Membership ID: SAS/FSASS/971/2026

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Harsh Verma is a global technology leader at SAP and an IEEE Senior Member with over 15 years of experience in enterprise technology, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. He has led large-scale global initiatives spanning enterprise SaaS, cloud-native architecture, automation, and business software platforms, including major hyperscale cloud transformations supporting thousands of enterprise customers. His work has driven significant improvements in performance, operational efficiency, scalability, and cost optimization. Harsh is also an author and contributor in enterprise AI and business technology and actively mentors technology professionals and emerging leaders

Membership ID: SAS/SEFM/778/2026

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Ramesh Chauhan is a distinguished cybersecurity and network architecture professional with extensive experience designing and securing large-scale global enterprise environments. A Senior Member of IEEE, he holds a Master of Science from Syracuse University and elite certifications, including Dual CCIE and Fortinet Certified Cybersecurity Expert (FCX/NSE 8). His work spans next-generation firewalls, Secure SD-WAN, SASE, OT/IT security, and enterprise network transformation across Fortune 500 organizations. Ramesh has contributed to cybersecurity architectures deployed across numerous countries, mentored more than 30 engineers, and generated significant business impact. He remains committed to advancing cybersecurity through technical leadership, professional service, mentorship, and continuous learning.

Membership ID: SAS/SEFM/777/2026

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Saumya Srivastava is a Data Engineer III at Walmart Global Tech, specializing in large-scale data engineering, cloud data platforms, and enterprise analytics. She has extensive experience designing scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and analytics solutions that support business-critical decision-making. Her work focuses on improving data processing efficiency, optimizing large-scale systems, and developing reliable data solutions across complex business domains. She has also contributed to research in information retrieval and data privacy and has authored peer-reviewed research publications. Her interests include data engineering, privacy-preserving technologies, applied analytics, and scalable data systems.

Membership ID: SAS/SEFM/775/2026

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Muralidharan Lakshmanan is a researcher and practitioner in distributed systems and applied artificial intelligence, with 17+ years spanning fintech, healthcare, and supply chain. He is Vice President, Solutions Architect at Synchrony Financial, leading a 50+ member global engineering team. His work centers on self-optimizing multi-agent caching architectures for high-throughput financial systems and on PACE, his framework for governing agentic AI through progressive autonomy, auditability, controlled boundaries, and ecosystem integration. An IEEE Senior Member, he has peer-reviewed for over 20 international conferences and served on technical program committees for BDAA and IEEE IEMCON 2026. He received Synchrony’s 2025 CEO Award.