Connect with a Mentor
Mentor Connect
Mentor Connect is a flagship program where a structured environment for Mentorship is provided to TiEcon attendees
Date: May 2-3, 2024
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm PST
Location: Hall A1, Santa Clara Convention Center
Ajoy Sojan
Ex VP Engineering, Yahoo News
Alagu Periyannan
Ex CTO, BlueJeans
Aloke Bhandia
CEO, iProStrategy
Anand Raghavan
Sr. Director, AI at Cisco Security
Ashish Bansal
Founder | AI Leader | Author
Ashis Khan
VP, Time Series AI Cloud Bus., Falkonry
Bharat Gupte
Board Member | Advisor | Investor
Bidyut Parruck
Cloud Architect | Mentor | Inventor
Debu Chatterjee
Founder, Confer
Dilip Saraf
LinkedIn’s Top Re-Invention Guru
MuckAI Girish
Founder, RockFish
Hemant Hebbar
VP, Global M&A, HP
Jayakar Tobin
Scientist, FermiLabs
Jayaraman Swaminathan
Founder, AppWrap
Krishna Yarlagadda
Chairman, Meeami Technologies
Kumar Ganapathy
Founder, 3i Partners
Lena Kannappan
Founder, Healthcare Triangle
Niraj Saran
Founder, MayaValley Ventures
Nitin Vaish
Bus Dev Leader, Ginkgo Bioworks
Prabakar Sundarrajan
Founder, The Fabric
Prabakar Murugaiah
Founder, TechFetch
Pradip Shankar
Partner, Laramide Investments
Praveer Kumar
Co-Founder, Guardhat
R Paul Singh
COO, Modern Data Company
Raj Singh
Founder, Z21 Ventures
Renu Raman
Founder, Terriza
Sandeep Gupta
General Manager, Accenture
Sanjit Dang
Co-Founder, UFirst Capital
Satchit Dokras
Principal Consultant, Auriga Tek
Sheela Ursal
Founder, FintechNext
Shubhada Hebbar
Head of Product, Google
Sukhwinder Lamba
Co-Founder, Navigate IO
Varun Kohli
CMO, Cequence Security
Vic Kulkarni
Co-Founder, SiVa-Access
Vijay Parmar
Partner, FounderPartners
Vipin Jain
Founder, Blendid
Yogita Parulekar
Founder, Invigrid
Who should attend
- A wantrepreneur looking to validate their idea
- A novice entrepreneur looking for guidance
- A startup founder looking for advise to pivot his/her startup
How is it done
- 60 min time slot with mentor and mentee
- A time slot is booked ahead of the event
- In a small setting (typically 8-10 mentees)
Who are our mentors
- Highly accomplished business professionals
- Silicon Valley veterans and domain experts
- Serial entrepreneurs with a proven track record
Program Chairs
Prakash Narayan
Mentor Connect Track Leader
Deepak Bhagat
Mentor Connect Track Co-Chair