Hurray! Regional Scrum Gathering - Bengaluru - 2025 is on July 11-12,2025!!!

Karthi Subbaraman

Design Leader @ Salesforce

Karthi is a designer by heart and choice. She is an educator, coach, community builder, and creator. She leads the design at Salesforce.com

• As a designer, I build product experiences.
• As a design leader I lead design teams. Currently leading Sales Cloud UX @ Salesforce India.
• As an educator, I help designers and product managers grasp the fundamentals of product design, business design and (sometimes) life design.
• As a coach, I help designers and product managers take better decisions & actions.
• As a community builder, I build maker spaces that enable learning and growth.
• As a creator, I share my learnings and reflections of being a maker.

Mahesh Damodhar

Director for UX Design and Localization at OpenText

In my 28years of industry experience, I’ve played the role of leading web technologist, design, QA, and customer support teams to deliver results towards a business challenge. Mentoring and coaching talent has become second nature in all the roles I’ve taken up. I am hands-on as a designer and web technologist using front-end development frameworks. I’ve had the privilege of working in some well known organizations such as MSource, IBM, Netscape Communications, AOL and now OpenText.

Anuj Jagannathan

Founder and CEO of Propelurs Consulting

Anuj Jagannathan is a senior finance professional with 27+ years of experience at companies like Google, Visa, and PwC, now leading Propelurs Consulting. An expert in negotiation and leadership, he has conducted workshops globally since 2016 and authored bestsellers like Negotiation Quotient and We Can Negotiate Too!. He has taught at ISB, Emeritus, and the American Negotiation Institute and holds certifications from Harvard Law School and John Maxwell Enterprise. Passionate about teaching, he created Negotiation Arena, a gamified learning platform, and Money Smart, an innovative finance board game. Anuj also trains young adults in communication, solution thinking, and leadership.

Ganesh Kumar S

Emotional Alchemist Emotional Intelligence Coach | Author

Ganesh is an Emotional Alchemist, Emotional Intelligence Trainer & Coach, and founder of EQ Universe Learning Solutions. He has trained 20,000+ people and conducted 400+ workshops on Emotional Intelligence, coaching leaders and business owners with 1,000+ hours of experience. Author of the Amazon bestseller The Power of Emotions, he developed the Emotional Re-Engineering Model. He has conducted workshops in 26 cities across India for top corporates. Certified in NLP, Life Coaching, TA 101, and International Train the Trainer, he helps individuals achieve peak performance and personal growth.

Arvind Jayasankar

Tech leader @ First American India

With over 20 years of experience in IT strategy, digital transformation, and product innovation, I specialize in leading large-scale technology teams, driving operational excellence, and building high-impact digital solutions. Currently serving as technology leader at First American India, fostering product growth, platform engineering, AI Adoption and cloud advancements. My passion is to unlock the potential of folks with whom I work with, enabling them to bring their best each day.

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Neeraja Ganesh

Leadership Trainer and Coach, TEDx speaker

Neeraja Ganesh has been named twice as one of the Top 100 thought leaders by Thinkers360. Neeraja, a TEDx speaker and a keynote speaker at conferences organised by prestigious global forums like Lean in, IEEE, PMI, TIE, NASSCOM, CII, RISE World Summit, SWE, WomenTech Network, GHCI, is a sought-after leadership facilitator and coach. “Networking for Results” and “How to tell your Story” are two of her signature programmes. She has launched a Women’s Leadership Development Program called “TrailBlazHERs”, a 6 month program for women leaders to enhance their Leadership skills and grow as leaders. Recognised as a “Networking” expert, she also facilitates Networking at conferences through interesting and impactful activities. She has been a recipient of multiple awards – HerRising Award for 3 years, Womentech Network Speaker of the Year award 2023 and most recently the Top 10 Global Corporate Mentoring Excellence Award from HR Success Talk.

