Digital India and the Fourth Industrial Era

Arvind Gupta, Innovation Evangelist, Technology Entrepreneur and Policy Advisor,
is the Head and Co-Founder of Digital India Foundation, a policy think tank working in areas of Digital Inclusion, Internet Governance, Cyber Security, Electronics Manufacturing & Indian Software Products.

With over 25 years of industry experience, in diverse sectors in variety of leadership, policy and entrepreneurial roles in India and Silicon Valley, Arvind Gupta was most recently the CEO of MyGov, an initiative of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, to Empower Citizens of India with Participative Governance & Digitally Communicate Schemes and Policies to all Indians.

Gupta also led the Digital, Social Media and Communication Campaign for PM Narendra Modi, which resulted in PM Modi creating electoral history and achieving its Mission 272+ in the 2014 elections. An active member of TiE, NASSCOM and Founder Member of iSPiRT, Arvind Gupta also co-founded startups such as amplify.ai, apnaPay, Ideaswall among others.

Mr. Gupta graduated with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He has a Masters in Computer Science and MBA (Finance & Marketing) from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was also awarded the Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation for year 2014.