Hemanshu has more than 20 years of cross industry visionary leadership in the hi-tech industry with deep technical expertise in Semiconductor. He has led multiple successful complex Billion+ gate SoC tapeouts and commercialization at Qualcomm and led customer engagement for Qualcomm’s biggest customers. 

Prior to Qualcomm, Hemanshu set up the Bangalore physical design organization for Raza Microelectronics, a Bay Area microprocessor startup subsequently acquired by Netlogic (now Broadcom). He has a passion to establish country offices in India by seeding and growing Engineering talent along with efficient operations. Early on in his career he spent a decade in the US, leading circuit design teams at Kilopass (NVMs), Lattice Semiconductor (FPGAs) and Motorola (SRAMs).

Most recently Hemanshu setup the Middle East operations for Accel funded global edu-tech company Vedantu. He enjoys mentoring and has formally mentored more than 200 students, many of whom are now in senior technical positions in leading semiconductor companies. 

Hemanshu is passionate about innovation and has 18 US patents. He has an MSEE from Purdue University and an Executive Management Certificate from UT Austin.

Kaushik has 15+ years experience developing products and taking them to market. Most recently, at Leap Forward Solutions, he designed, developed and launched products focused on leadership and communications organizations, now with customers in 26 countries.

Previously, he was at Dell where he and his team designed GTM strategies to deliver $200M+ in annual sales of productivity and security software products in large enterprises and SMBs. Prior to that, he spent six years at Lattice Semiconductor where he and his team developed low power devices that powered networking and communication infrastructure in the US and Canada.

In his spare time, he empowers people who stutter. He enjoys spending time with family, especially playing chess with his two young children. He has a MBA from University of Chicago, Booth school of Business, M.S from University of Texas at Austin and B.Tech from Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University.

Sheshankh is a results oriented Global Management Professional with diverse experience of over 20 years in different capacities primarily in areas of project management, end-to-end product management, quality and delivery of critical business applications.

Artificial Intelligence software leadership having led core engineering teams. Executed CV, ADAS, Event Recognition, Gesture recognition projects as well as model/network optimization including quantization and pruning. 

Career in complete design cycle and commercialization of Handsets, Modems, IoT products ranging from wearables to smart cities and everything in-between. Ownership of hundreds of products in the millions of volumes delivered to global markets. 

Sheshankh held leadership positions at Qualcomm, Blaize, VIA Telecom (now Apple) and has worked with industry leaders such as Daimler, Denso, Samsung, LG, Reliance JIO, Xiaomi, OnePlus in over 15 countries.

Dr. Rajeev Shorey is the CEO of the University of Queensland – IIT Delhi Academy of Research (UQIDAR) and Adjunct Faculty in the Computer Science & Engineering department at IIT Delhi. Expertise in Wireless Networks including 5G Networks, Telematics, IoT, Industrial IoT, IoT Security, Edge & Cloud Computing and Secure Automotive Networks.

His career spans several reputed research labs – TCS Research & Innovation, General Motors (GM) India Science Laboratory (ISL), IBM India Research Laboratory, SASKEN Technologies and NIIT University. He has more than 70 publications in international journals and conferences, 13 US patents and several pending. 

Dr. Shorey is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Scientist at ACM, Fellow of IETE and Senior Member of IEEE. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and BE from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India