiatives
Cygni Energy
Pratyush Sinha
VP- Special Products
Lohum
Vijay Kedia
Long-Term Investor
Kedia Securities
Speakers 2023
Dr. N Kalaiselvi
Director General,
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) & Secretary, DSIR
Hanif Qureshi
Joint Secretary
DHI
Ministry of Heavy Industries
Dr. Tata Narasinga Rao
Director
International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI)
Dr. K Balasubramanian
Director
Non-ferrous Materials Technology Development Centre (NFTDC)
Prof. Suddhasatwa Basu
Director
Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT)
Dr. Abhilash
Sr. Principal Scientist & Associate Professor (AcSIR), Group Leader- SRUG, Metal Extraction and Recycling Division, National Metallurgical Laboratory
Aravind Kumar Chandiran
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Head, Centre for Photo- and Electro-Chemical Energy Sciences (C-PEC), IIT M
Gert Meylemans
Director Communications and Stewardship, EUROBAT
Vijayanand Samudrala
President - New Energy
Amararaja Batteries Ltd.
Dr. Ashish Lele
Director
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory
Ruturaj Govilkar
Country Manager and Managing Director, India
Black & Veatch
Vikram Handa
Managing Director
Epsilon Carbon Pvt Ltd
Sunita Satyapal
Director
U.S. Department of Energy
Siddharth Mayur
Founder & Managing Director
h2e Power Systems Pvt Ltd
Anil Choudhary
VP Automotive & Materials
BASF India
V K Saraswat
Member
NITI Aayog
Dr. Venkateswarlu Manne
Director, R&D Services
Customized Energy Solutions (India)
Julia Souder
Executive Director
Long Duration Energy Storage Council
Michael Hoff
CTO
American Battery Solutions
Mukesh Dadhich
Head
Sustainability and Clean Technology
BSES Yamuna
N Mohan
CEO
Delhi EV Cell
Ravi M. Bhatkal
MD (India)
Mac Dermid
Sudhendu Sinha
Adviser
Niti Aayog
Suman Mishra
CEO
Mahindra Last Mile Mobility
Vikram Gulati
Country Head & Sr V. P (Corporate Affairs & Governance)
Toyota Kirloskar
B.B. Mehta
Director (SLDC) and Chief Load Despatcher
OPTCL
Bud Collins
VP & General Manager
American Battery Solutions
Dr. Anuradda Ganesh
Chief Technical Advisor
Cummins
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
President & MD
CES
Netra Walawalkar
VP
Customized Energy Solutions (India)
Rajat Verma
Founder & CEO
Lohum
Utkarsh Singh
CEO
BatX
William Tope
Founder
LiNa Energy
Xiaodong Wang
Senior Energy Specialist
World Bank
Anil Rajanna
MD
Fluence
Anurag Surana
Director
Neogen Chemicals
August Dubey
Sc. B, TED
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Awadhesh Jha
Executive Director
Fortum Charge and Drive
Barbara Clemenhagen
VP, Regulatory
CES US
Cyriac Loyola
Customer Project Manager
SMA Solar India
Dr. Chitra Rajagopal
Director
CoE IITD
Jeevan Kumar Jethani
Executive Director(IC)
MNRE
Mahesh Babu
CEO
Switch Mobility
Manasvi Sharma
CEO
Fluence India
Mr. A.L.N. Rao
Chief Executive Officer
Exigo Recycling, India
Pawan Mulukutla
Director, Integrated Transport
Electric Mobility & Hydrogen, WRI India
Ashok Thakur
Editor In Chief
ETN
Bernd Frank
Global OEM Director GMF
MKS Atotech
Derrick Fam
Deputy Head - composites department at ASTAR, Assistant Professor at MSE
NTU., ASTAR
Dr. Abhik Banerjee
Research Scientist
TCG Crest
Mr Vishal Kapoor
CEO
EESL
Naveen Goudar
MD
Atotech India.
