The ceremony kicked off with a special opening keynote presented by Mr. Sameer Garde, Vice President of India & SAARC, Cisco Systems, and was followed by an insightful panel discussion consisting of the esteemed jury members consisting of Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy – Managing Director, India Center, Technology Fellow, Chief Data Scientist-Halliburton; Dr. Ganesh Natarajan – Chairman: 5F World, Global Talent Track, Pune City Connect, and SVP India, Founder: CAIA – Centre For AI And Advanced Analytics, Kalzoom Advisors, and NES; Anand Patil – Director Systems Engineering, Cisco Systems; and Mini Gupta – Partner, Technology Consulting – Cyber Security, Data Privacy, GRC technology at EY.