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Rising Bharat Summit 2025: Irina Ghose, Managing Director of Microsoft India, will be among the speakers at the event
Irina Ghose is a proponent of women in business and technology.
From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Home Minister Amit Shah, CNN-News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025 on April 8-9 in New Delhi will see a long list of prominent names from the field of politics, arts, corporate world, entertainment and sports in attendance.
Irina Ghose, Managing Director of Microsoft India, will be among the key speakers at the event.
Ghose is responsible for engaging with industry verticals across Microsoft’s solution areas, underscored by artificial intelligence. She focuses on driving innovation and digital transformation for customers in India to shape market-making engagements, create new engines of growth and deliver on core business outcomes.
A Microsoft veteran of over two decades, Ghose has held a variety of Strategy and Sales leadership roles across Enterprise, Solution Sales, Partner Solutions, and Education segments. In her previous role as the Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft India, she was focused on the end-to-end operations, go-to-market strategies and drove one of the largest world-class sales enablement programs.
She is an Electrical Engineer from IIT BHU and an MBA from XLRI.
A proponent of Women in Business and Technology, she is a recipient of the ‘Inspirational Women’s Award’ at Microsoft and ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ from IIT BHU and XLRI.
A marathon runner and a strong champion of Diversity & Inclusion, she is the founder of ‘MyLittleBit’, a philanthropic foundation, focusing on education and jobs for underprivileged girls. She’s actively engaged with ‘Microsoft for Startups’ and as a Trustee of SonderConnect, a foundation for women entrepreneurs.
RISING BHARAT SUMMIT 2025
The News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025 is where India’s defining conversations take centre stage. As the world acknowledges Bharat’s emerging power, this summit will bring together the biggest Indian leaders, global policymakers, industry stalwarts, tech innovators, and start-up revolutionaries to address the most urgent issues defining our future.
From AI-led governance and futuristic technology to politics, economic policies, innovation, entrepreneurship, and urbanization, every discussion will tackle topics making headlines across the globe.
With insightful dialogues on global supply chains, sustainable urban growth, and the next wave of innovation, the summit will drive crucial conversations on the journey of a self-reliant, future-ready Bharat on its path to global leadership by 2047.
