Rahul Sharma is the Regional Managing Director for Worldwide Public Sector in Asia Pacific at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, Rahul leads the AWS public sector strategy, sales, and business development teams across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and South Korea to help government, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations adopt AWS. AWS Public Sector is focused on working with public sector organizations and the AWS Partner Network in leveraging cloud technology to accelerate innovation and digital transformation, and positively impact the life of citizens. 

Rahul has almost 30 years of experience in successfully running technology and consulting businesses across India and the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this role, Rahul led the AWS public sector team in India and South Asia for five years. Under his leadership, AWS built some of the transformational digital public goods for the government’s India Stack, pioneered new initiatives in India such as establishing the Quantum Computing Applications Lab with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the National Cloud Innovation Center with Niti Aayog, and bridged the cloud skills gap by working closely with the government and education institutions.

Prior to joining AWS, Rahul spent more than two decades at leading global technology organizations in various leadership roles in India and Asia Pacific.

Shalini Kapoor is Head Public Sector and Chief Technologist for AWS India. She leads the Public Sector team at AWS India and South Asia to help government agencies, public sector undertakings, education institutions, healthcare and non-profit organizations adopt AWS Cloud services. AWS public sector is focused on working with organizations and the AWS Partner Network in leveraging cloud technology to positively impact the life of citizens through skilling, healthcare, livelihood and inclusion.

As a trusted strategic advisor, she provides thought leadership for transformational initiatives and drives citizen scale platforms. She is a prolific speaker at tech conferences and a strategic advisor at several industry and policy bodies.

Shalini has 26 years of industry experience and was an IBM Fellow prior to joining AWS. She is author of the book, 'AI for You- The new game Changer'. She is passionate about women in STEM, tech enabled societal reforms and academia.

Dr. Pramod Varma is the former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.3 billion people. He was also the chief architect for various India Stack layers such as eSign, Digital Locker, and Unified Payment Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), and all of which are now working at population scale in India. He played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure (ABDM), vaccination & immunization infrastructure (Co-WIN and DIVOC), and Unified Health Interface (UHI).

He is currently the CTO of EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org). These power India’s largest digital learning infrastructure called DIKSHA providing learning opportunities to 200+ million children and 10+ million teachers in India. Sunbird building blocks are used in other learning, skilling, and capacity building efforts in India and other countries. As part of this effort, he also helped design India’s digital education & skilling architecture blueprint called NDEAR.

In addition, he is the Co-Founder of FIDE.org, he is the genesis author of the open source beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io) that helps create decentralized open discovery, fulfillment, and transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the base protocol for India’s new commerce infrastructure efforts such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC.org), Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN), and Namma Yatri (nammayatri.in).

He is also an adjunct faculty and Co-Chair at the global Center for DPI (CDPI.dev) , a non- profit, helping countries design and architect their own Digital Public Infrastructure systems in addition to building local capacity.

He is an advisor to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), National Payment Corporation (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), National Health Authority (NHA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Turing Institute Identity Initiative in the UK, and helps with many Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives in India and across the globe. He is a regular speaker and evangelist for open source efforts and actively advocates Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) investments as a means to drive inclusive and equitable economic growth.

Pramod holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His interests include Internet scale distributed architectures and intelligent systems. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.

The Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development
Corporation (an undertaking of the Department of Science & Technology,
Government of Madhya Pradesh), 

He is an officer of more than 13 years of experience in the Indian
Administrative Service and served in various districts in the capacity as Chief
Executive Officer in Zila Panchayats, District Collector in Tikamgarh & Sheopur
districts, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Managing Director - Madhya Pradesh State
Civil Supplies Corporation, Commissioner - Treasury & Accounts, Project Director –
State Wide Area Network & State Data Centre, MPSEDC and Deputy Secretary in
Finance and Science & Technology departments and Director-State Computer
Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT).

Besides being the Managing Director of M.P. State Electronics Development
Corporation, he is also Managing Director - Bhopal Electronics Manufacturing Park
Limited, Jabalpur Electronics Manufacturing Park Limited, Executive Director - State
Agency for Public Services (SAPS) under the Department of Public Services
Management & Mission Director - Integrated Social Security Mission (SAMAGRA)
under the Department of Social Security Mission and Disabled Welfare, Government
of Madhya Pradesh.

He is also a Director in the Board of Directors of M/s. MPOnline Limited [A
Joint Venture Company between Government of Madhya Pradesh and M/s. Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS).