Prof Kelly

Business Analyst at VIVES

Kelly Decroock (referred to as Prof Kelly) is a Business Analyst, IT Business Reporting Coordinator, and experienced academic at the VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. With over a decade of experience as an ICT lecturer and former study area coordinator at the VIVES Brugge Business School, she specialises in business analytics, data storytelling, and data management. She is a recognised expert in Microsoft Power BI, focusing on teaching students and professionals how to extract, clean, model, and transform raw corporate data into interactive dashboards. Additionally, she is a published co-author of the educational textbook ‘Business analytics met Power BI’ and actively designs advanced professional training, including the VIVES Postgraduate Digital Business Analyst programme.

Dr Balamurugan Balusamy

Professor and Chairperson, School of Engineering and IT, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE

Professor and Chairperson, School of Engineering and IT, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai. Recognised among the top 2% of AI scientists by Stanford University. Expert in global rankings and accreditation frameworks. Delivered 300+ international talks. Published 300+ high-impact SCI papers and authored 200 books. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering at Taylor University, Malaysia. Prior to this assignment he was Professor, School of Computing Sciences & Engineering and Director of International Relations at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. His contributions focus on engineering education, blockchain and data sciences. His academic degrees and twelve years of experience as a faculty member at a global university like VIT University, Vellore, have made him more receptive and prominent in his domain. He has 200-plus high-impact-factor papers in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE. He has edited and authored more than 80 books and has collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS-ranked universities. Prof Balamurugan Balusamy rose to the position of Associate Professor during his 15 years at VIT University, Vellore. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees at top-tier institutions in India. His passion is teaching, and he adapts different design-thinking principles while delivering his lectures.

He has published 80+ books on various technologies and visited more than 15 countries for his technical courses. His résumé lists several top-notch conferences, and he has published over 200 quality journal articles, conference papers and book chapters combined. He serves in the advisory committee for several start-ups and forums and does consultancy work for industry on Industrial IoT. Additionally, he has given over 195 talks in various events and symposia.

Dr R. Kanesaraj

Associate Professor, MMU, Innovator in Smart Healthcare & Environmental Tech | MBOT Professional Technologist (Ts.)

Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr R. Kanesaraj A/L Ramasamy is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics at Multimedia University (MMU) in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of the Touchpoint Management Office. As a certified Professional Technologist (Ts.) under the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT), he specialises in Smart Healthcare, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and predictive analytics. Over his distinguished 15-year career spanning academia and industry, Dr Kanesaraj has secured over RM 1.05 million in research funding, published extensively in Scopus-indexed journals, and created award-winning, ESG-aligned innovations like PulseWise and Smart Toilet. Beyond his research and academic supervision, he has significantly influenced public policy by contributing to Malaysia’s National IoT Implementation Policy under NACSA.

Christopher Malekar

Technology Leader at Genesis

Christopher Malekar is an American deep tech product strategist, corporate advisor, and engineering executive specialising in enterprise AI product strategy and digital transformation. Educated at Cornell University, Malekar serves as a technology leader at Genesis, where he steers the development of an enterprise, AI-driven talent and emotional intelligence platform that integrates advanced voice sentiment modelling, psychometric frameworks, and facial-expression analytics. His multi-decade portfolio features high-impact leadership roles, including serving as the Vice President of Engineering at Sunbelt Rentals, where he spearheaded IoT and telematics fleet strategy, and holding senior digital transformation roles at both Northmarq and Honeywell. Beyond his executive roles, he actively bridges the gap between academia and corporate practice by delivering guest lectures on real-world business strategy and outcome-driven innovation.

Dr Suja Mohandas

Senior EDI Consultant, IBM India Pvt Ltd

An accomplished Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, specialised in EDI and Middleware Technologies (Gentran UNIX, SI).

Mr Kapil Tiwari

Manager, Software Development at Amazon

Over 18 years of extensive professional experience in full-stack software development using C++, Microsoft Technologies, e.g. C#, Azure, .NET, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF and AngularJS.

A creative, self-motivated team player and a go-to person in the team.

Highly adaptive and result-oriented, with a keen interest in learning new technologies.

Kalavathi Palanisamy

Professor and Head, Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University)

Dr Kalavathi P is a distinguished academic holding the position of Professor and Head at the Department of Computer Science and Applications at Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University). With qualifications including an MCA, MPhil, and PhD, supplemented by a UGC-NET qualification, Dr Kalavathi brings over 22 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience to her role. Specialising in Digital Image Processing, Medical Image Segmentation and Analysis, and the Internet of Things, she has guided more than 5 PhD scholars and has an extensive publication record, with 63 journal articles and 20 conference proceedings. Dr Kalavathi’s scholarly impact is evident in her impressive citation counts, with over 210 in Scopus and close to 1000 in Google Scholar, accompanied by an h-index of 14 and an i10-index of 24. As an active participant in academic forums, she has been a guest speaker in over 100 seminars and workshops, contributing significantly to the broader discourse in her field.

Mr Abin Emmanuel

Data Scientist at Kaplan

Mr Abin Emmanuel is a highly skilled data scientist and software developer who holds an MSc in Data Science from CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Pune Lavasa Campus. Specialising in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and time-series forecasting, he has built a strong professional background driving advanced analytics and data engineering projects at premier institutions like Tiger Analytics and HDFC Bank. His technical expertise spans open-source data architectures, production-grade predictive modelling, and interactive application deployment using frameworks like Python, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Streamlit. With an online presence linked to his signature moniker abinet369, he actively contributes to developing end-to-end machine learning pipelines and real-time data solutions.