About Pankaj Diwan

Thought leader in evangelizing Innovation. Very Passionate about empowering youth through Skilling. Co-Founder of TalentFarm.ai, which is trying to solve the T...

Pankaj Diwan's Work History
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Management Committee Member

The Federation Of Telangana Chambers Of Commerce And Industry
Jul 2024 - Present
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.
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Founder

Talentfarm
Sep 2023 - Present
TalentFarm.ai is an Ai first platform with an aim to revolutionize the Skilling and Recruitment domain with rich data inights
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Co-Founder

India Blockchain Forum
Sep 2022 - Present
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.
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Co-Chair , ICT

The Federation Of Telangana Chambers Of Commerce And Industry
Aug 2022 - Present
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.
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Chief Evangelist, Blockchain CoE

Gmr Innovex
Aug 2022 - Present
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
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Advisor

Sri Sri University
Apr 2021 - Present
CyberPeace Foundation and Sri Sri University have joined hands for β€œInfusing 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
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Founder and CEO

Idealabs Futuretech Ventures
Nov 2018 - Present
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
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Co-Founder

Block91
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
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.
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Member - Core Team

Hyderabad Product Leaders
Jun 2017 - Present
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.
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Co-Chair , SIG on Open Innovation

State Innovation Council
Jun 2017 - Present
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
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Member - Organizing Team

Tedxhyderabad
Apr 2016 - Present
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.
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Jury Member

Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association
Jan 2016 - Present
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
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Steering Comittee Member

J Hub
Jan 2015 - Present
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.
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Founding Member and Convenor - Steering Council

Hyderabad Hackers
Dec 2013 - Present
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!
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Managing Director

Uptec Idealabs
Sep 2013 - Aug 2019
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.
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Chief IT Advisor

Kevin Power Solutions
Sep 2012 - Sep 2014
Responsible for building the complete IT Strategy. Successfully implemented India's first Cloud based SAP Implementation.
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CEO

Renaissance Softlabs
Sep 2003 - Aug 2013
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)
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Technical Manager

Leapstone Systems
Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
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.
Pankaj Diwan's Education
Education

Osmania University

Osmania University B.E , Electronics And Communication
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St.Johns church high school

St.Johns church high school Schooling

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