Shri Shyam Kumar is currently working with AIC STPINEXT Initiatives (a section 8 company incorporated by Software Technology Park of India) as Chief Operating Officer at MedTech (Centre of Excellence), SGPGI, Lucknow. He has having 12+ years of cross domain experience in startups and incubator ecosystems. He consulted a World Bank funded project. He also served as Manager-Incubation at IIM Lucknow-SIDBI Centre for Innovations in Financial Inclusion (SCIFI), a social incubator at IIM Lucknow. Over the years of experiences, he had seen many such ideas to scalable business ventures. He had successfully implemented a couple of skill & entrepreneurial projects of the DBT, Government of India in North-East states. He has graduated with a Master of Computer Application from JSSATE, UPTU and is an alumni of Lucknow University.

Er. Mamta Bhardwaj, is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at STPI-Neuron Centre of Entrepreneurship (CoE) at Mohali, Punjab. Previously she worked as a Sr. Scientist-C at Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) at Panjab University, Chandigarh for more than 8 years. She has been working in the domain of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), evidence-based S&T Policy research, and science diplomacy of India and other counterparts. She has experience of more than 14 years as in industry, engineering institute and S&T policy research. She is a graduate in Engineering with the specialization in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi and a postgraduate in the same field from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university (GGSIPU), New Delhi. She also has certifications in various courses on IPR, science diplomacy and data management offered by organizations like World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva; Ministry of Education, New Delhi; Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA; The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. She is credited with many research publications in national and international journals and co-authored three books on IPR and translational research ecosystem.

Currently working with STPINEXT Initiatives (Software Technology Park of India) as Chief Operating Officer at OctaNE Centre of Entrepreneurship at STPI Guwahati. He has Graduate degree in Engineering & Post Graduate degree Business Administration. He has over 18 years of experience in diverse spectrum of areas such as Consulting, Market Analysis, Business Development, Account and Vendor Management with extensive experience and proven success leading strategy and developing new business. He is well versed with the Government procurement processes. Also Worked on Commercial and Legal (Contract Management) activities.

Mr. Priyadarshi Sadangi is B.Tech(IT) and PGDM (Finance and Operation) with 16 years of experience from varied domain including 5 years of Entrepreneurship Journey in Deep Tech. Expertise in Product Development and Solutions in Deep Tech. Also Part of a Social Non Profit Organization helping early stage startups “mystartupyatra”. Have a knowledge of ERP, eCommerce, BPR, Process flow analysis and Mapping, Data Analytics. Also have knowledge of Corporate Finance.

She is Bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1993 and before joining STPI, she worked in Electronics manufacturing corporate based in Pune. And further From The Indian Institute of Business Management & Studies she completed her post-graduation EMBA, Executive Master’s Program in Business Administration & Management in 2011 – 2012.

Before posted as Jurisdictional Director STPI Gandhinagar for Guajrat State on 14-3-2022, she was heading many Divisions for STPI—Pune (For Maharashtra & Goa Jurisdiction) like Data Communication Facility Group, Statutory Service i.e (EXIM) Group, Incubation Service Group & MIS Group for more than 25 years in STPI-Pune. She is having extensive experience in working with eco system partners for growing the IT/ITES & Electronics industry from the respective region. She was active member for getting implementation of digitization of STPI-Services.

Started her career in STPI since Feb-1997 as Assistant Director & she has got subsequent regular promotions to Deputy Director, then Joint Director & then to Additional Director. She performed her duties of facilitating IT /ITES/SMEs/ Start-ups companies established under STP & SEZ umbrella as well during this phase.

After getting promoted as Director (Scientist F) in Feb 2020, with her visionary leadership she has conceptualized and performed significant for creation of Centre of Entrepreneurship, for emerging domains of Automotive Engineering & IoT based -Smart Agritech CoE , in Pune & Akola respectively. CoE -Motion has launched successfully and many Star-ups working in Autonomous, connected, Shared & Electrical Vehicles are getting incentivized. She has also worked in establishing the LAB set-up for the project of creation of Centre of Entrepreneurship for Smart-Agri Tech CoE, in AKOLA. She also facilitated the ITES companies, operating under India BPO promotion Scheme which was for incentivizing the ITES operations from Tier-II & Tier-III cities for generating employment from these regions and successfully handled the activities as Nodal Officer from STPI-Pune for operationalizing as implementing agency for IBPS.

Shri Manajit Kumar Nayak, is Director – STPINEXT, Jurisdictional Director – STPI Kolkata, along with other four sub centers i.e. Durgapur, Siliguri, Kharagpur & Haldia in West Bengal under Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India. Shri Nayak is an Engineering Graduate from Utkal University and earned MBA from Sambalpur University.

He has more than 25 years of association with Government Sector as well as Corporate and 20 years experience in policy making and statutory services for IT & ITES industries. He has served in STPI in various capacities and at several location places throughout the country. His active support and decisive actions have created many opportunities for SMEs to avail maximum benefits of policies and services.

Earlier he was also looking after simultaneously the IT/ITES SEZs in the State of West Bengal for three years. He has been playing a key role jointly working with the State Government and different industries associations and chambers for various policy formations, IT/ Electronics promotional activities and key decisions with regard to development of IT sector and infrastructure. His leadership quality fulfilled to the expectations of the IT/ITES industries by providing efficient and timely support.

Dr. Devi Shetty, is Padma Awardee and Chairman & Cofounder of Narayana Health. He returned to India in 1989 and initially worked at B.M. Birla Hospital in Kolkata. He successfully performed the first neonatal heart surgery in the country in 1992, on a 9-day-old baby named “Ronnie”. In Kolkata he operated on Mother Teresa after she had a heart attack and subsequently served as her personal physician.[1] After some time, he moved to Bangalore and started the Manipal Heart Foundation at Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore. Financial contribution for the construction of the hospital was provided by Shetty’s father-in-law. In 2001, Shetty founded Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH), a multi-specialty hospital in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore.

He believes that the cost of healthcare can be reduced by 50 percent in the next 5–10 years if hospitals adopt the idea of economies of scale.[10] Apart from cardiac surgery, NH also has cardiology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, haematology and transplant services, and nephrology among various others. The heart hospital is the largest in the world with 1000 beds performing over 30 major heart surgeries a day. The land on which the health city was built, was previously a marshland which was reclaimed for this purpose. The Health City intends to cater to about 15,000 outpatients every day. In August 2012, Shetty announced an agreement with TriMedx, a subsidiary of Ascension Health, to create a joint venture for a chain of hospitals in India. In the past Narayana Hrudayalaya has collaborated with Ascension Health to set up a health care city in the Cayman Islands, planned to eventually have 2,000 beds. Shetty also founded Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) in Kolkata and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka Government to build 5,000-bed specialty hospital near Bangalore International Airport. His company signed a MOU with the Government of Gujarat, to set up a 5,000-bed hospital at Ahmedabad. He was elected as the chief patron of Indian Association of Clinical Cardiologists during the annual scientific session IACCCON 2013 at Bangalore.