He has seven years of technology experience at Computer Science Corporation (Consulting division) in the US, during which period he worked in all roles from programmer to the technical architect on projects with several Fortune 500 companies. For the last 16 years, he has been with AgriWatch, where he has been a consultant to government as well as corporates in the areas of policy advocacy, Agri-commodities market intelligence, crop estimation, ICT in Agriculture, hedging and risk management, procurement strategies, primary research, and data-driven agriculture. He has a unique blend of technology and agribusiness domain knowledge acquired over the last 24 years.

Dr. Sadamate is the former Adviser Agriculture, Planning Commission. He graduated from Pune Agriculture College in 1973. Later, he did his Masters& Ph.D. in Agricultural

Extension from IARI, New Delhi in 1975 and 1979 respectively. Dr Sadamate acquired post-Doctorate from the Michigan State University, the US as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Advanced Extension Management Training at Wisconsin, Cornell Universities and the Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA), London, UK. He has rich experience for the last four decades in Agricultural Extension, Management, and Planning. He worked with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Junior Scientist (1978-1982), with the Ministry of Agriculture (1982-2005) as Director and then, Additional Commissioner (Extension) and as Adviser, Agriculture (2006-2013) in the Planning Commission, Government of India. He was associated with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as Principal Consultant, FAO, New Delhi (2013) and with Department of Land Resources (DoLR), World Bank assisted Watershed Management Project as Agricultural Convergence Expert (2013-2015). Presently, he works as an Independent Agricultural Extension Specialist.

BTech (Agricultural Engineering) from the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, and PGDRM from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA)

Mr. Khurana has been associated with the Indigram group for over three years and took charge of ISAP as CEO in August 2020. Before this, he worked as Associate VP with Reliance Retail Ltd. (a key member in Fruits and Vegetable Vertical), VP – RJ Corporation (Unit Head – PEPSI Beverages, followed by Head- Sales & Marketing – Cream Bell Ice Cream Ltd.), DGM – Dalmia Industries Ltd., and Assistant Manager – National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) including Mother Dairy, Kolkata and Mahananda Dairy, Mumbai.

Ms. Bhansali is an eminent speaker, Advocate, MBA, Mentor & Advisor, Social worker, Young Achiever awardee for work on women empowerment by youth Pathshala on International Youth Day, Invitee on India-US Peace and Prosperity conference Delhi. She is Experienced Self-employed with a demonstrated history of working with several Civic Society Organisations and skilled in managing Non-Profit Organizations besides being a writer.

He is a prominent farmer with over a hundred acres of farm in Nashik and produces grapes and other commercial crops. He has ten years of experience in Export Quality Grapes & Pomegranate Production. He provides leadership to several local farmer groups, including FPOs in production of quality grapes, pomegranate and a variety of vegetables.

Over 45 years of experience areas of specialization are urban, rural, tribal, socioeconomic and community development; sectors of interest are education, health, livelihood and governance; domains of expertise are in planning, monitoring, evaluation, documentation and advocacy for policy reforms and structural changes for faster and better results in which he has published 6 books, 150 reports, 200 papers and 25 audio-visual products.

Over the past two decades, as Founder-Rural Relations, he has built an extensive network of relations with agents of economic and social change in large swathes of rural India. He has been working very hard on his dream to make the villages of India computer literate. He has set up thousands of Village School libraries under Gyan-Key project conceptualized and executed under his leadership. He has personally visited 7,600 villages across the country and executed work across 50,000 villages of India.

She has more than ten years of teaching experience for MBA and MCA. She is running Livestock Institute for Knowledge and Excellence (LIKE). LIKE is a training and interactive platform for companies working in Indian livestock sector. She has conducted various training programs all over India on different subjects like feed mill process loss, sales team training for feed mills in India. She is currently helping Swades Foundation in Raigad District and People Empowerment Movement in Ratnagiri District to promote small scale poultry, goat and dairy farming. She is also working with Society for Wildlife Conservation, Education, and Research (Wild-CER) for environment and Wildlife conservation. Since June 2019, she has been helping Rajpath Infracon Pvt. Ltd., Pune as an advisor for tree plantation and rural extension activities under CSR in Satara, Sangali, Nasik, and Ahmednagar districts. She is running Bal VachakChalval to inculcate reading habits among children.