The awardees include Ajay Kaushal, co-founder and director of BillDesk; Yogesh Gupta, CEO of Progress Software, USA; Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CTO, Energy and Mobility, Microsoft R&D India and Azure Global; R. Madhavan, chairman and managing director, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited; Suresh Kumar, executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief development officer, Walmart; Ravi Subrahmanyan, emeritus professor, Raman Research Institute, Karnataka; SK (KG) Ganapathi, founder and CEO, Vimaan Robotics; Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, principal research scientist, Gilead Sciences; Ram Duvvuru Sriram, chief, software and systems division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Prasanna Ramaswamy, musician, Virginia and B.S. Sathyaprakash, associate director, Institute of Gravitation and the Cosmos, Bert Elsbach.