Sucheta Dhere

I'm very technology savvy & passionate professional with 28+ years of global experience working with Tier1 MNCs on cutting edge technology in Mobility, Connectivity, Backhaul, Embedded, Systems, IT, IOT, Telecom wireless ecosystem (chip-set, mobile OEMs, n/w and infra vendors, Emulators, Simulators, operators, VAS at n/w as well as mobile side), & Cloud. I have E2E experience in requirements, design, coding, deployment, automation, requirements , Delivery, Consulting, Management, Strategy, Product & Solution design, CX & UX ,PMO office Management.

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5 days workshop on Empanelment as Lean Consultant under MSME Competitive Lean Scheme (MCLS) of (MSME) office from 28th April to 2nd May 2025 at Fern Ecotel Pune by MoMSME(Ministry of MSME) & QCI 

Addressing the students from Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts - 22nd April 2025

The Moth Graduate - Completed 4 days Intensive Residential Workshop on "The Moth Style" Story Telling Sponsored by Gates Foundation from 15th to 19th April @ The Connaught, New Delhi

स्टेम (विज्ञान, तंत्रज्ञान, अभियांत्रिकी, गणित) करिअरद्वारे महिला सक्षमीकरणासाठी कार्यरत असणाऱ्या सुचेता ढेरे यांची गौरी स्वकुळ यांनी घेतलेली मुलाखत.

निर्माते- विनायक मोरे, निर्मिती- दूरदर्शन, पुणे, प्रक्षेपण - मंगळवार, दि. १ एप्रिल २०२५ रोजी दुपारी १२ वाजता दूरदर्शनच्या सह्याद्री वाहिनीवरून.

 Organized - MentorMyBoard Workshop at Suzlon One Earth - 22nd March 2025 for Aspiring Women Independent Directors

Invited as Guest Speaker for 7th National Conference at MITADT Loni  - 20th March 2025

Invited as Guest and Panellist for Women's Day Celebration at BBNG - 8th March 2025

Invited for Panel discussion on Digital Transformation by MCCIA, Pune - 13th December 2024

Conducted Digital Transformation Assessments for MSME  - 2024

Re Designing Sustainability - Tech Camp in Collaboration with American Consulate India and Symbiosis Centre for Waste Resource Management,  - 26th to 29th Sep 2024

Conducted One day Workshop on AI & HR for MSMEs in Pune in Collaboration with MCCIA Pune - 27th August 2024

Invited as Guest Lecturer at Maharashtra State Skills University, Pimple Gurav Campus, Pune centre - 26th August 2024

Organized a program in collaboration U.S. Consulate, Mumbai inviting US Dept of State speaker Mercedes Soria at WiMLDS Pune  & Innoplexus 0n 2nd Aug 2024

Mentoring and More - A collaboration of Mentors under the leadership of U.S. Consulate General - Mr. Mike Hankey , Mumbai  for Sustainable and Scalable mentoring - 4th June 2024

Invited to conduct Digital Transformation Workshop for MSMEs at MCCIA, Pune - 31st May 2024

Inauguration of Cyber Security Initiative at MCCIA, Pune - 20th May 2024

His Excellency US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti launch the Handbook of MCCIA’s Cybersecurity initiative during his visit to Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture, Pune. The MCCIA Cybersecurity Initiative which was launched earlier this year with the support of the U.S. Consulate General Mumbai and a highly collaborative ecosystem has picked up great momentum and delivering outcomes. Other dignitaries were Mr Yashasvi Yadav, Cyber Crime Maharashtra, U.S. Consulate General - Mr. Mike Hankey, Dinanath Kholkar, Prashant Girbane from MCCIA Pune.

