An Award-winning Innovator with an interest in Business Transformation, Technology, Management and Economics, helping clients achieve exponential performance and growth through Intelligent Automation and Business Insights. With over 21+ years of global experience covering multiple industries including; Banking, Manufacturing, FMCG, Retail, Healthcare, Transportation, System Integration, Software and Technology Consulting, Dhanusha has helped many organizations across APAC to transform their businesses with the adoption of Technology in a meaningful manner.

Armand Angeli is a recognized expert in shared services and outsourcing, RPA (Robotic Process Automation), Intelligent Automation, and international business development.

Armand leads the RPA/Intelligent Automation /Shared Services and Outsourcing Committee of DFCG, the French CFO Institute, a Think Tank with more than 400 CFO’s, Shared Services/GBS, Automation coE and Finance Transformation Leaders
Since 2016, he is an independent Strategic Business Advisor in the areas of International Business Development, Digital Transformation, Automation / RPA, Outsourcing and Shared Services.

He has introduced in France and Southern Europe, a number of key added value software and solutions to improve the performance, quality and compliance of Finance functions.
From end of 2014 until May 2016, he was the Lead of the newly created Business Process Services (BPS / BPO for F&A, Payroll, HR, Procurement, Multichannel Cx / Contact Centers) Practice of Hewlett Packard Enterprise for EMEA South (focus on France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Northern Africa).

As a Partner, from 2004 to October 2012, with Grant Thornton, the global audit and accounting network, Armand held several roles over eight years including Director Global Outsourcing Services, heading business development for Finance Transformation and Outsourcing, and serving as Global Lead for Travel, Tourism and Leisure sectors, and head of Payroll Outsourcing Services. He was previously with PwC as European Business Development Director BPO, responsible for business development for shared services, outsourcing and consulting businesses for Continental Europe.

Armand has degrees in engineering from INSA Lyon (including an exchange program with IIT Chicago) (1981) and an MBA from INSEAD (1990), and served in senior international roles, including as Purchasing Director, Sales Manager, Internal Audit Director and CFO, over a 15-year period with IBM, General Electric and CNH. He has successfully led numerous financial re-structuring, IT, consulting, shared services and BPO projects. Armand is a French native and he is fluent in English and Italian.

Active in key professional and leadership organizations, Armand was for 9 years the President Europe, Middle East and Africa for the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI, www.iafei.org ). He is currently President of the DFCG International group (the French CFO organization, www.dfcg.fr ). He is a member of the Board of DFCG and of the Editorial Board of the CFO monthly magazine. Recognized as expert and influencer in his field, he is a frequent chairman and speaker at key international conferences. He leads and delivers executive level and certified professional training in RPA, Shared Services, Outsourcing and New Technologies.

A Management Accountant with nearly 2 decades of work experience across Banking, Business Process Outsourcing, Telecommunication and Professional Education, she has vast expertise in project management, finance transformation and business strategy, having worked at Nations Trust Bank PLC, WNS Global Services, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Limited and AICPA & CIMA Sri Lanka.

Named in Sri Lanka’s premier business magazine LMD’s Women in Business A List in March 2022 and in Millennial Torchbearers A List in 2020, she is a proud Fellow Member of CIMA, holds a MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and is a Project Management Professional of PMI, USA.

An eloquent speaker she has been part of the Judging Panel of WIM New Generation Awards, National Chamber of Exporters Awards, CIMA-Satyn Mag Women Friendly Workplace Awards and presented at various local and international conferences and events.

Prashanth Canagaghnanam is a seasoned digital and emerging technology leader with more than 16 years of experience in software engineering and enterprise architecture including digital transformations and hyper automations for global clients. He has in-depth experience in CXO consulting on digital battlegrounds, IT and digital strategies, enterprise architecture blueprinting and governance across industries.



He has delivered diverse range of digital and automation transformation solutions based on product engineering practices, agile pod-based delivery models, continuous delivery of software through DevSecOps, microservices and cloud-native architecture. He is passionate about helping clients in meeting their process automations and efficiency goals through industry standard practices.

