2024 CITC ANNUAL AWARDS GALA | CELEBRATING TOP TECH LEADERS OF THE YEAR

Join us for the 2024 CITC Annual Awards Gala, an exclusive, invite-only event hosted by Canada India Tech Council (CITC), in partnership with The Consulate General of India (Toronto), Manulife and TheAppLabb.

Taking place on September 27th at 5.30 pm EDT at Manulife Financial Headquarters, this prestigious evening will bring together 200+ influential Indo-Canadian tech leaders—including enterprise CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Technology, and CEOs of leading tech firms. With a limited capacity, this event offers a unique opportunity to honor and celebrate the achievements of nominees who have achieved the pinnacle of success in the field of technology. For more details, visit .

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our sponsors: , , & for their generous support, which has made this event possible. Your contributions have greatly enriched our community, and we are truly thankful for your commitment.

Canada India Tech Council (CITC) brings together Canadian Indian technology leaders to foster connections, collaboration, resource sharing, co-learning & business opportunities to facilitate growth in the Canada-India technology ecosystem.

AITC and CITC are proud initiatives of .

This event is by invitation only, and the organizer reserves the right to cancel your registration.

Here are the Tech Leader of the Year Award Nominees:

• Ranji Narine | Intact, CIO
• Sonia Brar | City of Toronto, CIO
• Uma Gopinath | Porter Airlines, CIO
• Sanjay Tugnait | Fairfax Digital, CEO
• Mamta Sethi | Manulife, CIO
• Vineet Gupta | The North West Company (Giant Tiger, Northern), CIO
• Steve Brar | Metrolinx, EVP, CIO, CTO, Payments⁠⁠
• Sumon Acharjee | City of Markham, CIO
• Raj Thuppal | Shared Services Canada, EVP
• Sonali Kohli | Niagara Health, CIO
• Anuja Sheth | Bell, SVP Technology Services
• Jas Dhindsa | Canada Life, SVP, Technology
• Alok Daga | BMO, CIO
• Anu Dodda | Thomson Reuters, CTO
• Dax Dasilva | Lightspeed Commerce, CEO
• Nimira Dhalwani | Sick Kids Hospital, CTO
• Sandip Sahota | BMO Financial Group, SVP & Enterprise Chief Data & Analytics Officer
• Pallavi Tripathi | CIBC⁠⁠, CIO
• Peter Singh | Toronto District School Board, CTO
• Pradeep Nair | TRIUMF, CIO
• Puroo Maheshwari | CPP Investments, CISO
• Manas Giri | WestJet, CISO
• Shiladitya Sircar | Blackberry, SVP, Engineering & Data Science
• Neeraj Mathur | Sick Kids Foundation, CIO
• Manoj Tiwary | Subaru, CIO
• Tanbir Grover | Petvalu, Chief Digital Officer
• Gina Johar | Quinte Health, Chief Digital Officer
• ⁠⁠Nav Dhunay | Pollard Banknote Limited, CTO⁠⁠
• Bipasha Chiu | Goodfood, CTO
• Kalyan Chakravarthy | ESA, CIO
• Nikhil Sonpal | Homewood Health, CTO
• Sunny Jassal | BC Institute of Technology, CISO ⁠⁠
• Nimod Narayanan | Rakuten Kobo, CTO
• Nitin Chopra | Docebo, CIO
• Rajat Prashar | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, CIO
• Sai Poguluru | YNCU, CISO
• Charumitra Pujari | Loblaw, VP, Engineering
• Tezbir Singh | BMO, Managing Director, Data Analytics
• Deval Pandya | Vector Institute, VP of AI Engineering
• Hiten Makim | One Eleven, Head & OCI, VP
• Jerome Dwight | BoomerangFX, CEO
• Navid Nathoo | The Knowledge Society (TKS), Co-founder
• Parth Khanna | ACTO, CEO
• Pramod Jain | Computer Modelling Group, CEO
• Anshul Ruhil | LexisNexis Canada, Head of Technology
• Vaibhav Singh Bhadauria | Total Credit Recovery Ltd, CISO
• Eddie (Aditya) Madaan | PostGrid, CEO
• Pankaj Agrawal | IIT Alumni Canada, President
• Tarundeep Dhot | TD Bank, Interim Head, Canadian Fraud Mgt

This event is brought to you by the CITC Awards Committee (Payal Raheja, Jayesh Mehta, Ashish Agrawal, Sandeep Todi, Gurvie Waraich, Neha Kovach, Purnima Tyagi, Sumeet Bhatia), CITC Founder and Chair - Kundan Joshi and CITC Community Director - Yajurva Kale.

Host or Publisher Canada India Tech Council