Listen
Understand current work, priorities, challenges and collaboration interests.
A focused working session · Ahmedabad
IAIRO Collaborative Futures Forum
Invited leaders and the IAIRO team will share priorities, find common ground and shape practical opportunities for collaboration.
Purpose
Put every perspective on the table. Then build together.
The forum will first hear the invited participants’ priorities and ideas, then hear IAIRO’s perspective, before moving into open brainstorming and deciding how to take promising areas forward.
Connect
Identify where experience, capabilities and ambitions naturally overlap.
Carry forward
Capture promising themes, follow-up conversations and responsible people.
Discussion agenda
11 AM to 4 PM · Flexible flow
Space for every point—without a minute-by-minute schedule.
The chair will guide the flow so that each participant and IAIRO have room to place their points before the group moves into joint brainstorming.
- 01
Welcome and context
Dr Amit Sheth will open the forum, introduce the purpose of the discussion and invite brief introductions.
- 02
Invited participant perspectives
Each invited participant may share current priorities, ideas, challenges and areas where collaboration may be useful.
- 03
IAIRO perspectives
IAIRO will share its priorities, capabilities, open questions and the areas in which it sees potential for collaboration.
- 04
Joint brainstorming
The group will explore common interests, possible connections, partnership opportunities and ideas worth developing further.
- 05
Way forward
The session will close by capturing promising themes, follow-up conversations and the people who will carry each item forward.
Invited participants
Experience across inclusion, applied AI, education and future health.
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01Bengaluru, India
EnAble India
Dipesh Sutariya
Co-founder, Trustee, Chairman and Managing Director
Disability inclusion, employment and livelihoods
Dipesh Mayukh Sutariya co-founded EnAble India and helps set its strategy for disability-inclusive employment and economic independence.
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He brings more than 26 years of combined corporate and development-sector experience, with a focus on connecting employer needs with professionals with disabilities and addressing stereotypes that restrict hiring.
Selected perspective
- Former president and founding member of the Disability NGOs Alliance
- Chairperson of Workability Asia and board member of Workability International
- Mentor in the IIM Bangalore NSRCEL social program
02Mumbai, India
Wadhwani AI
Dr Alpan Raval
Chief Scientist, AI/ML
Applied AI, public systems and responsible deployment
Dr Alpan Raval leads applied research at Wadhwani AI and supports responsible deployment of multimodal and speech-based AI, with people retaining oversight of consequential decisions.
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A physicist by training, he has more than two decades of applied AI experience across academia and industry, including leadership roles at LinkedIn and Amazon, research at D. E. Shaw Research and faculty work at the Claremont Colleges.
Selected perspective
- Work spans public health, agriculture, computational advertising and drug discovery
- Research interests include machine learning, biological networks and statistical mechanics
- Co-author of award-recognized work on NurtureNet and tuberculosis treatment adherence
03Ahmedabad, India
MICA
Dr Piyush Kumar Sinha
Dean & Principal
Marketing, retailing, entrepreneurship and institution building
Dr Piyush Kumar Sinha is Dean & Principal of MICA, leading the institute’s academic vision and strengthening its academic excellence, institutional impact and global standing.
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He has more than four decades of experience across higher education, entrepreneurship, marketing, retail, strategy and institution building, including senior academic work at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, XIMB and MICA.
Selected perspective
- Introduced pioneering Indian management courses in retailing and digital business
- Contributed to more than 100 consulting, advisory and training initiatives
- Helped establish academic and entrepreneurship initiatives in India and Rwanda
04Irvine, California, United States
IAIRO · UC Irvine
Prof Ramesh C. Jain
IAIRO Founding Member and UC Irvine Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision and future health
Prof Ramesh C. Jain is a founding member of IAIRO, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UC Irvine, and Co-Director of its Institute for Future Health.
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He is an educator, researcher and entrepreneur whose career spans artificial intelligence, computer vision and multimedia information systems, with academic leadership at the University of Michigan, UC San Diego and UC Irvine.
Selected perspective
- Pioneered influential work in multimedia computing
- Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia and a member of the organizing committee for the first ACM Multimedia conference
- Fellow of six professional societies and recipient of the 2022 ACM Distinguished Service Award
IAIRO team
Hosted by IAIRO
The convening team
Chair: Dr Amit Sheth, Founding Director & CEO, IAIRO
- 01Anushka
- 02Aditya
- 03Nishant
- 04Shubh
- 05Ikshwaki
- 06Amogh
- 07Megha
Guiding questions
Three questions to keep the conversation moving.
- 01
Where do our priorities and capabilities connect most naturally?
- 02
Which ideas are worth taking into a separate follow-up conversation?
- 03
Who should remain involved as each promising idea develops?