AI-Ready Culture:

Machine Speed, Human Ingenuity

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23 April 2025

AI-first thinking is only the start. The real challenge?
Weaving AI into our culture that blends machine speed with human ingenuity to drive change.

Discover how to build a future-ready organisation.

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AI-Ready Culture:

Machine Speed, Human Ingenuity

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23 April 2025

AI-first thinking is only the start. The real challenge?
Weaving AI into our culture that blends machine speed with human ingenuity to drive change.

Discover how to build a future-ready organisation.

Register Now
Time:
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Duologues intro-card-icon-6

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What does it take to stay ahead in a world where change is the only constant? The answer isn't in the latest technology or fleet-footed trends, but in something deeper and simpler: culture.

Today, AI-first thinking is simply insufficient. The world has moved beyond just deploying AI technologies; the real challenge now is building an AI-ready culture. A culture that effortlessly harmonises machine speed and human ingenuity is driven by values, mores, and practices that turn every interaction, every project, and every challenge into an opportunity for transformation.
At Rakuten Product Conference 2025, we're not just talking about AI anymore. We're talking about the people, ideas, and values that make AI work for us. We are bringing experts and industry leaders to unpack how organisations can go from using AI to truly making it part of their DNA —shifting from tools to values, from strategies to habits.
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Who should tune into Rakuten Product Conference?

Business Leaders & Executives

CEOs, CTOs, VPs, and decision-makers interested in understanding how to build an AI-ready culture and drive innovation within their organizations.

Product Managers & Innovators

Professionals managing product development who want to learn how to embed AI into their offerings and shape an AI-first mindset.

Tech Engineers & Developers

AI specialists, software engineers, and developers keen on exploring the technical side of AI and its role in shaping business solutions.

Entrepreneurs & Startups

Founders and startup teams looking to integrate AI into their business models and build an innovative, AI-ready culture from the ground up.

HR & Organizational Culture Leaders

HR managers and organizational leaders focused on fostering a culture of adaptability and readiness for AI within teams.

Keynote Speakers

Rakuten Product Conference brings industry leaders from around the world to explore trends, share ideas, and shape what's next in tech.

Agenda

An amazing day of impactful ideas, actionable insights, inspiring connections! Passes and registration here

Keynote

09:15 AM IST

15 min

Welcome Note

Akihito Kurozumi, Group Senior Managing Executive Officer, CIO & CTO, Rakuten Group

Akihito_Kurozumi

09:30 AM IST

05 min

Keynote

Tsubasa Shiraishi, Vice Chairman, Rakuten India

Tsubasa_Shiraishi

09:35 AM IST

10 min

Special Address

Nakane Tsutomu, Consul General of Japan in Bengaluru

Nakane_Tsutomu

09:45 AM IST

20 min

What's Next in AI: The Agentic Revolution

Praful Chavda, Founder and CEO, Chisel

Taku Okoshi, Executive Officer, Director, AI Services Supervisory Department, Office Manager, Global CDO Office, Rakuten Group

Caitlin Cai, Head of Product, Rakuten Asia

Ting Cai, Group Senior Managing Executive Officer, CAIDO (Chief AI & Data Officer), Rakuten Group (moderator)

Praful_Chavda Taku_Okoshi
Caitlin_Cai Ting_Cai

10:05 AM IST

10 min

Rakuten: Driving AI Native Culture

Sunil Gopinath, CEO, Rakuten India and Executive Officer, Rakuten Group

Sunil_Gopinath

Fireside Chat

10:15 AM IST

20 min

Leading Through the AI Wave: Vision, Velocity, and the Human Element

Sunil Gopinath, CEO, Rakuten India and Executive Officer, Rakuten Group

Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Asia South, NVIDIA

Sunil_Gopinath Vishal_Dhupar

Industry Spotlight

10:35 AM IST

20 min

Beyond the Hype: A Pragmatic Journey into Generative AI

Sandeep Alur, CTO Microsoft Innovation Hub, Microsoft India

Sandeep_J_Alur

10:55 AM IST

20 min

LLM-powered Recommendation Solution that Enhances Personalisation and Engagement

Pan Yaozhang, Founder & CEO, LEARNSCAPE PTE. LTD

Pan_Yaozhang

11:15 AM IST

20 min

Reimagining Commerce in the Era of AI

Mohit Saxena, Co-Founder & CTO, InMobi

Mohit_Saxena

11:35 AM IST

20 min

AI Native Experience

Zhe Liu, Vice General Manager, Catalog Management Department, AI & Data Division, Rakuten Group

Zhe_Liu

11:55 AM IST

20 min

Empowering Telecom Success: Generative & Agentic AI for Customer Experience, Employee Productivity and Network Evolution

Dr. Rajan Gupta, Director of Data Science and AI/ML, Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

Rajan_Gupta

Founder's Stage

12:15 PM IST

20 min

Building an AI-First Culture: Scaling Social Shopping While Keeping People at the Core

