TechSparks 2025 bolsters lineup with tech titans from MakeMyTrip, Plum, Flipkart, Digantara and more
To be held at Taj Yeshwantpur from November 6 to 8, YourStory’s TechSparks 2025 will bring together these sharp minds to co-create the future of innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology.
India’s premier startup tech summit TechSparks will feature a fresh wave of speakers who bring deep domain expertise across travel, insurtech, space, agritech, commerce, and enterprise AI.
Under the theme “India 2030: Powered by AI”, these voices reflect how India’s builder ecosystem is accelerating intelligence into action—from product stacks and deeptech infrastructure to business models and impact.
To be held at Taj Yeshwantpur from November 6 to 8, YourStory’s TechSparks 2025 will bring together these sharp minds to co-create the future of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology.
Sanjay Mohan, CTO, MakeMyTrip
Sanjay Mohan is the CTO at MakeMyTrip and oversees technology across the company’s brands, driving product and platform strategy for one of India’s largest travel platforms.
He has led initiatives around generative AI and conversational assistants for travel experiences, making him a prime candidate to speak on applied AI in large consumer platforms.
Abhishek Poddar, Co-founder and CEO, Plum Insurance
Abhishek Poddar co-founded Plum Insurance to build technology-first employee health and benefits solutions for enterprises; he comes from a product and strategy background and has led Plum’s scaling of insurtech product stacks.
His work sits at the intersection of data, risk modelling and automation, making AI-led underwriting and claims automation a natural extension of Plum’s roadmap.
Dhruv Joshi, Co-founder and Global CEO, CloudPhysician
Dhruv Joshi is a trained intensivist and the co-founder of CloudPhysician, which provides an AI-enabled critical care platform to extend specialist ICU coverage across hospitals.
The company leverages clinical workflows, remote monitoring and machine learning to scale high-quality care, positioning Joshi to speak about clinical AI in high-stakes environments.
Sreeshankar S Nair, Founder and CEO, Brainwired
Sreeshankar Nair founded Brainwired to apply IoT and machine-learning solutions for livestock and farm productivity, building edge sensing and alert systems for small producers.
His work is an example of AI at the edge for primary sectors, focusing on inclusive, low-cost sensing and predictive alerts for farmers.
Tushar Chhabra, Co-founder and CEO, CronAI
Tushar Chhabra leads CronAI, a deeptech company building real-time 3D sensor perception and perception stacks for autonomous systems and robotics.
CronAI’s focus on real-time 3D perception places it at the convergence of generative AI, perception models and hardware-software integration for physical autonomy.
Anirudh Sharma, Co-founder and CEO, Digantara
Anirudh Sharma is the Co-founder and CEO of Digantara, a Bengaluru-based spacetech company building space situational awareness and satellite monitoring infrastructure.
Digantara combines space sensors, analytics, and data pipelines, making Sharma a leading voice on how AI and edge analytics power new Earth-observation and space-safety services.
Balaji Thiagarajan, CTO and Product Officer, Flipkart
Balaji Thiagarajan was appointed Flipkart’s Chief Technology and Product Officer to accelerate strategic technology and product priorities, including emerging tech adoption.
His background across Google, Microsoft and other large platforms positions him to speak on AI at scale for commerce, recommendations and supply chain optimisation.
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor, IIT Bombay; PI – BharatGen
Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan is a CSE professor at IIT Bombay and a lead researcher on BharatGen, an initiative to build India-centric models and data infrastructure for AI.
He brings academic and systems experience on building inclusive, India-relevant AI resources and model governance as part of the IndiaAI Mission.
Pratik Desai, Founder and CEO, KissanAI
Pratik Desai is a computer scientist and founder of KissanAI, a startup focused on bringing AI and knowledge-driven insights to agriculture and farmers’ workflows.
His research and product work centre on knowledge extraction, language models and contextual AI applications for agriculture.
Ankur Jain, Co-founder, Jivi AI
Ankur Jain, formerly a product leader at BharatPe, is co-founder of Jivi AI, a healthcare AI startup backed publicly by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund. The company builds multimodal medical AI products aimed at scaling diagnostic and triage workflows.
His work focuses on productising AI for health outcomes and regulatory-aware deployment.
Arjun Rao, General Partner, Speciale Invest
Arjun Rao is a General Partner at Speciale Invest and a deeptech investor with a background in building engineering-first startups and backing AI and infrastructure plays.
He frequently writes and speaks on deeptech funding trends and founder readiness for AI projects.
Prominent voices at TechSparks 2025
This speaker lineup joins an extensive list of influential voices from India’s tech and innovation segment, including Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, Minister of Civil Aviation, Government of India; Priyank Kharge, Minister for IT, BT & Rural Development, Government of Karnataka; Ronnie Screwvala, Founder of upGrad; and Mukesh Bansal, Co-founder of Cure.fit and Myntra.
Other eminent names include Nikhil Mittal, CTO, Zepto; Vani Kola, Managing Director of Kalaari Capital; Kunal Kapoor, actor and Co-founder of Ketto; Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO at Groq; Madhusudhan Rao, CTO at Swiggy; and more.
The latest additions to the speaker lineup include Priya Patankar, Head of Corporate Communications, PhonePe; Naoto Nakadate, Senior Director, Japan-India Startup Hub, JETRO; Salim Naim, Director of AI, Microsoft Global Black Belt, Asia; Scott Albin General Manager, Groq APAC; and Yashas Karanam, Co-founder and COO, Bellatrix Aerospace.
More prominent speakers at the event include Sandeep Alur, CTO, Microsoft Innovation Hub, Microsoft India; Nitin Mittal, Digital Natives and Startup Leader, Microsoft India; Raghuveer Subodha, EY GDS Consulting AI Engineering Leader, EY GDS; Nayani Nasa, Strategic Partner Manager, Business Messaging - India, Meta; Pankaj Mitra, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners; Raghav Chandra, Co-founder and CPTO, Urban Company; Bala Gorthi, COO, Teleradiology Solutions (TRS); Narendra Yadav, CBO, Sr.Vice President, Paytm; Tarun Pathak, Research Director – Devices & Ecosystems, Counterpoint Research; Himanshu Verma, Business Head – AI/XR, Kaynes Technology India Limited; Kevin Scott, Corporate Vice President (CVP) of Global Enterprise Sales, Microsoft; Muralidhar Somisetty, Founder, YogiFi; and Venkat Ragothaman, Senior Director Of Engineering, Security & AI, NetApp.
Explore the full speaker list and register for TechSparks 2025 here.