May 20, 2026 – VC Nikhil Choudhary and Cementing Change Mary Lou Panzano

Nikhil Choudhary – Managing Partner at Nirman Ventures The world we live in right now is designed around a human form factor Nikhil Choudhary is a Silicon Valley-based investor and operator focused on technologies modernizing the physical economy. He has spent more than two decades building and scaling businesses across construction, manufacturing, logistics, and real-asset–driven industries, before turning his attention to early-stage investing in robotics, autonomy, and applied AI systems deployed in real-world environments. His work centers on under-digitized sectors where productivity, safety, and labor constraints present both structural challenges and long-term technology opportunities. Choudhary’s perspective is shaped by hands-on operating experience, with an emphasis on solutions that perform outside controlled settings and deliver measurable outcomes on job sites, in warehouses, and across industrial operations. Mary Lou Panzano – Author of Cementing Change-Cracking the Code for Communications that Work & Cracking the Rich Code Volume 18 You can’t fix what you can’t see as a problem Mary Lou Panzano is an award-winning communications executive with over 35 years of experience in employee communications at global companies, empowering leaders to guide strategic organizational change. She is a certified leadership coach, communications advisor, speaker, and best-selling author, passionate about helping people succeed through any change they want to make in their business or lives. Mary Lou is a featured author in the Cracking the Rich Code, Volume 18 anthology and a contributing author in The Art of Connection: 365 Days of Resilience Quotes by Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Influencers. Her solo book, Cementing Change: Cracking the Code for Communications that Work, will be published in 2026