Sharath Srinivasamurthy is an associate vice president who heads the research group for IDC India. His research expertise cuts across the multiple facets of digital transformation (DX).

Sharath has around 20 years of experience in different leadership roles with leading IT services firms. Before IDC, he worked in different roles including solutioning, presales, project management, business analysis, and application support and development. Sharath has worked in various capacities in global markets, namely the United States, Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

Sharath previously worked with DXC Technology as Asia Head-Solutioning for Application Services, Global Head-Solutioning and Business Unit head in the application services business of Xchanging and led application support and development services for Zensar Technologies. He also worked with Hewlett-Packard and Cognizant.

He is a distinguished leader and a frequent keynote speaker. Sharath’s views on technology have been quoted in numerous publications such as CNBC, Forbes India, The Economic Times, and CIO.com.

Sharath holds a Global MBA from SP Jain, Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from VTU, Karnataka.

Mike has been with F5 since 2015. Prior to F5, he worked at Cisco for 20 years in a variety of different executive level capacities in Systems and Solutions Engineering, Technical Strategy, Product Development, and served as the Field CTO for Cisco’s Enterprise Networking and Security portfolio. At F5, he initially served as the VP of Global Sales Solution Engineering and later became the SVP of Solutions Engineering and Enablement. In this expanded capacity, Mike was responsible for F5’s Public Cloud Alliances and its technology partnerships. He has been actively involved as the sales lead in all M&A activities for F5, and took a leadership role in F5’s acquisition of NGINX and Shape which included due diligence as well as the integration into F5. This experience led Mike to move into the role of SVP of Corporate and Business Development. In this role, he helped develop the company strategy for entering the Edge market and that work led to his leading the acquisition of Volterra as a next generation Edge platform. Seeing the shift in the importance of SaaS and Managed Services for SP and Enterprise customers, Mike moved into his current role where he is responsible for Global Sales of F5’s Distributed Cloud Services portfolio. This portfolio includes Application Security Services, Edge Computing, and Advanced Fraud Solutions.

Dhananjay Ganjoo is the Managing Director for India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) for F5 since 2020. He joined F5 in 2018 and built the Global System Integrators (GSI) business for the company. A veteran in the industry, Dhananjay is responsible for driving F5’s growth strategy in India and the SAARC region. He is responsible for bringing end-to-end solutions and competitive security offerings together, to establish F5 as a preferred partner of choice for customers to create, secure, and operate adaptive applications. Previously, Dhananjay held multiple leadership roles in significant enterprises and telecom organizations, including Nortel, Juniper Networks, and Microsoft. Along with industrial expertise, he has entrepreneurial grounding through Envoy Labs, undertaking consultancy services for startups and SMBs. Dhananjay holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering and is currently based out of Bangalore in India.

Adam Judd is the Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales for F5. Based in Singapore, Adam is responsible for charting F5’s strategic business growth across 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region.
With more than 25 years of experience in IT, Telecommunications and Networking, Adam joined F5 from Brocade Communications, where he led one of the company’s fastest-growing theatres as head of the Asia Pacific sales team. Prior to Brocade, Adam held Asia Pacific management roles at Tortuga Mobile, Juniper Networks, Unisphere, Bay Networks, and Nortel Networks.
Adam holds a degree in Business Studies from Middlesex Universit

Arul Elumalai is the Senior Vice President and General Manager, BIG-IP. His purview includes the portfolio of F5 systems and BIG-IP software, including the formulation of product roadmap, GTM approaches and customer experience enhancements. Prior to F5, Arul was a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he served clients across verticals on technology strategy and helped enterprises make the transition to Cloud. Arul also has 10+ years of product management leadership experience at Microsoft and was responsible for delivering Cloud based Enterprise Collaboration solutions and mobile applications. Arul holds a Bacherlor’s degree in Electronics from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, India, Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University and Master’s degree in Business Administration from University of California, Berkelely. Arul is based out of the F5 headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Shawn leads NGINX, F5’s portfolio of automation, security, performance, and insight capabilities for modern applications. Since joining F5 in 2013 - through the acquisition of LineRate Systems - Shawn has held several leadership roles including an F5 incubation project that was focused on delivering a next generation service mesh for container and microservice architectures. As a passionate advocate for opensource, he is focused on building solutions and services that deliver modern applications at scale. Under his leadership, F5 has delivered open source solutions for OpenStack, Kubernetes, Mesos, Red Hat OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Application Communication and Security Initiative foundation.

Manoj Menon is the founder and CEO of Twimbit, a research and advisory firm driven by the singular mission to help build and grow purpose-driven businesses. Prior to founding Twimbit in 2018, Manoj was a Senior Partner and Asia Pacific Managing Director at Frost & Sullivan. He was a founding member of the team in Asia, joining them in 1996 as an analyst. He went on to help them expand their presence in over 13 countries and become a leading advisory firm in the region.
Manoj is passionate about technology, innovation, telecommunications, and customer experience. He defines the research agenda for Twimbit and works with some of the largest companies to help them drive change, integrate technology, and build better experiences for all stakeholders. Manoj has spoken at over 1,000 seminars and private conferences in the last decade across all continents. He has a strong background as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Manoj is also passionate about sports. He is an avid fan of Liverpool Football Club, runs marathons, and is currently learning how best practices from sports can be integrated into business.

Jyotiswarup Raiturkar (Jyoti) loves building high-scale teams and products and has been doing it for over 20 years. He has architected products ranging from high-volume e-commerce sites to core infrastructure products. Some of the notable products he has built include the Angel One SuperApp and Backend Systems, Walmart Labs Ecommerce Fulfillment Platform, Intuit Mint, SellerApp, Goibibo, Microsoft Virtual Server, and ShiftPixy, to name a few - products that span a global 10M+ DAU, handling business of $20B+. Nowadays, he codes in Golang, Python, and Java. Jyoti has also authored two books, and has patents for financial recommendation systems. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, following a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT, Nagpur.

Rafel has 15+ years experience in translating business strategies into technology strategies , enterprise solution planning & designing, Information security strategy mapping & data driven process automation in alignment with the global standards. As a learner & enthusiast in the fast-evolving Fintech , Cyber Security & Cloud space, Rafel always look for Digital-First strategies with Cloud-First and AI-First tactics so that he can spearhead the new initiatives on people, products, platforms, processes and policies. Leveraging the power of data to build a sustainable business model is the next big objective, Rafel is working for now.

Digital Transformation Leader with decades of experience in building high performance engineering and operations at large corporations, specialized in modernizing mission-critical application infrastructure, orchestration and automation of programmable platforms.More than 3 decades of Experience having worked in leadership positions at Cisco IBM, Unisys, VMware and NSE

Anand Pande is an astute and accomplished leader with more than 18 years of experience in InfoSec, IT- Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. He has an expertise in transforming complex compliance requirements into user friendly work processes; and implementing them across the organization to ensure overall governance. Specific areas of expertise include designing, implementation and management of Information Security, IT Infra, IT Security (ISMS), ITSMS,BCMS, EMS, NOC, SOCC Operations, IT Procurement and vendor management. He has worked across different industrial sectors like BFSI, FMCG, IT/ITES, Telecommunication, Financial Institution – Regulators, IT Software Product Development and Technology. He has acquired professional certifications like CISA, CISM, coBIT, Lead Auditor-ISO27001:2013, ISO20000-1, ISO14001, BS25999 and successfully managed and implemented the international standards such as ISMS, ITSMS, BCMS, PCI DSS, SSAE-16 etc

Jay Chawda is the Head of Engineering, Site Reliability & Data Centers at PhonePe, an Indian digital payments and financial services company. Jay joined PhonePe in 2016 and has been a key stakeholder in driving key infrastructure initiatives like Liquid Immersion Cooling and Open Source Networking. Along with data centres, he also manages the edge infrastructure and PhonePe’s deployments on public cloud services

Leading the Cyber Security team at NTPC Ltd. with extensive focus on Security Governance, Operations, CSOC, Compliance and New technologies and coordination with Government regulatory agencies to ensure adequate security posture for the enterprise . More than 21 years+ experience. Life long Learner who thrives on analysing and solving problems.

With an extensive career spanning over 30 years at the crossroads of business and technology, Paul leads the Global Solution Engineering team and Global Solution Architects for F5. His team is responsible for devising and implementing business solutions that effectively address the complex challenges of application & API security, application performance, and application availability in the dynamic landscape of today’s multi-cloud, AI enabled world.

Establishing the P&L model. Establishing Solution based service model to help customers accomplish journey’s on adopting modern technology; for app modernization, for adoption AI/ML and comprehensive Digital Transformation Journey’s. HE was also instrumental in establishing Emerging Technologies Business for RedHat for India / South Asia. He provided Strategic Leadership and direction to the company and its ecosystem in India on Open Hybrid Cloud. He engages & advises crucial verticals like BFSI, Telco, IT/ITES, Manufacturing and Pharma on opensource technologies. Helping them tap into massive potential to accelerate businesses towards agile and modern Cloud Native Digital business. In past he has been in crucial leadership roles in leading MNCs; to name a few he had also successfully lead the technology teams in Oracle during its transition to Cloud; He was leader of Information Management at IBM India, during the time when business had just started looking at Analytics, as one of the crucial pillars for growth.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Starting as a technical support engineer, Dinesh has scaled to the role of Director of Sales Pre-sales, leveraging his exceptional leadership and technical skills. He has been instrumental in helping customers to effectively implement their IT business strategies and ensuring business continuity. With a deep understanding of customer needs Dinesh is responsible for driving and shaping up the managed services and security lookout of the customer IT setup. Beyond his technical expertise, Dinesh is also known for his humble and approachable leadership style. In his free time, Dinesh is an avid fan of Bollywood movies and enjoys indulging in his passion for Indian cinema.

With a career spanning over 30+ years, Dharmesh has held multiple roles from solutions sales, professional services to techno commercial. In his 14+ years at Tech Data, Dharmesh has been a key evangelist for a wide range of technologies ranging from data center solutions to the next generation platforms viz. cloud, analytics & security. With deep understanding & specialization, Dharmesh has been a trusted advisor to many customers to design & setup their IT landscapes. In his current role, Dharmesh heads the solution sales and services at Tech Data PAN India across product lines and leads the Tech Data India Center of Excellence a platform to showcase ready modern technology solutions. Dharmesh is an active participant as a speaker at various industry forums and engages with customers regularly to understand their IT roadmap & help them in their IT transformation journey