October 3rd 2025, Friday
San Francisco, California

The Indiaspora US Forum convened members for two days of connection, collaboration, and impact.

Indiaspora’s mission is to inspire the Indian diaspora to be a force for good by providing a platform to collaborate and build community engagement, and catalyze social impact. Indiaspora has been holding the US forum for over a decade, building on years of work actively nurturing and strengthening our community through dialogue and relationship-building.

Check out the agenda here.

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A Special Thank You

We would like to thank WestBridge Capital for sponsoring the evening gala on the Historic Klamath.

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Forum Speakers

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Nikhil Abraham

Co-Founder & CEO, CloudChef

Pranay Agrawal

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Fractal Analytics

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Meenakshi Ahamed

Author, A Matter of Trust and Indian Genius

Faraj Aalaei

Founder & CEO, Cognichip

Ashok Amritraj

Chairman and CEO, Hyde Park Entertainment Group

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Beena Ammanath

Global Head of AI, Deloitte

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Lak Ananth

Global Managing Partner, N47

Anu Basu

Professor and Director, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship, San Jose University

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Mamta Bhandari

Advisor, Boys Who Write

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Sumir Chadha

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, WestBridge Capital

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Navin Chaddha

Managing Partner, Mayfield Fund

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Abhay Dandekar

Physician, Founder/Host of TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I’m DOING

Shruti Deorah

Executive Director, India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) UC Berkeley

Desh Deshpande

President & Chairman; Trustee Sparta Group; Deshpande Foundation

Skyler Farasat

Mindfulness Author, age 12, opening forum with her meditative poem: Leading with Heart

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Deepak Garg

Engineer, Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO, Smart Energy Water

Susmita Ghose

Co-Founder & Head of AI, Anoki Inc.

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Bhaskar Ghosh

Partner at 8VC

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Shalini Govil-Pai

VP & GM, TV, Google

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Amita Gupta

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Vinita Gupta

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Srikanth Gundavarapu

President, GC Ingredients Inc

Sejal Hathi

Physician and Public Servant

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Asha Jadeja

Founder, Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation

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Anurag Jain

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Perot Jain; Chairman & CEO, Access Healthcare; Co-Founder, Get Shift Done

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Rohit Jain

CIO, Harvard Business School

Suresh Krishna

President and CEO, Protolabs

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Arun Kumar

Managing Partner, Celesta Capital

Shohini Kundu

Assistant Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Manav Lalwani

Chief Executive Officer at American Spraytech

Daniel Lurie

Mayor of San Francisco

Rajeev Madhavan

Founding Partner, Clear Ventures

Anurag Mairal

Adjunct Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Global Outreach, Stanford Biodesign

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Dipti Mathur

Private Investor, Art Collector

Ila Mathur

Co-Founder & CEO of Via

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Rukhmani Mehta

Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director, Leela Dance Collective

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Rajiv Menon

Artist and gallerist

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Balu Natarajan

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, AccentCare

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Pradeep Natarajan

Director of Preventive Cardiology and Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Mass General Hospital

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Shekar Narasimhan

Chairman and Founder of the AAPI Victory Fund

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Srinivas Narayanan

CTO of B2B Applications at OpenAI

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Chandar Pattabhiram

Chief Go To Market Officer, Workato

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Dev Pragad

Owner and CEO, Newsweek

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Nilima & Vivek Ragavan

Founders and owners of Valencia Wineries

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Priya Rajan

Managing Director, National Venture Coverage and Business Development, MUFG

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Aneesh Raman

Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, LinkedIn

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Deepak Ramola

Lecturer and Life Design Fellow, Stanford University

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Sudhir Rani

Co-founder, Chief Corporate Development Officer, Terviva, Inc.

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Kirthiga Reddy

President Athena Technology II

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Mansi Shah

Retired Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton

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Abhinav Shashank

CEO & Co-Founder, Innovaccer

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Jonathan Siddharth

CEO & Co-Founder, Turing

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Naveen Sikka

CEO at Terviva

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Vishal Sikka

Founder & CEO, Vian Ai

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Neha Singhal

Art Curator

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Anil Soni

Chief Executive Officer at WHO Foundation

Durga Sreenivasan

Community Organizer & Founder, Equal Planet

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Ramesh Srinivasan

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

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Tadashi Tokieda

Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Sheel Tyle

Founder & Co-CEO of Collective Global

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Rama Variankaval

Global Head of Corporate Advisory, J.P. Morgan

Sekar Vemparala

Principal & Founder, Wealth Planning Advisory Group

Aditya Vishwanath

Stanford University

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Murali Vullaganti

Founder and Executive Chairman of PeopleShores

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