Fabian Ouwehand, Co-Founder and CEO, ForReal

Fabian_Ouwehand

12:35 PM IST

20 min

Navigating Generative AI and the Digital Revolution - Democratizing Technology | Enhancing Machine-Human Interaction

Ankush Sabharwal, Founder & CEO, CoRover

Ankush_Sabharwal

12:55 PM IST

20 min

How AI and Behavioural Science Can Change Culture and Drive Business Impact? - Perspectives from the Frontline with Worxogo

Anant Sood, Co-Founder, Worxogo

Anant_Sood

Duologue - Ideas in Tandem

01:15 PM IST

20 min

Bridging the Gap: AI on the Fintech Frontier

Ravi Battula, VP, Global Products, FIS Global

Krishnendu Majumdar, CPTO, Yubi Group of companies

Ravi Battula Krishnendu_Majumdar

01:35 PM IST

20 min

Agentic AI Transformation of Enterprises: A Dialogue on the Opportunity, Challenges, and Solutions

Anand Kulkarni, Customer Engineering Lead, Intel Corporation

Aditi Nanda, Director Ecosystem & Industry, Intel Corporation

Anand_Kulkarni Aditi_Nanda

Expert Insights

01:55 PM IST

20 min

SPACE Framework: Driving AI Innovation Beyond Algorithms

Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru, MD & Chief Mentor, TekFrameworks

Dr_Dakshinamurthy_V_Kolluru

02:15 PM IST

20 min

Art of using AI in Education

Shivaram K R, Co-Founder and CEO, Hue Learn

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Visionary Roundtable

02:35 PM IST

30 min

The C-Suite Playbook for an AI-Ready Culture

Harsh Vardhan, Global Head- Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres Ltd.

Jeyandran Venugopal, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart

Nalini George, Chief Human Resources Officer, Bangalore International Airport Limited

Sunita Mohanty, President and Chief Revenue Officer, UpGrad

Vishnu Vardhan Nadella, Vice President of IT & CISO, Gupshup

Jun Iriyama, General Manager, Catalog Management Department, AI & Data Division, Rakuten Group (moderator)

Harsh_Vardhan Jeyandran_Venugopal
Nalini_George Sunita_Mohanty
Vishnu Vardhan Nadella Jun_Iriyama

03:05 PM IST

30 min

AI for Impact: Crafting Products That Deliver True Enterprise Value and ROI

Dr. Priyanka Ray, Global Head - AI and Transformation, IBM Consulting, Singapore

Sridevi Vadapalli, Chief Data Scientist, Daimler Truck Innovation Center India

Shuvajit Basu, VP, Data Science, Tata Digital

Anindo Chakraborty, Director, US Personal Banking Analytics, Citi India

Ashish Pandey, AI Product Leader, ex-Meta

Nishant Nayak, VP, Product & Engineering, Rakuten India (moderator)

Dr_Priyanka_Ray Sridevi_Vadapalli
Shuvajit_Basu Anindo_Chakraborty
Ashish_Pandey Nishant_Nayak

Tech in Wellness

03:35 PM IST

20 min

From Data to Daily Habits: Tech’s Role in Personalised Wellness

Gopal Chhetri, Senior Vice President & Business Unit Leader, CGI

Gopal_Chhetri

Closing

03:55 PM IST

05 min

Vote of Thanks

Anirban Nandi, VP, AI Products & Business Analytics, Rakuten India

Anirban_Nandi

Keynote

09:15 AM IST

15 min

Akihito_Kurozumi

Welcome Note

Akihito Kurozumi,
Group Senior Managing Executive Officer, CIO & CTO, Rakuten Group

09:30 AM IST

05 min

Tsubasa_Shiraishi

Keynote

Tsubasa Shiraishi,
Vice Chairman, Rakuten India

09:35 AM IST

10 min

Nakane_Tsutomu

Special Address

Nakane Tsutomu,
Consul General of Japan in Bengaluru

09:45 AM IST

20 min

Praful_Chavda Taku_Okoshi
Caitlin_Cai Ting_Cai

What's Next in AI: The Agentic Revolution

Praful Chavda,
Founder and CEO, Chisel

Taku Okoshi,
Executive Officer, Director, AI Services Supervisory Department, Office Manager, Global CDO Office, Rakuten Group

Caitlin Cai,
Head of Product, Rakuten Asia

Ting Cai,
Group Senior Managing Executive Officer, CAIDO (Chief AI & Data Officer), Rakuten Group (moderator)

