Women in Engineering
Event Date:5th January, 2024 Time : 2 PM to 5.30 PM (IST)
Theme: Navigating the AI Landscape: Prospects and Challenges
Schedule
Event Date: 5th January 2024, Time: 14:00 to 17:30 (IST) | ||
Venue: Sigma 1 | ||
Time(IST) | Details | Speakers |
14:00-15:30 | Hands-on workshop on “Generative AI” | Ranjani Swaminathan, VMware Ramya Victor, VMwar |
15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | |
16.00-16.40 | Key note on “AI in enhancing Supply Chain Capabilities” | Tannistha Ganguly, Global Head - Supply Chain Warehouse Management Systems (IT) |
16.40 - 17.20 | Chai Pe Charcha on “Women in AI” | Vardaan Sahgal, Womanium Richa Hukumchand - Womanium, Pramatra Space Technology |
17:20 - 17:30 | Closing the session |
Keynote Speakers
Tannistha Ganguly
Global Head - Supply Chain Warehouse Management Systems (IT)Visit Homepage
In this piece I will talk about the way industry, across all sectors, has started adopting advanced technologies in the supply chain management domain. More and more companies are discovering how they can use technologies to build their competitive advantage and directly have a positive impact on their margins/top-line etc. It is very interesting to note how AI and other advance technologies can bring in efficiencies which were unthinkable before.
Tannistha is a senior manager with over 18 years of experience in global FMCG, CPG & Manufacturing industries, specializing in Enterprise Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Analytics, IT & Business Process Consulting, Warehouse Management and Supply Chain Management (SCM). She has worked in MNCs such as Unilever & Infosys and is currently leading the global warehouse management systems for Kimberley Clark. She regularly speaks at various platforms on topics related to Enterprise Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Analytics and has been recognized as a key innovator and future leader in the domain.
Chai Pe Charcha
Vardaan Sahgal
WomaniumVisit Homepage
Vardaan currently serves as the Quantum Software & Solutions Head at Womanium Quantum, headquartered in Washington DC - enabling Fortune 500 companies with their foray into the quantum world and understanding how quantum computers can provide an edge - be it in logistics, machine learning, new drug discoveries or grid optimization. Vardaan is also a serial quantum hacker - winning over a dozen quantum hackathons hosted by IBM, Microsoft Azure, IEEE, QAIF, NYUAD, Quantum Coalition, etc.
Richa Hukumchand
Founder, Pramatra SpaceVisit Homepage
Pramatra Space Technology is founded by Richa V. Hukumchand, who comes with extensive experience across defence, space and remote sensing technologies during her career working in government and tech companies such as DRDO, TCS, Cropin, and Pixxel Space. Richa has done her engineering degrees in electronics and communications and is an alumnus of MANIT and IIT, Bombay.
Workshop on: Generative AI
Workshop Speakers
Women in Engineering Co-Chairs

Roopa Rao
Camascope
Bangalore, India

D N Sujatha
BMSCE
Bangalore, India