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BITS Embryo offers a wide range of talks covering diverse topics presented by experts in their respective fields. These talks encompass various aspects of technology, business, entrepreneurship, public policy, and geopolitics. The platform provides insights into data science, AI, quantum computing, investment banking, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship, global business, and foreign policy. By featuring speakers with expertise in these different domains, Embryo ensures a comprehensive learning experience for its participants, fostering a holistic understanding of contemporary issues and developments.

Turning Data Into Demand

Vasudev K Kataria

Vasudev K. Kataria is a seasoned business leader with deep expertise in data-driven marketing and growth strategy. He specializes in transforming insights from data into actionable demand that drives measurable business impact.

11 January, 2026

Vasudev K Kataria on LinkedIn

National Security and the Spirit of Sports: Shaping Leaders for Tomorrow

Lt Gen Balbir Singh Sandhu

Lt Gen Balbir Singh Sandhu is a distinguished Indian Army veteran with decades of experience in leadership, strategy, and national security.He is known for inspiring future leaders through lessons drawn from military service, discipline, and the spirit of sports.

6 September, 2025

Lt Gen Balbir Singh Sandhu on LinkedIn

Leadership, Inclusion, and the Power of Sports

Madhavi Latha

Madhavi Latha is an accomplished leader and athlete, widely recognized for her contributions to inclusion, resilience, and empowerment through sports. She leverages her experiences to inspire leadership, break barriers, and promote equal opportunities across communities.

24 August, 2025

Madhavi Latha on LinkedIn

Building Resumes That Win

Ritika

Ritika is the co-founder of GoResume, a career-focused platform dedicated to helping students and professionals build strong, impactful resumes. She brings practical insights into personal branding, resume strategy, and standing out in competitive job markets.

16 August, 2025

Ritika on LinkedIn

Cracking CAT: A Strategic Roadmap to IIMs

Shivam Kumar

Shivam Kumar is an IIM Bangalore alumnus and a top CAT performer with an exceptional 99.95 percentile score. He specializes in strategic CAT preparation, mentoring aspirants with proven techniques for cracking India’s toughest management entrance exam.

13 July, 2025

Shivam Kumar on LinkedIn

The EV Revolution

Rajeev Chaba

Rajeev Chaba is the CEO of Emeritus and a veteran business leader with extensive experience in automotive, education, and technology-driven transformation.He is widely recognized for his leadership in driving innovation, scaling organizations, and shaping the future of learning and mobility.

9 July, 2025

Rajeev Chaba on LinkedIn

The Power of Reinvention: From Public Sector to Tech Giant

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Arundhati Bhattacharya is a renowned business leader and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India, known for driving large-scale institutional transformation.She currently serves as Chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India, championing innovation, leadership, and inclusive growth.

30 June, 2025

Arundhati Bhattacharya on LinkedIn

Shaurya, Service, and Nation Building

Col. Vembu Shankar

Col. Vembu Shankar is a decorated Indian Army officer known for his courage, leadership, and commitment to service.He inspires audiences with powerful insights on shaurya, nation building, and values-driven leadership shaped by military life.

22 June, 2025

Col. Vembu Shankar on LinkedIn

Inside Automotive Design

Ramkripa Ananthan

With a Mechanical Engineering degree from BITS Pilani and a Master's in Design from IIT Bombay, she brings a powerful blend of engineering precision and design innovation. Her visionary work has shaped iconic vehicles like the XUV700 and the Thar, redefining automotive design in India.

6 April, 2025

Ramkripa Ananthan on LinkedIn

Designing for a connected world: The Product Management journey

Ria Mirchandani

Ms. Ria Mirchandani, a powerhouse Product Manager at SarvamAI and former lead at WhatsApp Payments India, has been at the forefront of scaling products in dynamic markets.

1 February, 2025

Ria Mirchandani on LinkedIn

The journey of becoming a Civil Servant

Ravi Kapoor

Mr Ravi Kapoor is a resilient person rising from a modest background cracking UPSC multiple time. After a successful career in the IRS, he transitioned to a role focused on mentoring aspiring UPSC candidates.

