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With founder/CEOs Pervinder Johar (Avathon), Swapnil Jain (Observe AI), Anshu Sharma (Skyflow), Sarika Garg (Cacheflow), Shalini Govil-Pai (VP, Google).

	Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 6280 America Center Drive, San Jose
	Nov 21 (Thu) @ 05:00 PM
	$25

DETAILS

Welcome to the CXO Engagement Series! Join us for an exciting event at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where top executives will gather to discuss the latest trends & strategies in the industry. They will share their stories on professional growth & engagement. This is a fantastic opportunity to network, learn from industry leaders, & gain valuable insights to drive your business & careers forward. Don't miss out on this exclusive event!

Featured Speakers:

- Shalini Govil-Pai, VP & GM, Google
- Pervinder Johar, CEO, Avathon
- Swapnil Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Observe.AI
- Anshu Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, Skyflow
- Sarika Garg, Co-Founder & CEO, Cacheflow

Event Design:

Featuring 7-10 CXOs in round table format. The CXO Table assignments will be on a first-come-first serve. Please come prepared with your first & second choice for the CXO Tables.
One CXO at each table for interaction with 7-10 IIT alum
Two such rounds of interaction, with a break in between for tea & snacks
To reduce waste, please consider bringing your reusable water bottle if you need water
Planned Program for Thursday, November 21, 2024:

4:45-5:00 pm: Registration, Networking & Welcome
5:00-5:45 pm: CXO Table Session 1
5:45-6:15 pm: Break for Tea/Snacks & Networking
6:15-7:00 pm: CXO Table Session 2
7:00-8:00 pm: Closing Remarks & Reflections
Don't miss this chance to engage directly with top executives & expand your professional network. Secure your spot today.

Shalini Govil-Pai

VP & GM, Google

Shalini Govil-Pai is a seasoned C-level tech executive, board member, product visionary, & industry thought leader on driving business growth via disruptive technologies, including AI, social media, & software platforms. She has delivered bottom-line results at pedigree tech & date-enabled firms such as Google, YouTube, & Pixar.

As a GM & VP at Google, Shalini leads GTM strategy for the connected TV business. She collaborates daily with external stakeholders, including hardware OEMs, advertisers, & media developers, to accelerate the streaming revolution. Under her leadership, the AI-first TV platform, based on Android, has grown tenfold to over 250 million active users.

Shalini serves as a Board Director at YouGov, a publicly traded online market research firm, where she provides strategic advice to leadership on product strategy, M&A, leveraging AI/ML, & deploying SAAS-based solutions. She is a member of the Nom-Gov & Remuneration Committees.

Prior to her GM role leading GoogleTV, Shalini served as a Senior Director & technology solutions leader at YouTube where she developed & operationalized the digital distribution for the creators/influencers segment. She played a key role in leading YouTube across the 1B monthly active users threshold.

Her career began at Pixar, where she directed the creative technology suite & launched the first two full computer-animated films, Toy Story & A Bugs Life.

Pervinder Johar

CEO, Avathon

A high tech serial entrepreneur with extensive industry knowledge & operational expertise, Pervinder Johar launched Blume Global in 2018 to build a digital platform for global supply chain orchestration. Pervinder's prior CEO roles include Steelwedge - a market leader in cloud-based S&OP software company, where he orchestrated a successful exit via sale to E2open, & EdgeVerve, an Infosys company. Pervinder also serves on the board of directors of two private equity-backed large logistics companies, Syncreon & DCLI, & serves on the board of a nonprofit organization, India Community Center.

Earlier in his career, Pervinder was Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems for Hewlett-Packard & was responsible for the strategy & execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product life cycle management, order-to-cash, & procure-to-pay business processes & IT systems.

Over the years, Pervinder has become a seasoned technology leader with broad experience in Supply Chain, Financial Services, & Global IT. He has great expertise in SAP, Oracle, & several other ERP & supply chain applications. Additionally, Pervinder has a strong track record of building new businesses & organizations for startup companies as well as large corporations. Pervinder is a thought leader in Supply Chain, Logistics, & digital technologies such as AI & Machine Learning.

Swapnil Jain

Co-Founder & CEO, Observe.AI

Swapnil is the Founder & CEO of Observe.AI. Observe.AI, a leader in Contact Center AI, transforms customer experiences & improves agent performance by helping top brands analyze 100% of calls & streamline quality assurance workflows. With Observe.AI, businesses transcribe every call with high accuracy & coach agents while gaining full visibility into their customer service operations. Observe.AI brings the power of agent assistance, automatic speech recognition, & Natural Language Processing (NLP) to modern contact centers & their frontline teams. Observe.AI is trusted by over 150 customers & partners, including Root Insurance, Alcon Laboratories, Tripadvisor, & Pearson. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Next47, NGP Capital, Scale Ventures, Nexus, & Y-Combinator, Observe.AI's headquarters is in San Francisco, with an office in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.observe.ai.

Anshu Sharma

Co-founder & CEO, Skyflow

Anshu Sharma is the Co-Founder & CEO of Skyflow. Anshu has over fifteen years of experience in the technology industry & has held various leadership positions at Salesforce.com, Storm Ventures, & Algolia.

Anshu Sharma co-founded Clearedin in January 2017 & served as its board chairman. In January 2022, Barracuda Networks acquired the company.

Before Clearedin, Anshu Sharma co-founded Razorpay, Suki, & Tekion Corp. Anshu also served as a venture partner at Storm Ventures & as vice president of product management at Salesforce.com.

Anshu Sharma started his educational career with a B Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. After that, they pursued an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Some individuals on their team include Pradeep Reddy - VP of engineering & Founding Engineer, Paul Kopacki - CMO, & Amruta Moktali - Chief Product Officer.

Sarika Garg

Co-founder & CEO, Cacheflow

Ms. Garg has been a director since June 2021. She is a member of the Audit & Corporate Governance & Nominating Committees. Ms. Garg has served as co-founder & chief executive officer at Cacheflow, a B2B embedded finance company that has been in stealth since October 2020. She is also a strategic advisor to Tradeshift, where she previously served as Chief Strategy Officer responsible for product & go-to-market. Tradeshift is a cloud network & platform for supply chain payments, marketplaces & apps. During her tenure from 2015 through 2020, she helped Tradeshift grow from a small 100-person startup in 2015 to a leader currently valued at a $2.7B valuation. Before joining Tradeshift, Ms. Garg led product management for Ariba Network, following its acquisition by SAP SE. Ms. Garg started her career at SAP SE, a multinational software corporation, where she spent over 10 years. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS by The Software Report in 2018 & 2019 & is a Forbes Business Development Council member.