
Where Industry Leaders Meet Innovation.
Kytes Konnect is a flagship CXO event series by Kytes, designed to bring together senior leaders across industries to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore future-ready strategies in project and portfolio management.
The Hyderabad edition is focused on the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry, where challenges in compliance, execution, governance, and visibility are amplified by scale and complexity. Through interactive sessions, cross-functional panels, and informal networking, this closed-door gathering will dive into how Agentic AI and digitisation are reshaping how pharma organisations manage and deliver projects.
This chapter is hosted in collaboration with the PMI Hyderabad Chapter.
Speakers

Abhishek Mittal
Vice President and Head – Project Management Office (PMO) – Neuland

Kartik Shivkumar
Design thinker, Healthcare & Pharma
Leader – Sandoz

Dr. Ravi Kshirsagar
Founder & Principal Consultant – Rxbiopro

Dr. Divya Chauhan
Head of Project Management – Felix

John Robert
Co-Founder – Moonshot Systems

Mike Teiler
Principal Consultant

Manav Lalotra
Head HR – Optical Network Business, Corporate HR, TA & Transformation – STL

Manohar Yerraguntla
President – PMI Pearl City Hyderabad

Sandeep Kumar
Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Kytes

Agenda
- 5:00 PM – Guest Arrival & Registration
- 5:30 PM – Opening Address & Ice-breaking
- 5:45 PM – Session by PMI Hyderabad Chapter
- 6:00 PM – Keynote Session – Smarter, Faster, Stronger: AI’s Role in Transforming Project Management for Pharmaceutical API and CDMO Success – Abhishek Mittal, VP & Head – PMO, Neuland Laboratories
- 6:30 PM – Leadership Session – Effective Program Management in Pharma – Mike Teiler
- 6:50 PM – Panel Discussion Topic: Portfolio To Launch- Digital Project Management & AI
Panelists:
“Dr. Ravi Kshirsagar (Rxbiopro), Kartik Shivkumar (Sandoz), Dr. Divya Chauhan (Felix), John Robert (Moonshot Systems), Moderator: Manav Lalotra (STL)” - 7:30 PM – Kytes Spotlight Session – Future-Ready Project Management in Pharma
- 8:00 PM – Cocktail Dinner & Networking
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