Saturday, 3 October 2026 – Day 1
8:30 – 8:45 Opening Welcome
8:45 – 9:30 Keynote Speaker
4:00 – 5:00 Keynote Speaker
Sunday, 4 October 2026 – Day 2
8:30 – 8:45 Opening Welcome
8:45 – 9:30 Keynote Speaker
4:00 – 4:45 Closing Keynote Speaker
Madhuri Andrews
EVP and CIO | MKS Inc.
Sudeendra Koushik
Chief Innovator & Founder at Innovation by Design
Vickie Ozburn
IEEE ILC Co-Chair | Women in Engineering (WIE)
Howard Wolfman
IEEE ILC Co-Chair | Life Members (LM)
Madhuri Andrews, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Keynote Speaker
Saturday, October 3 | 4:00 – 5:00
Madhuri Andrews
Operations and technology executive driving business growth, profitability, and digital transformation at global organizations from 10,000 to 90,000 employees and $4B to $35B annual revenue. Madhuri is passionate in driving a “people first” culture as people are the heart of every organization!
Madhuri has a proven track record of leading meaningful change at companies to succeed in the digital world. She has extensive experience as an operating executive to galvanize technology-driven business strategy at global companies in the aerospace, industrials, high tech, infrastructure, and professional services industries. She leads organizations in creating scalable digital solutions that harness the power of data and technology to drive operational excellence and commercialized value for customers. Madhuri is a connected leader across large, global teams to inspire, motivate and energize employees through effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Madhuri has received several industry recognitions for her contributions in leadership, technology and diversity, to include being a Hall of Fame Asian American Top 100, Global CIO 100 winner, Innovation Awards CIO/CTO of the Year, WashingtonExec Top CIOs to Watch, and inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame. Madhuri has also been featured in numerous trade publications and is invited to speak on topics related to digital innovation, regulatory compliance, inclusion and diversity, and cybersecurity for national and economic interests.
She is recognized for bringing strategic, operational and domain expertise to public and private boards across a variety of industries, and serves on various technical advisory boards.
Madhuri is a global citizen, enjoys working across multiple cultures, and her favorite pastime is alpine skiing with her family on slopes around the world.
Abstract: [TO BE SUPPLIED]
Sudeendra Koushik, Chief Innovator & Founder at Innovation by Design
Keynote Speaker
Sunday, October 4 | 8:45 – 9:30
Sudeendra Koushik
Building Innovation, Patents and a people centric Innovative organisation culture.
Built syllabus and Teaching Innovation at various universities in India and abroad.
Working with startups and open Innovation.
Volunteer at IEEE and more
Udemy course on Innovation & Intrapreneurship – you can use this link https://www.udemy.com/course/innovation-intrapreneurship/?referralCode=497A1C5F3C34FF990B00
TED X Talk on Innovation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSedDHKEtKA
IIM K got talent Standup comedy here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Epud3pIOg&t=239s
BE, MBA, PG-Strategy Management (IIM-K)
PhD in Innovation
Senior Member IEEE, Fellow Institute of Engineers
Certified Independent Director
Execom IEEE Bangalore
2014,2015,2016 Vice Chair IEEE Bangalore
Co-Chair IEEE Adhoc Committee on Innovation
Co-Chair IEEE SYWL Congress Asia Pacific 2016
Director, Founder Institute Bangalore
24 years of International experience in Product Innovation & Development
20+ Patents in various stages
Key Note Speaker, Writer and Evangelist – MIT(USA) emerging technologies Conference, IIT-Madras, IIT-Gandhinagar, TiE start-up festival, Mobile App conference, IEEE Conferences, Project Management Institute (PMI USA), CII, VTPC, etc
Published Papers in Journal & Conferences, Frost and Sullivan, News Paper & Magazines
Karnataka State Innovation Council Award
HCL Excellence (Patents) Award
India Design Council Good Design 2016
Jury PMI(USA) Award & Reviewer PMI Standards, PMP Exam Question Preparation
Abstract: [TO BE SUPPLIED]
Vickie Ozburn, IEEE ILC Co-Chair | WIE
Opening Welcome & Conference Overview
Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4 | 8:30 – 8:45
Boudewijn Bertsch
Boudewijn believes in inclusive leadership development: working with intact teams and using small- and large-scale group interventions to enable people to make the changes they aspire. He has been a trusted advisor and faculty member designing and delivering executive education for ING Bank Academy and the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University since the 1990s.
