Dr. R.S. Sharma
Dr. R.S. Sharma, former UIDAI DG, TRAI Chairman and NHA CEO, is a 1978-batch IAS officer known for pioneering digital governance reforms. He led AB-PMJAY and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, transforming India’s health digital infrastructure.
Dr. Arvind Gupta
Dr Arvind Gupta, Co-founder of Digital India Foundation, works on digital inclusion, AI ethics, and tech governance. Former MyGov CEO, he is an IIT-BHU alumnus, Eisenhower Fellow, Adjunct Professor at IIT-BHU and Visiting Professor at Ashoka University.
Prof. Pankaj Jalote
Pankaj Jalote, Emeritus Professor and founding Director of IIIT-Delhi, is former IIT Delhi Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur HoD, and Infosys VP. An IEEE and INAE Fellow, he works on software engineering, open source, AI, higher education.
Mr. C. V. Madhukar
Madhukar leads Co-Develop, leveraging more than 25 years of experience in impact investing, policy, and scaling nonprofits. Earlier he was with the Omidyar Network, as the Managing Director he built out their global work on digital identity and digital public infrastructure.
Ms. Helani Galpaya
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working on digital policy issues across the emerging Asia Pacific. She researches issues related to digital access, data & algorithmic governance, and digital platform labor.
Mr. Sehraj Singh
Sehraj Singh is the Managing Director (India) at Prosus. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, Business, and Government Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Mr. Pramod Bhasin
Pramod is currently the Chairman of ICRIER, one of India’s leading Economic Research think tanks. He also Chairs the Data Security Council of India. He has recently set up Aparajita, an NGO focused on Sexual harassment. He is the Founder of Genpact, a NYSE listed company with over 140,000 employees and pioneered the growth of the Business Process Management industry in India as well as globally. As an entrepreneur, he has co-founded a range of organisations — Clix Capital, a finance company, Asha Ventures, an Impact Investment Fund and the Punjab innovation Mission. Prior to this he was the Head of GE Capital in Asia and India and worked with GE in the US, UK, Hong Kong and India. He is one of the Founders of Plaksha and Ashoka Universities— and pursues a variety of philanthropic initiatives.
Ms. Aruna Sundararajan
Aruna Sundararajan was India’s former telecom and MeitY secretary . She currently serves as the chairperson of the Broadband India forum; as well as on several leading private sector Boards and technology think tanks .Aruna has played a pivotal role in Indias digital transformation, overseeing key policy and implementation portfolios at both the state and national levels .With her extensive experience in governance and technology led transformation, she continues to contribute to impactful economic development initiatives .
Mr. R. Chandrashekhar
R. Chandrashekhar was the former president of NASSCOM and former Secretary to the Department of Information Technology and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. He has extensive experience in policy formulation and knowledge of business practices in telecom and technology in India. He is currently involved in several advisory roles and Board positions.
Dr. Payal Arora
Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of the Inclusive AI Lab, and FemLab. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user experiences in the Global South. Payal is the author of 100+ articles and award-winning books including “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. Forbes named her the ‘next billion champion’ and the ‘right kind of person to reform tech.’ She has been listed in the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2025 and won the 2025 Women in AI Benelux Award. Her new book with MIT Press “From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” has been longlisted for the 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards. 200+ international media outlets have covered her work including the Financial Times, Wired, and The Economist, and Tech Crunch. She has consulted for several organizations including Spotify, KPMG, Adobe, IDEO, and Google. She has given 350+ keynotes in 85 countries for events such as re:publica, COP26, and the World Economic Forum, and TEDx talks. She is a Harvard and Columbia University, and Rockefeller Bellagio Resident Fellow alumni, and lives in Amsterdam.