Speakers 2026 | Plenary

  • Peyton Howell

    Peyton Howell is Chief Executive Officer of Parexel and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. She has more than 30 years of pharma services and healthcare industry experience.  Peyton served most recently as Chief Operating and Growth Officer responsible for Parexel’s operational delivery, strategy and growth. From 2018 to 2022 she was the company’s Chief…

  • Dr. Sanjay Salunke

    Dr Sanjay Salunkhe is a first-generation entrepreneur and has over three decades of experience in Edtech, HR and Banking in India and globally. He is recognized as one of the highly respected and influential veterans in the online education space in India. Dr Salunkhe began his entrepreneurial journey in 1999 when he set up Net…

  • Yezdi Nagporewalla

    Yezdi is an accomplished and visionary leader, serving as the Chief Executive Officer at KPMG in India. He has an illustrious career spanning close three and a half decades, out of which he has dedicated two and a half decades to KPMG in India.  Over the years, Yezdi has garnered expertise in diverse areas, including client relations, market…

  • Manish Tiwary

    Manish Tiwary serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé India with additional responsibilities of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives as a Market Head. With a deep-seated belief that food, brands, and technology have the power to transform lives today and for generations to come, he embodies the essence of Nestlé’s philosophy of “Good Food, Good Life.”  Mr. Tiwary is committed to enhancing Nestlé India’s performance…

  • H.E. Ambassador Lazăr Comănescu

    Ambassador Lazăr Comănescu currently serves as Secretary General of the Permanent International Secretariat of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC PERMIS).  A graduate of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (BUES), where he also earned a PhD in international economics, he additionally completed the Sorbonne course on Langue et civilisation françaises contemporaines. His distinguished career spans…

  • Ren Ito

    Ren Ito is the Co-Founder and COO of Sakana AI, Japan’s fastest unicorn after one year in business, backed by Nvidia and a broad spectrum of Japanese enterprises. Previously, Ren was CEO of Mercari Europe, Japan’s first unicorn. Before tech, Ren spent 15 years as a Japanese diplomat where he worked on the security alliance…

  • Mary Ellen Iskenderian

    Mary Ellen Iskenderian is the President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving low-income women in the developing world access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity. She joined Women’s World Banking in 2006 and leads the Women’s World Banking global team, based in…