Soma is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group focusing on B2B and enterprise related start-ups. Soma invests across a wide variety of technology areas including machine learning / artificial intelligence, intelligent applications, next-generation cloud infrastructure, multi-sense user interfaces and robotic process automation. Prior to joining Madrona in 2015, Soma had a successful twenty-seven year long career with Microsoft where he most recently was Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division. Soma has long been an angel investor in a wide range of technology start-ups both in the U.S. and internationally.

Padmashree is a global business leader for Analytics, Data Sciences and AI at Capgemini India. Being part of the senior leadership team, she is responsible for steering AI & Analytics at Capgemini, towards being market leader in this space.

In a diversified career spanning over 26 years, Padmashree, has crafted and led multiple large and complex transformation programs delivering strong business outcomes for many clients, leveraging Data, Technology, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Being a solid believer in the positive impact of AI in changing and shaping our future, she along with her team have curated and executed to scale many award-winning AI solutions focused on building robust & trustworthy, AI, solving varied business problems.

A frequent speaker at leading AI forums, Padmashree is also on the advisory council for leading analytics learning platforms viz. Upgrad and WileyNxt. She has recently co-authored the Innovation Black Book for Enterprise 4.0.