Shri. Ramprasad is Director at Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)-Hyderabad under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, He is responsible for promotion of IT/ITES/ESDM units covering the states of AP & Telangana. He had started his career with NTPC Ltd; in 1987 and served in NTPC Ltd. at various capacities before joining STPI in 1999. He has done his B.Tech in ECE from College of Engineering, JNTU, Hyderabad and MBA from Osmania University. He had held responsibilities in STPI Chennai and Noida as Director, before taking charge of STPI-Hyderabad, in 2014.

Mr UdayanBakshi brings his vast expertise in Innovation and Entrepreneurship sprawled over more than a decade. On completing post-graduation from Ranchi University in 2005, he acquired his MBA degree from ICFAI in 2007.

Formerly the Founder & Director – StartupEmporio, Hyderabad, and VP Academic Innovation – Idea Labs, Hyderabad, MrBakshi also worked as the State Head for APSSDC, Government of AP, Department of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Regional Head for Wadhwani Foundation (NeN) & Zonal Head – HDFC. He worked with Northeastern University and MIT, Boston USA to understand the start-up ecosystem and implement the same model in India as a part of the AP state government project.

Mr Bakshi, Gold Medal recipient in M. Com, is globally acknowledged for his keen interest in creating concepts, designing strategies, research into meditation and metaphysics, innovation and teaching. His earnest pursuit for innovative strategies and passion for entrepreneurship and creativity made him a mentor for hundreds of start-ups and thousands of students. He is also a mentor at T-HUB Hyderabad, BITS Hyderabad, ALEAP, HCU, JNTU and many other organizations. India.

Prof. Ranjit Thapa is a full-time professor in the Department of Physics, SRM University -AP. In parallel, he is the Dean (i/c) – The School of Engineering And Sciences (SEAS) of SRM University-AP. Prof. Ranjit has been conducting research on Computational Material Science technologies for the past fourteen years. He received the Young Associate Award in the year 2016 from the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, for his outstanding research in Computational Materials Science. He was also chosen for BRNS’ Young Scientist’s Research Award (YSRA) in the year 2018. He is awarded the Best Researcher Award 2020 of SRM university-AP. He has published 139 research articles in highly reputed international journals. His current h-index is 32, with a total citation of more than 3500. Currently, he is developing a “Materials database” under the funded projects. He has guided eight PhD students to date. In 2016 under his leadership SRM Institute of Science and Technology established a High-performance computer centre on the Chennai campus.

Prof. Ranjit’s research works are primarily focused on First-principles theory-based investigation. The main contributions are: “Bond Exchange Spillover Mechanism”, “Homonuclear B-B and B-B-B bond as a catalytic centre”, “inverse catalyst”, and “electronic and structural descriptor”. He published his research work in the journals such as Nano-Micro Letters (2023), Chemical Science (2022), PNAS (2022), Advanced Functional Materials (2022, 2015), ACS Nano (2022, 2021), Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2022, 2021, 2015, 2014); Applied Catalyst B: Environmental (2021), CARBON (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019); Journal of Power Sources (2020, 2020); Advanced Materials Technology (2019); SMALL (2018), Nano Energy (2018), ACS Applied Materials & Interface, (2023, 2016, 2015), ACS Catalysis, (2014), Nature Communications (2013).

Shri B.Vinay Kumar is Joint Director at Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)-Vijayawada under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India. He is responsible for operations like providing Incubation and other support services to start-ups and SMEs in IT industry coordinating with start-ups selected under NGIS scheme for on boarding & other supports services.