19 - 20 February 2025
Bangalore
India

Bangalore AI Forum 2025

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Anish Kumar

AI Software Engineering Manager, Intel Corporation

Anish heads the AI Software Engineering at Intel for Asia Pacific region, where he empowers enterprises to unleash the transformative power of data science and machine learning. Through high-impact workshops, training, and collaborative engineering, Anish accelerates Generative AI adoption, drives innovation, and fuels business growth.

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Barry Adams

Specialised SEO Consultancy, Polemic Digital, Ireland

Barry Adams is a specialised SEO consultant for news publishers, focusing on technical SEO and editorial SEO. Barry counts some of the world’s biggest media brands among his clients including The New York Times, News UK, The Guardian, FOX, Condé Nast, Euronews, Hearst, and The Independent.

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Chris Peters

Speed Editor, Reuters

Chris Peters is the Speed Editor for Reuters’ largest bureau, where he oversees alerting operations. With approximately 14 years of experience leading speed operations covering multiple regions, Chris has been pivotal in the adoption of various editorial tools and automation technologies.

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Dhanya Rajendran

Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, thenewsminute.com

Dhanya Rajendran is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of The News Minute, a digital publication that covers south India. In a journalism career spanning 19 years, Dhanya has a body of work focussing on politics, human rights, gender-based violence, and disaster coverage.

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Euan Rocha

Bangalore Bureau Chief, Thomson Reuters

Euan Rocha currently leads the Reuters bureau in Bangalore – the largest Reuters bureau in the world, home to hundreds of media professionals that work in reporting, editing, curation, polling, photo editing, publishing, graphical storytelling, and other functions.

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Ezra Eeman

AI Expert and Director of Strategy & Innovation, NPO, Netherlands
Ezra Eeman World News Media Congress 2025

Ezra Eeman is the Director of Strategy & Innovation at NPO, the Dutch Public Broadcaster. Ezra has almost 20 years of experience in media, innovation and journalism. Previously he was Change Director at international media company Mediahuis, responsible for coordinating newsroom transformation and digital acceleration. He worked as the Head of Digital, Transformation and Platforms at the EBU, The European Broadcasting Union and before that was head of an innovation lab and journalist at VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster.

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Jaideep Karnik

Head of Digital, Amar Ujala

Jaideep Karnik is the Head of Digital at Amar Ujala, where he focuses on exploring and experimenting with innovative forms of digital content across web, mobile, and other platforms.

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Kanchan Kaur

Professor of Practice, Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal Academy

Kanchan Kaur is Professor of Practice in the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru. She is an
assessor for India with the International Fact Checking Network.

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Krishna Prasad

Journalist

Till recently at The Hindu, Prasad was meant to spearhead the group’s digital transformation and work with editorial and business team heads, overseeing content across all of their publications. Prasad had previously headed the newsroom at Outlook magazine between 2012 and 2016, where he was Editor-in-Chief.
Having started his career as a stringer for The New Indian Express, while still an engineering student, Prasad, a native of Mysore, previously worked with various regional and national news organizations. He has also lectured on various topics about Indian media at universities in both India and abroad.

Laya Menon

South Head, IPG Media

Laya has 23+ years of experience across Universal McCann, Carat, Maxus (now Wavemaker), Motivator, Mindshare, Initiative and Lodestar UM, panning several FMCG, Retail, Lifestyle, Tech and Ecommerce sector clients.

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Mayura Shreyams Kumar

Director - Digital Business | Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing co. Ltd

Mayura Shreyams Kumar, Director – Digital Business at the Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Company Limited. Mathrubhumi is a Media Conglomerate involved in the publishing of the Mathrubhumi Daily and 11 other periodicals, Mathrubhumi News TV Channel, Kappa, Club FM Radio, Mathrubhumi Online and Books Division. She is a graduate in Communication & Media, Literature & Psychology, from Christ University, Bangalore, and started her Professional Career in 2017.

Later in 2018, She was appointed to the post of Director- Digital Business shouldering the responsibilities of the holistic development of all the Digital Properties of the Mathrubhumi Group. In addition to that, Mayura takes care of Club FM, [ 6 stations around Kerala and a radio station in Dubai], Kappa & Mathrubhumi Books, publishing house, are the other verticals that she handles in Mathrubhumi.

Her hobbies include Photography, Music, and Travel.

