Pankaj Diwan

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India24 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of TalentFarm.ai addressing India's talent paradox.
  • Skilled over one million engineers through Idealabs.
  • Advisor to multiple industry and policy-making bodies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Education and Technology Innovation.

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Coaching & MentoringCurriculum InnovationEntrepreneurship DevelopmentIT StrategyInnovation ConsultingStart-up ConsultingTechnology ConsultingTechnology Incubation

About

Thought leader in evangelizing Innovation. Very Passionate about empowering youth through Skilling. Co-Founder of TalentFarm.ai, which is trying to solve the Talent Paradox in India, Founder of Idealabs which has skilled more than one million Engineers in the last twenty years. Advisor and key member of Industry Bodies, Policy making bodies across multiple states on Skilling, Innovation and Entrepreneurship development. Mentor, Investor and Advisor to several early stage startups in Deeptech Areas like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and IoT. Formed India's largest Academic Alliance on cutting edge technologies with more than 100 Engineering colleges across India.

Experience

The federation of telangana chambers of commerce and industry

Management Committee Member

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Honored to be nominated as the Management Committee Member of The Federation of Telangana Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an apex Industry body with more than 100 years of rich legacy, 5000 direct members and 25000 indirect members through 160 associations.

Talentfarm

Founder

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

  • TalentFarm.ai is an Ai first platform with an aim to revolutionize the Skilling and Recruitment domain with rich data inights

India blockchain forum

Co-Founder

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · India

  • India Blockchain Forum has beencreated with a vision to make India a global hub for blockchain technology and Web 3.0. The forum is backed by key influencers from the blockchain ecosystem comprising of thought leaders, corporate leaders, policy makers, community evengelists, academic leaders and ecosystem enablers.

Gmr innovex

Chief Evangelist, Blockchain CoE

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • As Chief Evangelist , Blockchain CoE, my responsibility to build a roadmap for Blockchain adoption across the large conglemerate - GMR group and build the CoE as a hub for Blockchain Innovation

The federation of telangana chambers of commerce and industry

Co-Chair , ICT

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • The Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI). Established in 1917 with the intent of providing incessant support to industry, FTCCI has indeed demonstrated unwavering commitment to towards its members and industry at large. What’s more, we’ve done this tirelessly for a hundred years.
  • At FTCCI, we have been energising industry for a 100 years. We’ve been engaging with the government to represent our members. And played a key role in enabling change through meaningful interactions for an entire century. In short, we at FTCCI have truly empowered business and proved to be enablers of commerce for a 100 years.

Sri sri university

Advisor

Apr 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · India

  • CyberPeace Foundation and Sri Sri University have joined hands for “Infusing CyberPeace in cyberspace”. The first steps towards the goal is the launch of Sri Sri School of CyberPeace. It is committed to help strengthen the global CyberPeace Ecosystem through the research and innovation focused educational framework in Sync with the ACE initiative from the CyberPeace Foundation

Idealabs futuretech ventures

Founder and CEO

Nov 2018Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Idealabs is India's largest Innovation and Upskilling company. Idealabs works with Policy makers, Corporates, Leading Universities and Ecosystem. Strong track record on emerging technologies like Blockchain, AI/ML, IoT and Cyber Security, Strategic partnerships with global leaders like Microsoft, Tech Mahindra and an Academic Partnership with more than 150 Universities and Campuses

Block91

Co-Founder

Jun 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Block91 is a global blockchain development and consulting firm headquartered in hyderabad with a distributed team across North America, Europe and Asia that is focused on building next generation applications using blockchain and smart contract technology.

Hyderabad product leaders

Member - Core Team

Jun 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Hyderabad Product Leaders is a group of Product Leaders from all the product companies having their presence in hyderabad. The group brings a very unique and rich expertise in the field of product management. the goal of HPL is to evangelize product development culture in India.

