Past Speaker
Speakers at CKS Events
Governor, Ministers & Parliamentarians, Diplomats
- Shekhar Dutt- Former Governor Chatƫisgarh
- Nitin Gadkari- Hon'ble Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Government of India
- Prakash Javadekar– Former Cabinet Minister, Government of India
- Suresh Prabhu– Former Cabinet Minister, Government of India
- Judy R. Reinke- Minister Counsellor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Embassy
- Mary Tarnowka- Deputy Economic Minister- Counsellor, U.S.Embassy
- Raksha Khadse- Minister of State, Government of India
- Shri Prem Das Rai– Former Member of Lok Sabha
- Tarun Vijay- Former Member of Rajya Sabha
- Shri Anantkumar Hegde- Hon'ble Member of Parliament Lok Sabha, Former Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Shri Baijayant Panda, National Vice President of BJP and Former Member of Parliament
- Dr Rabindra Narayan Behera- Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Standing Committee Member of Communication and Information Technology and Consultative Committee Member of Steel Ministry, Government of India
- Gopal Shetty, Former Member of Lok Sabha
Indian Armed Forces & Allied Agencies
- Lt. Gen. D. B. Shekatkar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd), -Chairman CKS and Chancellor Sikkim University.
- Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia - PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd), Centre for Joint Warfare Studies, Director and Former DGMO
- Jayadeva Ranade- Former Additional Secretary in Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, R&AW.
- Lt. Gen Vinod Khandare - AVSM- SM, Advisor, Ministry of Defence, GOI and former Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency
- • Lt. Gen Sanjay Kulkarni - PVSM, AVSM, SC, SM, VSM (Retd), former DG Infantry and Siachen Pioneer
- Rear Admiral S. Y. Shrikhande- AVSM (Retd), Indian Navy
- Brig Pradeep Arora- Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee
- Manjeet Singh- HQ IDS, DACIDS (DIARA)
- Y. S. Pathania- Secretary, Center for Joint Warfare Studies.
- Commander L R Prakash (Retd)- Director, Centre for Development of Advance Computing
- Col. Milan Patnaik
- Inderbir Singh IPS- Punjab Police
- Triveni Singh IPS- Uttar Pradesh Police
- Atul Tripathi- Consultant, National Security Council Secretariat
- Lt Gen Rajesh Pant (Retd)- Indian Army Signals, PhD, MTech, MPhil, MMS, FIETE, Cyber Security consultant and Former Chief of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC)
- Lt Gen Girish Kumar, VSM- Surveyor General of India
- Lt Gen Ajay Chandele (Retd) ,PVSM, AVSM- National Geospatial Think Tank Member
- Lt Gen Satish Dua (Retd) - PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM
- Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd) PVSM, AVSM, VSM
- Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd) PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM
- Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah (Veteran) PVSM SM VSM
- Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y Shrikhande (Retd) AVSM
- Vice Admiral Anil Chopra (Retd) PVSM AVSM
- Air Marshal D Choudhury (Retd) PVSM AVSM VM VSM
- Lt Gen DS Hooda (Retd) PVSM, UYSM, AVSM,VSM & Bar, ADC
- Lt Gen Arun Kumar Sahni (Retd) PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM- Former General Officer Commanding in Chief, Indian Army
- Air Vice-Marshall Pranay Sinha (Retd), VSM - Advisor, Central Research Laboratory – Bharat Electronics Limited
- Major General Dhruv Katoch (Retd), SM, VSM- Former Director Centre for Land Warfare Studies
- Mr Amit Sharma– Former Additional Director in the Office of the Scientific Advisor of Defence Minister, Defence Research and Development Organization (D.R.D.O), Ministry of Defence
- IG Bhola Nath Sharma (Retd)- Former Inspector General Border Security Force
- IPS, 1994 Brijesh Singh- Inspector General of Police, Cyber at Government of Maharashtra