She has also been featured as one of the 40 women who have traversed their life journeys from ordinary to extraordinary in the book Magical 40 @ 40

Rituraj Patil

Associate Director – MOURI Tech

Leading multiple B2B & B2C SaaS agile product development, delivery teams across multiple programs at scale

Collaborating with passionate product engineering teams & pragmatic business teams to build user-centric products under programs at scale

Expertise involved in developing & delivering agile IT products / programs in DevSecOps, InfoSec, Cloud, IoT, AI, ML, Data

A seasoned technical agile product / program leader / coach driving product / program journeys by launching, scaling up B2C & B2B SaaS products across e-Commerce, Retail, Industrial Automation, HCM, BFSI, Telecom, Utilities – Private, Public sectors

Led high-impact product management life cycle of niche (small/medium-scale) & millions of users (large-scale) businesses

Identifying growth-hacks & the right problems to solve, through a data-driven approach

Adrish Bera

Founder & CEO, InTutor AI Pvt Ltd

Adrish Bera is a seasoned entrepreneur and media technology leader with a deep expertise in AI/ML-driven digital transformation. With over two decades of experience, he has led groundbreaking innovations in media workflows, AI-powered automation, and software product development. Adrish co-founded and successfully exited Apptarix, a social OTT startup, before leading AI/ML and technology transformation initiatives at Prime Focus Technologies, where he built Vision Cloud, a pioneering AI platform for media automation.

Currently, he is in his second entrepreneurial venture, developing InTutor.AI, a Gen-AI-powered education platform for adaptive and personalized learning for teachers and students. With a career spanning leadership roles at Nokia, Accenture, and various global tech enterprises, Adrish has been at the forefront of innovation—holding multiple patents and spearheading transformative AI-driven solutions. An advocate of agile methodologies and strategic tech adoption, he continues to shape the future of media and technology.

Uday Kiran Kurmana

Senior Development Manager

Experienced engineering leader with a strategic and outcome-focused approach in technology, product innovation, and people leadership. Expertise in cloud transformation, scalable platform development, and leading high-performing teams. Proficient in driving Agile transformations and delivering measurable business results. Advocate for modern technology practices (Cloud, AI/ML, DevOps) and customer-centric product strategies.

Ketan Kulkarni

Practice Leader (Agile), ATOS

Ketan is an experienced Practice leader, AI & Agile Coach, Enterprise Agile Coach, Scaled Agile Practice Consultant With a rich background in Agile Transformation, Design Thinking Frameworks, Agile Coaching. With over 19 years in the tech industry, he excels in guiding organizations towards Agile excellence. Known for a personalized coaching approach, he emphasizes continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency.

Aashish Kumar

Director, Mastercard

Aashish Kumar is a pioneering IT leader driving transformative, future-ready solutions with deep expertise spanning Digital Payments, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Mining. As the founder of a fast-growing AI tutorials platform, he crafts bite-sized microlearning modules that turn complex algorithms into hands-on skills. Committed to bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, he empowers professionals and enterprises to harness AI’s full potential—one micro-lesson at a time. Beyond tech, Aashish is a wellness coach, blending ancient Indian knowledge systems with modern practices to enhance corporate mental and physical well-being.

Seema Rani

Vice President, Mastercard

A dedicated lifelong learner, brings over two decades of experience in the IT industry, currently serving as Program Manager for Data & Analytics at Mastercard. Throughout her journey, she has made a meaningful impact as a trainer, coach, mentor, and public speaker, inspiring many along the way. Passionate about innovation, she is now exploring the transformative potential of AI—not just to simplify program management but to enhance product management, ensuring the creation of the right products with a blend of innovation and speed.

Lakshmi Athreya

Consulting Partner – Agile Practice at Effilor

A Technologist-turned-Coach with 30+ years across Tata Infotech, McAfee, Apple, Wipro, and a lineup of spirited startups, Lakshmi has helped Teams reboot, build culture, craft processes, and achieve excellence—from the ground up to global scale.
Now at Effilor Consulting, she works at the intersection of AI and Agility—where Systems meet Soul. Her strength lies in tailoring Agile practices to align with the unique cultural and operational realities of each team. She strives to bring Empathy to Enterprise and transform Frameworks into lived Experience.

Along the way, she’s quietly mentored a generation of tech leaders—many now leading with the same spark she once lit.

