Shri Wadodkar is a prominent figure with over three decades of experience in applying space technology to agriculture. He has worked with renowned organizations like the National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad, ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning, Nagpur, and the Uttar Pradesh Remote Sensing Applications Centre, Lucknow. His expertise lies in soil survey, mapping, and utilizing space technology for crop and soil planning. He has significantly contributed to various national projects, including soil mapping at different scales, field crop and horticulture plantation mapping, land degradation assessment, and watershed management. Shri Wadodkar, a post-graduate in Agriculture with a specialization in Soil Science and Pedology, holds a post-graduate diploma in Remote Sensing and an MBA degree. He has received multiple awards, authored numerous research papers and reports, and actively participates in academic and advisory roles in agriculture and remote sensing at the national level.

Dr Deb Jyoti Pal is Vice President - BI Platforms in Geospatial World and Professor of Practice in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), New Delhi, India.

With more than two and half decades of experience, Dr Deb has worked across diverse range of verticals, providing solutions across government/ public sector, water resources, environment studies, utilities and defence. He has also offered consulting and advisory support to leading geospatial and space data analytics companies, giving strategic insights on everything from designing commercially feasible solutions to charting future roadmap.

Through innovative, integrated, cross-sectional approach, and a growth-oriented outlook, as a business leader he has delivered bespoke solutions in a fast-transforming and rapidly disruptive industry landscape.

As the Vice President - Business Intelligence at Geospatial World, he is developing a unique platform that would offer comprehensive mapping of stakeholders of Geospatial Industry ecosystem.

Bharat Kakade is the President & Managing Trustee of an Indian Non-Profit organisation working for sustainable rural livelihood and climate actions for last 56 years with a spread of its operations in 14 Indian states, 93738 villages covering over 4 million rural poor families. BAIF's Mission is to create opportunities of gainful self-employment for the rural families, especially disadvantaged sections, ensuring sustainable livelihood, enriched environment, improved quality of life and good human values.

While undertaking various projects in different areas in country, his significant contributions include the innovative, sustainable and scalable rural livelihoods and natural resource management programmes in different agro-ecological regions of India including Himalayan terrain, arid areas of Western India, Western Ghats, Ravines in Uttar Pradesh and semi arid areas in Central and Southern India.

As a Sustainable Development expert, he undertook several international and domestic assignments for the organizations including India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), Plan International, Concern World Wide, Sathguru Management Consultants Pvt Ltd, IWMI, Tata Trust, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, CCAFS, and USAID. He also played Advisory role for many civil society organizations and few state Govt. Depts in India.

Bharat Kakade has done PhD at IIT Bombay, BE and ME at College of Engineering Pune, MBA from IGNOU and he is also a Fellow of Leadership in Environment and Development -International (LEAD-I).

Bharat has about 30 different publications to his credit including watershed manuals, case studies, research reports and research papers on sustainability, livelihood and natural resource management.

Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar is a Country Director and Principal Scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF with broad experience in executing agroecosystem research and outreach across diverse landscapes in Asia, Africa, and the Americas-focusing on the system approach with digital augmentation driven innovation incubators for restoring functional landscapes towards greener economic transition, livelihoods and lifestyle.

Founder of Vasundharaa Geo Technologies Pvt Ltd. Over the last 7 years Advait has gained credibility and stable returning customers for solving their everyday geospatial requirements.

With a dynamic team of data analysts, software developers, geologists and business developers, Advait and his team are ready to take new challenges and disrupt conventional methods. It's not just about spatial, but temporal and spectral details also matter.

With a clear vision of maximum utilization of remote sensing solutions, it is our aim to bring data to science to everyday utilization and make data fuel the next industrial revolution.

Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar is a Country Director and Principal Scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF with broad experience in executing agroecosystem research and outreach across diverse landscapes in Asia, Africa, and the Americas-focusing on the system approach with digital augmentation driven innovation incubators for restoring functional landscapes towards greener economic transition, livelihoods and lifestyle.