- IPS, 1996 Ajay Yadav- Inspector General, Communications and IT, Central Reserve Police Force
- IPS, 2005 Amresh Mishra- Superintendent of Police, National Investigation Agency (NIA)
- Lt. Col Anupam Tiwari (Retd.)- Advisor (Cyber) to Principal Advisor, MoD
- Lt Col Amitabh Bhardwaj (Retd.)- Director Projects – DST, IIT Madras, IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation
- Brigadier Rajeev Bhutani (Rtd)- CENJOWS
- Group Captain Guruhari- IAF
- Colonel Aman Anand- Spokesperson, Ministry of Defence
- Mr R Chandrashekhar- Senior Fellow, CENJOWS
Technocrat, Bureaucrats & Government Agencies
- A.S. Kiran Kumar- Former Chairman, ISRO
- Sanjay Jaju IAS- Additional Secretary, Department of Defence and Production
- S. D. Pradhan- Former DNSA and Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee, National Security Counciltariat, Government of India
- A. K. Manocha– Ex. CMD, IRCTC
- Avadesh Mathur- Former Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India
- Amitabh Mathur IPS- Former Head Aviation Research Centre, R&AW
- Sudhir Kumar Marwaha– Scientist, MeiTY
- Surendra Nath Tripathi– Director General, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi
- Vatsala Joshi Pande- OSD ( Research) to Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha
- Atul Kumar- Chief General Manager, National Highways Authority of India
- Dr K J Ramesh- Former Director General, India Meteorological Department, National Geospatial Think Tank Member
- Dr Haresh Bhatt– Ex. Mission Director and Chairman, Information and Cyber Security Board & Mission Director, Information and Cyber Security, Space Applications Centre, ISRO.
- Navin Mittal, IAS- Commissioner, Collegiate Education & Technical Education, Government of Telangana
- Mahesh Jiwade, IAS- Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy
- K B Nanda (IAS) (Retd.)- Ex. Fin. Comm. Railway Board; Ex Principal Financial Advisor, Northern Railway, North-Western Railway; Ex Executive Director Min. Of Railways; Ex. Executive Director Ircon International; Ex Director CCFB Railways Mozambique, Africa.
- Dr Sunil Gupta- Economic Research Unit, Joint Plant Committee, Ministry of Steel
- Mukesh Nigam- Managing Director, Centre For Railway Information Systems, Ministry of Railway
- Dr Sanjaya Das- Former Managing Director, Centre For Railway Information Systems, Ministry of Railway, Government of India.
- Dr CS Mohapatra - IEPF Chair Professor at NCAER; Fmr Principal Adviser in the Rank of Secretary to Govt of India, Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Finance, IES
- Vijay Devnath- General Manager (Infrastructure & Security), Chief Information Security Officer - Centre For Railway Information Systems, Government of India.
- Ashutosh Vasant- Director (Project Operation and Maintenance) of RailTel, Government of India.
- A K Agarwal– General Manager, RWF, Ministry of Railway, Government of India.
- Dr Janmejay Thakur- Scientist, Intellectual Property and Know-How Informatics, National Informatics
- Dr Santulan Chaubey– Chief Information Security Officer, Government of Delhi.
- Col Nishant Singh - Director eGovernance and IT division , Ministry of External Affairs ,Government of India
- Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar IFS (Retd)
- Dr Unnat Pandit- Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademark,(CGPDTM), RoC, GI & SICLDR
- Shubha N Bhambani (ITS)- Additional DGT, Department of Telecommunications, GoI
- Rajkumar Mohanraj-Director, IT, Apco Digicon
- Alok Oak-Deputy General Manager, Godrej and Boyce Mfg
- Ihita Gangavarapu-Co-founder of Internet Governance Forum India
- Anoop Chaturvedi -Country Manager, HPE
- Arvind Pachhapur-Country Manager, Legal Business & Head Strategy Thomson Reuters India
- Ashutosh Chadha-Vice President & Head Corporate Affairs, Wipro
- Avik Sarkar-Head, Data Analytics Cell, Niti Aayog
- Dr Rita Srivastava-Sr DGM, Cyber Security – Bharat Electronics Limited
- Dr Hemavathy Muthuswamy-Sr DGM, Network & Cyber Security, Central Research Laboratory
