CXO Engagement Series

Welcome to the CXO Engagement Series! Join us for an exciting event at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where top executives will gather to discuss the latest trends and strategies in the industry. They will share their stories on professional growth and engagement. This is a fantastic opportunity to network, learn from industry leaders, and gain valuable insights to drive your business and careers forward. Don't miss out on this exclusive event!

Featured Speakers:

- Shalini Govil-Pai, VP & GM, Google
- Pervinder Johar, CEO, Avathon
- Swapnil Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Observe.AI
- Anshu Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, Skyflow
- Sarika Garg, Co-Founder & CEO, Cacheflow

Event Design:

• Featuring 7-10 CXOs in round table format. The CXO Table assignments will be on a first-come-first serve. Please come prepared with your first and second choice for the CXO Tables.
• One CXO at each table for interaction with 7-10 IIT alum
• Two such rounds of interaction, with a break in between for tea and snacks
• To reduce waste, please consider bringing your reusable water bottle if you need water

Planned Program for Thursday, November 21, 2024:

• 4:45-5:00 pm: Registration, Networking and Welcome
• 5:00-5:45 pm: CXO Table Session 1
• 5:45-6:15 pm: Break for Tea/Snacks and Networking
• 6:15-7:00 pm: CXO Table Session 2
• 7:00-8:00 pm: Closing Remarks and Reflections

Don’t miss this chance to engage directly with top executives and expand your professional network. Secure your spot today.

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Shalini Govil-Pai

VP & GM, Google

Shalini Govil-Pai is a seasoned C-level tech executive, board member, product visionary, and industry thought leader on driving business growth via disruptive technologies, including AI, social media, and software platforms. She has delivered bottom-line results at pedigree tech and date-enabled firms such as Google, YouTube, and Pixar.

As a GM and VP at Google, Shalini leads GTM strategy for the connected TV business. She collaborates daily with external stakeholders, including hardware OEMs, advertisers, and media developers, to accelerate the streaming revolution. Under her leadership, the AI-first TV platform, based on Android, has grown tenfold to over 250 million active users.

Shalini serves as a Board Director at YouGov, a publicly traded online market research firm, where she provides strategic advice to leadership on product strategy, M&A, leveraging AI/ML, and deploying SAAS-based solutions. She is a member of the Nom-Gov and Remuneration Committees.

Prior to her GM role leading GoogleTV, Shalini served as a Senior Director and technology solutions leader at YouTube where she developed and operationalized the digital distribution for the creators/influencers segment. She played a key role in leading YouTube across the 1B monthly active users threshold.

Her career began at Pixar, where she directed the creative technology suite and launched the first two full computer-animated films, Toy Story and A Bugs Life.

Pervinder Johar

CEO, Avathon

A high tech serial entrepreneur with extensive industry knowledge and operational expertise, Pervinder Johar launched Blume Global in 2018 to build a digital platform for global supply chain orchestration. Pervinder's prior CEO roles include Steelwedge - a market leader in cloud-based S&OP software company, where he orchestrated a successful exit via sale to E2open, and EdgeVerve, an Infosys company. Pervinder also serves on the board of directors of two private equity-backed large logistics companies, Syncreon and DCLI, and serves on the board of a nonprofit organization, India Community Center.

Earlier in his career, Pervinder was Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems for Hewlett-Packard and was responsible for the strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product life cycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems.

Over the years, Pervinder has become a seasoned technology leader with broad experience in Supply Chain, Financial Services, and Global IT. He has great expertise in SAP, Oracle, and several other ERP and supply chain applications. Additionally, Pervinder has a strong track record of building new businesses and organizations for startup companies as well as large corporations. Pervinder is a thought leader in Supply Chain, Logistics, and digital technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.

Swapnil Jain

Co-Founder and CEO, Observe.AI

Swapnil is the Founder and CEO of Observe.AI. Observe.AI, a leader in Contact Center AI, transforms customer experiences and improves agent performance by helping top brands analyze 100% of calls and streamline quality assurance workflows. With Observe.AI, businesses transcribe every call with high accuracy and coach agents while gaining full visibility into their customer service operations. Observe.AI brings the power of agent assistance, automatic speech recognition, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to modern contact centers and their frontline teams. Observe.AI is trusted by over 150 customers and partners, including Root Insurance, Alcon Laboratories, Tripadvisor, and Pearson. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Next47, NGP Capital, Scale Ventures, Nexus, and Y-Combinator, Observe.AI’s headquarters is in San Francisco, with an office in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.observe.ai.

Anshu Sharma

Co-founder & CEO, Skyflow

Anshu Sharma is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skyflow. Anshu has over fifteen years of experience in the technology industry and has held various leadership positions at Salesforce.com, Storm Ventures, and Algolia.

Anshu Sharma co-founded Clearedin in January 2017 and served as its board chairman. In January 2022, Barracuda Networks acquired the company.

Before Clearedin, Anshu Sharma co-founded Razorpay, Suki, and Tekion Corp. Anshu also served as a venture partner at Storm Ventures and as vice president of product management at Salesforce.com.

Anshu Sharma started his educational career with a B Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. After that, they pursued an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Some individuals on their team include Pradeep Reddy - VP of engineering & Founding Engineer, Paul Kopacki - CMO, and Amruta Moktali - Chief Product Officer.

Sarika Garg

Co-founder & CEO, Cacheflow

Ms. Garg has been a director since June 2021. She is a member of the Audit and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committees. Ms. Garg has served as co-founder and chief executive officer at Cacheflow Inc., a B2B embedded finance company that has been in stealth since October 2020. She is also a strategic advisor to Tradeshift Inc., where she previously served as Chief Strategy Officer responsible for product and go-to-market. Tradeshift is a cloud network and platform for supply chain payments, marketplaces and apps. During her tenure from 2015 through 2020, she helped Tradeshift grow from a small 100-person startup in 2015 to a leader currently valued at a $2.7B valuation. Before joining Tradeshift, Ms. Garg led product management for Ariba Network, following its acquisition by SAP SE. Ms. Garg started her career at SAP SE, a multinational software corporation, where she spent over 10 years. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS by The Software Report in 2018 and 2019 and is a Forbes Business Development Council member.

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