10 November, 2024

Ravi Kapoor on LinkedIn

Solving wicked problems: Scaling digital India for a billion

Dr. Pramod Varma

Dr. Pramod Verma is the former chief architect of Aadhar, who also played a pivotal role in the India Stack Systems like eSign, DigiLocker, and UPI.

24 August, 2024

Dr. Pramod Varma on LinkedIn

Biomimicry and Sustainable Design

Seema Anand

Seema Anand is a pioneer in her field, certified by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, USA. She is the Co founder of Biomimicry India Network and Biomimicry India Lab and Studio.

19 October, 2024

Seema Anand on LinkedIn

Your body: A Data Wire

Dr Shreyas Sen

Dr. Shreyas Sen is an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer and renowned inventor, on the topic “Your Body: A Data Wire.

27 September, 2024

Dr Shreyas Sen on LinkedIn

Let’s talk money: Smart strategies for financial success

Monika Halan

Monika Halan is the author of the best-selling book “Let’s Talk Money”, the Chairperson of SEBI’s Advisory Committee for IPEF and hosting TV series on NDTV, Zee, and Bloomberg India.

18 September, 2024

Monika Halan on LinkedIn

Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Protecting yourself online

Abhishek Mathur

Abhishek Mathur is an award winning ICT leader with expertise in cybersecurity and cloud adaptation. Currently, he is also collaborating with CII-AICTE to develop course content for colleges.

13 April, 2024

Abhishek Mathur on LinkedIn

Yin and Yang of Product Innovation

Piyush Malik

Piysh Malik is a trailblazing startup executive, entrepreneur, board advisor in the domain of emerging technologies. As Chief Data Officer, his expertise lies in leveraging data-driven innovations to craft immersive customer experiences and optimize operations.

6 January, 2024

Piyush Malik on LinkedIn

Harnessing GenAI & ML: Turning Data into Solutions

Anupam Purwar

Anupam is a BITS alumnus with an MBA from ISB. He is a senior research scientist at Amazon Development Center (India). With an expertise in ML, IoT and computationaol design, he has more than 20 peer reviewed articles with over 200 citations.

26 November, 2023

Anupam Purwar on LinkedIn

Myth to Math: Impact and Applications of Quantum Computing

Dr. Aditi Sen De

Prof Aditi Sen De is known for her research on quantum information and computation, quantum communication including quantum cryptography, quantum optics and many-body physics. She is the first female physicist to be awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for her contributions to physical sciences in 2018.

18 November, 2023

Dr. Aditi Sen De on LinkedIn

AMA on Investment Banking

Alok Misra

Alok Misra is the COO and Operating Partner of General Atlantic, the world's 9th biggest private equity firm. He was Group Chief Financial Officer of MphasiS BFL Group (now part of the Hewlett-Packard Company) and served in a number of accounting and finance roles at other firms, including I.T.C. Limited and PwC. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

9 November, 2023

Alok Misra on LinkedIn

Marketing Perspective of Growing a Startup

Vinay Dubey

Vinay Dubey is the CMO of Wint Wealth, Assistant Vice President India P&L at WhiteHat Jr., and Head of Growth Marketplace at Shop 101.

22 October, 2023

Vinay Dubey on LinkedIn

Fostering Entrepreneurship through Public Policy

Anil Agrawal

Anil Agrawal is a BITS Alumnus who started out as a software engineer in 1984, but shifted to IPS and served as DGP of UP Police. He went on to establish ONDC, thus democratising e-commerce. He was awarded the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Police Medal for Meritorious Service

9 September, 2023

Anil Agrawal on LinkedIn

Building a Successful Global Business

Raju Reddy

Raju Reddy is a BITS alumnus with a bachelors in Electrical Engg. He is the founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic. Other board roles include Eltropy, SciSpace, Redbus, Gray Orange, Hitachi, etc.