Ranjith Rajagopal

Enterprise Agile Coach

Ranjith Rajagopal is an IT Digital Transformation leader and Enterprise Agile Coach with 25 years of broad experience in leading global teams and delivering large transformation programs across industry domains and technology landscapes. Ranjith is an Agile Transformation Coach with NatWest Group, a leading banking and financial services group, UK. Before that, Ranjith had a hugely successful tenure of over 22 years with Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he played various Leadership and management roles for different clients across different industry domains and geographies. Ranjith is a Leadership Coach pursuing the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Coaching Certification (PCC). Ranjith is also on the Board of Directors of ICF Chennai Charter Chapter. Ranjith has served as a speaker, panelist, and Chairperson in different Agile conferences and meetups

Divay Makkad

Agile Transformation Coach

Divay, an Agile 
Transformation Coach at NatWest Group with over 2 decades of global experience across India, the Middle East, and the US with close interactions with Authors of Agile Manifesto while in the US. He has led enterprise-scale Agile transformations, blending frameworks like SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and XP with deep human-centric approaches. He is especially passionate about making Agile practical—not just theoretical—and embedding principles like psychological safety, antifragility, and continuous learning into team cultures. He has also developed models like ScHeMA, PSySafe and SoAR to support remote/hybrid engagement and cultural transformation. His past and present initiatives include Schaumburg Meetup group, Agile X-Change, eCare to align delivery with people-first thinking. Outside work, he writes thought-provoking pieces at the intersection of Agile, psychology, AI, and pop culture in his newsletter Ideas, Chaos, and Clever Nonsense. 

Dinesh Sharma

Vice President

A seasoned IT leader with over 28 years of experience, including 17+ years in project and program management and 12+ years driving Agile transformations across industries. Dinesh is a recognized thought leader in Agile, DevOps, and leadership, with a 100% success track record across global product and service organizations.

He has published 30+ thought pieces and spoken at 10+ international conferences including Agile and Beyond 2024 (USA), Scrum Day India 2024, and Agile Mumbai, Gurgaon, NCR, and Chennai. A certified PMP, SAFe Agilist, and Generative AI for Business Leaders, he specializes in enterprise agility, innovation, and high-performing team dynamics.

Bhavika Nayyar 

 Delivery Manager

Experienced IT professional with 13+ years in Project Management and Scrum Master roles, leading end-to-end delivery of large-scale projects across Agile and Waterfall models. Adept at driving execution, implementing frameworks, and supporting project methodologies.

Skilled in stakeholder management, budgeting, Agile coaching, and leading cross-functional teams. Known for applying best practices, fostering collaboration, and consistently delivering high-impact results. Certified in SAFe 5, CSM, ITIL, Agile Coach (ACC) and PMP trained.

Vivek Ganesan

Co-founder @ Ampyard

Vivek Ganesan is a published author and a co-founder at https://www.ampyard.com/. He helps organizations, teams and individuals to be better and happier than they are, using his Technical Agility, Process Agility and DevOps coaching skills.

Vivek is an Agile and DevOps practitioner. He also provides consultancy on Agile & DevOps transformation to various companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies.

Vivek has spoken at multiple conferences across the world. https://vivekganesan.com/talks is a list of all his talks.

Vivek is an Open source enthusiast and has contributed to open-source projects like Mozilla, Hadoop, HBase, Karma and more.

Ashish Kumar

Founder & Director, Begin Agile | Visiting Professor, TAPMI | PhD Scholar – AI & Consumer Psychology

Ashish Kumar is the Founder & Director of Begin Agile, where he enables enterprise transformation across industries.
He has coached 1,000+ professionals and partnered with global organizations like BAT, Baxter, Deutsche Bank, and more.
A passionate educator and leadership mentor, he specializes in building agility across leadership, product, and portfolio domains.
Ashish also serves as a Visiting Professor at TAPMI, teaching Product Management and Digital Transformation to MBA cohorts.
He brings a unique blend of hands-on experience, academic depth, and systems thinking to every engagement.
Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in AI-driven customer retention and service recovery at MIT, MAHE.