Neeraj Singhal
Director
Semco Group
Prasanna Patwardhan
CMD
Prasanna Purple
Pulkit Khurana
Co-founder
Battery Smart
Sadaf Siddiqui
GM – Industry Marketing
Keysight Technologies
Samit Jain
MD
Pluss Advanced Technologies
Samy Marriappan
Product Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific India
Santosh Srivastava
Vice President
BSES Yamuna Power Limited
Shri Ghanshyam Prasad
Chairperson in Central Electricity Authority (CEA)
Ministry of Power
Stephen Fernands
Founder and President
Customized Energy Solutions.
Subramanian Chidambaram
Strategy Leader
Cummins India
Suresh Badri Narayanan
Vice President Product Management
DEIF
Tanvir Singh
Co-Founder
Mooving Energy Network
Paul Smith
VP Sales - Europe
Energy Dome
Vikramadithya Gourineni
Executive Director - New Energy Business
Amararaja Batteries
Akshay Kashyap
MD
Greenfuel Energy
Ajay Mathur
Director General
International Solar Alliance
Anant Misra
VP
Livguard Lithium
Ramesh Kumar
Additional Director
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Teja Addala
Solutions Engineer
Keysight Technologies
Terry Mohn
Chairperson
Australian Microgrid Centre of Excellence (AMCOE)
Dr. Milind V. Kulkarni
Sr. Scientist and Group Head
Nanocomposite Laboratory, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET)
Alexander Hogeveen Rutter
Private Sector Specialist
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Rekha Krishnan
CEO
Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN)
Paul Hersey
Director
Ultra Power Systems
Vineet Dravid
Founder and CEO
Oorja.energy
G.R. Arun Kumar
Group President & Chief Financial Officer
Ola Group
Dr. Bijoy Kumar Das
Scientist
Centre for Automotive Energy Materials (CAEM)
Dr. Saroj Mishra
CEO
Golden Gate Battery(GGB)
Dr. Avishek Kumar
Co-Founder and CEO
VFlowTech
Dr. Bharath Reddy
Additional General Manager
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
Shri Lalit Bohra
Joint Secretary
Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Dr. Preeti Banzal
Adviser Scientist 'G'
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Randheer Singh
Director
Electric Mobility and ACC Program at NITI Aayog
Umang Maheshwari
Director
Applied Innovation, GEAPP SPI
Mr. Subhash Kumar
Director
ACME Group
Nikhil Bhatia
Co-Founder
Hop Electric
Amit Bhatt
Managing Director
ICCT
Chintan Shah
Former Director
IREDA & RE Professional
Derek Shah
Senior Vice President
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)
Dinesh Jagdale
Joint Secretary
MNRE
Dr. Vijay Chaudhry
President
Bry Air
Rahul Tiwari
Territory Head
Keysight Technologies
Ramakrishnan G K
Energy Business
Wartsila
S R Narasimhan
Chairman & Managing Director
Grid-India
Zakir Khan
Senior BDM
Wartsila
Varun Goenka
Founder & CEO
chargeup
Anirudh Mathur
Chief of Staff
ACE Green Recycling
Deepak Paliwal
GM- Network Growth & Corporate Development
Fortum Charge and Drive
Aditya Trivedi
Director
AES India
Kumar Prasad Telikepalli
Co- founder & Group CTO
Matter
Speakers 2022
Shri. Dinesh Jagdale
Joint Secretary,
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat
Member,
Niti Aayog
Sh. Ghanshyam Prasad
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Power,
Govt of India
Shri Sudhendu Sinha
Advisor,
Infrastructure Connectivity & Electric Mobility,
NITI Aayog
Sh. Shailesh Kumar Mishra
Director (PS),
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
Satyendra Kumar
Director,
Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate Change
Sh Mohit Bhargava
Executive Director, Head,
Renewable Energy Division,
NTPC Limited
Vikram Handa
MD
Epsilon Advanced Material Pvt. Ltd
Rakesh Malhotra
Founder,
Livguard & SAR Group
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Institute Professor,
IIT Madras, President and Board Member,
IITMRP, IITMIC and RTBI
Anant Nahata
Managing Director,
Exicim Tele-Systems
Randheer Singh
Director,