3 September, 2023

Raju Reddy on LinkedIn

India's Foreign Policy Prioritties

Nitin A Gokhale

Nitin A. Gokhale is one of South Asia's leading Strategic Analysts. He has forty years of rich and varied experience behind him as a conflict reporter, Editor, author and now a media entrepreneur who owns and curates two important digital platforms, BharatShakti.in and StratNewsGlobal.com focusing on national security, strategic affairs and foreign policy matters

27 August, 2023

Nitin A Gokhale on LinkedIn

India's Semiconductor Mission

Dr. Satya Gupta

Dr. Satya Gupta is a BITS alumnus with a bachelors in Electrical Engg, a Masters in Comp Sci from IIT Delhi and a PhD in neural networks from Old Dominion University, Norfolk. He is the current President of the VLSI Society of India

19 August, 2023

Dr. Satya Gupta on LinkedIn

Democratising The Rupee

Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey

An IAS officer with a bachelors from IIT Kanpur and a Masters and PhD from University of Minnesota, Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey is the man responsible for bringing Aadhaar, GST and Direct Tax reforms in the country. He is the present chairman of NFRA

16 June, 2023

Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey on LinkedIn

The Coding Puzzle - Bringing the Pieces Together

Sandeep Jain

Sandeep Jain is an IIT Roorkee alumnus who obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science & Engineering. Under his leadership, GeeksforGeeks has become one of the most trusted & comprehensive resources for computer science education.

22 April, 2023

Sandeep Jain on LinkedIn

Leadership Practices That Deliver

Kiran Bedi

The Iron Lady of India, Dr. Kiran Bedi, has been India's first and highest woman-ranking officer and has worked with the United Nations in New York. Dr. Bedi is a recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award and several other national and international decorations.

16 April, 2023

Kiran Bedi on LinkedIn

UPSC Aspirations

Jayant Singh Rathore

Jayant Singh Rathore is a BITS Alumnus who cleared the Civil Services Exam with an exceptional AIR-59 and got into IAS-Gujrat Cadre.

7 April, 2023

Jayant Singh Rathore on LinkedIn

Building the Student Talent Pool

Pratham Mittal

Pratham Mittal is the founder of Master's Union and co-founder of Outgrow, a platform used by top agencies and Fortune 500 companies. He is also a partner at 606 Ventures.

5 April, 2023

Pratham Mittal on LinkedIn

Being BITSian: Carving a Successful Career in Operations Research

Abhik Giri

Abhik Giri is a BITS Alumnus and currently an Operations Research Professional with 12+ years of industry experience in Mathematical Optimization.

5 March, 2023

Abhik Giri on LinkedIn

Lessons from the Ivies: Sustainable Fashion

Adwaita Nayar

Adwaita Nayar is the co-Founder of Nykaa and the CEO of Nykaa Fashion.

26 February, 2023

Adwaita Nayar on LinkedIn

Data Science Ethics

Avik Sarkar

Avik Sarkar is a member of the United Nations Expert group on Big Data and Data Science, representing India. He was previously the head of data analytics cell at NITI Aayog, Govt of India.

30 January, 2023

Avik Sarkar on LinkedIn

Experiences Beyond BITS

Venu Palaparthi

Venu Palaparthi is the co-founder of BITSAA International and Financial Expert with over 23 years of experience.

3 December, 2022

Venu Palaparthi on LinkedIn

Product Management Decoded

Dipika Kapadia

Dipika Kapadia is the Senior Director of Product Management, Flipkart.

24 September, 2022

Dipika Kapadia on LinkedIn

Insights into Journalism

Tamal Bandopadhyay

Tamal Bandopadhyay is the Consulting Editor of Business Standard.

11 September, 2022

Tamal Bandopadhyay on LinkedIn

Developments in the Banking Sector after Covid-19

Ram Gopal

Ram Gopal is the CEO of Barclays India.

3 September, 2022

Ram Gopal on LinkedIn

Sports x Startups

Vijayaraghavan Venugopal

Vijayaraghavan Venugopal is the creator of Fast&Up.

27 August, 2022

Vijayaraghavan Venugopal on LinkedIn

Carving a Successful Career in Finance

Vivek Bajaj

Vivek Bajaj is an angel investor. He is the co-Founder of Elearnmarkets and StockEdge.

