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Shobha Karandlaje

Ms. Shobha Karandlaje

Minister of State, Minisrey of MSME

Shri Kalraj Mishra

Shri Kalraj Mishra

Chief Patron India SME Forum, Former Union Minister & Former Governor, GoI

Mr. Ajay Singh

Global Director and Head of AI, HCLTech

Ms. Anuja Bapat

Deputy Director General at Ministry of MSME, Govt of India

Mr. Alejandro Rivera Rojas

Chief, Division of MSME, Quality & Job Creation, UNIDO

Mr. Anil Jauhri

Ex-CEO, NABCB

Ms. April Chang

Associate Industrial Development Expert, UNIDO

Mr. Arvind Gupta

Head and Co-Founder
Digital India Foundation

Shri Ateesh Kumar Singh

Shri Ateesh Kumar Singh

Additional Secretary, DPIIT

Ms. Atsuko Okuda

Ms. Atsuko Okuda

Regional Director - Asia Pacific, ITU

Mr. Balaji Renganathan

UN Client Partner
MOURI Tech

Mr. Carlo Pietrobelli

Professor and Policy Advisor on Innovation and Industrial Development and Policy

Ms. Christi Thomas

Deputy Head, Commercial AI & Innovation Hub, FCDO

Mr. David Fernandez Terreos

Head of Cluster Development, SPRI, the Basque Business Development Agency, Spain

Dr. Amit Kapoor

Hon' Chairman,
Institute for Competitiveness,India

Dr. Alok Kumar Srivastava

Director General, National Test House, Ministry of Consumer Affairs

Dr. Arpita Mukherjee

Professor, ICRIER

Dr. Joern Block

Director, Steinbeis Transfer Center for Technology and IP Management (Germany)

Dr. LIANG Zheng

Vice Dean, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University

Ms. Ebe Muschialli

Industrial Development Officer,
UNIDO

Ms. Emane Wahsh

Business Development and International Trade Professional, Egypt

Mr. Farrukhbek Alimdjanov

Industrial Development Officer, UNIDO

Mr. Giorgi Todua

Industrial Development Expert,
UNIDO

Mr. Harish Nachnani

Head - Didactic, Festo India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Jason Slater

Chief, AI, Innovation and Digital Officer, UNIDO

Smt. Mercy Epao

Smt. Mercy Epao

Joint Secretary - SME, Ministry of MSME

Shri Moin Afaque

Shri Moin Afaque

DGFT

Mr. Md. Salik Parwaiz

Director, Cluster Development and Export Promotion, Ministry of MSME

Ms. Natalia Seiler

Executive Director, Competitiveness Agency of Cordoba, Argentina

Ms. Nirupama Soundarajan

Ms. Nirupama Soundarajan

CEO & Co-founder, Policy Consensus Centre

Ms. Nishtha Mehta

Ms. Nishtha Mehta

Senior Advisor, UNIDO - AI & Digital Transformation

Mr. NR Meena

Senior Joint Controller of Patents & Designs, Patent Office Delhi

Mr. Padmanabhan Babu

Founder & CEO, LEXSHIP

Mr. Pratik Desai

Founder, KissanAI

Shri Raj Kamal Yadav

Shri Raj Kamal Yadav

Managing Director, UPSIC

Mr. Raimund Klein

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, INCIT

Mr. Ritin Koria

Mr. Ritin Koria

Program Specialist - Innovation, UNIDO

Mr. Sandeep Tandon

National Project Manager, UNIDO Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment

Mr. Sanjiv Singh

JS, DPIIT

Mr. Satyaki Rastogi

Mr. Satyaki Rastogi

CGM, SIDBI

Mr. Saurabh Srivastava

Mr. Saurabh Srivastava

Deputy Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

Ms. Shruti Bhatia

Ms. Shruti Bhatia

Asia AI Workforce Business Go-to-Market Leader, Microsoft

Mr. Srinidhi Kalvapudi

Head, Amazon Global Selling

Mr. Sunil Thawani

CEO, Quality Indeed Consulting

Mr. Thomas Rilke

Division Manager, Deutsche Messe Technology Academy, Germany

Mr. Tomoyoshi Koume

Industrial Development Officer, Digital Transformation and AI Strategies Division

Mr. Vikram Joshi

Owner, Rangotri

Mr. Vinamra Mishra

JS, Ministry of MSME

Shri Vinod Kumar

President, India SME Forum

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