- Shivkumar Pandey-Group Chief Information Officer, Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd
- Shankar Jadhav-Managing Director, Bombay Stock Exchange
- Dr Deepa Prakash-Food Scientist, Formerly with Council for Scientific Industrial Research, Central Food Technological Research Institute
- Vijay Karia-Managing Director, Ravin Group
- Ajit Mangrulkar- Director General, Indian Merchants Chamber of commerce and Industry
- Vipul Srivastava-Director General, Indian Merchants Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Ashok Narayanaswamy-Partner, Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Dr B.V.L Narayana-Director, Passenger System, Centre for Railways Informatics System (CRIS)
- Balachander Sekhar-Director Marketing, MetLife India
- Bharat Panchal- Senior VP and Head Risk Management, NPCI
- Chinmaya Goyal-OSD, NITI Aayog
- Debjani Ghosh-Intel
- Deepak Maheshwari-Vice President- Public Policy, South Asia Master Card Worldwide
- Dr Mohandas Pai-Ex CEO, Infosys & Chairman, Manipal Global Education
- Dr Pawan Maini-Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Amchams Committee on Infrastructure and Energy and CH2M Hill
- Dr Raghupati Singhania-Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JK Tyre & Industries Limited
- Dr Shreenath Settur-Head Transfer of Technology, CDOT
- Dr Vipin Tyagi-Executive Director, CDOT
- Harish Mehta-Chairman & MD, Onward Technologies Limited
- Jaijit Bhattacharya-Partner, KPMG
- K.K. Minocha-Former Deputy Director General, USOF Department of Telecommunications
- Kaku Nakhate-President & Country Head, Bank of America
- Kishor Patil-Co-founder, CEO, MD, KPIT
- Sanjeev Gupta-General Manager, Microsoft
- Vikram Shah-VP and GM, Netapp India Pvt Ltd
- Kuldeep Goyal-Ex-Chairman and MD, BSNL
- M.D. Jain-CTO, VFS Global
- Manish Kumar-Senior Vice President, Head IT, DIMTS
- Abhijit Chaterjee - CIO, C-Zentrix
- Ajay Ranjan Mishra - Director, Technology & IR, Ericsson India Pvt Ltd.
- Ajay Ranjan Misra - Chairman, ITU-T Focus Group
- Ajay Singha - Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in India
- Amanjit Ramesh - Political Officer, U.S.Embassy
- Manoj Kanodia - CEO, Inspira
- Anwar Shipurwala - Executive Director, MAIT
- Naina Lal Kidwai - HSBC, FICCI
- Naveen Tandon- Co – Chairman and Director – External Affairs, Amcham's Committee on ICT and AT&T Communication Services India.
- P Rajendra - COO, NIIT
- Prasanna Lohar - Head Innovation, DCB Bank
- R Chandrashekhar - President Designate, NASSCOM
- Rajeev Batra - Group Head, Corporate Affairs, Hindustan Unilever Limited
- Ravinder Pal Singh - Director, Digital Cybersecurity & Healthcare
- S Ramkrishna - President – Group Public Affairs and Members of the Group of Executive Board, Samsung Eelctronics
- Som Mittal - Former President and Chairman, Nasscom
- Subimal Bhattacharjee - Country Head, General Dynamics Corporation India
- Subodh Bhargava - Chairman, CII National Council on Public Policy
- Tabrez Ahmed- Director, UPES
- Tanay Krishna - Head of Marketing, CDOT
- Tejpreet Chopra - President & CEO, Bharat Light and Power Pvt Ltd
- Vandana Nanda- Retd. MD, CRIS Ministry of Railways
- Vineet Malhotra- Director Kale Logistics
- Virat Bhatia- President, IEA South Asia and AT&T Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd.
- William L. Blair- Chairman and President, Amcham's Committee on Homeland Security and Raytheon India
- Ambarish Bakaya- HPE
- Ambika Khurana- Government and Regulatory Affairs, IBM
- Agendra Kumar - Managing Director, Esri India Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Sandeep Bhambure - Vice President and Managing Director, Veeam India and SAARC
- Anil Bhasin- Regional VP, India and SAARC, Palo Alto Networks
- Lakshmi Madhusudan- Head of Talent Acquisition, Guardian Life
- Rajat Dhar- Managing Partner FINOGENT
- Kartik Vaidyanathan - MD Apco Digicon
- Ajay Kashikar- Consultant, E-zest Solutions Ltd.
