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Anil Bhansali is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Platform & Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd.

Anil holds a post graduate degree in Computer Science from SUNY, Stony Brook and has been with Microsoft from 1991. In a career spanning more than two decades he has worked in multiple technologies in Office, Search, Windows and Azure.

Anil holds a post graduate degree in Computer Science from SUNY, Stony Brook and has been with Microsoft from 1991. In a career spanning more than two decades he has worked in multiple technologies in Office, Search, Windows and Azure.

In his current role Anil is leading efforts in Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Platform division to drive Azure growth with primary focus on AI to drive digital transformation in key verticals like Healthcare, Agriculture and Education.

He is on the Board of Advisors for the Srini Raju Center for IT and Networked Economy, a research centre at Indian School of Business which aims to foster research in (ICT) to create value for business and society. He is also on the Board of Directors of Hyderabad Eye Care Institute.

Anil is committed to the cause of improving the quality of education and health care for the under-served in India.

He is on the board of several non-profits which support initiatives in education and healthcare.

When not at work, Anil spends time with his wife Shobha and two teenage boys Aditya and Eshaan. He is also an avid trekker and he has been to the Annapurna and Everest Base camp. He is also a marathon runner and has completed several national and international marathons.

Amaresh is the man at the helm, responsible for the overall financial planning and operations of the business. This includes strategic and financial planning, analysis and reporting as well as compliance and controls. Having begun his career with Microsoft in 2002, Amaresh has held a range of leadership positions in strategy, finance and business development in the embedded and mobile business. He made the move to Microsoft India Development Center in 2006. His academic record comprises a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a master’s from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and an MBA from Cornell University.

As the head of the Business Management function and the Cloud & Enterprise group at Microsoft India Development Center, Chitra enables and oversees the delivery of operational and organizational priorities. A veteran who joined the division in 1998 since its inception, Chitra has headed a range of support functions across the company. Before Microsoft, Chitra was the administrative head of the Hutchison Max Paging operations in Hyderabad. She is a CA/CS with an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Debi Mishra is the Site Leader for Development Center in Bengaluru.

He is an innovator and technology leader at Microsoft Teams. He has over two decades of experience in Microsoft and has led many v1 engineering efforts from start to shipping – Distributed COM, .NET CLR and Visual J#.NET, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Security Center, Object Store (Bing’s distributed NoSQL store) among others.

Debi is an inventor with over 50 patents filed and 28 patents granted. He was also the founder of Scholarity, a technology start-up that achieved breakthroughs in the deep cognitive understanding of Math.

As the head of Human Resources at Microsoft India Development Center, Namratha drives the people and organizational priorities for engineering teams across India. Namratha’s career has spanned a variety of HR roles across different industry segments. Prior to her stint in Microsoft, she was leading the HR at Comcast and held multiple global HR leadership roles in Cisco Systems and Jabil. Namratha has a bachelor’s degree in economics and post graduate degree in Human Resources from XLRI, India.

As Partner Group Manager of Microsoft Edge team in India, Raj leads the reading, research, education, shopping and extensibility verticals around Microsoft Edge. Raj has been contributing to Microsoft since 2001, working across a wide variety of areas spanning security, operating system, networking and browsers -- with teams from Microsoft TV, to Windows Security, to Internet Explorer and most recently, Microsoft Edge. For most of his career, Raj has been leading teams to verify and deliver increasingly high-quality software. Raj spent the early decade working on Windows Security Platform in various leadership roles. He had a defining role with the bring up and rollout of Credential Manager, Secure Boot and Trusted Desktop on Windows, working closely with partners across Microsoft. With Windows 10, Raj was one of the leaders behind the reboot of our browser efforts and helped bring a brand new, rebuilt from the ground up, browser with Microsoft Edge to market in rapid time. He also led the transformation of the "Test" role into "Data and Analytics" role while on the Microsoft Edge team -- with a new focus on telemetry, data, analysis, and quality assessment at scale from the customer's perspective.

Rajiv Kumar is the Managing Director, Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices (E+D) India Group.

Rajiv started his career at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer 27 years ago. Having worked with several product groups in the compiler and server space in the initial years, Rajiv rose through the ranks from being a developer in the Visual Basic team to the Development Manager in BizTalk, and subsequently the Product Unit Manager for Content Management Server team.

Rajiv moved to IDC 15 years ago to start the Dynamics CRM and Office product development team. He started with 10-member team in 2004, supporting Dynamics CRM, that has grown to 2500+ today and is now called the E+D India team. Rajiv’s team also led the incubation and launch of Kaizala from India and today, the enterprise chat-app is globally available in 40 languages across 180 countries.

Rajiv’s vision 2025 for IDC is to create a world class development center and be the source of innovation for the next billion users and help Microsoft achieve its mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin.