In addition to providing leadership courses, Boudewijn coaches executives and teams and supports leadership teams on organizational change and improvement. He co-authored the award winning article “How Multinational CEOs Make Change Programmes Stick.”
Educated in the Netherlands and Japan as a business economist and sociologist, over the past 40 years Boudewijn has worked with executives from companies including:
ASML, AstraZeneca, Atradius, Alexandra Hospital Singapore, Bacardi, Cargill, DENSO, GE, Goodyear, IBM, ING, KONE, Microsoft, Millward Brown, Motorola, Nike, Sint Radboud Academic Hospital, Royal Philips Electronics, A. Schulman, the Singapore Government, TNT and Vopak.
Innovative accomplishments include:
High Performance Executive Leadership workshops across the globe for divisional and regional executive teams of the world’s largest provider of conditioned storage facilities for bulk liquids.
Mobilization workshops for various companies involving groups of 50, 80, and 375 people.
Abstract: [TO BE SUPPLIED]
Howard Wolfman, IEEE ILC Co-Chair | LM
Opening Welcome & Conference Overview
Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4 | 8:30 – 8:45
Boudewijn Bertsch
Boudewijn believes in inclusive leadership development: working with intact teams and using small- and large-scale group interventions to enable people to make the changes they aspire. He has been a trusted advisor and faculty member designing and delivering executive education for ING Bank Academy and the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University since the 1990s.
In addition to providing leadership courses, Boudewijn coaches executives and teams and supports leadership teams on organizational change and improvement. He co-authored the award winning article “How Multinational CEOs Make Change Programmes Stick.”
Educated in the Netherlands and Japan as a business economist and sociologist, over the past 40 years Boudewijn has worked with executives from companies including:
ASML, AstraZeneca, Atradius, Alexandra Hospital Singapore, Bacardi, Cargill, DENSO, GE, Goodyear, IBM, ING, KONE, Microsoft, Millward Brown, Motorola, Nike, Sint Radboud Academic Hospital, Royal Philips Electronics, A. Schulman, the Singapore Government, TNT and Vopak.
Innovative accomplishments include:
High Performance Executive Leadership workshops across the globe for divisional and regional executive teams of the world’s largest provider of conditioned storage facilities for bulk liquids.
Mobilization workshops for various companies involving groups of 50, 80, and 375 people.
Abstract: [TO BE SUPPLIED]
Boudewijn Bertsch, Leadership Consultant and Somatic Coach
Keynote Speaker
[To be determined] Saturday, October 3 | 8:45 – 9:30
Boudewijn Bertsch
Boudewijn believes in inclusive leadership development: working with intact teams and using small- and large-scale group interventions to enable people to make the changes they aspire. He has been a trusted advisor and faculty member designing and delivering executive education for ING Bank Academy and the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University since the 1990s.
In addition to providing leadership courses, Boudewijn coaches executives and teams and supports leadership teams on organizational change and improvement. He co-authored the award winning article “How Multinational CEOs Make Change Programmes Stick.”
Educated in the Netherlands and Japan as a business economist and sociologist, over the past 40 years Boudewijn has worked with executives from companies including:
ASML, AstraZeneca, Atradius, Alexandra Hospital Singapore, Bacardi, Cargill, DENSO, GE, Goodyear, IBM, ING, KONE, Microsoft, Millward Brown, Motorola, Nike, Sint Radboud Academic Hospital, Royal Philips Electronics, A. Schulman, the Singapore Government, TNT and Vopak.
Innovative accomplishments include:
High Performance Executive Leadership workshops across the globe for divisional and regional executive teams of the world’s largest provider of conditioned storage facilities for bulk liquids.
Mobilization workshops for various companies involving groups of 50, 80, and 375 people.
Abstract: [TO BE SUPPLIED]
