Dr. SC Jayanthi is an Earth Observation Scientist with over three decades of experience in the field of geospatial solutions for urban and infrastructure applications.

A Geographer by his qualification, Dr Jayanthi started his career in 1988 as a lecturer in Osmania University and subsequently served as a Scientist in Department of Science and Technology of Government of Haryana before joining NRSC, ISRO as a Scientist in 1990. He has worked in various capacities till date and is presently working as Group Director, Urban Studies and Application Group (USAG) in the Remote Sensing Area of National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC, ISRO/DoS). He has contributed to over 150 projects with around 20 National Missions.

He has contributed immensely in the areas of Land use systems, Urban Studies, Infrastructure development, urban and regional Planning, Project and financial Management.

In the domain of urban and infrastructure applications, Dr Jayanthi's works focused on - design and develop geospatial databases for urban and regional planning, percolation of EO based technologies usage to grassroot levels, process automation and cloud-based technologies for objective decision support, and creation of a broader hinterland for large scale urban geospatial databases. Some of the current interests include - new and renewable energies, utility infrastructure and waste disposal and disaster mitigation.

Dr Jayanthi has served as an expert in many a technical committee and has over 25 peer-reviewed publications in various scientific journals to his credit.

Dr Jayanthi is Life Member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Indian National Cartographic Association and National Association of geographers, India.

Dr Sultan Singh is the Director of the Haryana State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (HARSAC). He has over 30 years of experience implementing remote sensing-based projects in Haryana state in various applications. He is instrumental in mainstreaming geospatial information in the government and offering its benefits to the last-mile user.

Sixteen years of experience of more than 30 local and national schemes/projects in the field of Urban and Regional Development in Government and Private Sectors with the expertise of use of state of art technologies i.e. GIS, Remote Sensing. During the above said era, he worked in various capacities such as Town and Country Planner, Assistant Town and Country Planner in Town and Country Planning Organisation, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India, Research Associate in School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, Senior Planner and Research Associate in Private Sectors. He published more than 10 research papers.

Experienced and Certified GIS Professional , contributing towards winning new business and strengthening existing customer relations with innovations and solutions. 14 years of experience in the industry with comprehensive knowledge and understanding of GIS products, project and team management, providing technical solution and financial practices.

A graduate consultant working with Woolpert Asia-Pacific's Advisory and Innovation team, under the leadership of Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed Ghouse. Having majored in Geoinformatics from Anna University Chennai, has a growing experience in strategic consulting for Geospatial and Remote Sensing, including the formulation of spatial information value chains, country-level masterplan development and implementation road mapping, geospatial enterprise architecture design, and geospatial governance framework development.

I have 29 years of experience in the IT and Telecom industry of which close to 20 years was with AT&T, one of the top Communication Service Providers of the World and a Global Fortune 100 Firm . Until recently, I was the Regional Director (IOT ) India and ASEAN for AT&T India where I was responsible for building the IOT strategy , Sales ,Business Development and also worked on building a robust IOT partner ecosystem. Was also actively involved in a number of marketing initiatives to help enhance the AT&T brand in the IOT space.

I have been a recipient of a number of Awards and Recognitions including 6 awards in 2021 and 3 this year from various Industry bodies and media conglomerates in recognition for my work in Digital Technology advocacy , Digital Skilling initiatives, contributing my inputs towards IOT policy creation for India and for my contribution to National Inst of Electronics and Info Tech, an Autonomous Scientific Society of MeITY, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt of India for contributing my inputs on the syllabus and specific courses in the Emerging tech space ( IOT, Cloud ,AI ) that needs to be incorporated into the Curriculum of State and Central Govt Universities . NASSCOM Foundation and IBM India have also planted tree saplings in my name for my contribution to the Tech Industry.

Dr. Pradeep N has about 22+ years of diverse experience in Sales, Business Development, Client management & customer success, especially in the Geospatial technology domain. He is currently working as General Manager, Business Development - Enterprise Solutions at Asteria Aerospace, taking care of Drones and Drone based services nationally. In his previous role at Esri India, he was heading the Utilities, Transport and Mining business.

Dr. Pradeep has more than two decades of experience in industry and research, in the field of GIS technology application and consulting. He has contributed significantly to various strategic GIS solution implementations and national level technology evaluation programs.

He has also worked for Rolta supporting the Enterprise GIS group. He began his GIS and Remote Sensing journey with Regional Remote Sensing Service Center of India Space Research Organization / Dept of Space, as Research Fellow, which culminated in him securing a Ph.D in the area of GIS and RS Application. Dr. Pradeep has multiple publications including research papers and chapters to his credit. He has delivered many invited lectures at universities and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

In depth knowledge of urban mobility and the growth of urban spaces. Vast experience in the corporate sector. Author and columnist in leading Indian dailies. Speaker in various forums including TEDX.