Pune District Investment Summit

Thursday, 7th March 2024 @ MCCIA Pune

Invited for Panel Discussion on Opportunites in IT/ITeS, Data Science, AI, Cyber Security and Electronics

Organized Faculty Development Program on AI ML and DS facilitated for MCCIA  Pune - 18th to 22nd Dec 2023

Invited as Speaker at Developers Meetup - echai Pune - 20th May 2023

Invited to conduct Digital Transformation Workshop for Women Entrepreneurs from Swayam Siddha, Pune - 18th and 19th May 2023

Invited as Guest Speaker at MKSSS Cummins College of Engineering ENTC Dept. - Session in Web Data Mining - 16 March 2023

Invited for Panel Discussion on  "Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Leaders" at ASM presents SMX Women Entrepreneurship, Innovation Conclave & Awards 2023 held on 14 March 2023

Invited as Guest Speaker to my Alma mater - Fergusson College Stats Dept. - 13 March 2023

Invited for a Panel Discussion on “Fostering Workplaces that Enable Everyone” at Bajaj Auto India - 7th March 2023

Invited at Symbiosis Skills University, Kiwale 2022 - Career Guidance Workshop to Bachelors in Data Science, Masters in Data Science and Bachelors in Cyber Security students.

Selected for She Creates Change India Learning Lab 7 - Residential Workshop - August 2022

Invited as Speaker MIT ADT 4th National Conference on Innovative Global Trends in Technology, Architecture, Management & Education - 27th April 2022

Invited as Speaker at GDG WTM( Google Developers Group - Women Tech Makers) Pune - International Women's Day celebrations at Bajaj Finserv Health Limited, Pune - 23rd April 2022

Invited as Guest Speaker at Ranade Institute Pune - 9th March 2022 addressing Journalism students on Women in Tech issues

Recognized & Felicitated on 11 February 2022 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science

It is observed on 11 February to recognize the role of women and girls in science, not only as beneficiaries but also as agents of change. Therefore, the day focuses on achieving full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls. Also, to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women and girls

Ms. Sucheta Dhere was felicitated by Governor of Maharashtra - Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Uday Samant Minister of Higher & Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Nitin Karmalkar Vice-Chancellor of the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Rahul Kirloskar Chairman at Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited for work done in Analytics and IoT & supporting women in technology on the occasion of world science day. (Watch here)

Received Adhunik Savitri Award at Ceremony - 3rd January 2021 - Savitri Bai Phule Jayanti

"प्रवास आत्मनिर्भरतेचा- आधुनिक सावित्रींच्या प्रेरणेचा" दि. ३ जानेवारी, २०२१ रोजी 1KWE द्वारे आयोजित “आधुनिक सावित्री पुरस्कार सोहळा” मध्ये समाजबदलाच्या संकल्पनेला नाविन्यतेची जोड देऊन क्रांतीज्योती सावित्रीबाई फुले यांचा वसा आणि वारसा चालवणाऱ्या महिलांना आधुनिक सावित्री पुरस्कार देऊन गौरविण्यात आले. समाजाच्या सर्वांगीण विकासात महत्त्वाची भूमिका असणाऱ्या शिक्षण, आरोग्य, उद्योजकता आणि कौशल्य विकास याविषयी जागरुकता निर्माण करण्यासाठी या सत्रांचे आयोजन करण्यात आले आहे. 

प्रवास आत्मनिर्भरतेचा- आधुनिक सावित्रींच्या प्रेरणेचा या सत्रातील पाचव्या आधुनिक सावित्री - मा. सुचेता ढेरे या "Women In Data Science (WiDS)" या company च्या संस्थापिका आहेत. 

त्या इंजिनिअर असून त्यांचा मुख्य उद्देश gender equality आणि empowerment यावर काम करणे हा आहे. WiDS च्या माध्यमातून त्या latest technology like Data Science, machine learning, artificial intelligence यामध्ये महिलांच्या कौशल्य वृध्दी साठी कार्यरत आहेत. 

सुचेता ढेरे यांना Standford University कडून सन २०२० मध्ये micro fellowship देखील मिळाली होती.WiDS Pune ला Standford University कडून जगातील largest initiatives मधील एक top ranker असे apppreiciation आणि aknowledgement मिळाले आहे.

