Plenary

Shri Rajnath Singh

Hon'ble Raksha Mantri (Minister of Defence)

India

Dr G. Satheesh Reddy

Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister
India

Robert Cardillo

Chair
USGIF Board
USA

Lt Gen M Unnikrishnan Nair, AVSM, SM

SO-IN-C AND SR COL COMDT CORPS OF SIGS
Indian Army
India

Randall Billy

Director for International Government BD
Esri
USA

Lt Gen Dinesh Singh Rana, AVSM, YSM, SM Ph.D

DGDIA & DCIDS (INT)

Brig. Arun Sahgal, PhD

Director, The Forum for Strategic Initiative
Distinguished Fellow School of Geopolitics Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group

Major General Dato' Hj Ya'cob Bin Hj Samiran

CEO
Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (MiDAS)
Malaysia

Dr. Pawan Goenka

Chairman, IN-SPACe
Department of Space
India

Gautam Mukhopadhyaya

Former Ambassador and Visiting Faculty
Centre for Policy Research
India

James McAden

Senior Director - Asia-Pacific Sales,
HawkEye360
USA

Chirag Parikh

Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary
National Space Council
USA (Video Message)

Sanjay Kumar

Founder and CEO
Geospatial World
India

Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru, AVSM, NM

Deputy Chief
Naval Staff
India

Kamal Kishore

Member Secretary
National Disaster Management Authority
India

Lt. Gen. Vinod G. Khandare, PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd)

Principal Adviser
Department of Defence
India

Andy Stephenson

Senior Vice President, International Business Development & Worldwide Sales
BlackSky
USA

Anamika Das

Vice President - Program Management
GW Events
Geospatial World

Lt Gen Sanjay Sethi

DGIS
India Army
India

Brig G Manoj

Defence Space Agency
India

Hirokazu Mori

Chief Strategy Officer
WARPSPACE Inc
Japan

John Kedar

Advisor, Geospatial Infrastructure, Geospatial World and Former Commander
Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organization | UK

John Whitehead

Senior Director of Sales and Distribution - APAC
Trimble
Singapore

Lt Gen PJS Pannu PVSM, AVSM, VSM(Retd)

Head of Aerospace Division
SATCOM
India

Lt General (Dr) Rajesh Pant, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

National Cyber Security Coordinator at the National Security Council Secretariat

Gary Dunow

Senior Director
Maxar
USA

VS Subrahmanian

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science
Northwestern University Evanston
USA

Dr Shailesh Nayak

Director
NIAS and Board member In-Space
India

Keith Masback

Former Chief Executive Officer of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
USA

Vinit Goenka

Secretary
Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty
India

Commander Mukesh Saini (Veteran)

Former National Information Security Coordinator (NSCS/GOI)

Lt Gen (Dr) AKS Chandele PVSM, AVSM (Retd)

President- Defense, Internal & Public Safety
Geospatial World
India

Brig. Gen. Datuk Abd Razak

Director, Defence Intelligence Application
Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA)
Malaysia

Giuseppe Nobile

Head, Geospatial Section
SITCEN NATO HQ
Belgium

Government & Academia

Col Milan Patnaik

DGMI

India

Dr. Prakash Chauhan

Director
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)
India

Mohd Tarmizi Bin Dan

Director, National Operations Management Centre
National Security Council
Malaysia

V. Vishnu, IAS

MD & CEO, Guidance Tamil Nadu Industries
Government of Tamil Nadu
India

Air Cmd Ashish Baduni, VSM

Commandant
DIPAC, HQ IDS
India

Lt Col (Dr) Anupam Tiwari

Advisor(Cyber),o/o
Principal Advisor, MoD

Colonel Norazlin Pamuji

Deputy Director, Defence Geospatial
Department of Survey and Mapping (JUPEM)
Malaysia

Prof. Anil K. Gupta

Professor
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
India

Brig Chaudhary

Operations Research and Systems Analyst (ORSA)
Integrated Defence Staff (IDS)
India

Tarun Ravi

Second-in-command of 16 BN
NDRF
India

Sara Pulford

Principal Officer
Information Systems, South Australia State Emergency Service
Australia

Shirish Jain

Joint Commissioner (Intelligence)
Maharashtra Police
India

Brig Seemant Kalra

Defence Space Agency
Indian Army
India

Wing Cdr Devinder S Chawla (Retd).

