A room of builders.
The leaders, founders, policymakers, and practitioners turning ideas into action


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Vineet Singh, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Green leads technology functions. With his deep passion for agriculture and belief that open-source technology plays a critical role in improving livelihoods, he is leading development of AI pipelines intersecting in the field of agriculture and LLM. He brings 19+ years experience in diverse tech startups across India where he steered technology and product development from concept to execution. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, he co-founded the first indigenous drone manufacturing company Aurora Integrated Systems in 2006, where he was instrumental in development of in-house technology and product. Post exit and handing over to Tata Group, he helped build the innovation team at Delhivery and led development of machine learning enabled products in the supply chain that resulted in a new business vertical. He also worked on robotics automation in the health tech domain leveraging computer vision models for autonomous image capture and analysis for microscopes.












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Vivek Nayan is the Chief Technology Officer at Indus Action, an India-based nonprofit that builds digital public goods to help vulnerable families traverse the journey from poverty to dignity by enabling frictionless access to a carefully curated portfolio of legislated rights.
With two decades of experience in engineering and governance, he is passionate about designing resilient public infrastructure by deploying grassroots technology to unlock agency, inclusion, and systemic change. He envisions dignity-driven design and federated stewardship as pathways to scale citizen impact.
Vivek Nayan is a 2025 Perplexity Fellow. He holds degrees from Coventry University and Institute of Management Technology. He is a professional member of IEEE and has co-authored multiple papers across subfields of machine learning.












There’s a lot happening at charcha 2025
Exciting programming in play - marquee speakers, extensive CSR and CSO network participation, thought-provoking panels and workshops, curated networking, and more.