- Dr Deepak Deshpande- Chief Human Resource Officer- Netmagic solutions
- Rahul Seth - Head Government Public Policy and Government partnerships, ValuePitch ETechnologies Pvt Ltd.
- Uma Sudhindhra- Member Board of Governors, IIM Vizag
- Aarti Bindra- MD, Klassify
- Gaurav Tripathi- Co-Founder, Superpro.ai
- Vinod Kumar CEO, Subex
- Trishneet Arora- TAC Security
- Dr. Nagarathna. A- Associate Professor of Law, National Law School of India University [NLSIU], Bengaluru
- Vivek Tiwari- Founder and CEO of Audix Techno Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Dr Pankaj Vashist- Associate Professor, RIS
- Saket Setu- CEO- Towards Vision Technologies limited (C-Zentrix)
- Dr.Ekta Soni- Principal Sapphire International School
- Basudeb Das- Head of Department - NBO Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
- Saurabh Jain - Deputy Director, Infosecurity (ITBA), CBDT
- Sohan Nautiyal- Principal Consultant Digital India Corporation
- Dr. Jinny Tomar- Expert on Bioinformatics & IPR
- Harvinder Kumar- Deputy Director, Income Tax, Ministry of Finance
- Dr Satbir Yadav- Former DGM, CSD, Ministry of Defence, GoI
- Swapan Biswas- Advisor, CSC E-Governance Services India Limited
- Yogendra Prasad- Assistant Director, Department of Telecom (DoT)
- Dr Ashish Kumar- Scientist ‘C’, CERT-In, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, GoI
- Arundhati Bhowmick- Group General Manager, HOD(IT) Engineering Projects (INDIA) Ltd.
- Mr Grigoriy Shmid- Third Secretary Embassy of the Russian Federatio, Russian Embassy
- Mr Iskander Akhmedr- Russian Embassy
- Mr Pavel A. Khalashniuk- Counsellor of Embassy of Russian Federation Representative of the Ministry of Interior in India, Russian Embassy
- KJS Walia- EVP, Solutions, WalSof Technologies
- Ms Maria Zavorotnaya- Chief Risk Officer, SBER BANK
- Naresh Kumar- BSNL
- Pulkit Chaudhary- Data Protection Manager, SBER BANK
- Yuvraj Chopra- Country Advocacy Lead, BASF India Limited
- Manoj Gupta- Senior General Manager, TeamLease Edtech
Academicians & Key Public Organisation Representatives
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- Shri Dattatreya Hosable- General Secretary, RSS
- Shri Sunil Ambekar- Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh, RSS
- Advocate Vikrant Khandelwal- Zonal Organisation Secretary, ABVP
- Ajit Sinha- Editor, Governance Today
- Kaustubh Dhavse- OSD to Chief Minister, Maharashtra
- Prof Dr. Sharad Sinha- Head, RMSA Project Cell, NCERT
- Chandam Chowdhary- Associate Dean, ISB
- Sadish Poonia- BJP Leader, Rajasthan
- Savita Kakar- Scientist, DRDO
- Hemant Goswami- Indian Social Activist, Chairman, Bharat Niti
- Dr Sanjay Sharma- Dean -School of ICT, Gautam Buddha University
- Dr Faruk Kazi- Dean- Research, Development and Consultancy at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Core Advisory Committee Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra State
- Dr Vijay Kumar Kaul- Professor, Department of Business Economics, Delhi University
- Dr Munesh Trivedi- Professor, Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology
- Dr Pradeep Tomar- Professor, School of Information & Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University
- Dr Sandhya Tarar- Professor, School of Information & Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University
- Dr Deepak Upadhyay- Professor, Cyber Expert, Gujarat Technological University
- Dr Aroon Sharma- Professor, Rural Development, Industrial Eco./Econometrics. Jammu University
- Ms Alka Gurjar, National Secretary BJP, Co-incharge charge BJP Delhi
- Arjun Subramaniam, Military Historian, Fighter Pilot, and Author
Media
- Mr Rishabh Gulati- Managing Editor, NewsX
- Ms Faye D'souza- Journalist and Editor Mirror Now
- Mr Ajit Sinha- Editor, Governance Today
- Anusha Soni- Former Reporter, CNN