State innovation council

Co-Chair , SIG on Open Innovation

Jun 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • The State of Telangana is amongst the most progressive states in terms of proactive policy making. Telangana Government has created the State Innovation Council as part of its documented policy http://www.telangana.gov.in/PDFDocuments/Telangana_Innovation_Policy_2016.pdf to seed the culture of Innovation and support early stage Startups. SIG on Open Innovation has been formed as part of the SIC

Tedxhyderabad

Member - Organizing Team

Apr 2016Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

  • TEDx Hyderabad has been doing a yomen job in bringing the Thinkers , Enablers and Doers together on one platform to bring some serious transformation within the society with their credo - One Idea at a time. Im deeply inspired and delighted to be part of the TEDx Hyderabad team and hope to do my bit.

Hyderabad software enterprises association

Jury Member

Jan 2016Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Have been the Jury member of the prestigious HYSEA Annual Product Awards in multiple categories, for the last three years. HYDERABAD Software Enterprise Association (HYSEA) is an Industry body comprising all IT and ITES organziations across the state of Telangana

J hub

Steering Comittee Member

Jan 2015Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · JNTU Hyderabad

  • J-Hub EXCITE is the first of its kind Innovation and Entrepreneurship development initiative by any university in India. JNTU Hyderabad is the biggest technological university in India. EXCITE is a six weeks summer school around Product building, Innovation and Entrepreneurship on cutting edge technologies like Blockchain, AI/ML, AR/VR and IoT. As a followup of EXCITE, the students go through a 16 weeks structured Accelerator and funding.

Hyderabad hackers

Founding Member and Convenor - Steering Council

Dec 2013Present · 12 yrs 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Hyderabad Hackers is a community/group of Innovation and startup enablers in Hyderabad. It has an entire gamut of enablers and thought leaders working on a singular mission of enabling the Hyderabad Startup ecosystem. There are several exciting initiatives the group has taken up since its inception. Its also heartening to see how the entire Hyderabad Hackers comes to together to support any initiative of the group members.some of the most impactful events like Design Summit, EXCITE, Hacker summit, Innofest and more than 100 hackathons have been supported by Hyderabad Hackers.By far, it is the biggest and most proactive startup ecosystem!

Uptec idealabs limited

Managing Director

Sep 2013Aug 2019 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Setting up Incubation Centres and Innovation Hubs to hone skills in emerging technologies, promote product thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. We incubate startups and provide them mentoring and technology support. Idealabs is a key player in the Innovation ecosystem in India.

Kevin power solutions

Chief IT Advisor

Sep 2012Sep 2014 · 2 yrs · Noida

  • Responsible for building the complete IT Strategy. Successfully implemented India's first Cloud based SAP Implementation.

Renaissance softlabs

CEO

Sep 2003Aug 2013 · 9 yrs 11 mos

  • Founder and Chief Mentor for IDEALABS-The Incubation Programme, a pioneering initiative with a unique case-study implementation based approach. The alumni of this programme are today serving and fuelling the growth of some of the best organizations across the world.
  • Technology Consulting and Strategic Advisor to several top business groups for accelerating their business growth with smart IT Solutions.
  • Advisor to Government bodies, Board of Studies of several prestigious Engineering Colleges across India for Skill development, Curriculum development, creation of Adjunct learning centres, Value added programmes, setting up Incubation centres, Entrepreneurship development.
  • (Renaissance Softlabs operations are now merged into UPTEC Idealabs limited)

Leapstone systems inc

Technical Manager

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • What started as a exploratory exercise ended up in building and leading the engineering team from India on world's first Telecom Application Server on VOIP/SIP.
  • Developed and delivered services to Verizon Wireless(R&D) and Quest solutions on SIP(session Initiation protocol)
  • Worked with Sun Microsystems in the initial phase of J2me and built early prototypes on J2me which were demonstrated worldwide.

Education

Osmania University

B.E — Electronics and Communication

Jan 1993Jan 1997

ST.Johns Church High School

Schooling

Jan 1981Jan 1991

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