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How do we build intelligence that scales with India? Later this week, at YourStory’s flagship event, TechSparks 2025, key stakeholders from the artificial intelligence (AI) community, will answer that question. As TechSparks returns to Bengaluru's Taj Yeshwantpur for its 16th edition, from November 6 to 8, YourStory will bring together the sharpest minds shaping the future of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. This year’s speakers aren’t just adopting AI; they’re weaving intelligence into every human workflow, building trust with millions of MSMEs, and extending India’s innovation footprint all the way to space. Here’s the next set of speakers, trailblazers from the technology sector who offer a unique perspective on India’s transformation story: Tejas Goenka, Managing Director, Tally Solutions For decades, Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd has quietly powered the backbone of Indian business—Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) navigating compliance, GST, and digital adoption. Their north star? Simplifying complexity without sacrificing reliability. Tally was digital before ‘digital transformation’ became a buzzword. At TechSparks, Tejas Goenka, Managing Director at Tally Solutions, will unveil the human and design philosophy behind one of India’s most enduring software journeys, and how empathy and trust continue to shape Tally’s future roadmap. Kshitij Khandelwal, Co-founder and CTO, Pixxel Former ISRO Young Scientist Kshitij Khandelwal is turning advanced space hardware and AI into a climate intelligence engine. Trained in systems engineering and satellite tech, he combines hands-on experience in spacecraft design with machine learning pipelines for high-frequency imaging. At Pixxel, a YourStory Tech30 company, Khandelwal leads the development of hyperspectral satellites that capture hundreds of spectral bands, enabling precise crop health monitoring, mining compliance, and urban planning, among others. Backed by Google, Accenture, and Lightspeed, Pixxel represents India’s next leap in sovereign space data. At TechSparks 2025, expect a deep dive into the science and software powering orbital analytics. Ankush Sabharwal, Founder and CEO, CoRover.ai Ankush Sabharwal is one of India’s prominent voices on conversational AI that actually moves business metrics. A product-first founder, Sabharwal’s expertise spans Natural Language Understanding (NLU), dialogue management and the operational plumbing that makes chatbots reliable in production. For attendees who want to cut through the hype and understand where conversational AI is really working and how founders can ship measurable value fast, Sabharwal’s session will be insightful. Manoj Agarwal, Co-founder and President, DevRev Seasoned technical leader Manoj Agarwal, co-founded DevRev, a software company that provides an AI-powered platform to integrate customer support and software development, in 2020. With extensive experience in engineering and management within the tech industry, Agarwal has successfully transitioned from hardware development at established corporations to leading innovative software solutions in startups. With expertise spanning cloud computing, distributed systems, and platform development, Agarwal will speak at TechSparks 2025 on how AI teammates are redefining roles, creativity, accountability, and the future of workplace collaboration. Siddharth Bhardwaj, Co-founder and CTO, Beatoven.ai Siddharth Bharadwaj, Co-founder and CTO of AI-music generating platform Beatoven.ai, is democratising original music creation by bringing studio-level composition to every content creator via AI. With past experience in Samsung R&D Institute India and Kubric, Bhardwaj has deep roots in in audio signal processing and music tech. He builds models that generate context-aware soundtracks and handle licensing complexity. His technical focus includes neural audio synthesis, tempo/style conditioning, and scalable content pipelines that integrate with creator tools and publishing workflows. Catch him at TechSparks 2025 as he brings his creative tech insights to the audience. Nikhil Mittal, CTO, Zepto Nikhil Mittal, CTO, helms Zepto’s rapid growth story. With experience in large-scale engineering and product optimisation, his work centres on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and custom search to solve India-specific problems such as misspellings, phonetic typing, and regional language complexities, at scale, demonstrating effective AI use. He will discuss the engineering and Machine Learning (ML) choices behind quick commerce—how models and infra must be co-designed to tackle India’s real-world complexities. Jithendra Vepa, Co-founder and CTO, Observe.AI A key leader in enterprise transformation and AI, Jithendra Vepa is combining GenAI and ML to build intelligent AI agents, revolutionising customer experience. He focuses on agent-assist workflows that blend real-time speech understanding, intent extraction, and automated quality assurance. At TechSparks 2025, hear him break down the nitty-gritty of AI-first innovation in the next era of enterprise intelligence. Nakul Kundra, Founder, Design AI Nakul Kundra, Founder at Design AI, is shaping the vernacular-first wave of AI products that target Bharat’s next 100 million users. Building multilingual models and product experiences that prioritise regional dialects, code-mixing, and cultural context, Kundra’s expertise spans data engineering for low-resource languages, UX for non-linear literacy levels, and product-market fit for regional cohorts. Hear him as he shares the playbook for scaling vernacular AI and how it can unlock the next 100 million-plus users, and what it takes to build a product for Bharat without losing global ambition. Samanyou Garg, Founder and CEO, Writesonic.ai Samanyou Garg is a pioneer of fast, scalable content automation, helping businesses automate repetitive writing without losing brand voice. Being at the forefront of India’s generative AI wave, he is building one of the world’s fastest-growing AI writing and content automation platforms, Writesonic.ai. At TechSparks 2025, he’ll deep dive into building AI-first products, scaling globally, and what’s next for generative AI. The speaker lineup already includes influential voices from the startup and technology landscape, 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; Mukesh Bansal, Co-founder of Cure.fit and Myntra; Vani Kola, Managing Director of Kalaari Capital; Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Co-founder and CEO of Urban Company; Kaivalya Vohra, Co-founder of Zepto; Kunal Kapoor, actor and co-founder of Ketto; Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO at Groq; Madhusudhan Rao, CTO at Swiggy; Noi Cecilia Oldne, Founding Partner, Visceral Capital; Chief India Representative, Sweden-India Business Council; and Vivek Raghavan, Co-founder, Sarvam AI, among others. New additions to the speaker lineup include Kushal Manupati, Growth and Operations Lead, South Asia, at Binance; Satyajit Kanekar, Co-founder at 86400; Adithyan RK, Founder and CEO at Hyring Inc; Paranth Thiruvengadam, Site Lead and Head of Engineering at Atlassian; Shamik Sharma, Head of Product (SVP) at Atlassian; Hemant Kamatgi, Vice President (Customer Platform Engineering) at Ford Motor Company; Ananth Shroff, Founder and CEO at DPDzero; Puspen Maity, CEO at Technosport; Madhur Makkar, Principal at RTP Global; Vishwanath Ramarao, CPTO at Acko; Thiru S Vengadam, EY GDS and EY Global Consulting AI Service Transformation Leader; Suraj Aiar, Founder and CEO, QWR; Malini Dutt, Trade and Investment Commissioner (India) for Investment NSW; Rakesh Ravuri. CTO and Engineering Leader at Publicis Sapient; Devika Mittal, Regional Head at Ava Labs; Rohan Nayak, Co-founder and CEO at Pocket FM; Priyadarshi Mohapatra Co-founder at CureBay; and Debjyoti Biswas, AI Solutions Architect at Groq, among others. Curious to explore the full speaker list? [Click here.] Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to be part of the movement building an AI-powered India. [Click here to register for TechSparks 2025.] (Edited by Teja Lele)