Chiranjit is the General Manager of Data and Analytics in Foundation for Ecological Security. He is experienced Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Environmental Awareness, Mining, Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Strong professional with a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) focused in Applied Geology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Priya Sankar is the Director - Partner Engagements at Arghyam. She has 17 years of experience in Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Product Management, and Partnerships. Proven track record of leading large projects and product launches in printing, telecom, banking and sustainability sectors in India. Adept at abstracting learnings and working with government, NGOs and market players to achieve results. Experience in P&L responsibility and scaling businesses and digital products like UPI. She is passionate about community, technology and scale in addressing climate change.

Ms. Suneetha Sapur currently holds the position of Chief of Operations at the INREM Foundation. She is a clinical nutritionist by profession with a strong passion for studying the impact of water contamination on nutrition and health. Prior to her role at the foundation, she served as a consultant in numerous multi-specialty hospitals and corporate settings.

In his role as Data and Tech Lead @ WELL Labs - IFMR, Craig guides the development of remote sensing applications for village level water security planning.

The datasets and tools built at WELL are currently being field tested for diagnostic, planning and evaluation purposes across a number of watershed organizations in peninsular India.

Balachander is post graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and worked in many organizations for rural development. Presently he is a freelance consultant with 23 years of experience, working in the intersection of Land & Water, Local Governance and Open Data & Information Systems.

Dr Shirish Ravan worked for 18 years in senior positions at the United Nations. Currently, he leads the EarthSight Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting the usage of Space and Geospatial Technologies at the grassroots level. Also, he leads two Startups, DevTA Solutions (Space Tech company) and BitVian Technologies (IoT company), to contribute to India's pursuit of embracing frontier technologies to achieve sustainable development. He has academic engagement as a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) in Orissa and Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics in Pune.

Prof. Shamita Kumar has over 25 years of experience in capacity building and science communication in the sectors of environment science as well as geospatial technologies. She is currently Vice Principal at the Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Institute of Environment Education and Research, Pune and a member of the Geospatial Capacity Building Committee of the National Geospatial Program of the DST, Government of India. She coordinates the DST's Geospatial Capacity Building Program across India.

Dr Jayant Kulkarni is the Executive Director of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, Mumbai, which is a unique leadership development academy to nurture and impart training and capacity building of elected representatives, social workers, and people running institutions, organisations, and start-ups.

Dr Suhas Diwase is the senior IAS officer from the Maharashtra cadre. He has served in several key positions, including the Director of Maharashtra state's disaster management cell, Agriculture Commissioner of Maharashtra and CEO of the Pune Metropolitan Development Authority. He has effectively used remote sensing and geospatial technologies in making his governance effective and data-based in all the departments he headed, which makes him an effective practitioner of implementing geospatial solutions for mass beneficiaries.

P.L.N. Raju has 33 years of expertise in geospatial applications, capacity building, and training, serving in IIRS and NESAC (ISRO, DOS) from 1988 - 2021. Shri Raju has worked as a Special Secretary at the Science Technology and Climate Change Department and Director at Assam State Space Application Centre, Government of Assam, since September 01, 2021. The task is to address the challenges of Line Departments of Assam and provide appropriate geo-spatial-enabled services wherever possible.

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.

He made significant contributions to promote space technology for disaster risk reduction for the last last three decades. He strived for the operationalization of geo-spatial services for management of disasters in the country, particularly floods.

He served as Head, disaster management, NRSC, Hyderabad; General Manager, Regional Remote Sensing Centre, Kolkata, Associate Director, Disaster Risk Reduction, ISRO Hq, Bengalore.

He represented ISRO in several International Forums, such as International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters, Sentinel Asia, etc. Served as Executive Secretariat Member for a decade.

At present, he is the Group Director at NRSC, Hyderabad contributing towards training & outreach activities.