AFI Forum 2019 - Top 10 Social Entrepreneurs

Sukhmeet Singh has over 15 years of experience in the areas of Bio-energy, Analytics, Agriculture and Strategy. Sukhmeet is a Co-Founder in A2P Energy and leads the company. Before that Sukhmeet has worked as an Associate Director at the Indian School of Business, working on research projects with Government and Industry in the Areas of IT, Agriculture and SMEs. In his professional journey, Sukhmeet has worked with leading fortune 500 companies and has significant international experience in US, UK and Dubai. He is an engineer and graduate from Indian School of Business (ISB).

Amandeep Panwar has devoted his life to combine his expertise in Aeronautical Sciences with spectroscopy to create an affordable and accessible tool for Indian farmers using data analytics. After completing his graduation, he founded BharatRohan Airborne Innovations Private Limited to empower farmers to communicate with their crops. He strongly believes that man’s history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These difficulties have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us. Indian agriculture these days is facing a severe difficulty of using the optimum amount of resources and yielding highest possible harvest to feed one-fourth hungry people of the world.

Anupam has done a bachelor in computer science and loves to build things. BookMyBai is his dream project. He is involved with the technology front of the company along with assisting his co-founder in the on-field operations. He is passionate about building disruptive technologies. His earlier venture Homado.com - An online marketplace for interior designers was acquired by a leading e-commerce company with 20X returns to investors.

N V V Kiran Vuppala, a biotechnologist by degree and technopreneur by passion with extensive detailed research and experimental knowledge in the diverse areas of life sciences. Presently, the CEO & Co-founder of Cerelia Nutritech, a healthcare startup incorporated with the aim to create impact by transforming the lives of millions to make their lives healthier and happier. Also, a BIRAC Social Innovator under SPARSH program of BIRAC, DBT, GoI, brings his interdisciplinary experience in product management, investments having 9 years of experiences.

Mr Pavan Adipuram runs a company called ChitMonks which is awarded as the “Most Innovative Blockchain Startup” on the state formation day awards of Telangana in 2018. He is building a Citizen centric, financially inclusive Bharat by creating the largest network of Savers and Borrowers on Blockchain. He is working closely with the industry for more than 3.5 years. He believes that bringing a decentralized and distributed system for ROSCAs with regulators on the same network, will help to decentralize the regulator's activity. He is currently working with Telangana State Government to bring the entire ROSCA operations across the state onto this network.

Anil Kumar Reddy held leadership positions in college and was involved in organising Joy of Giving week for 4 years. He worked as an Intern in Goonj and later on worked for the 2015 Chennai Floods. He also co-founded a mobile app named " Newspot" which provides news in short format. Anil received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Shri Nitin Gadkari in 2019. He was invited to Greater Giving Summit in the US & a learning visit to China by the Gates Foundation. He was named in the 40 Under 40 Impactful Entrepreneurs by The New Indian Express and also awarded NASSCOM Social Innovation Award from Shri K T Rama Rao.

Ayushi is the cofounder and CEO of DronaMaps, an enterprise platform to help organisations extract geospatial analytics from imagery captured through drones. We use advanced AI/ deep learning tools to streamline the process, from data sorting to geospatial analytics. DronaMaps has worked with 6 state governments in India (MP, UP and AP among them) and major Indian enterprise organisations A Biomedical engineer with a Masters from Johns Hopkins, Ayushi thrives in the grey area between siloed disciplines and views products and startups as an act of creation. She is passionate about the applications of emerging technology for the betterment of the human condition.

Benjamin as a Y2K Programmer as most other professionals of the time in this field, and grew up to head the Information Technology and Research at Honeywell IT US & APAC and subsequently as the head of Product Development with Talisma, US. Being employed, added with prior small time entrepreneurial experiences, and experience working even while studying due to passion are the biggest assets that encouraged him to strive for the best every single time with absolute relentlessness. In 2013,he founded Farmagain, and he is currently in the process of making substantial impact in the field of Agriculture.

A Gold Medalist Chemical Engineer, Abhimanyu is immensely involved in innovative projects aimed towards sustainable development, rural empowerment and environmental conservation. Having previously worked with Google Inc. and ONGC Hazira, Abhimanyu is the inventor of 'Vardan' - the world's cheapest 'complete' water purifier. Abhimanyu is the Founder of Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India (SLII) Pvt. Ltd., a social start-up enterprise, working on societal redevelopment and innovations by accelerating the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.

Abilash holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York and subsequently worked with Cisco systems for 3 years in leadership positions. He is responsible for building awareness of the company’s intelligent solutions and driving marketing initiatives with specific focus on marketing communications, including advertising and promotions, distribution channel management, pricing, market research and public relations.