Sakshi Grover is a senior research manager for IDC Asia/Pacific Cybersecurity Services, supporting its research and client engagement activities across Asia/Pacific markets. Additionally, she serves as the lead security analyst for IDC India. Sakshi is responsible for delivering syndicated custom research and consulting engagements on next-generation emerging and disruptive technologies. Her tasks include developing and socializing IDC’s point of view within security services, covering both legacy and modern cybersecurity technologies. Her role involves close collaboration with technology vendors and buyers, developing market insights, and providing research, consulting, and advisory services in the fields of security software and services. This includes partnering on research efforts with relevant country analysts in the local IDC offices. Sakshi’s views on security have been quoted in numerous publications, such as the Economic Times, Business Standard, Data Quest, CRN, and others.

Sakshi has a wealth of experience in the IT space, managing diverse areas such as research and analysis, business development, product management, and client-centric engagements. Before joining IDC, Sakshi was a principal analyst at Gartner Inc., where she managed research on datacenter infrastructure and cloud security products. Prior to Gartner, she was associated with Accenture and Wipro Ltd., where she was responsible for business development across EMEA and Asia/Pacific markets within the TMT space.

Amit Luthra is a technology industry executive with over two decades of experience building high-performance businesses across enterprise and infrastructure markets. He is known for building high-performance teams, shaping go-to-market strategies, and forging strategic partnerships that accelerate digital and AI-led transformation.

As the One Lenovo Commercial Leader at Lenovo India, Amit is responsible for driving integrated enterprise growth across Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group (IDG), Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), and Solutions and Services Group (SSG). In this role, he leads a unified commercial strategy that brings together Lenovo’s full-stack capabilities: from devices to data center infrastructure and services, to deliver end-to-end Hybrid AI solutions for customers across India. He works closely with enterprise clients, hyperscalers, and ecosystem partners to strengthen Lenovo’s position as a strategic transformation partner in the Indian market.

Previously, Amit led the scaling of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) business in India, expanding its enterprise footprint, strengthening the partner ecosystem, and institutionalizing disciplined execution to drive profitable growth and market share gains.

Before joining Lenovo, Amit held leadership roles at Dell Technologies, Sun Microsystems, and HCL, where he led enterprise sales, strategic account management, and business transformation initiatives across India.

An engineer by training with an MBA from leading institutions in India, Amit is based in Bengaluru and is passionate about building resilient teams and shaping future-ready technology businesses.

Tarang Bapat is a recognised leader in tax technology and automation, currently serving as Director of the Corporates business, Asia & Emerging Markets, at Thomson Reuters.

With over a decade of experience in indirect tax, tax compliance, and digital transformation, Tarang helps global organisations modernise their tax functions through intelligent automation, ERP integration, and e-invoicing solutions.

He specialises in designing and implementing scalable tax automation strategies that align with evolving regulatory landscapes and enterprise systems like SAP S/4HANA.

Tarang has worked closely with tax and finance leaders to streamline processes, ensure e-invoicing compliance across jurisdictions, and unlock operational efficiency through technology.

A frequent speaker and advisor on tax innovation, Tarang brings deep insights into how automation and e-invoicing are reshaping the future of tax departments worldwide.

Proven track record of transforming territories into high achieving sales units Experience in leading complex negotiations to secure strategic market making multi-year deals Passionate in helping customers solve business problems and find success in their unique cloud journey Deep understanding across various industries built over 20 years of selling to large and small customers

18+ years of experience in solutions design for infrastructure monitoring and automations covering both Presales and Postsales for Observability, AIOPS, FinOps and Automation requirements. Seasoned professional experienced in designing and implementing solutions for Large Hybrid multi-cloud environments. Working with the Partners and Customers in aligning their roadmaps and driving innovation. Proven ability to understand business problems and apply technology to formulate workable solutions. Highly motivated, result oriented with good interpersonal and project management skills.

As an APAC Technical & Solutions Lead, I am responsible for the developing and achieving business goals for Hitachi core Infrastructure storage platform and software in Asia Pacific region. As a Regional Product Manager for APAC, I am involved in product requirements gathering, business validation and market analysis, engineering-field interactions, setting software strategy and directions.

Specialties: Technical resource to the field sales/ presales, product management, requirements gathering and business justification, storage infrastrcture management and performance assessment, datacenter mangement and reporting, capacity planning, infrastructure workflow Automation, Data Protection and Copy Data Management

Results-driven territory account manager with duties including devising sales plans, managing relationships with existing and targeted clients and marinating in depth account profiles on key clients. 9 years of Experience in Corporate Business Development with a demonstrated history of working in the business supplies for leading corporate companies in india. Skilled in providing audio visual solutions,Project Management, and Customer Service. Strong sales professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from BIET.

Experienced Technology Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry in Payment and Financial Domains. Delivered Software product in multiple geographies (India, UK, EMEA, USA). Possess unique skillset of performing both Management and Technical activities of the Project by following Agile and Waterfall methodologies for Software Development. Work experience in Solution Definition and Design, Development of Microservice capactablie to Cloud platform using Spring Cloud frameworks to support Payment services domain business functionalities. Work experience in developing web applications and server side application using Struts, Spring, AJAX, Rest services using Struts, JSP, FTL, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, CSS, HTML, various Design Patterns. Skilled in using tools like Sonar, PMD, CheckStyle,Yslow, Java Profiler, Splunk, SoapUI, Postman, Fiddler, DynaTrace, AppDynamics, Maven build tools, Repository like Git, Perforce. Coordinated Product Implementation into User acceptance & Production environment and Integrate with Internal and External systems for validation and sign off. Conduct review on Release planning and Governances for Product releases Effectively Managed a team of team of 15+ resources. Manged Client and Stakeholder Relationship. Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills. Team player and quick learner with ability to adapt new technologies and architecture. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Mining and Mineral Engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela.

