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Meet the 2022 WE Local Bengaluru Keynote Speakers

WE Local Bengaluru will feature three keynote speakers who will share professional advice and personal anecdotes from their decades of experience. Get to know these leaders and save your spot at the virtual conference to hear from them directly.
Meet the 2022 WE Local Bengaluru Keynote Speakers - WE Local Bengaluru
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The WE Local keynote speakers are the highlight of the conference for many attendees. Register today so you can hear from these experienced engineering and technology leaders at WE Local Bengaluru!

Supria Dhanda

Thursday, April 28th 9:30 – 10:30 am 

WE Local Bengaluru -Supria Dhanda is a business leader with more than 24 years of corporate experience and has held several leadership roles in Business and People functions, has anchored Mergers & Acquisitions and has been an Entrepreneur as well. Supria’ s fusion of Business Acumen, Corporate Strategy and Organizational Development has driven high performance culture and strong growth for India region over the past decades. She has been strategically focused on instituting One Leadership Team spirit amongst executive teams,envisioning the growth blueprint for future, and creating and building employee-first inclusive cultures. She serves on the Board of ABS India and is an Independent member of Board on other companies.

Most recently, she was Country Manager, India and Global Vice President of Western Digital, a leading storage solutions provider. Prior to that, Supria has served with leading technology companies as General Electric, Alcatel-Lucent and SanDisk. A TEDx speaker, co-author of ‘Wiley Innovation Black Book Enterprise 4.0’, PhD scholar, Supria is a thought leader in Engineering R&D industry, executive member of NASSCOM Engineering R&D Council, is a TIE Charter member for Delhi NCR and advisory panel member of Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM). She is a sought-after speaker and moderator in Technology industry and is a powerful voice in defining organizations of future.

She is an ICF (International Coach Federation) certified PCC level Executive Coach and is passionate about coaching executives in developing Inclusive Future Leadership for a balanced world. Supria has been awarded as CEO of the Year for ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ at the Global DEI Summit 2020 hosted by Times of India and Ask Insights. She serves on the advisory panel of WILL Forum and V-WA for furthering women in leadership. Supria is also passionate about working with top level executive teams and entrepreneurs in their journey of building billion-dollar enterprises.

Dr. Rohini Srivathsa

Friday, April 29 9:30-10:30am

WE Local Bengaluru -Dr. Rohini Srivathsa is the National Technology Officer at Microsoft India. In her role, she is responsible for driving innovation and growth through ‘tech-intensity’ – across industry and the government. Rohini began her career in R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has 25+ technical and business publications in ACM/IEEE and other journals. She engaged with CxOs across emerging markets during her strategy consulting career at the Boston Consulting Group and IBM Global Business Services.

As CTO of Janalakshmi Financial Services (now Jana Small Finance Bank), Rohini was responsible for driving tech-driven business transformation towards financial inclusion among the urban underserved. Rohini holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Manjula Dharmalingam

Friday, April 29 4-5pm 

WE Local Bengaluru -She is a founder of Her Second Innings to create women empowerment though financial freedom & founder of WOWTechs to implement automation everywhere using technologies. She has over 2 decades of industry experience in Technology, Business, People Management that includes, setting up and managing enterprises. She got selected from India by US Consulate / Fortune 500 Global women mentorship program. She has worked with organizations such as IBM, Airtel in the domain of telecom, Oil & Gas Sector and in the field of Software Development, Process Optimization and Program Delivery.

Manjula is passionate about empowering professionals through technology especially women and youth force. As a team, they empowered 30000+ professional to grow themselves and their organization using measurable results. Built Automation COE to enable Start-ups, Enterprises for improving organization productivity. Her dream is to bring technology to impact the society. She is awarded and featured by Government and Medias such as Time of India, YourStory, MSME Forums for recognizing the efforts to help women restart their careers with financial freedom.

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