10:05 AM IST

10 min

Sunil_Gopinath

Rakuten: Driving AI Native Culture

Sunil Gopinath,
CEO, Rakuten India and Executive Officer, Rakuten Group

Fireside Chat

10:15 AM IST

20 min

Sunil_Gopinath Vishal_Dhupar

Leading Through the AI Wave: Vision, Velocity, and the Human Element

Sunil Gopinath,
CEO, Rakuten India and Executive Officer, Rakuten Group

Vishal Dhupar,
Managing Director, Asia South, NVIDIA

Industry Spotlight

10:35 AM IST

20 min

Sandeep_J_Alur

Beyond the Hype: A Pragmatic Journey into Generative AI

Sandeep Alur,
CTO Microsoft Innovation Hub, Microsoft India

10:55 AM IST

20 min

Yaozhang_(Fiona)_Pan

LLM-powered Recommendation Solution that Enhances Personalisation and Engagement

Pan Yaozhang,
Founder & CEO, LEARNSCAPE PTE. LTD

11:15 AM IST

20 min

Mohit Saxena

Reimagining Commerce in the Era of AI

Mohit Saxena,
Co-Founder & CTO, InMobi

11:35 AM IST

20 min

Zhe_Liu

AI Native Experience

Zhe Liu,
Vice General Manager, Catalog Management Department, AI & Data Division, Rakuten Group

11:55 AM IST

20 min

Rajan_Gupta

Empowering Telecom Success: Generative & Agentic AI for Customer Experience, Employee Productivity and Network Evolution

Dr. Rajan Gupta,
Director of Data Science and AI/ML, Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs

Founder's Stage

12:15 PM IST

20 min

Fabian_Ouwehand

Building an AI-First Culture: Scaling Social Shopping While Keeping People at the Core

Fabian Ouwehand,
Co-Founder and CEO, ForReal

12:35 PM IST

20 min

Ankush_Sabharwal

Navigating Generative AI and the Digital Revolution - Democratizing Technology | Enhancing Machine-Human Interaction

Ankush Sabharwal,
Founder & CEO, CoRover

12:55 PM IST

20 min

Anant_Sood

How AI and Behavioural Science Can Change Culture and Drive Business Impact? - Perspectives from the Frontline with Worxogo

Anant Sood,
Co-Founder, Worxogo

Duologue - Ideas in Tandem

01:15 PM IST

20 min

Ravi_Battula Krishnendu_Majumdar

Bridging the Gap: AI on the Fintech Frontier

Ravi Battula,
VP, Global Products, FIS Global

Krishnendu Majumdar,
CPTO, Yubi Group of companies

01:35 PM IST

20 min

Anand_Kulkarni Aditi_Nanda

Agentic AI Transformation of Enterprises: A Dialogue on the Opportunity, Challenges, and Solutions

Anand Kulkarni,
Customer Engineering Lead, Intel Corporation

Aditi Nanda,
Director Ecosystem & Industry, Intel Corporation

Expert Insights

01:55 PM IST

20 min

Dr_Dakshinamurthy_V_Kolluru.png

SPACE Framework: Driving AI Innovation Beyond Algorithms

Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru,
MD & Chief Mentor, TekFrameworks

02:15 PM IST

20 min

Shivaram_KR.png

Art of using AI in Education

Shivaram K R,
Co-Founder and CEO, Hue Learn

Visionary Roundtable

02:35 PM IST

30 min

Harsh_Vardhan Jeyandran_Venugopal
Nalini_George Sunita_Mohanty
Vishnu Vardhan Nadella Jun_Iriyama

The C-Suite Playbook for an AI-Ready Culture

Harsh Vardhan,
Global Head- Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres Ltd.

Jeyandran Venugopal,
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Flipkart

Nalini George,
Chief Human Resources Officer, Bangalore International Airport Limited

Sunita Mohanty,
President and Chief Revenue Officer, UpGrad

Vishnu Vardhan Nadella,
Vice President of IT & CISO, Gupshup

Jun Iriyama,
General Manager, Catalog Management Department, AI & Data Division, Rakuten Group (moderator)

03:05 PM IST

30 min

Dr_Priyanka_Ray Sridevi_Vadapalli
Shuvajit_Basu Anindo_Chakraborty
Ashish_Pandey Nishant_Nayak

AI for Impact: Crafting Products That Deliver True Enterprise Value and ROI

Dr. Priyanka Ray,
Global Head - AI and Transformation, IBM Consulting, Singapore

Sridevi Vadapalli,
Chief Data Scientist, Daimler Truck Innovation Center India

Shuvajit Basu,
VP, Data Science, Tata Digital

Anindo Chakraborty,
Director, US Personal Banking Analytics, Citi India

Ashish Pandey,
AI Product Leader, ex-Meta

Nishant Nayak,
VP, Product & Engineering, Rakuten India (moderator)

Tech in Wellness

03:35 PM IST

20 min

Gopal_Chhetri

From Data to Daily Habits: Tech’s Role in Personalised Wellness

Gopal Chhetri,
Senior Vice President & Business Unit Leader, CGI

Closing

03:55 PM IST

05 min

Anirban_Nandi

Vote of Thanks

Anirban Nandi,
VP, AI Products & Business Analytics, Rakuten India

AI is here, but the real power lies in being ready for it. Let's talk about how we're getting there at RPC 2025.

For more details write to us at:
rakuten-product-conference@mail.rakuten.com

Register Now

AI is here, but the real power lies in being ready for it.
Let's talk about how we're getting there at RPC 2025.

For more details write to us at:
rakuten-product-conference@mail.rakuten.com

Register Now