Seasoned Senior Solutions Engineer with over 12 years of experience in pre-sales, digital transformation, infrastructure transformation, and cloud services. Demonstrated expertise in enterprise storage, virtualization, K8s, data management, data analytics, AI, hybrid cloud, and disaster recovery solutions. Adept at designing and delivering high-impact solutions across industries including BFSI, ITeS, Healthcare, Pharma and manufacturing. Recognized for driving technical strategy, enhancing ROI, and achieving excellence in client engagement.

Ravikant Sharma is Research Director- Government Insights with IDC’s Asia/Pacific team. Based in India, Ravi is responsible for managing and executing insights consulting projects in the Asia Pacific region. He had led numbers of intricate and diverse engagements which helped business heads understand market potential and expected growth and define their market entry strategy. He also helped enhance and sustain their competitive advantage and improve profitability through better understanding of supply-side industry dynamics, competitive landscape, and demand side ecosystem.

Ravi has over 12 years of experience in market research and consulting. Prior to joining IDC Asia/Pacific, he worked at IDC India as a senior manager in consulting practice. In this role, Ravi was responsible for business development, identification and growth of new consulting services, client relationship management, market analysis, and project delivery. Before that, he was a research director with IPSOS India in the loyalty, Media CT and Public Affair division.

Ravi holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing) with first class distinction from ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and Bachelor of Technology from Rajasthan, India.

IT leader with 25 years of experience building and transforming technology functions across manufacturing, pharma, and specialty chemicals — from 300-location MPLS networks and Tier III data centres to enterprise SAP S/4HANA rollouts and AI-driven cybersecurity frameworks. Currently Head of IT at Hikal Limited (Pharma & Agrochemicals), leading IT Applications, Infrastructure, Services, and Cybersecurity across the organisation. Previously at Nuvoco Vistas and Shree Cement, where I spent nearly 19 years scaling IT from the ground up — building India’s first Cisco TelePresence deployment, creating a Greenfield Tier III Data Centre with 10,000+ IP devices, and leading S/4HANA and SuccessFactors rollouts.

Senior level IT Cum Business Executive with over 28 years of experience, I have successfully led complex IT strategy development, digital transformation, innovation management, and technology execution across diverse industry verticals. My ability to align IT initiatives with business goals has made him a key player in mergers, acquisitions, corporate IT integrations, and application delivery on a global scale My expertise extends across SAP Technical, IT Infrastructure, and Business Applications, playing a critical role in managing IT operations for India’s largest and the world’s 5th largest generic pharmaceutical group. His hands-on approach to technology architecture, SAP deployments, and high-value IT projects has driven operational excellence and strategic growth. Has a proven track record of converting strategic IT roadmaps into actionable results. Managed large-scale high-value and complex projects has empowered businesses to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and accelerate digital transformation. By implementing advanced IT governance models and technology frameworks, he has enabled organizations to harness the full potential of their digital ecosystems. Experience in high-growth, high transactional, high availability and highly regulated organizations with extensive knowledge of IT Infrastructure Management (including Systems Administration, SAP Technical, IT Security, Network, Database, Datacenters, Disaster Recovery, end user computing, Compliance, Process / Policies etc.), IT Service Management, Applications and Enterprise Management tools.

Sandeep is the Vice President and Managing Director, India and SAARC and leads business operations in India. He is responsible for market development, expanding solutions offerings to customers, further strengthening partner network.

Sandeep is a business leader with over 20 years’ experience in driving IT solutions across enterprises of all sizes, as well as a transformational leader with over 10 years track record in leading, retaining and sustaining high performing teams. An industry veteran with a proven track record of consistently driving business growth, drill-down planning, and operational execution, Sandeep has established long-term relationships with business partners, alliances, distributors, OEMS, ISVs, system integrators, independent consultants, and regulators across India. He has an excellent sales experience cutting across multiple industry verticals, market segments and broad range of IT solutions. Prior to Veeam, Sandeep was the Regional Director (enterprise) and Country Manager (cloud service providers business) at Dell EMC. Prior to this, he has held senior sales leadership roles within IRIS Software, Symantec and SAS. He began his career at Sonata Software as a Regional Manager (ERP)

Deepika manages and leads the research programs in big data and analytics (BDA), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Web3.

Deepika is a seasoned data and AI professional and brings extensive knowledge about the impact of data engineering, big data cloud platforms, and data science across critical sectors. She has extensive experience in software delivery as well as sales leadership and management. She also has over 20 years of experience in IT services, including leadership roles, at Capgemini, Infosys, and Accenture, and has strong industry expertise in the telecommunications and retail industries. More so, Deepika has an entrepreneurial spirit and has previously founded her own online retail fashion business.

Deepika holds a master’s degree in communication systems engineering from the University of Kent in United Kingdom and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications from the University of Madras, India.