Meet the  speakers

Aarthi Ramamurthy is the founder and General Partner of Schema Ventures.

Prior to Schema Ventures, Aarthi held executive roles at Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix, as well as has entrepreneurial expertise from building and exiting multiple YC-backed startups.

She's also a prominent voice in tech culture through Aarthi and Sriram Show, a top tech and business podcast.

Dr. Manish Gupta is a Senior Director at Google DeepMind, leading AI research teams across India and Japan.

Previously, he founded VideoKen and led research centres at IBM and Xerox, including work on the award-winning Blue Gene/L supercomputer.

A Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, he has co-authored around 75 papers and holds 19 US patents.

Srinivas Narayanan is former CTO of B2B Applications at OpenAI, where he led engineering for business products and helped scale ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

Previously, he spent over a decade at Meta leading large-scale engineering and product initiatives.

An IIT Madras alumnus, he has also worked at IBM Research, co-founded Viralizr and advised AI startups at General Catalyst.

Grey Baker is a General Partner at Y Combinator and previously served as Director of Product at Figma.

He co-founded Dependabot, a developer security tool used by more than a million people and acquired by GitHub, as well as Pincites, which was acquired by Filevine.

Akarsh Shrivastava is a Partner at General Catalyst, investing across AI, consumer technology, defence and government.

Previously, he led the SaaS, AI and B2B practice at Elevation Capital, where he helped significantly expand the firm’s investments in the sector.

Before entering venture capital, he worked at McKinsey & Company. Akarsh is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad.

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy is the Managing Partner at Upekkha, an accelerator supporting Indian B2B and vertical AI startups building for global markets.

He is also a founding volunteer at AIBoomi, formerly SaaSBoomi. Previously, he worked across product and growth at Microsoft Accelerator and Amazon, and has spent more than a decade helping founders build sustainable, revenue-led businesses.

Anuja Dhawan leads AI Products & Growth at Exotel and is the co-founder of Dubverse, an AI-powered dubbing platform that makes content accessible across more than 30 languages.

Her work spans multilingual voice AI, conversational intelligence and enterprise customer experiences, with a focus on building AI products that help businesses understand and improve customer interactions at scale.

Tanuj Bhojwani is a member of South Park Commons.

Previously, he led People+AI, an EkStep Foundation initiative focused on advancing population-scale AI adoption in India, and worked on technology policy at iSPIRT Foundation.

An IIT Bombay graduate and Young India Fellow, he is also the co-author of The Art of Bitfulness with Nandan Nilekani.

Sachin Bhatia is the Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Exotel, where he leads the company’s global growth strategy.

He previously co-founded Ameyo, a customer engagement platform that later merged with Exotel.

An IIT Guwahati alumnus, Sachin has over two decades of experience building enterprise communication and customer experience products.

Madhav Krishna is the Founder and CEO of Vahan.ai, an AI-powered recruitment platform connecting blue- and grey-collar workers with employment opportunities across India. A Columbia-trained AI researcher, Madhav has built Vahan around making hiring faster and employment more accessible at scale.

He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Sudarshan Kamath is the Co-founder and CEO of Smallest.ai, where he is building real-time voice models and AI agents for enterprise communication.

Before founding Smallest.ai, he spent over a decade building AI products across autonomous vehicles, education and legal technology.

Sudarshan is an IIT Guwahati alumnus focused on making Voice AI faster, more accessible and scalable.

Prashant Shishodia is the Co-founder and CEO of Kalpa Labs, a Y Combinator-backed company building generalist speech models for a range of voice and audio tasks.

Previously, he led full-stack machine learning initiatives for Google Assistant’s natural language systems. Prashant is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus focused on developing more contextual and adaptable speech AI.

Sanjay Jain is the Director of Digital Public Infrastructure at the Gates Foundation, where he leads efforts to help low- and middle-income countries adopt safe and inclusive digital systems.

He was a key contributor to India Stack and previously served as Chief Product Manager at UIDAI, working on the early development of Aadhaar.

Sanjay also led the creation of Google Map Maker and was previously a Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund.

Shrikant Venkataramani works on AI research and audio innovation at Pocket FM, building systems that apply generative AI to large-scale storytelling and content production.

He has contributed to SAGA, Pocket FM’s agentic framework that transforms scripts into fully produced audio episodes.

Previously, he worked at Murf AI and Amazon, with research spanning speech enhancement, source separation and audio signal processing.

Previously a customer care expert, recruiter, salesperson, receptionist and professional reminder-giver.

Now, Mr. Bolna has traded call scripts for a conductor’s baton as Symphony’s very own AI host.