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Bio: Suparna Bhattacharya is a Distinguished Technologist in the AI research lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. She has 27 years of experience in systems software development and research, the last 6 at HPE, preceded by 21 years at IBM, where she also enjoyed several years of open source contributions to the Linux kernel, including regular invitations to the international Linux Kernel Summit. Over the last decade, Suparna has developed a passion for blending insights from diverse technical domains to explore innovations that span technology boundaries, such as rethinking systems software in the era of AI and Internet of Things. In her previous role at HPE Storage, she was responsible for advancing the architecture of hyper-converged and software defined storage in edge to core systems for containers, AI/ML workloads, persistent memory and other emerging technologies.

Suparna is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and an active member of the systems community, having served on program committees for ASPLOS, OOPSLA, MASCOTS, ECOOP, HotStorage and USENIX FAST conferences. She recently co-authored a book Resource Proportional Software Design for Emerging Systems, (with Doug Voigt and Kanchi Gopinath) published by CRC Press in 2020.

Suparna holds a (late-in-life) PhD in Computer Science and Automation (2013) from the Indian Institute of Science, and a BTech in Electronics and Electrical Communication (1993) from IIT Kharagpur.

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Bio: After a long service of more than 37 years, Mrs. Rashmi Urdhwareshe has recently retired as Director ARAI (Automotive Research Association of India, Pune). ARAI is the prestigious autonomous R&D and Homologation Institute located in Pune.

Mrs. Urdhwareshe has a distinguished academic career

• Graduated in 1981 from VRCE, Nagpur.
• Master’s in Electronics Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Pune.
• Certified Quality Auditor and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ (USA).
• Diploma in Corporate Directorship from World Council for Corporate Governance (WCCG).

Mrs. Urdhwareshe serves as the Chair / Vice Chair of various national/ international bodies like:

• Chair- Transport Engineering Division Council (TEDC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
• Chair- AISC (Automotive Industry Standards Committee), which formulates Safety Standards in India during her tenure as Director-ARAI (Year 2014 to 2020).
• Vice Chair of Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) at the Global Forum under UN-ECE at Geneva during period 2014-2017.
• President Designate- SAE India.

Mrs. Urdhwareshe is Co-author of Book on Total Quality Management.

For her lifetime contributions towards development of Automotive Technology, she is recently honored with Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019, at the hands of Hon’ble President of India.

She is a recipient of several other awards like "Woman Excellence Award 2015" (by Rotary, Pune), "Distinguished Alumnus" award, "Engineering Excellence Award- 2017" (SAE-India Foundation), “Lifetime Achievement Award-2018” (ODSER Trust), "Industry Custodian of the Year-2018" (E- Mobility+), "Business person of the Year 2019" (ETNow) etc.

Mrs. Rashmi plays Sitar and loves to anchor music programs. Her other interests are writing technical articles, reading and extensive travelling.