Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Mobile Networks at Bharti Airtel.

He is a thought leader with more than 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry across Network and IT domains in Strategy, Planning, Engineering and Operations across India and Europe. A telecom evangelist with an inclusive outlook towards the new telecom DNA ( Devices, Network, Applications ) instrumental in creating a flatter, closer to the customer, service aware network, he is also a strategist with an innovative and out of box thought process to formulate architecture and technology plan options around spectrum, network evolution, virtualization and customer experience.