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Mariam Mammen Mathew

CEO, Manorama Online, India

Mariam Mammen Mathew is the Chief Executive Officer of Manorama Online, the digital media operations of the Malayala Manorama company.

Established in 1888, Malayala Manorama has a daily circulation of 2.31 million and publishes over forty publications. The group also runs Manorama News, a 24-hour news channel, Manorama Max, an entertainment channel, and Radio Mango, FM stations in Kerala.

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Puneet Gupt

COO, Times Internet Ltd.

Puneet Gupt is the COO of Times Internet, India’s largest digital products company where he leads multiple category-leading businesses including those in media & media tech, ad tech, fintech & gaming.

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Ravanan N

Executive Director, Dailyhunt | CEO - Oneindia

Ravanan N is an accomplished leader with over 23 years of experience across content management, sales, business development, product development, and operations. Known for his ability to thrive in start-up environments, he has successfully scaled businesses from scratch and driven growth in competitive markets.

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Subhamoy Chakraborti

Chief Technology Officer, ABP Pvt Ltd

Subhamoy Chakraborti is the Chief Technology Officer at ABP Pvt Ltd. He is responsible for the overall IT strategy including Digital, Analytics, SAP, Infrastructure, and Information Security. Prior to ABP, Subhamoy worked with Magma Fincorp, Oracle, Wipro, Cognizant. He has consulted multiple Fortune 100 companies in his career of 20 years. Subhamoy has a keen interest in digital transformation programs, analytics, product engineering and cyber security. Subhamoy is a Senior Member of IEEE and is presently the Chairman of IEEE Communications Society Kolkata Chapter, and Chairman of IEEE Kolkata Industry Academia collaboration committee. Subhamoy is also associated with CII CDT and part of NASSCOM Security SIG.

Subhamoy completed BE from Jadavpur University and MTech (Computer Science) from Indian Statistical Institute. He has also attended Executive Education from Harvard Business School.

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Suresh Vijayaraghavan

Chief Technology Officer, The Hindu

Suresh Vijayaraghavan is a technocrat with over 30 years of global experience in strategic planning, IT project management, systems design and implementation, and much more.

He holds the distinction of successfully completing several strategically important projects both in the IT infrastructure and the enterprise applications space that helped business leverage IT capabilities.

Subhash Rai

Digital Editor, The Hindu Group

Subhash Rai is an accomplished journalist with over 25 years of experience in online journalism. Currently serving as the Digital Editor at The Hindu, Subhash has played a pivotal role in shaping the digital landscape of the publication.

 

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Shelly Walia

Executive Editor, The Quint, India

Shelly Walia has been a journalist for more than 13 years – out of which nine have been spent in newsrooms of digital media companies. She’s currently the Executive Editor at the Indian digital-first media company, The Quint, where she closely interfaces with editors and reporters as well as the marketing team to strategise and execute successful membership campaigns, including daily and special newsletters. She’s keen to learn and understand ways to practise sustainable journalism in the digital era where editorial and product viability find the perfect balance.

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Shashank Chouhan

Output Editor for BBC Indian Languages, Collective Newsroom

Shashank is a senior editor and a digital native who has worked with top Indian and international newsrooms over the last couple of decades. At the BBC he led the planning and deployment teams in India and across the world – with focus on original, ground-breaking stories. As the Output Editor at Collective Newsroom in Delhi, Shashank oversees the day-to-day operations for the BBC’s Indian languages on digital and linear platforms.

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Sudarshan Kamath

Founder, smallest.ai

Sudarshan Kamath is the founder of Smallest.ai, a company specialising in multi-modal AI models in speech and text. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

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Sri Prasad

Senior Manager of Product Management, Reuters

Sri Prasad is the Senior Manager of Product Management at Reuters. He leads the product team responsible for automation and speed tools, which are used by Reuters journalists to publish market-moving alerts to customers. In this capacity, Sri works in close collaboration with editorial and technology teams to convert requirements into practical solutions.

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Sagar L

Manager of Applied Research TR Labs, Reuters

Sagar is an Applied Research Manager at Labs Bangalore, where he leads a team developing AI solutions to enhance editorial workflows. His team collaborates closely with editors and content operations to build AI-powered tools that streamline content creation, improve accuracy, and automate routine tasks.He holds a degree from IIT Madras and has been with TR for over three years.

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Supporting publishers

Thai Anban Chokkalingam

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Chennai, India