Electric Mobility & Senior team member for Advanced Chemistry Cells Program,
NITI Aayog
Achal Sondhi
VP of Growth
APAC, Fluence
Yashwanth Mahadevan
Sales Leader,
EOS Enterprises
Stefan Louis
CEO,
Nexcharge
Bard Karlsen
EVP, Performance and Operations,
Morrow Batteries
Robert Pedraza
Chief Executive Officer,
Primet Precision Material
Vivek Singla
President,
Hydrogen and EV Business,
Renew Power
Akshay Singhal
Founder & CEO,
Log9 Materials
Sujit Jena
Senior Associate,
NITI Aayog
Anand Deshpande
Sr. Deputy Director & Head Automotive Electronics Department,
Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)
Dr. Judy Jeevarajan
Vice President & Executive Director,
Electrochemical Safety Research Institute Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Brieux Boisdequin
Vice President,
Automotive & Materials (India), BASF
Bernd Frank
Global OEM Director,
Atotech
Dr. Kai Phillip Kairies
CEO & Co-founder,
Accure Battery Intelligence
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
President & MD,
CES (India), President IESA
Pankaj Batra
Project Director, SARI/EI Program in IRADe and Ex-Chairperson & Member (Planning)
Central Electricity Authority (CEA)
Gerald Bode
Founder & CEO,
N-Level
Stacy Osenbaugh
Commercialisation Manager,
Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centr
Isabel Chatterton
Director & Regional Industry Head,
Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Asia Pacific), International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Frank Wouters
Sr. VP, Reliance Industries Limited, Director, EU GCC Clean Energy Network and Chairman
MENA Hydrogen Alliance
Dr. Raghvan Gopalan
Regional Director,
International Advanced Research Centre for Power Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI)
Shailendra Bebortha
Country Manager (India),
Scatec ASA
Mani Khurana
Sr. Energy Specialist,
World Bank
Dr Harin Kanani
MD,
Neogen Chemicals Ltd
N Mohan
Deputy General Manager
(Head - EV Charging Infrastructure), Convergence Energy Services Limited
Vikram Gulati
Country Head & Sr. VP
(Corporate Affairs & Governance) at Toyota Kirloskar Motor
Hemant Charaya
VP, Battery Cell Technology,
Log9 Materials
Kristin Skofteland
Chief Commercial Officer & Legal Counsel,
Beyonder
Debi Prasad Dash
Executive Director,
IESA
Tanveer Singh
COO & Co-Founder,
Mooving Smart Mobilty and Energy
Awadhesh Jha
Executive Director,
Fortum Charge & Drive India
Rupam Raja
Market Director (India),
Fluence
Colin Morris
Business Development Director, Clean Technology Systems, Durr Megtec
Rajesh Sawant
Account Manager,
Keysight Technologies
Vegard Frihammer
GEO Green Executive Officer & Founder,
Greenstat ASA
Siddharth R Mayur
Founder & CEO,
h2e Power Systems Pvt. Ltd.
DMR Panda
General Manager
Hydrogen, NTPC
Harsh Tacker
Director,
Consulting Services, ET, CES (India)
Anil G
Co-Founder & COO, Bounce
Arun Pratap Singh
Co-Founder and COO,
Matter Energy
Vinayak Walimbe
CFA, VP, Emerging Technologies,
Customized Energy Solutions
Bill Ireland
CEO,
Logan Energy Limited
Vipul Shah
Sr. General Manager,
Fuel Cells, India,
Bosch Limited
Magnus Thomassen
Chief Product Officer,
Hystar
R P Deshpande
Author,
(Capacitors: technology & Trends, Ultra Capacitors)
Chetan Joshi
Manager,
Gas Power Technology, Gcg (Asia), Black & Veatch
Dr. Praveen Kumar
Head,
Product Development,
Exigo Recylcing
Alok Kumar
Market Area Manager,
Renewables (South Asia), DNV
Pranao Walekar
Product Manager, CoMETS,
Customized Energy Solutions
Anmol Jaggi
Co-Founder, BluSmart Mobility
Vijay C S
Senior Analyst,
Customized Energy Solutions
Vineet Sikka
Head (Network Operations),
BSES Rajdhani Power Limited
Asmund Moll Frengstad
Commercial Director,
Current Eco
Sveinung Andre Kvalo
Senior Advisor, Department of Analysis and Advisory Services,
Norwegian EV Association
Rahul Varshney
Country Manager India, Statkraft
