​Welcome to the ALB Legal & Technology Conference 2024 

    DATE             21 November 2024, Thursday

    TIME              09:30 am Registration
                                10:30 am to 5:00 pm, Indian Standard Time (GMT +5:30)

      VENUE         TBC

[FACE TO FACE /LIVE EVENT] 

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For further information on conference speakers, please contact Amruta Manjrekar at amruta.kishormanjrekar@thomsonreuters.com

 

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Aditi Jha, Board Member, Country Head: Legal & Government Affairs, LinkedIn India

Aditi Jha is a Board Member & Country Head: Legal & Government Affairs and a member of the leadership team at LinkedIn India. In her role, she leads the legal and government relations function helping to attain LinkedIn’s vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Aditi works with LinkedIn’s data scientists and economists to leverage data from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph to shape and inform skills and workforce development policies.

Prior to LinkedIn, Aditi has worked at one of India's leading law firms Nishith Desai Associates and at Indian & multi-national companies - ITC Limited & Johnson & Johnson.

Aditi earned her LL. B (Hons.) at NUJS, and her LL.M. from Stanford Law School, Stanford University, USA. She holds a full-time certificate course in innovation from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business & the Hasso Plattner School of Design.

 

Prashanth Varadarajan, Regional Legal Counsel – India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, HP Inc., India

Prashanth Varadarajan is the Region Counsel for HP Inc. supporting HP’s business in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He is an experienced corporate counsel having almost 14 years of intense, extensive experience advising multinational business and support teams in the corporate legal sphere.

Prashanth is a proven business enabler who dovetails the regulatory expectations with the interests of the business in business maximization. He has rich experience in advising executive leaderships on corporate legal advisory, handing highly strategic and critical transactions and deals support, commercial contracts management and negotiations, regulatory reporting (domestic and international), regulatory compliance, investigations, IPR, Public Policy analysis and advise, operational legal advisory, data protection and privacy laws, employment and real estate laws, competition & anti-trust laws, consumer disputes, arbitration and litigation management.

Prior to HP, Prashanth has worked in leading financial institutions in India like MetLife India and Max Life Insurance in various capacities as an in-house counsel. He is a gold medalist in law from Amity Law School, India and holds a master’s degree in international Commercial and Corporate Laws from the University of London International Program. He is based out of New Delhi, India.

 

Smitha Chandrashekaraiah, Director- Legal, Harman International (India) Private Limited

Smitha Chandrashekaraiah is a general counsel with a proven record of accomplishment of working across various industries including but not limited to logistics, IT, healthcare, asset finance and audio/visuals in the Asia Pacific Region. She is a trusted advisor to the top management covering a broad spectrum of legal and compliance practice - strategic advisory, Board Management, risk and compliance management, structuring and negotiating complex commercial cross border transactions, M&A, litigation and talent development. Being a firm believer of the philosophy “knowledge is power as long as it’s shared”, she is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers at various conferences and addresses the student community at top institutions as a guest lecturer regularly. She is also a recipient of several prestigious awards and accolades.