Since, he always wanted to realise his dream of becoming an Army, he tried for Technical Graduate Entry Scheme and got through Service Selection Board (SSB), Bhopal in 1986. He passed out from Indian Military Academy (IMA) as Lieutenant in 1987.

He served in the Army for around 24years in various command & staff appointments, in areas of militancy to terrorism, in climatic conditions of plus (+) 55-degree centigrade temperature to minus (-) 40-degree centigrade temperatures, in area of high altitudes to jungles, and faced many challenges.

After serving in the Army for around 24 years, he transitioned to Corporate World; which was another challenging decision for him to move from a secure job to an insecure job in 2008. He worked in the IT industry for thirteen years as Vice President & Associate Director till Oct 2021.

Parallelly, he not only transformed his own life but helped others to transform their life through his mentorship programs, webinars, videos and podcasts. His vision and mission are to help people to ‘Unhook from Their Past and Win Life Like a Warrior’.

Warrior in this case doesn’t mean everyone to fight in the battlefield. What he implies that people must fight demons within themselves, demons of Self-Limiting Beliefs, Self-Sabotaging Traits, Fear of Failures, Negative Thoughts, Ignorance etc. To simplify the process and speed up achievement of best results in time bound manner, he has designed a 7-Step Frame Work namely WOW (Wheel of Warrior). He is running his podcast ‘Win Life Like a Warrior’ wherein he has interviewed inspiring achievers from all walks of life thereby helping his audience to find their version 2.0.

He is currently mentoring mid-career professionals with his 7 Step Program “How to Become Fearless and Super-confident to Win Life Like a Warrior” He is also helping students for public speaking & leadership qualities as a Mentor of International House of Speakers (IHS) as part International Institute of Influencers (III). His long-term vision is to see everyone in this world Unhooking Their Past and Winning Life Like a Warrior.

Vedant’s greatest accomplishment to date is the creation of “Less Boring-ify Trees”, a visionary organization that is striving to make learning about trees more interesting. With support from multiple incubators, Vedant has built a team of over 60 teenagers who are on a mission to make trees more interesting. Through innovative strategies, such as partnering with schools and colleges, putting QR codes on trees, and advocating for tree learning through social media, Vedant is making a difference in the world and inspiring others to do the same.

Vedant has also been an active and influential participant in other organizations and initiatives. As the CMO of Girlswing Foundation, a registered NGO based in Ghana, Vedant helped young women discover their career potential.

His strong presence on social media, with over 3000 followers on Instagram and LinkedIn, has helped him reach and engage with a large and diverse audience.

Vedant’s impact extends beyond his entrepreneurial and social media presence. As an advisory board member at Teenink, a platform that provides a voice for young people, Vedant is making a difference by empowering and inspiring others.

He has also won over ₹10.69,035 worth of scholarships in the past 6 months, further demonstrating his exceptional talent.

Vedant has also founded the platform Dublieu which helps School & College Students to find Opportunities such as Competitions, MUNs, Internships, Fellowships, and so on

Now at Plus (formerly PlusAI) he works on his largest robots yet, Class 8 trucks! Plus is a leader in the self-driving/ autonomous trucking space, with operations in multiple geographies worldwide.

As an early engineer at Plus and now a seasoned Engineering Manager, Ankur deeply understands autonomous robots and works on various problems. He contributes to Perception and Infrastructure systems, leading a team of engineers and research scientists, working on R&D and execution in this deep-tech space. Ankur has been involved in several high-stakes customers and OEM partnerships around the globe, defining the product and the drive experience. His work as an independent contributor and team lead has directly resulted in the success of these partnerships. He has also been awarded multiple patents for his work.

Ankur received his Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications from Univeristy of Pune and his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, focusing on Image Processing and Computer Vision. During grad school, he was also a student researcher at USC’s ICT Lab, working on computer graphics and digital avatars.

Ankur is an ardent believer in responsible automation and hopes to continue working on products that bring the latest technologies to market and improve people’s lives. In addition, Ankur regularly mentors newcomers to the field, helping them through university applications and professional career development. He also likes to educate and inspire more people about AI and ML in Robotics.

