Avnish Sabharwal
Managing Director, Accenture Ventures & Open Innovation
Avnish is an innovator, disruptor, strategist, investor and a deep-tech expert with more than 30 years extensive experience and track record around Advisory, Innovation, Digital Transformation, Corporate Development and CVC for Top 500 Fortune clients in both mature and emerging markets.
Avnish's current role includes scaling Accenture's digital and innovation capabilities by leveraging the Indian and Global deep-tech start-up ecosystem. He is responsible for partnering, investing and acquiring leading edge digital technologies and platforms in areas around AI, Industry X.0, Blockchain, Data, Automation, Spacetech, Cleantech, Sustainability, Cyber Security, Metaverse, Deep Sciences and Quantum computing.
He has invested and acquired several deeptech startups in both India and globally, including startups in Data and AI, Spacetech, and Enterprise SaaS space. Avnish is very passionate about Sustainability and works with disruptive startups in the space of Transition to Net Zero, Sustainable value chains, Green Cloud and ESG Measurement. He has set-up the Accenture Sustainability Value Accelerator with IIM-A as well as Women Founders Fund to promote deeptech women founders in India.
Prior to Accenture, Avnish worked with IBM in India and the United Kingdom for almost a decade in various leadership roles related to strategy, sales and account management.
Avnish regularly writes on Scaling DeepTech startups, State of CVC in India, Corporate Innovation, Intrapreneurship and Leadership and had more than 40K Linkedin followers (www.linkedin.com/in/avnishsabharwal)
Avnish is part of Board of Governor for IMT-Nagpur and sits on the Advisory Board of the Atlas University, School of Design and Innovation (ISDI), Centre for Research on Startups and Risk-Financing (CREST) at IIT-M, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation and Research, Start-up committee for FICCI, DeepTech club, Nasscom & is part of the Executive Council for Plug-in Alliance focused on promoting India as a digital manufacturing hub.
Avnish was awarded the Most Innovative Corporate Leader Award in 2018 and 2021 for his work with DeepTech startups. His mission is to make India a global innovation and deep-tech powerhouse.
Avnish has an MBA (With Distinction) from Warwick Business School, UK and Specialization in Strategy from Harvard Business School and INSEAD and on Innovation from MIT and Stanford.
6:25 PM – 7:15 PM
Saturday 19th Oct 2024
Session 02 - Edtech & Skill Development: Preparing Biharis workforce for the future, how tech-based education and skill programs prepare Biharis youth for the demands of a global digital economy?
<strong>Speakers</strong> <ol> <li>Dr. S. Siddharth, ACS Education and Prin To CM, Bihar</li> <li>Avnish Sabharbal, MD Accenture Ventures in India</li> <li>Pankaj Kumar Executive Editor, TV 9 Bharatvarsh - Moderator</li> </ol>