Awardees – AICCoNS

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Tech Frontier Award

Staff Software Engineer, USA

Product Manager, Cisco Systems, NC, USA

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel

Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Texas, United States

Global Tech Visionary Award

Amit Kumar Padhy

Senior Computer Scientist II, Adobe Inc.,...

Arun Kumar Elengovan

Director of Engineering Security, Okta, Inc....

Senior Director of Engineering, Omnichannel Enterprise...

Lead Platform Owner, PetSmart, USA

Siva Rama Krishna

Lead Software Engineer, DocuSign, San Francisco,...

Future Systems Architect Award

Akash Kumar Agarwal

Principal Architect, Albertsons Companies Inc., USA

CDP Architect, Houston , Texas, USA

Member of Technical Staff, Company- eBay Inc., San...

Phaneendra Vayu Kumar

Bank of America, Plano, TX, USA.

Venkata Thej Deep

Senior Cloud Engineer, Gamestop Corp, United States

Vinil Pasupuleti

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), South Carolina (SC),...

Cyber Resilience Excellence Award

Nandagopal Seshagiri

Senior Software Architect, Okta, Inc.

Pavan Nutalapati

Senior Technical Leader, Oracle

Santosh Datta Bompally

Cyber Security Researcher – Humana –...

Intelligent Data Leader Award

Balaji Shesharao Ingole

Project Manager, Amla...

Chaitanya Kulkarni

Principal Devops Eng....

Chandrashekhar Medicherla

Lead Software Engineer,...

Gajendra Babu Thokala

Senior Engineering Leader,...

Lead Enterprise Data...

Senior Software Developer...

Senior Data Engineer,...

Saisuman Singamsetty

Data Management Specialist,...

Sharath Chandra Macha

Senior Lead Software...

Women Tech Power 100 Award

IT Manager, Trinity Health, Michigan USA

Product Manager, Cisco Systems, NC, USA

Madhushree Kumari

Staff Software Engineer @Visa Inc., USA

AI Trailblazer Award

Nagesh Gulkotwar

Program Manager, Google Inc., USA

Senior Technical Architect at Salesforce,...

Senior Manager , Data Science...

Utham Kumar Anugula

Independent Researcher, Alumni, Nanyang Technological...

Cloud Innovation Catalyst Award

Techpreneur Excellence Award

Sharath Chandra Macha

Senior Lead Software Engineer at CBRE...

Industry Innovation Excellence – Young Leader Award

Sharath Chandra Macha

Senior Lead Software Engineer at CBRE...

Shyalendar Reddy Allala

Assistant Vice President, Technology & Solution...

Best Researcher Award

Software Engineering Leader, Independent Researcher, Google...

Prem Anand Rathina Sabapathy

Software Engineer Lead, Mastech Digital, Columbus,...

Tech Frontier Award

Vaishnaw Gorakhnath Kale

Professor, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications, D Y Patil International University, Akurdi, Pune (MS),India

AI Trailblazer Award

Anjan Kumar K N

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, R N S Institute of Technology, Channasandra, Bangalore, India

Women Tech Power 100 Award

Vijaishree Dubey Pandey

Assistant Professor, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus

Cyber Resilience Excellence Award

Seema Gangaiah Aarella

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Austin College, 900 North Grand Avenue, Suite 61582, Sherman, Texas- 75090, U.S.A

Best Researcher Award

Murali Krishna Enduri

Murali Krishna Enduri Associate Professor & Head of the Department in the Department...

Nagaraj R. Banapurmath

Nagaraj R. Banapurmath Director, Centre for Material Science, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,...

Sumaiya Thaseen Ikram

Sumaiya Thaseen Ikram Senior Lecturer of Cyber Security, School of Computer Science and...