Mr. Amey’s innovative ideas have led to the development of groundbreaking technologies that address some of the world’s most pressing issues. He filed an international patent for his Comment Moderation technology, which aims to increase user control and protect against online bullying and harassment on social media. He also made a significant impact by addressing conformity bias and systematically exploring user interests in recommender systems. Both these works were published at the prestigious ACM WebConf (WWW) conference, demonstrating the depth and specificity of his research. His expertise in AI is not only limited to tackling social problems. Amey led a team of engineers and scientists to solve the complex cold start problem in Facebook’s video recommendation system, resulting in incremental business value. His contributions to Facebook News Feed have been instrumental in revolutionizing the way billions of users discover and interact with relevant content on the platform. This has been recognized through the granting of a patent and positive media coverage. Amey holds a MS degree from Columbia University, specializing in computer vision and machine learning. Prior to that, he demonstrated his expertise in real-time image processing by developing computer vision based Advanced Driver Assistance System algorithms for the automotive industry.

Mr. Dharwadker is a respected leader in the AI and ML industry, known for his strong leadership skills and ability to steer large teams to success. He possesses an impressive ability to inspire the new generation of researchers and academics in the field. He has presented his work at various scientific conferences and served as a speaker at ML summits. His proficiency has earned him invitations to judge international tech awards and provide detailed insights and advice in prominent technology publications. Amey’s passion for advancing the field and helping others understand its complexities has made him a sought-after voice in the industry. His success is a testament to his dedication and expertise in AI and ML, and belief in their positive impact on the world.

Mr. Kunal perused his MBA from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra that sharpened his knowledge of Marketing and Finance. With over 15 years of experience, he wears several hats in Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Client Strategy. Over the course of his profession, he has achieved notable accomplishments like successful mobile marketing launches, India’s first super App launch, Major brand rebranding and much more!

At Merkle Sokrati, Kunal is instrumental in managing top-tier clients including leading brands in EdTech, Retail, Consumer Durables, OTT, Health Care and beyond. His contributions have led to big wins for clients, the likes of a BFSI client achieved ~ 315% increase in MoM Account Opens. He leads a team that manages client strategy and handles diverse portfolios working toward the goal of client success. Mr. Kunal has demonstrated incredible leadership through his innovative, solution-driven approach to the most challenging of business situations. His phenomenal work in transforming client marketing objectives aided brands to sustain business through the pandemic. He is best known for his Leadership and Mentorship, that have driven his team to achieve great success for clients & partners.

Mr. Kunal has been an integral part of enabling transformation across value chain, i.e, from building customer strategy to accelerating their digital transformations. On the personal front, he aims to inspire an entire generation of digital enthusiasts towards adopting advancing roles in the digital ecosystem.

As a Systems Engineer, Kiran primarily acts as an advisor, assisting his clients in the process of designing and building complex technical architectures. It focuses on using high-end enterprise storage, hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, virtualization, and hyper converged solutions that can change the landscape of their legacy system infrastructure. Many technological advances and assessment tools such as artificial intelligence, automation data, and size analysis require updated data systems to be optimized. As organizations seek better data reliability, availability, and capacity, system engineering is the first step.

Kiran has served customers that offered services in banking, energy, stock trading, retail, insurance, and even software. Sometimes, these projects take place within a single country, and other times, Kiran supports massive multinational transformation for his largest clients.

At a utility company, the priority was modernizing the data center and bringing it into the 21^st century. The company wanted IT to have a faster response while also modernizing infrastructure and lowering company costs through automation. Kiran proposed the consolidation of the organization’s 18 storage arrays with 4PB of data across multiple data centers to just two high-end, all-flash enterprise storage arrays. His efforts saved his client $2 million per year in system maintenance and reduced the need for storage space, power, and cooling by 90%, saving another $800,000 each year. Kiran proposed the customized data migration methodology, strategy, and techniques to migrate 4PB of data to the new data center without impacting the critical production environment. He also ensured customer deadlines were met, freeing up data center space and saving millions of dollars in space renewals.

When rising operational costs threatened to curtail the Private Healthcare System’s ability to serve its patients, it took a close look at its entire infrastructure, including its digital infrastructure, for opportunities to improve efficiency and capacity. He served as the senior solutions consultant to identify a more cost-effective way of delivering fuller, timelier patient data to its medical staff. His brief was to reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and CAPEX (Capital Expenditure), shifting Private Healthcare’s data center and related operations to a more OPEX (Operating Expense) cantered accounting model. Kiran designed a solution that consolidated Private Healthcare’s three data centers into two, each served by all-flash storage. He also devised a new backup and disaster-recovery infrastructure, using storage-replication technology over a dedicated 10 Gbps network. The results were felt by Private Healthcare administrators and medical staff alike. Consolidating the data centers generated immediate savings of $250,000, and the additional improvements He made to Private Healthcare’s infrastructure produced another $450,000 in annual savings. Just as importantly, the consortium’s electronic health record system, Epic, benefited from massive performance improvements. Latency on the system was reduced to nearly immeasurable levels, and Epic performance, as measured by the delivery time for patient records, improved by more than 200%.

