Photo Gallery

(L-R) Dr. Gopichand Katragadda, Founder and CEO of Myelin Foundry, and Independent Director for Bosch Ltd, Asian Paints, and ICICI Securities; Prof. Dinesh Kumar, Director In-charge, IIMB; Prof. Mukta Kulkarni, Dean of Programmes and faculty of OB&HRM; Vipul Kumar Maheshwari, Executive Director – R&D, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited; and Prof. Ashis Mishra, Chairperson, PGPEM, inaugurated Drishti 2025 – the business and leadership summit organized by the PGPEM programme, IIMB’s two-year MBA for Working Professionals.

Dr. Gopichand Katragadda delivered the Chief Guest’s address with the cautionary reflection that “A gain for agentic AI should not be a loss for agentic thinkers”.

Delivering the keynote, Vipul Kumar Maheshwari, Executive Director – R&D, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, dwelt on the evolving landscape of the energy sector with the advent of AI.

Delivering the Chairperson’s Address, Prof. Ashis Mishra, Marketing area, welcomed the gathering and reflected on the programme’s 27-year legacy.

(L-R) At the panel discussion on ‘AI at the Core – Shaping the Future of Business & Society’, Nikhil Kangokar, Head of Engineering, BT Group; Hari Varier, Senior VP – IoT & AI-Smart Products, Havells; Raghuvamshi Thakur, Co-Founder & COO, Prodoc AI, with Naveen Kumar Bhansali, Co-Founder, BlitzAI & Adjunct Faculty, IIM Bangalore, as the moderator, outlined how enterprise AI is shifting from generic intelligence to proprietary output.

PGP ’09 alumnus Sandeep Das, Storytelling & Negotiation Coach, Author, and Columnist, spoke of the power of storytelling as a defining leadership skill of the next decade during the session, ‘Crafting Vision through Narrative’.

The panel ‘The Audacity to Build the Future’, brought together Pramod Nair, Co-Founder & CTO, Loadshare Networks; Gadhadar Reddy, Founder & CEO, NoPo Nanotechnologies; and Dr. Krish Bhargav, Founder & CEO, Taurus AI, with PGPEM ’27 student Ram Chakravarthy, Co-Founder and Partner, IPRS & Co., as the moderator.

Speaking on ‘Building India’s Digital Future – From Interoperable Commerce to the Digital Energy Grid’ was Sujith Nair, CEO, FIDE; Co-Creator, Beckn Protocol.

(L-R) Prakash Belawadi, Theatre Artist, Filmmaker, Educator and Civic Activist, delivered the concluding session on day 1 of Drishti 2025, on the theme ‘Building the Future We Deserve – Culture, Citizenship & Systems Thinking’, in conversation with PGPEM ’27 participant Rukmangada Gowda C M, Manager, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
