Program Agenda

SPM Summit India Day 0 - Thursday, 15 February 2024

(Pre-Conference Workshops)

Venue: N-001 Classroom, N Cluster (Main building), IIM Bangalore Campus

Time Slot in IST Session Speakers

9:00 am - 9:30 am Registration Benny Pinto

1) Haragopal Mangipudi, Global Board

Workshop “The Age of AI: Elevating
9:30 am - 11:00 am Member, ISPMA
Experiences & Delivering Customer Value!”
2) Vidhi Chugh, Head of Products, Reltio

11:00 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break

Workshop “SPM 2024 – Overview of and 1) Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.V
11:30 am - 01:00 pm benefits of AI in Product Management” 2) Abhijit Bendigiri, Director of Product
Management, Oracle Health And AI
01:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break (MDC Woods, IIMB)
1) Bhaskaran Srinivasan, Senior Strategy
Workshop “Building Products that Think”
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Consultant
2) Ashish Gupta, Product Manager, Google
Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Prof. S.
“IIM Bangalore ISPMA University Chapter Sadagopan, Prof. Srinivasan, Hans-Bernd
3:30 pm- 3:45 pm launch and logo unveiling” Kittlaus, Haragopal Mangipudi, Prof.
Shankhadeep Banerjee, Prof. Spurthy
Dharanikota
3:45 pm onwards Networking with evening coffee
 SPM Summit India Day 1 – Friday, 16 February 2024
Time Slot in IST PLENARY SESSION (Venue: Auditorium)
(Indian Standard Session Chair: Ganesh J & Pritish Kumar Choudhury
Time)
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration Benny Pinto
Dr. Pramod Varma, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Hans-
Bernd Kittlaus, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee,
9:00 am - 9:05 am Inauguration & lamp lighting
Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Deans of IIM
Bangalore
Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Chairperson -
9:05 am - 9:10 am Welcome note
CSITM, IIM Bangalore
Prof. S. Sadagopan, Chairman ISPMA India
Chapter, Conference Chair - SPM Summit India
9:10 am - 9:20 am Welcome address
2024
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.V
Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair
(Academic Track)
9:20 am - 9:25 am Program overview
Abhijit Bendigiri, Program Team (Industry
Track)
Keynote: “Building products and AI for
9:25 am - 10:00 am societal transformation” Dr. Pramod Varma, Chief Architect of Aadhaar
Moderator: Haragopal Mangipudi, Global Board
Member, ISPMA
Panelists:
1) Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation
Panel Discussion: “Product innovation and 2) Khadim Batti, CEO, Whatfix
10:00 am - 11:00 am 3) Rishi Nayar, SVP & Country Head, Ellucian
the emerging role of AI”
4) Suresh Rajagopalan, CEO, Wibmo, a PayU
Company
5) Somshubro Pal Choudhury, Partner Bharat
Innovation Fund
11:00 am – 11:30 am Group photo session followed by coffee break
Time Slot in IST
(Indian Standard ACADEMIC TRACK (Venue: N201 Classroom) INDUSTRY TRACK (Venue: Auditorium)
This track features software product management related This track covers insights from industry product leaders and
Time) research papers and studies product management practitioners
Session Chair: Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota Session Chair: Ganesh J & Pritish Kumar Choudhury

Academic participants reaching N201

11:30 am – 11:45 am
classroom
RP1: “Continuous Control Monitoring and Presentation: “Scaling Product Leadership with
Fraud Detection across the processes and AI”, Ravi Padaki, Product Leadership Coach
11:45 am - 12:00 pm segments using ML and AI chatbot for
search” - Sanyam Jangir, Ravi Dave and
Deepan Gk
Presentation: “Customer- Centric AI:
RP2: “System and Method for Automatic
Personalising Product Experiences”, Apoorva
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Naming Convention of Audio Files Based on
Gudla, Product Manager, Events Brite
User Preference” - Ramalingeswara Rao K V.
 RP3: “Navigating the Ethical landscape: A
comprehensive study on Integrating AI Ethics
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm and Responsible Practices into Product
Management Processes” - Jayant Kumar,
Kayuar Kansara and Dinkar Jaiswal.

Presentation: “The Transformative Power of AI

Session break and Open Challenges” by Dr. Manish Gupta,
12: 30 pm – 1:00 pm
Director of Google Research India
Lunch Break (Venue: MDC Woods, IIMB)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Time Slot in IST ACADEMIC TRACK (N201 Classroom) INDUSTRY TRACK (Auditorium)
This track features software product management related This track covers insights from industry product leaders and
(Indian Standard research papers and studies product management practitioners
Time) Session Chair: Manisha Session Chair: Pon Rahul & Kiran Gangaonkar
Excellence Award Presentation (Part 1):
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Student Case Competition (Part 1) Wibmo, SellerApp, Edgeverve (Finacle UPI
Transaction), Zee entertainment, Vinculum

“ISPMA university chapter panel” moderated Presentation: “AI Models usage in fintech
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm by Haragopal Mangipudi – Students of UC products: PM approach & best practices”,
Berkeley, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Bangalore Kasturi Rangan Bhaskar, VP, BCT Digital

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break

Time Slot in IST
(Indian Standard PLENARY SESSION (Venue: Auditorium)
Time) Session Chair: Pon Rahul & Kiran Gangaonkar

Presentation: “Product Manager vs Product

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Owner – Why Do Companies Still Struggle Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.V
23 Years After the Agile Manifesto”

