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Prasanna is Head of Collaboration and Horizon at Snowflake, overseeing Snowflake’s apps, collaboration, Snowflake Horizon capabilities, and Snowflake Marketplace. Prasanna has been at Snowflake since 2018, and is focused on simplifying the sharing, collaboration, and commercialization of data, data services, and applications, alongside enabling users to unlock entirely new revenue streams and extended insights across the Data Cloud. Prior to Snowflake, Prasanna built new products and led teams at large organizations including Microsoft and Comcast. She also held executive roles for various venture-backed startups including SmartyPal, which she founded and served as the CEO. Prasanna is an Indian classical dancer, and enjoys hiking and travel — she’s hiked on all seven continents, including Antarctica.

Vijayant is the Managing Director for Snowflake’s India Business. In this role he is responsible for driving the business growth and Go-To-Market strategy for Snowflake in the country. He leads the charter of partnering with customers in India across Industry Sectors in their Data & AI led business transformation journey. Vijayant is passionate about helping businesses unlock potential and unleash innovation by digitally transforming with the right technology strategy to create new ways of working, new business models and new revenue streams.

A leader with over 27 years of experience with Global Technology companies he has a strong background in building & running high performance businesses with a track record of delivering Customer Success & Innovation. Prior to Snowflake, Vijayant was with Microsoft where he was the Executive Director leading the BFSI business for the country. He has also held Senior Leadership roles including Regional VP at Salesforce, Regional Director at SAP & Country Head for CA Technologies Data Management Business.

Nishant is working as the Chief AI Officer for Mirae Asset Global Investments and has led AI teams in Axis Bank & Fidelity Investments prior to that. He has more than two decades of experience across Tech, Data & AI space focussed on Financial services domain and working for Tier 1 firms globally. He is passionate about applying AI in Financial services and is acknowledged as a global leader in this industry. He has done his Electrical Engineering from a Govt college in Mumbai and MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Murad is currently leading a team of talented sales engineers responsible for pre-sales functions at Snowflake India. He comes with wealth of experience and skill sets around Data Center Automation, Virtualization & Cloud technologies, Infrastructure Management, Cross management-domain architectures, and Team Management.

Accomplished Data Science and Data Engineering leader with 21+ years of experience in building scalable data platforms, analytics solutions and AI/ML systems. Expertise in cloud technologies, big data processing and driving data-driven decision making and adding significant business value through technology solutions. Two-Time Winner of Global Hackathons by RBI (Harbinger 2023 and 2021) in AI/ML and FinTech. Has deep expertise in handling PII data, ensuring robust data security & privacy measures.

Monil Maniar is a seasoned technology leader with extensive experience in the financial services industry. As Vice President of Technology at DSP Asset Managers Private Limited, Monil has been instrumental in driving technological innovation and transformation within the organization.
A pioneer in the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, Monil was one of the early adopters of Snowflake in India. Under his leadership, the Business Intelligence (BI) team successfully migrated the enterprise data warehouse to Snowflake, significantly enhancing data accessibility, performance, and scalability.
Monil’s forward-thinking approach and dedication to leveraging technology for business growth have made him a respected figure in the industry. His expertise in data management and analytics continues to drive DSP Asset Managers towards achieving new heights of operational excellence.”