Nikhil Daxini is a senior consulting executive with more than 25 years of global experience as a trusted strategic business advisor and practice leader.

In the current role as Intelligent Automation Leader, he is helping clients accelerate their automation journey by designing hyper automation strategy, setting up automation center of excellence (CoE), leading business simplification initiatives, driving change management and conceptualizing large-scale systems development.



He is passionate about unlocking long-term value for organizations through automation - bringing a strong blend of business understanding, cross-industry experience and strong technology expertise.

Patrick Fermor, Head of Transformation for HSBC Operations in Asia Pacific. Currently based out of Hong Kong, Patrick brings experience from both Consulting (strategy& Ops at Deloitte) and running In-house teams (divisions/ programmes/ products) in UK and Asia. Particularly enjoys taking an idea and collaborating to determine how it will work in practice to create a brilliant user experience.

Joydeep Hazra is a business leader with over two decades of industry experience in the IT sector. He advises C-suite in areas of digital transformation, data and analytics and automation. He has helped deliver more than 100+ large and medium sized transformation programs across diverse sectors like CPG, healthcare and automotive.



Joydeep uses technology and analytics knowledge to solve customer problems in domains such as customer, marketing, finance, supply chain and operations. As world moves more towards a sustainable living, he is engaging with major cloud providers to build ESG solutions that can help customers across the globe.



Driven by the purpose of “giving back to the society,” Joydeep has been instrumental in creating high impact global teams and regularly shares his experiences, to coach and mentor future leaders. As the Location Leader for EY GDS Consulting, Sri Lanka, Joydeep is working with the local ecosystem to tap into the global talent and build a next-gen talent pool in Sri Lanka to make it a favored technology consulting destination for EY and its global customers.

Pamela Kundu is a Sales Engineering Leader at UiPath. She is responsible for scaling the automation footprint of strategic customers across diverse industry verticals in the Asia Pacific region through the UiPath Platform.

As an established technology leader with 20 years of industry experience, Pamela has been instrumental in advising customers in their transformation journey through intelligent automation
solutions.

With an engineering undergrad degree, Pamela is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore. She is an
IICA-Certified Independent Director and volunteers on many board committees of technology startups.

She can be reached at pamela.kundu@uipath.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelakundu/

Puneet Narang is a senior consulting lead with more than 23 years of experience.



In the current role as Intelligent Automation Senior Manager, he is helping EY help clients accelerate their automation journey by designing hyper automation and AI solutions, delivering sector specific innovative solutions, and conceptualizing large-scale systems development.



He is passionate about fostering productive relationships, client advocacy, driving innovation, collaborating across organization to improve customer experience while reducing expenses and increasing sales for clients.

Mr. Jayantha Peiris is a management professional with extensive commercial, operations, technology, supply chain and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP experience for over 30 years. He currently works as the Chief Information Officer at MAS Holdings.

He is experienced in managing global businesses including Apparel, Textiles & retail multinationals while driving digital
transformations, delivering impactful business outcomes and driving Robotic Process Automations initiatives.

Sumit Srivastav is a Partner with Advisory Services and is the Intelligent Automation (IA) leader for PwC, India. He has over 20 years of experience in driving technology led business transformation for large Indian and Global corporations.

He works closely with organizations across various sectors, advising them on adoption of automation in achieving desired results. Sumit is also part of the Global IA Leadership team of PwC and has been instrumental in designing and executing various large scale Intelligent Automation programs across the world.

Sumit is a regular speaker at seminars, renowned in Intelligent Automation, both in India and overseas. He is a member of various industry bodies and works closely with various Fintech firms, focusing on specific automation use cases, to provide end-to-end automation solution to his clients.

Prior to joining PwC, Sumit worked for several years, primarily in the Banking and Information Technology sector. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a Post Graduate degree in Business Administration.