Entrepreneurship

Ravikiran is an accomplished business leader, entrepreneur, coach, teacher and volunteer leader. He has 24 years of rich global experience at large MNC’s like Siemens & Nokia Siemens Networks, founded successful product startups and leading a large technology community at IEEE with global leadership roles. He has done his MBA from IIM Bangalore and B.E from U.V.C.E Bangalore. He has been awarded by various organizations for his contributions to Innovation, Leadership and Building communities. He is an amateur astronomer, photographer and writes poetry in his spare time.

Ravikiran Annaswamy is Founder and CEO of Numocity Technologies. His current business focus is on bringing Electric Mobility to Indian market and has launched various technology products in this space. He is a Product Management evangelist and is the cofounder of Woises.com and has been a thought leader in this space.

He works closely with global programs like Founders Institute (Fi.co) and Unreasonable Institute as Mentor and Coach for early stage startups. He is on the global team of IEEE 5G and is responsible for vision & strategy for future applications and services. He has over 24 years of business experience as Entrepreneur and as Business Leader at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens AG. He was Business Head for Indian market, led Global Product Management and was General Manager for BSS Solutions. He championed Intrapreneurship by working as Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks. 

He is an engaged Professional volunteer, is the VP, Marketing for IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. He was the Chairman for IEEE Bangalore section (2014-2015), Industry Relations for IEEE - Asia Pacific (2014-15) and Secretary for IEEE Asia Pacific (2015-16).

He has been recognised for his work by several awards: Siemens Director’s award for Innovation, IEEE Bangalore - Best volunteer award, Runner up at AIMA’s National Contest for Young Managers and Asia finalist at Global Social Venture Competition conducted by Berkley Haas school of business.

Parul is an Engineering Leader in Google Cloud, leading verticals in the Identity and Security domain from Bangalore. She has about two decades of industry experience and passionate about solving mission-critical business problems that have a wide impact on society using the latest in technology. Before moving onto Google, she led the Identity and Security platform at Intuit India, specializing in connecting Identities across financial institutions, threat modeling, data governance and risk analysis and mitigation. Prior to Intuit, she championed the display ad platforms at Yahoo, focussed mainly on mobile and video. In the past she has led Business Intelligence and Business Process Management platforms that process millions of events and streamline workflows customized to any industry vertical. She is a post grad from IITD with Algorithms and Networking as her primary areas of interest. When not at work she helps her kids learn the art of problem-solving. She banks on her personal experience to coach girls to pursue technology.