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Ravi Iyer is a visionary and innovative executive with diverse experience in leading and managing product delivery, client implementation, customer service, and operations with direct responsibility for multimillion-dollar budgets. He has extensive experience delivering across multiple disciplines, including Data Management, Data Governance, Cloud Architecture, Advanced Analytics, Master Data Management, Digital Products, and Digital Transformation. Excellent communicator who works collaboratively to deliver technology strategies and value added solutions that meet the needs of all business functions. Ravi is currently the technology executive and Senior Director at Elevance Health Inc.

Narasimha is result driven leader with vast experience in executing various PBM, Health care, Financial, and securities trading applications. Technical expertise in Big data, Cloud, Analytics, Mainframe, BPM, testing, and Data warehouse projects at esteemed organisations like Anthem, Tetrasoft, DST, HCL, Deutsche bank, and Atos Origin. He currently works as Solution Architect at Tetrasoft Inc. Narasimha has vast experience in Pre-sales, Project management, effective customer communication, Architect, Technical Lead, On-site coordinator, and business Analyst roles for various complex assignments across the globe.

Ms. Aishwarya Jain is a distinguished pharmaceutical scientist and academician with over six years of experience in pharmaceutical sciences. Currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Sinhgad College of Pharmacy, Vadgaon (Bk), Pune, she has carved a niche for herself in the domains of nanotechnology, green synthesis, and pharmaceutical innovation.

A recipient of 65+ prestigious national and international awards, including the Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar and the Women Empowerment Award, Ms. Jain is recognised as one of the leading voices in pharmaceutical education and research. Her scholarly contributions span numerous books, book chapters, and high-impact research articles published in top-tier journals indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science.

Renowned for her commitment to academic excellence and research integrity, she also plays an active role as an editorial board member and peer reviewer for reputed scientific journals and publishing houses. Her work exemplifies a seamless blend of academic rigor and innovative thinking, particularly in green nanotechnology and sustainable drug development.

Driven by a vision to advance pharmaceutical science for global health impact, Ms. Aishwarya continues to inspire through her interdisciplinary collaborations, cutting-edge research, and passionate teaching.

Ashwin Kuchekar is an Associate Professor and the Head of Career Services and Placement at the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT-WPU in Pune. He completed his M. Pharm.in 2009 and Ph. D. in 2015. In 2012, he received the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) Award from the Council of Scientific Industrial and Research (CSIR).  He is a trained specialist in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB).  He has 7 years of industrial experience in reputed pharmaceutical companies such as Piramal, Lupin, and Abbott Healthcare. He has a unique blend of statistics and formulation development, Quality by Design with exposure to branded and generic product development. He has practical experience in the Design of Experiments and product formulation and process optimisation.

Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar is working as an independent junior research group leader and establishing a research group at the Tübingen Center for Academic Drug Discovery (TüCAD2), University of Tübingen. His research interests include medicinal chemistry of orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), synthetic organic chemistry, and dual SARS-CoV-2 Mpro-kinase inhibitors.

Stefan Laufer is Professor for Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry at Tuebingen University and chairs the TüCAD2. His research interests are anti inflammatory and cancer drug discovery. He authored more than 500 publications, 15 books/book chapters and is inventor in 42 patent families with >330 national applications. 4 compounds from his lab made it to first into man studies.

Ravi Iyer is a visionary and innovative executive with diverse experience in leading and managing product delivery, client implementation, customer service, and operations with direct responsibility for multimillion-dollar budgets. He has extensive experience delivering across multiple disciplines, including Data Management, Data Governance, Cloud Architecture, Advanced Analytics, Master Data Management, Digital Products, and Digital Transformation. Excellent communicator who works collaboratively to deliver technology strategies and value added solutions that meet the needs of all business functions. Ravi is currently the technology executive and Senior Director at Elevance Health Inc.

Narasimha is result driven leader with vast experience in executing various PBM, Health care, Financial, and securities trading applications. Technical expertise in Big data, Cloud, Analytics, Mainframe, BPM, testing, and Data warehouse projects at esteemed organizations like Anthem, Tetrasoft, DST, HCL, Deutsche bank, and Atos Origin. He currently works as Solution Architect at Tetrasoft Inc. Narasimha has vast experience in Pre-sales, Project management, effective customer communication, Architect, Technical Lead, On-site coordinator, and business Analyst roles for various complex assignments across the globe.