Invited as Guest and Speaker at LinkedIn Pune Local - February 2020 

Invited as Guest Speaker at Marketing Meet of MIT College of Management, MIT ADT University, Loni Kalbhor, Pune on 9th September 2019 

Invited at WiDS Stanford, USA - August 2019 on a Micro Fellowship

Sucheta Dhere conducted structured mentoring for WiMLDS Pune community & Hackathon parcipants at Thoughtworks Pune. 12 teams from WiMLDS Pune participated in Hackathon and 4 were in the finalist and the final winners were WiMLDS Pune community members mentored by Sucheta Dhere. WiMLDS Pune was a community partner along with Thoughtworks, Facebook. - June 2019

Invited as Guest Speaker at Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics - 10th April 2019

Invited as Guest Speaker at MMCOE(Marathwada Mitra Mandal's College of Engineering)  - Data Engineering & Pre Processing, 13th and 14th February 2019

Invited as Guest Speaker at Dattansh SCIT(Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology ) Pune - January 2019

Invited for a Panel Discussion on "Let's Discuss Innovation" at Startup Conclave 2.0 organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell, BVUCOEP - October 2018

Invited for a  Panel Discussion on "Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs in Technology" at Women Entrepreneurship Program by iotiot - 7th Sept 2018 @ COEP's Bhau Institute

Invited as Guest Speaker at Pune's MIT School of Telecom Management Kothrud - June 2018

Delegation of Indian Electronics Engineer to Mediatek Taiwan for Make In India Smartphone Design in Collaboration with MEITY, ICA, MEA Taiwan and Mediatek - Runner Up in Smartphone design contest - January - April 2018

Selected for She Creates Change Lab 1 - November 2017

Invited as a Guest MCCIA Pune - Women's Entrepreneur - 8th March 2017 - Women's Day Celebration

Invited as Guest Speaker for Training session on Business Case and Business Value Proposition at the University of Hyderabad - March 2012

PMBOK Release Sep 2011 - 1st version of the PMBOK Hindi by PMI India

(From left to right) Mr. Craig Killough, Vice President, Organisation markets for PMI; Mr. Ajay Sawhney, President and CEO of National e-Governance Division, Department of IT, Government of India; Mr. Raj Kalady, Managing Director, PMI India; Ms. Sucheta Govind Dhere, Project Chief for PMBOK Hindi and Ms. Leena Samant, Manager PMI India. 

Acted as Advisory to many IT companies in Hyderabad from 2009 to 2012 - like IBM, Value Labs, Birlasoft, NSN, Ness Technology, Electronic Arts, TCS, CA, CSC, ADP, Virtusa, Verizon, Nokia, Dr. Reddy's through PMI PCC Clusters - Board of Directors to help build Project Management Community & to Develop, Grow & Excel in their career by facilitating PMI Inter and Intra company Clusters for practical issues in project management 

Testimonials

"Sucheta was both unafraid to explore novel ideas and was persistent in seeking answers. There were not any loose ends in our work with her. " 

Andrew Beard

CEO at Vanu Inc.

Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

Tools & Technologies

Awards From Across The World

1. https://womenawards.globant.com/2022/Techfluencer/SUCHETADHERE

Have been nominated in the Influencer category – for women who build award

2. "We wish to inform you that your name has been approved for the prestigious “ Woman Of Excellence Award” among the selected few from your respective field and region. The Award presentation ceremony shall be held during the “36th International Summit” on 16th of March at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Dubai."

Achievers Awards - Golden Pinnacle Awards

3. Top 50  Women Icon 2023 – by http://globaltriumphfoundation.com

"We are proud and pleased to inform you that "Ms. Sucheta G Dhere "  is shortlisted for Top 50  Women Icon 2023. These awards intend to inspire others towards bigger and better achievements. Our team of experts includes Experts, Panel members, Jury Members, Market research specialist, analyst, moderators, consumer research specialist and business strategist. Top 50  Women Icon 2023  celebrates and honors the accomplishments and contributions of women in world-wide community development."

"It is to empower young women, so they too can reach their goals. It brings together women from across the globe and recognizes their accomplishments. Top 50  Women Icon 2023, is a flagship initiative of the Global Triumph Foundation & Image Planet  that envisions to bring together women leaders from various sector heads cohesively driving a singular agenda for Scripting Economic & Social  Change, by connecting the building blocks of Economics for India and the Globe. It will be held  in Aloft By Marriott , Bangalore on. 8th April 2023"

 4. Womennovator in July 2022 – 1000 Women of Asia Award

 5. Nominated for Wmart - Power women in 2023

 6. https://www.corporatevision-news.com/issues/education-and-training-awards-2022/

https://www.corporatevision-news.com/winners/wimlds-pune/

Most Empowering Tech Influencer for Women 2022 – India

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