Kiran is a fellow member of the SAS Society and the Threws Society, which recently named me the winner of its award for Best Creative and Innovative Solution.

His unwavering focus on the targets he sets to be achieved and unflinching sincerity in building competency by taking up challenges have made him excel in areas like streamlining the processes and systems, forming and implementing SOPs, raising large amount of Debt and Equity from various stakeholders (including leading international investors) and making the company turn around by efficiently managing its working capital and in many other areas. His experience, expertise, a passion for excellence and an obsession for perfection, his power of critical thinking and an acumen of deep analysis – all make him a leader par excellence. With a career spanning over a decade, Debnath has been instrumental in addressing arduous issues affecting the world of finance. He has played a key role in important decisions affecting the company’s growth trajectory deftly handling the nuances of critical financial matters. Debnath is very passionate about sharing his vast knowledge on Finance and Accounts and has delivered lectures on many seminars organized by various leading organizations in India. He is truly a visionary leader who has transformed whichever arena he has touched and the world around him by his knowledge and skill.

He has always believed that we should settle for nothing less than perfection in whichever sphere we work. His efforts have been recognized by Indian Achievers’ Forum and they have honoured him by awarding the CFO of the year (2022-23), a milestone achievement in his career. Besides this, he has also been awarded by SAP – Financial Excellence Award -2018. Debnath has redefined leadership by inculcating and practicing the unique thinking of “marching ahead with all and for all instead of marching alone to be followed by all” and he has been making a difference in the corporate world.

Hailing from a lower middle-class family, his father was an auto-rickshaw driver and his mother was a nurse. The family of 5 survived in one room for most of his life. Living in a locality where studies were not the priority, he got involved in various bad companies and he was on the brink of losing hope and anything positive out of his life.  His mother always said Nurses have a 100% job guarantee, but he had his own dreams of learning everything about computers.

Staying away from family taught him how to manage time, studies, and finances, and achieve his goals. Started working as a Nurse in one of the biggest hospitals and was focused on learning and helping patients. But Destiny had something else planned for him. He was reached out by a Healthcare IT organization, where he was offered a Job as an Analyst. This was the start of his journey to becoming a technology SME.

Today with many technical and professional certifications he is a Senior Director of Implementation Architecture where he leads client implementations worth millions of dollars. Learned the hard way at every step of his 16+ years of career, he is now focusing on helping Mid-Career IT professionals with no clear Vision, Mission, or Purpose in life and Career who are struggling with Career Growth. His ACE performers framework is designed to transform individuals to excel at the workplace and personal lives with elevated standards of living.

Consolidating his entire experience he has written a book called “Invincible” which will be soon available on Amazon. He believes in massive actions, with consistency will help any individual to achieve success in any situation in life.  His tagline on which he always focused is “Be the Arjuna of the Corporate Chakravyuh!”

Be Focused.. Be Consistent.. Be Dedicated and Be Invincible! – Ajinkya Patale

While most of them in Uttarakhand dream of getting into Government Jobs, Mr. Brij Mohan Arya who dreamed to help his Pahadi brothers and sisters to make them more skilled for the private sector to contribute to the state as well as in nation GDP. Also very much inspired from our Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi Vision about ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. In 2022, he took the decision to Start his local Pahari company in the Foothills of Himalaya and to empower Uttarakhand and the whole world with its much skilled services in the geo-spatial sector. Brij’s vision for CSL Infotech is to create an unbeatable benchmark in quality of Geo – Information engineering Services. Where they aim to achieve the same by adopting new technologies, develop and maintain close relationship with clients, delivering Quality Data and innovative Ideas and flexible solutions

Beginning from the corner of his room to now successfully running his own company for the last 6 months with 26+ employees till date, Mr. Brij has 15+ years of experience in geo-spatial technology & has worked with various renowned geo-spatial companies, globally. He knows the importance of geospatial technology this importance is one of the reasons to come up in the startup so that he and his increasing skilled Team can work in a wide range of industries, from health and human services to banking to supply chain management. It is no secret that geospatial technology plays an increasingly critical role in not only how we understand our world, but how we interact with the environment around us. Mr. Brij believes that “With great GIS technology, however, comes great responsibility.”