Speakers

Dr Anand Lakshmanan (Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE) is a Strategic Leader with technical and management expertise in the areas of Telecommunications, Computing and related technologies Dr Anand has a Doctorate in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and later, he got his MBA (Finance) and a Post-Graduate Certification from IIM-Ahmedabad in Leadership Excellence.
Dr Anand has travelled and collaborated with teams in the United States, Europe, and the APAC regions on the engineering of innovative product lines tailored to market-specific goals, and has been a part of customer success stories across geographies and the adaptation to multisite cultures.
Since 2016, Dr Anand has been involved in designing and delivering courses as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology – Design and Manufacturing (IIIT DM), Kanchipuram, as a Visiting Professor (2022-24) at Amrita School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and more recently, as a Mentor for Innovations and Entrepreneurship at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathiyamangalam. He was associated with L&T EdTech in designing and creating technical content for online learning from 2020 to 2022.