Faculty for Generative AI Workshop

Sameer Mardhekar

As a seasoned Senior Tech Leader and Entrepreneur with over 30+ years’ experience, Sameer specializes in Gen-AI, technology strategy, and cloud scale-up. He is actively providing consulting and mentoring to a number of start-ups around GenAI/LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering and related architectural aspects.

With experience as a Solutions Architect at BMC Software and Director/CTO at Barclays, Sameer has driven technology strategy and enterprise architecture roadmaps at scale in the past.

Prasad Chitale

With over 30 years of experience in the IT and software industry, Prasad has a proven track record of working with both start-ups and large enterprises, specializing in technology leadership and management.

He has co-founded start-ups in the E-Commerce, EdTech, and IoT/Automation sectors and was a founding team member of Sapience, one of Pune’s most successful enterprise software product companies. Prasad actively consults and mentors numerous start-ups on GenAI/LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and related areas.