Abhay Jere is the Chief Innovation Officer for Ministry of Education, 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).

Dr. Mohit Gambhir is working as the Innovation Director, MoE’s Innovation Cell, Govt. of India. MIC is committed to systematically foster Innovation culture in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

Pradyoy Koley is the Assistant Innovation Director for Ministry of Education, Govt. of India and now leading the Smart India Hackathon. He has obtained Ph. D. in Chemistry from University of Calcutta, India and done his Post-Doctoral Research from WPI-MANA, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.

Nitin Bhide 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.

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.

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.

Sachin Gaur is a researcher cum entrepreneur in space of mobile and Internet solutions.He has worked in past with organizations like Adobe, C.E.R.N. and in research at the Aalto University in security related topics.