Meet the 2025 Pune Advisory Board
Pune’s Local Advisory Board is made up of SWE leaders from across the region who guide the strategic development of the conference. Meet the leaders who make WE Local a success!
Dipti Bapat, President
- Technical Leader, Cummins
Dipti is working with Cummins for over 18 years in the Electronics and Controls organization. After 12-year long stint in North America, she moved back to her hometown, Pune in India, 6 years ago. She has a proven record of managing projects from concept to completion, building cross-functional and regional teams. Currently, she's working with Cummins India Technical Centre as Technical Leader for Electronics Functional Excellence, Shared Services, Product Cybersecurity & Functional Safety organizations.
Dipti joined SWE in 2021 as a global ambassador. She is passionate about working with people from varied experience, functional and regional backgrounds. As an inclusion champion at Cummins, Dipti facilitated several focused group discussion to increase awareness of unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion, to create an inclusive environment.
Garima Yadav, Vice President
- Program Manager, John Deere
Garima is a Program Manager with over 14 years of experience in various technology domains like product design, manufacturing, and digital engineering. She wears multiple hats within and outside organization being a mother, a wife , a daughter, a DEI champion, and SWE Pune Affiliate President. Associated with SWE since 2015 and have taken up multiple position in SWE including Global Ambassador in the past. She is a keen learner, technology enthusiast, strong DEI advocate and loves to work in a group.
Geetu Garg, Marketing & Communications Chair
- Senior Advisory Application Architect, IBM
Geetu Garg is a Senior Advisory Application Architect with over 17 years of experience in technology and working with top notch clients in cross industry domains. Apart from her day job, she loves to mentor, impart trainings and present at external conferences. She is a SWE member since 2019 and is a SWE Global Ambassador since 3 consecutive years. She is a technology evangelist and loves to take part in technical and leadership initiatives. She also spreads SWE's mission and vision in her organisation.
Suchita Kapoor, Program & Content Chair
- Global Project Manager, Tetra Pak.
Suchita Kapoor is a dedicated leader and Global Project Manager at Tetra Pak. She has vast experience in Component Engineering, R&D, Product Development, Project Management and Quality improvement. She holds bachelors in engineering and masters in operations management and is Six Sigma Black Belt certified. She is SWE Global ambassador and DE&I champion.
She is a mother of two sons and enjoys spending time with family. Yoga and music are part of her hobbies.