Venkat Rajaraman

Exhibition: February 25–27, 2026, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Conference: February 25–27, 2026, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
Company: Cygni Energy Private Limited
Country: India

Venkat Rajaraman: Venkat is the Founder/CEO of Cygni Energy, a leading storage technology company specializing in advanced energy storage solutions for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and stationary storage (Grid-scale, C&I and Telecom Storage) applications. Cygni has deployed over 200MWh of storage solutions and powered over 200,000 Electric Vehicles. Venkat has over 25 years of experience in Product Design and Engineering. Earlier to moving to energy storage space, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Portal Player, a company that was acquired by NVIDIA Corp. He worked at Sun Microsystems, USA and has a master's degree in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University.

February 26, 2026Next-Gen Batteries Beyond Lithium-Ion: Readiness, Risks, and Roadmaps

Sessions

Joint Session

Beyond Lithium-Ion - Solid-State, Sodium-Ion & Silicon-Anode Breakthroughs

Thursday, February 26, 2026, 04:00 pm - 05:25 pm

The Leela Hotel Room: Bandhej

Exploring next-generation chemistries that are driving improvements in cost, energy density, and safety for mobility and stationary storage. The session will look at advances in LFP, LMFP, sodium-ion, and solid-state technologies and how these innovations are reshaping manufacturing choices. It will also consider how changing material compositions influence supply chains, recycling equirements, and long-term system economics.