CIO, MHRD's
Innovation Cell
Chairman, Executive Committee
Abhay Jere is the Chief Innovation Officer for Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. Dr. Jere had conceptualized Smart India Hackathon, Established Institution's Innovation Council in 1500+ institutions, Conceptualized National Innovation and Startup Policy for Faculty and Students 2019 and conceptualized Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA).
Director, MHRD's
Innovation Cell
Secretary, Executive Committee
Dr. Mohit Gambhir is working as the Innovation Director, MHRD’s Innovation Cell, Govt. of India. MIC is committed to systematically foster Innovation culture in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
Assistant Director, MIC
Member, Smart India Hackathon 2020
Papri Banerjee is the Assistant Innovation Director for Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India and leading the Smart India Hackathon. She has obtained PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology focusing on Protein Structure-Function studied from Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA.
Engineering Head,Persistent Labs
Co-Ordinator,
Smart India Hackathon 2020
Vivek Kulkarni have 25+ years of total experience with core research acumen as well as managerial expertise. He is skilled in execution of any product (new or in the making) from single line requirement to architecture, designing to coding and team building to execution.
Solution Architect, Persistent Systems
Member,
Smart India Hackathon 2020
Solutions Architect with nearly 20 years of experience in meaningful and applied research. Passionate for image, speech and video analytics. Having spent significant time in predictive analysis and defining strategies for automation, risk analysis and technology evaluation are the key attributes which are evolved throughout his career.
Head - CSR, KPIT Technologies Ltd.
Member,
Smart India Hackathon 2020
Mr. Tushar Juvekar is working as the CSR at the KPIT Technologies for the past 12+ years.
President,Y4D Foundation
Member,
Smart India Hackathon 2020
Mr. Praful Nikam is a youth activist focusing on youth empowerment, child & women rights, as software professional and analyst now helps to corporates & startups in setting process and business engagements.He is the preseident of Y4D Foundation and a Committee Member at Human Resources Development Ministry of India.
