Before co-founding AI foundry, Umakant co-founded piVentures, a $35m early stage fund for AI (India’s first & only AI focused fund), investing in close to 15+ leading AI companies in India (Sigtuple, Niramai, Locus.sh & others). He also advisor at generative AI startup, Pixis. He has spent more than 10 years in AI space (Founded India’s first AI bot startup in '09) as an entrepreneur, strategy thinker and investor in enterprise, healthcare & logistics. He is also co-founder of ARTPARK, India's first AI & Robotics technology park promoted by IISc and seed funded by DST & GoK to the tune of 230 cr($32mn). He is an advisor to Govt. of India in AI policy and research ecosystem creation. Ex-Director India for Science Inc., he spent time in strategy and innovation roles at Wipro Ltd., one of the leading IT Services companies. IIT Kanpur Alum. Abstract painter in his spare time.

Subhashis is an entrepreneur and investment banker from his background and has previously worked for Standard Chartered Bank Real Estate Private Equity Fund, Tata Housing Development Company, Sequoia Capital, Tishman Speyer Private Equity Fund. He also confounded and served as CIO(Chief Investment Officer) at ARTPARK, growing an ecosystem of 19+ AI startups. He has worked and lived in most major cities of India and understands the real estate dynamics of those cities well. The list includes Mumbai, Bangalore, NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. He has been deeply involved in deals for both the residential market and office market as an investment banker and advised companies in domains like AI, financial sector, travel & logistics, defence apart from real estate. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta.

Pulkit is an academic and an entrepreneur focused on working in common sense/Humanlike AI, one of the next big evolutions in AI. He is Asst. Professor at MIT CSAIL leading "Improbable AI" lab, which helped create "MIT Mini Cheetah". He is also Co-founder of SafelyYou Inc, which is applying computer vision to prevent falls in elder care homes. His research focuses on curiosity driven machines & common sense problem in Robots. He has a PhD from BAIR (Berkeley AI Research) and Bachelors from IIT Kanpur. He was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal for best all round achievement and leadership at IIT Kanpur and is excited by the quest for singularity. He is also an accomplished musician.

Utkarsh B was the first Chief Architect of Flipkart, India's biggest Ecommerce company, which exited to Walmart labs for $at $20bn valuation. At flip kart Utkarsha built flipkart's technology stack from early days to its massive size today. The vastly experienced technologist, architect and mentor is an expert at applying technology relevantly to address critical business challenges and has extensive experience of over 20+ years in developing fault tolerant and internet scale systems across a range of technology and business domains. He is passionate about building evolvable architectures and nurturing highly motivated and performant engineering teams and excels at Internet scale distributed architectures and design, business continuity and synchronous disaster recovery, service oriented architecture, distributed computing, scalable data storage, data and infromation security, performance tuning, Big Data, site reliability, architectural governance, platform components and frameworks.

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Sharul cleared all CA exams in first attempt securing All India Merit Rank in every CA exam. Sharul also holds a MBA and an advance diploma in Computer science. Sharul has had a dynamic leadership career in Multi-billion dollar organizations with a rich mix of M&A, business finance, corporate treasury, FP&A, managing board meetings, ERM and process excellence. He brings a wide array of experience through Senior Management positions in leading companies across Consumer goods, Infrastructure Engineering, Real estate, BPO & Information Technology Industry.

Sharul enjoys reading books across genres and enthusiastically follows cricket.

Prashanth is a senior technology advisor who works with several startups and non-digital native businesses as a CTO in residence to accelerate their technology and digital roadmaps. He served as CTO of PayU India, helping lead them to market leadership and profitability. He helped launch XraySetu, the AI COVID detection product jointly developed by ARTPARK, IISc Bengaluru and Niramai Health Analytix. He has spoken at AWS Summit and nVidia GTC, in addition to being a part of several panel discussions and has featured in print media coverage of Indian payments and fin-tech. His work has been featured by AWS in their "This is my Architecture" series, and by YourStory in their "Techie Tuesdays" column. He is one of the very few people in India who has the experience of buildin and scaling internet scale things. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and has a masters in computer science from Georgia Tech. He also holds an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB).

Abhijeet is an AI Evangelist, and a digital leader for more than a decade. He has served on senior positions across diverse geographies (India, Israel, Paris, Dubai). He has previously created and exited multiple startups, and has also created and successfully exited Captive software centres for large companies. While Abhijeet formulates and executes digital strategy, he continues to be a hands-on coder on his hobby projects in AI.

He has a B Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD

Abhijeet is a rare entrepreneur who has both technical and business chops. He works as a strategic and business advisor for AI Foundry companies and is likely to create his own startup/ join one of the existing startups in a Co Founder role in future.

Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda is a pioneer in harnessing the power of collective intelligence. His creation, Google Map Maker, quadrupled the world's digital maps corpus, bringing maps to 4 billion in 187 countries that had no maps before. His startup was Google’s first acquisition in 2002 after which he co-founded Google India, acting as Country Head, Google India Products until 2014. He now builds population scale platforms for India's Billion including Avanti for financial inclusion and Indihood, crowdsourcing for communities and core development challenges. Lalitesh received his Ph.D. and MS from CMU in Robotics and Computer Science, where he led the CMU Lunar Rover Initiative. He holds an MS, Design Division, Stanford, MS, Aerospace, Iowa State and B-Tech, IIT-Bombay.

Dr. Jain is the co-founder of Perceptive Code a Silicon Valley AI startup that builds intelligence into automobiles using Deep Learning. He also co-founded Uavio, a drone company focused on GPS denied environment. He is part of the Theano development team and a contributor to Torch - both of which are widely used libraries for Deep Learning. Dr. Jain received his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and his post-doc from NYU where he worked with Yann LeCun.