Speaker Profile: Mr. Rahul Bagga

Co-founder & Managing Director, Adastra IP India

Rahul Bagga is Co-founder, Managing Director and Head of Drafting, Prosecution and Opinion at Adastra Analytics (P) Ltd. Rahul specializes in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in various technical fields across prominent jurisdictions of world such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, EPO, EAPO, UK, Japan, China, Australia, South American countries, Gulf countries, OAPI/ARIPO and more. He also specializes in providing pre-filing advisory, oppositions, invalidations and litigations, and preparing statements/counter-statements.

Rahul has more than 10 years of experience in practice of patent laws across several countries and cities, apart from 2 years he spent working in labs. In his career, he has worked as in-house counsel as well as off-counsel to several start-ups, MSMEs, incubators and MNCs. Rahul is a mentor to start-ups in several incubators in India such as Nexus [by US Embassy], Indigram Labs, Aspire Labs, IIITD Incubator etc.

Speaker Profile: Dr. H P Kumar

Former CMD, NSIC & Director- External Affairs, Power2SME

Dr. H.P. Kumar is Director External Affairs at Power2SME and he is spearheading the organization’s objective of building alliance network in the industry. Dr. Kumar will design innovative programmes and framework to enhance Power2SME’s value proposition for SMEs, Suppliers and financial institutions. With rich experience in leading successful and profitable campaigns to benefit SMEs, Dr. Kumar comes with deep knowledge of SME market. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in dealing with promotion, development and financing of MSMEs, exports and other small & large projects. Prior to joining Power2SME. He was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NSIC (National Small Industries Corporation), a govt. of India enterprise engaged in development and financing of SMEs in India. Under his leadership, NSIC was able to achieve a turnover of 17400 crores and became a dividend paying entity with an excellent MOU rating continuously for 7 years, a spectacular shift, from a loss making CPSU prior to his successful tenure.

Speaker Profile: Mr. Sridip Sural

Senior Associate, MD&T Partners

Sridip did his B.A., LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and is currently a Senior Associate with MD&T Partners, a law firm based out of Bangalore. In addition to general corporate and contract advisory services, Sridip’s practice focuses on technology, media and intellectual property laws. He has, over the years, worked as a dedicated in-house legal counsel to clients in the space of development of educational content and pre-paid payments industry.