John Chambers is Executive Chairman of Cisco. Through constant disruption, reinvention and innovation in breakthrough areas, he has helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined, to $1.2 billion when he assumed the role of CEO, to record revenues of $48.6 billion in FY13. Now, he has his sights set on making Cisco the number one IT company in the world.

The key to John’s success at the helm of Cisco is his ability innovate across market transitions. He believes that the next phase of the Internet—The Internet of Everything will be the greatest opportunity yet.

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Dr. Pramod Varma is currently the CTO for EkStep, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric, technology enabled platform to improve applied literacy and numeracy.

He continues to be the Chief Architect and Technology Advisor for Aadhaar (UID) project where he is responsible for entire system architecture and strategic technology decisions. He joined UIDAI in 2009 as part of the founding team and has been pivotal in ensuring an open, scalable, and secure architecture is built to meet the needs of Aadhaar project. In addition, he also sits on the advisory board of National Payment Corporation (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), and several technology startups.

Before joining UIDAI in July 2009, he was the Chief Technology Architect and Vice President of Research at Sterling Commerce, now part of IBM. He worked across the organization and customers to evangelize technology and helps product teams make strategic technology and architecture decisions. He joined Sterling in 2005 when Sterling Commerce acquired Yantra Corporation, a leading supply chain software company based in Boston, USA. He was one of the cofounders of Yantra Corporation and has been anchoring all technology and architecture strategies. Before cofounding Yantra Corporation, he began his career as part of the research team at Infosys Technologies.

Over the past 20+ years, he has studied architectures spanning from mainframes to web and has worked extensively with most programming languages and databases. He has researched and taught various courses in Database Tuning, Distributed Computing, Internet Technologies, and Computer Architectures among others.

Pramod holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His main areas of interest are Internet scale distributed architectures and intelligent systems. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.

Anjini Kochar is Director of the India Program at the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development. Previously, Kochar was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the micro-economics of development, and specifically on issues related to education, health, credit, population, inequality and the effectiveness of government programs. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. Kochar received her PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. She also holds a Masters in International Relations from the University of Chicago.

Neeraj Arora manages “all things business at WhatsApp”. Neeraj is the vice-president of business development for the multi-billion dollar company WhatsApp, now a part of the Facebook family. He studied mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, and received his Masters in Business Administration from the Indian School of Business in 2006. He made the front page of The Economic Times with his technology success story. Neeraj spent four years handling corporate development for Google Inc. before joining WhatsApp when it was still a fledgling startup in 2011.