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(L-R) Professor Haragopal Mangipudi, Chairperson, ISPMA; Mr. Ravi Venkatesan, Social Entrepreneur, Former Chairperson of Cummins India, Microsoft India, and Bank of Baroda; Professor S. Sadagopan, Summit Chair; Professor U Dinesh Kumar, Director In-charge, IIMB; Professor Mayank Kumar, Chairperson, Centre for Software & IT Management (CSITM), IIMB; Venkatesh Mahadevan, Fellow, ISPMA India, and Summit Co-chair; Professor Merlin Nandy, Program Co-Chair, Research Track; Mr. Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Former ISPMA Chairperson at the inauguration of the 8th India Software Product Management (SPM) Summit, hosted jointly by IIM Bangalore’s Centre for Software and IT Management and the International Software Product Management Association, from 20th to 22nd February 2026.

Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, Director In-charge, IIMB, delivered the welcome address.

Prof. Mayank Kumar, Chairperson, CSITM, gave a brief introduction of the Centre, which serves as a hub for open exchange of information among academia, government, and industry on the evolving nature and impact of contemporary technologies on business, government, and society.

Prof. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director, IIIT Bangalore, and Summit Chair, delivered the inaugural address on the conference theme, 'Building a Product Nation – Agile, AI-Driven & Accountable’.

Prof. Haragopal Mangipudi, Chairperson, ISPMA, engaged with the audience during the ‘Value-based pricing for digital products’ workshop.

Mr. Ravi Venkatesan, social entrepreneur and former Chairperson of Cummins India, Microsoft India, and Bank of Baroda, delivered the keynote address titled ‘Putting AI to Work for People’.

(L-R) Day 2 of the three-day summit featured a panel titled ‘Distributed Product Teams: How Indian Talent is Powering Global R&D from India and GCCs’ with deliberations from moderator Anuj Pruthi, Product and GCC Leader; and panelists Kavitha Sreejith, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Lokesh Tripathi, VP, Product Management, Salesforce; Nitin Deshpande, Independent Consultant; Srinivas Sampath, VP, R&D Site Leader, Upland Software India Pvt Ltd; and Balaji Hariharan, Co-Founder BlueOne.ai.

(L-R) Venkatesh Mahadevan, Summit Co-Chair, moderated a fireside chat with Nibin Mathew, Accessibility Adviser at JPMC and Blind Tennis Champion.

Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Former ISPMA Chairperson, Founder, CEO of InnoTivum Consulting, spoke on the theme ‘Human Judgment Required – Status of AI and Its Implications for Practice and Education of SPMs’.

(L-R) On Day 3 of the summit, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director, IIIT Bengaluru, moderated a panel on ‘Panel: Building a Product Nation: Role of Academia, Industry, Startups and Government’, featuring Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Former Director, IIMB; Prof. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Founder Director, IIM Sambalpur; Prof. Ramesh Venkateswaran, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Palakkad; Dr. Archana Shukla, Director, HSB; and Dr. Geetha Manjunath, Founder, Niramai Health Analytix.
