Red Hat Summit: Connect Executive Exchange 2025

Indraneel Pandit is the chief digital officer at Federal Bank. With more than two decades of experience spanning major multinational and Indian private sector banks, he has a proven record of conceptualising and building multi-billion-dollar business portfolios. At Federal Bank—India’s pre-eminent digitally focused bank, which prides itself on being “Digital at the fore, human at the core”—he leads the bank’s digital transformation. Mr Pandit is driving a range of breakthrough digital initiatives aimed at positioning the institution to leapfrog into the next generation of digital-led businesses.

Navtez brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise and go-to-market strategy experience. He has held leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer for India at Microsoft for over three years, where he was responsible for the public sector business in India, overseeing the entire P&L and operating team. Under his leadership the team facilitated digital transformation projects for central ministries, state governments, public sector units, and educational institutions, such as the National Language Translation Mission (Bhashini), E-Shram, and Diksha, while working towards doubling Microsoft's public sector revenue over three years.

He also spent over nineteen years at McKinsey, where, as a Senior Partner, he played a pivotal role in establishing two key service lines at McKinsey India office (INO) - RTS and tech-enabled operations which together accounted for 45% of INO's client engagements. His extensive cross-sector experience spans Technology, Industrials (including metals & mining, power, chemicals, and oil & gas), and Infrastructure. Most recently, Navtez was with IBM for 1.5 years, serving as Vice President and General Manager for Strategic Business Development, covering India and South Asia.

Vincent Caldeira serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Red Hat in Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for forging high-impact partnerships with key strategic customers and ultimately helping shape the company's technological vision and strategy.

 Recognised as one of the 'Top 10 Chief Technology Officers in APAC' by Technology Magazine in 2023, Vincent brings over two decades of experience in the IT industry, including a proven track record for leading ambitious business and technology transformation roadmaps within the Financial Services industry.

 Vincent is not only an influential thought leader in open source solutions, cloud computing, and digital transformation but also a sought-after speaker at industry events, dedicated to fostering innovation and advocating emerging technologies in domains such as Modern Data Analytics, AI/ML and Information Technology Sustainability. Notably, Vincent leads Red Hat's technology contribution in the field of environmental sustainability, acting as the chief architect and Technical Advisory Council Chair for OS-Climate.

 This Linux Foundation-backed open-source project intends to build the breakthrough technology and data platforms needed to integrate the impacts of climate change more fully in global financial decision-making and risk management.

Mangesh Surve has been in crucial leadership roles as the technology influenced the digital transformation of Industries and impacted daily lives of its consumers.

He is currently leading the Red Hat Solutions Architect team for India and South Asia. He is consulting crucial verticals like BFSI, Telco, IT/ITES, Manufacturing , Defence , Government and Pharma on Cloud Native & Open Source based Digital transformation. He had also lead the technology teams in Oracle during its transition to Cloud; He was leader of Information Management at IBM during that time when Business has started looking at Analytics as one of the crucial pillars of their business.

Anjali Shukla is a senior manager of policy and insights in Asia-Pacific at Economist Impact and also leads the India practice. She oversees research programmes for multilaterals, governments and non-profits seeking policy recommendations and strategic support. She has extensive experience in designing and managing programmes across technology, social sustainability and impact finance. She also leads a global expertise team dedicated to exploring the future of artificial intelligence.

Ms Shukla specialises in policy benchmarking and impact assessments, and has worked with clients such as Meta, Red Hat, Visa, Fujitsu, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies, among others. She holds a master’s degree in economics with specialisations in development economics and econometrics from the University of Copenhagen.

As the CEO of Mahindra’s AI Division, Bhuwan oversees all AI and data science initiatives across Mahindra Group companies, collaborating with sector leaders to drive business success in the AI era and generate value for the Group through AI. 

Previously, as Sr. Vice President and Head of the Auto Digital Centre, he was responsible for all digital and technology initiatives within Mahindra & Mahindra’s Automotive sector. 

Before joining Mahindra Group in 2018, Bhuwan served as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led major digital transformation programs for global conglomerates. Earlier in his career, he also held various product management and technology roles at Nokia and SAP Labs. 

Bhuwan holds an M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and a B.Tech from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University. He has over 19 years of experience in technology leadership, consulting, and digital business development.

Vikram Chauhan is Director & Head of Enterprise & Government Business for Intel India. He is responsible for overall business including developing new growth areas and driving innovative & transformational solutions with Global 2000 companies in the country.
Prior to this, Vikram was leading Intel’s financial services segment for the country. He has over 23 years of Industry experience and has led several marquee B2B transformation across various key verticals including FSI, Manufacturing, Energy & Government.
Before joining Intel, Vikram was National Product Manager for data center products business @ Wipro

Avinashi s a seasoned Technology and Operations executive with over 26 years of experience, specializing in leading large-scale, technology-driven transformation initiatives.

He currently serves as Head of Information Technology and Retail Operations, having previously led the IT department as Head of Information Technology. Avinash is committed to driving technological excellence and innovation, focused on building a secure, resilient, and efficient banking ecosystem. 

Avinashi s a well-recognized industry figure and has delivered addresses at various respected academia institutions and Banking associations.