Moderator: Prof. S. Sadagopan, Chairman

ISPMA India Chapter
Panelists:
1)Anand Srivastava, Head Products, Genesys,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Panel Discussion: “Emergence and 2)SatyaKrishna Pillarishetty Principal PM,
Sustainability of Non-AI solutions in AI Oracle Health And AI
world” 3)Srivatsan Santhanam, VP, Spend
Management, SAP
Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair
(Academic Track)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm Day-1 Wrap-up
Abhijit Bendigiri, Program Team (Industry
Track)

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Networking & High Tea

7:00 pm onwards Dinner (Venue: MDC Lawns, IIMB)

 SPM Summit India Day 2 – Saturday, 17 February 2024
Time Slot in IST PLENARY SESSION (Venue: Auditorium)
(Indian Standard Session Chair: Pritish Kumar Choudhury & Ganesh J
Time)

8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration Desk Benny Pinto

8:45 am – 9:00 am Welcome & Program Overview Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair
(Academic Track)
Abhijeet Bendigiri, Program Team (Industry Track)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Fireside Chat- “Navigating Product Lingraju Sawkar, President, Kyndryl India
Leadership Challenges in the GenAI Era” Moderator: Anuj Magazine, Co-founder, Stealthtech
Venture

Time Slot in IST ACADEMIC TRACK INDUSTRY TRACK

(Indian Standard (Venue: N001 Classroom) (Venue: Auditorium)
This track features software product management related This track covers insights from industry product leaders and
Time) research papers and studies product management practitioners
Session Chair: Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota Session Chair: Pritish Kumar Choudhury & Ganesh J

9:30 am – 10:30 am Student Case Competition (Part 2) Panel discussion: “Ethical and Legal Aspects of AI”
Moderator: Prof. Amit Prakash, IIIT Bangalore
Panelists:
1)Manish Maheshwari, Co-founder, Fanory.ai
2)Gopalan Oppliappan, Head of AI Excellence, Intel
3)Dr. Madalasa Venkataraman, Sr. Director, Data
science, Oracle
10:30 am - 11:00 am Group photo session followed by coffee break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Student Case Competition (Part 2
Continuation)
Presentation: “Taking an idea to a Product in Health
11:30 am- 11:45 am RP4: “Full Stack Product Management - A diagnostics” Dr. Geetha Manjunath, Founder, CEO
role now made possible with AI” - Vellanki & CTO, Niramai Health Analytix
Sriharsha, Prabal Saha, Yash Sagar and
Khalid Anwer.
11:45 am - 12:00 pm RP5: “A Bottom-up Approach for Analyzing
Fluctuations in Financial Statement” - Sanyam
Jangir, Deepan Gk and Ravi Dave.
Presentation “Discovery and Delivery through
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm RP6: “Real-time AI-based NCDs diagnostic/ Product IntelliGenAI framework”, Ramkumar
monitoring adoption intention tracker for Arumugam, Principal Product Manager, Swiggy
Physicians through automation of DBMS
Schema, Tablue DV, Power BI dashboard and
Digital ethnography” - Mohit Sahu and
Mrinmoy Roy
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm RP7: “Leveraging AI Public Goods for Social
Welfare Through Ecosystem Approach” -
Manisha Rathi. Excellence Award Presentation
Herkey, Utpan, Oracle, Edgeverve (FALM),
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Session break Halliburton

01:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break (Venue: MDC Woods, IIMB)

Time Slot in IST ACADEMIC TRACK INDUSTRY TRACK
(Indian Standard (Venue: N001 Classroom) (Venue: Auditorium)
Time) This track features software product management related This track covers insights from industry product leaders and
research papers and studies product management practitioners
Session Chair: Shubha Session Chair: Pon Rahul & Kiran Gangaonkar

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Presentation “Framework as diagnostic tool

for product companies” by students of IIM
Sambalpur- Saurabh Jha, Harshavardhan Presentation “Elevate and Innovate: The Art of
Shingare, Sumit Sangwan Product Leadership in the Age of AI”
Deepak Chauhan, Director of Program & Strategy,
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Presentation “Crossing the chasm” by students Softlink Information Systems
of University of Berkeley- Isabelle Diana
May-Xin Ng, Ryan Epley Stevenson, Mayukh
Dattachaudhuri
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Session break Panel Discussion: “ISPMA Impact- Fuelling my
product leadership journey”
Moderator: Kartik Suryanarayan, Principal Product
Consultant, Ellucian
Panelists:
1)Ankita Parihar, Co-founder of Agri-Fin Platform,
Utpan
2)Venkataramanan Sriraman, Co-founder/Trustee,
eVidyaloka Trust
3)Ramya Tanuja, Sr. Product Manager, Booking
Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG)
4)Yogesh Marathe, Software Product Manager, Intel
Corporation
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
Time Slot in IST PLENARY SESSION (Venue: Auditorium)
(Indian Standard Session Chair: Pon Rahul & Kiran Gangaonkar
Time)

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Excellence Awards, Research Paper, Student Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.V
Case Competition Awards ceremony

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Panel Discussion “How AI enablement Moderator: Prof. Srinivasan, Professor of Strategy,
moving needle in Platform Management” IIM Bangalore
Panelists:
1) Pavan Boggarapu, Head of Products, UpGrad
2) Uttam Ramamurthy, Director of AI, Oracle
Health And AI
3) Dr. Sheela Siddappa, Principal Data Scientist,
Kyndryl India
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm Closing Summary Audience
5:45 pm - 6:00 pm Vote of thanks Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair
(Academic Track)
Abhijit Bendigiri, Program Team (Industry Track)
Event Closes