20 August, 2022

Vivek Bajaj on LinkedIn

Building Organizations that Maximise Human Potential

Saurabh Saxena

Saurabh Saxena is the founder of Uable, and co-Founder of Vedantu.

31 July, 2022

Saurabh Saxena on LinkedIn

Podcasting 101: Design your Podcast

Karthik Vijayakumar

Karthik Vijayakumar is the host of The Launch Plan Podcast. he is a Managing Partner at Design Your Thinking Labs.

17 July, 2022

Karthik Vijayakumar on LinkedIn

Be Free, Be You

Shonali Bose

Shonali Bose is the director of 'Margherita with a Straw' and 'The Sky is Pink'

26 June, 2022

Shonali Bose on LinkedIn

Environment and Sustainability

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal is an entrepreneur who is founder and CEO of Ecoware, India's largest sustainable packaging company

6 June, 2021

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal on LinkedIn

Wildlife Photography

Jayanth Sharma

Jayanth Sharma is a professional wildlife photographer. He is co-founder and CEO at Toehold, a travel and photography company. He is a Sony Ambassador.

4 June, 2021

Jayanth Sharma on LinkedIn

Career in Finance

Ritika Karnani

Ritika Karnani is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and graduated in 2015. She recently completed her MBA from INSEAD, France

21 March, 2021

Ritika Karnani on LinkedIn

Life Outside Earth

Kate Adamala

Kate Adamala is an alumnus of Harvard University and specialises in the fields of Synthetic Biology, Astrobiology and Bioengineering.

13 February, 2021

Kate Adamala on LinkedIn

Venture Capitalist

Anirudh Damani

Anirudh Damani is an alumnus of the prestigious Austin College, Texas and Managing Partner at Artha Ventures, India’s first Micro VC firm

6 February, 2021

Anirudh Damani on LinkedIn

Being BITSian In Retrospect

Dr. S.P. Kothari

Dr. S.P. Kothari graduated from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus with a BE (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering, he was also a Padma Shree Awardee

30 January, 2021

Dr. S.P. Kothari on LinkedIn

Being BITSian In Retrospect

Pradeep Kashyap

Pradeep Kashyap is an entrepreneur and founder of MART, a rural marketing consultancy firm which works in emerging markets.

6 August, 2020

Pradeep Kashyap on LinkedIn

Film Writing

Siva Ananth

The personality responsible for coming up, foreseeing, writing, editing, evaluating, and repeating cycles of these for the creation of films like 'Sachin-A Billion Dreams' and many more

2 August, 2020

Siva Ananth on LinkedIn

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Prof. Qiang Cui

Prof. Qiang Cui is a Professor of Chemistry at Boston University. His work involves developing and applying state-of-the-art computational tools

23 July, 2020

Prof. Qiang Cui on LinkedIn

Cyber Security

Gene Spafford

Nicknamed Spaf is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.

23 July, 2020

Gene Spafford on LinkedIn

Crypto Currency

Prof. David Yermack

David L. Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University Stern School of Business.

12 July, 2020

Prof. David Yermack on LinkedIn

GMAT Preparation and Applications

Sahaj Dasot

He is a BITS Pilani ’15 batch Mechanical Engineering alumnus. He is currently an MBA Candidate at INSEAD, Class of 2020, having scored a very impressive 770 in GMAT

27 June, 2020

Sahaj Dasot on LinkedIn

UPSC Preparation

Anuraj Jain

Anuraj Jain secured AIR 24 in UPSC Civil Services Examination 2018 and he also scored AIR 21 in IFS 2017 exam.

14 June, 2020

Anuraj Jain on LinkedIn

Publishing Research Papers and Entrepreneurship

Mr. Subrahmanyam Pulipaka

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka is a BITS Pilani ’16 batch Electrical and Electronics Engineering student. He has published many research papers being a part of IEEE.

3 June, 2020

Mr. Subrahmanyam Pulipaka on LinkedIn