Outside of work, Rajiv has a keen interest in spirituality and is a fitness-enthusiast who practices Yoga and cycles every day. He plays the Tabla and loves to travel with his daughters Eshita and Sneha, and wife Rekha.

Sundar Srinivasan leads the AI team at Microsoft India Development Center. He and his team work on technologies spanning search engines, Cortana (Microsoft’s digital personal assistant) and other AI services. Sundar has a wide range of experiences from building consumer products, cloud services at scale and building intelligent services using AI. He continues to learn from his experiences as a developer, product manager and as an organization leader. He is a firm believer that AI amplifies human ingenuity and that AI will help humans achieve a lot more in our future.

Sundeep Kunchala brings over 20 years of composite experience in software product architecture and deployments, spanning several functions in the IT Industry. His mainstay being Data Warehousing, Data Management and Business Intelligence with industry experience in semiconductors, high-tech manufacturing, B2B, and financial institutions. Sundeep has repeatedly proven his ability to lead through diverse and challenging situations and has an excellent track record of accomplishments that include the turnaround of chaotic and struggling operations in the past. Creating a vision that results in business value and leading the team through the change are the best aspects of Sundeep's leadership.

Vishwa leads the Bings Ads Marketplace team, his team is responsible for Bing monetization for INTL markets where they extensively use Machine learning algorithms for matching user queries to the relevant ads. He started his career as a Software developer working on telephony switches in Siemens and Ericsson. He joined Microsoft in April 1999 and has previously worked on various products including Windows Networking, Web Services protocols, Server Virtualization, etc.

His qualification includes a bachelor’s in Electronics and Communications from University of Mysore. Vishwa lives in Bangalore with his wife and daughters. His passions outside of work includes reading, running and playing squash.

Deepak leads the Product Design and Research teams across products in the M365 Ecosystem, Bing, and Cortana in Hyderabad.

His team research and design helped define the enquiry around productivity for billions of mobile-only users in emerging markets. This has led to product innovations like Kaizala – a mobile product that helps businesses connect with their value chain to collaborate and complete business workflows. He was also responsible for defining the Ribbon interface for Microsoft Office and was the key driver for the Microsoft Center for Information work. The latter helped in reimagining the future of productivity and won the IDSA gold reward in 2003.

Deepak completed his B.Arch. from REC Trichy, his M.Arch on a fellowship, and his MFA from The Ohio State University. He loves sports and lives in Hyderabad with his wife and two sons.

Sanjay Anand is a Partner Director Software Engineering in Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) focused on the Visual Studio family of developer productivity offerings.

In a previous stint, he was the Managing Director of Google Engineering in India. Prior to Google, Sanjay was at Microsoft for over 18 years in various Engineering and General Management roles, notably founding the Microsoft India Development Center at Bangalore, focused on online advertising.

Sanjay holds a Masters (CS) from Arizona State University and a BTech (CS) from BITS, Pilani, India. He was recently featured among the top 50 graduates from BITS Pilani as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.

Binu Raj is a Partner Director at Microsoft and leads Engineering and Product Management for Office 365 Bangalore.

With a history of building scalable platforms, he has broad experience in leading high performing teams building distributed systems, across start-ups and large enterprise. His teams work on O365 Groups, Office Ecosystems, Exchange Public Folders, MileIQ among other things, and on technologies like Exchange/Office stack, Android, Azure web services.

Prior to Microsoft, Binu worked with Yahoo, where his stint involved various cloud platforms like Hadoop, the Yahoo IaaS, and distributed data processing.

Binu has a master’s in computer science from Indian Institute of Science.

Sharad’s career at Microsoft started in 1990 in Redmond where he spent the first decade leading development of a new embedded OS that would come to be known as Windows CE.

He then spent some time as an architect in MSN in the fun times of early 2000 when Google started disrupting the cloud paradigms.

Sharad moved to IDC in 2006 and has been working on business continuity services for Azure over the last several years. He holds a bachelors degree in CS from IIT Bombay and a Masters from UCLA.

Sharad is an avid traveler, amateur photographer, and loves trekking in his spare time.

Over the span of 25 years, she has worked on several system technology areas such as databases, data protection, virtualization, disaster recovery, and cloud computing and is currently in the Cloud and Enterprise Division in a senior leadership role. Charu holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University) and a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was also a recipient of the prestigious University of California Regents Scholarship during her graduate program. She is an active member of the Grace Hopper Celebration India (GHCI) and mentors the technical track at the conference. She is a board member on the Confederation of Indian Industry – CII’s National Committee on Technology, a role that will allow Microsoft to guide CII by establishing a center of excellence on Digital Transformation.