Director & CEO
iGeo Consultants

Brig Navdeep Brar

Special Forces
Indian Army
India

Mandeep Singh Rai

Operations, DIPAC
Defence Space Agency
India

Dr. P V Radhadevi

Director
Advanced Data processing Research Institute (ADRIN), DOS
India

Gp Capt Chamnan Kumsap (PhD)

Defence Technology Institute
Thailand

Dr. Sumaryono

Head, Center for Geospatial Standards and Institutional Affairs
Geospatial Information Agency (BIG)
Indonesia

Tishika Babbar

School of Information Technology
Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security, Rashtriya Raksha University

Duncan Blake

Lecturer in Space Law and Strategy
Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW
Australia

N Kavya Shruthi

Assistant Professor
Rashtriya Raksha University
India

Lt Col Piyush Kumar Shukla

Indian Army

Air Vice Marshal Sanjay Bhatnagar, VM, VSM (Retd)

Advisor
BEL
India

Noelle Riza Castillo

Director of the Bureau of Space Policy and International Cooperation
Philippine Space Agency

Aditya Ramanathan

Research Fellow
The Takshashila Institution
India

Technology & Data Provider

Abhineet Jain

Director Business Development - Asia Pacific
BlackSky
USA

Deven Laheru

CEO
Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd.
India

Adam Maher

CEO and Founder
URSA Space System
USA

Arpan Sahoo

Co-founder and COO
KaleidEO
India

VIVEK BANSAL

Vice President
Pan India Consultants
India

Nicole Robinson

Chief Strategy Officer
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
USA

Sanjay Nekkanti

CEO
Dhruva Space
India

Takayuki Odawara

Executive Officer, Head of Business
Synspective
Japan

Dheeraj Mehra

Founder & CEO
Micronet
India

Gunjan Sachdev

Associate Director -Toughbook
Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Krishanu Acharya

Co-founder
Suhora
India

Gurjit Singh Dhingra

Assistant Director-PPP Marketing
Canon India
India

Paolo Pasquali

Technical Director and President
sarmap sa
Switzerland

Agendra Kumar

Managing Director
Esri India

Sandip Aghav

Vice President - Strategy and Business Operations (Inertial Systems)
Aeron Systems
India

Navneet Singh

CEO
Kepler Aerospace
India

Jason Mallare

VP, Government Programs and Strategy
Umbra
USA

Jim Cooper

Lead, SSA Solutions
COMSPOC Corporation (CC)
USA

Rod Macleod

Regional Sales Manager
Hexagon Autonomy & Positioning
Australia

Faheemul Islam

Lead Business Development Executive
Dronix Technologies Private Limited
India

Dr Rao Ramayanam

Senior Sales Executive - International
HawkEye360
USA

Yetender Singh Negi

Product Specialist
Satpalda

Dr. Sethu Saveda Suvanam

CEO & Founder
ReOrbit
Sweden

Partha Ghosh

Pre Sales Director
Planet
USA

Aya Iwamoto

Vice President, Policy and Government Relations
Astroscale
Japan

Scott Larson

CEO and Co-founder
SpaceAlpha Insights
Canada

Denil Chawda

CTO
GalaxEye
India

Sathvik Shetty

Chief Commercials Officer
QL Space
Australia

Madhav Ragam

Vice President - Public Sector
Maxar Technologies
Singapore

Royston Ong

Business Development Manager (Defense & Intelligence) - Asia Pacific
Esri
Singapore

Jeff Hurley

Director of Business Development
Capella Space
Canada

Yuya Nakamura

President and CEO
Axelspace
Japan

Krishna Rao T.V.B

Head Presales
Esri India

Associations & Foundations

Lt Gen Anil Kumar Bhatt, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (retd)

Director General
Indian Space Association (ISpA)
India

Dr. Brian Weeden

Director of Program Planning
Secure World Foundation
USA

Captain (IN) Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri (Retd)

Senior Fellow
National Maritime Foundation
India

Ajey Lele

Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis

Shirish Ravan

Founder
EarthSight Foundation

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