In the AI age, learning is not about remembering answers (which ChatGPT can do easily), but rather learning to learn. In an age, where knowledge and information will be everywhere, key would be to figure out where to apply it and how. Self learning, peer to peer learning and learning by doing are critical pillers for "AI for learning age".

Human like AI is going to create the next disruptive generation of companies. ChatGPT has shown a glimpse of what is possible, however in next 10-15 years, AI first companies will disrupt every single vertical by driving down costs, while increasing accessibility. India with its massive data and talent, in collaboration with global ecosystem can produce such winners. ART Venture Fund (Cat2 AIF) aims to back such AI first companies.

vEngage provides a platform for Healthcare Providers to keep engaged with patients while they recover at home. It brings a holistic approach (not just vital) to patient engagement with symptom monitoring, medication, diet & exercise compliance, health tips and early warning signs. Currently working across 3 continents.  

ARTPARK (AI & Robotics Technology Park) is a joint initiative of Indian Institute of Science & AI Foundry, set up as a section 8 company (Not for Profit) with seed grant of 230 cr/$32mn from Department of Science and technology (Govt. of India). It is set up as the premier research translation park with a global collaborative ecosystem.

Before co-founding AI foundry, Umakant co-founded piVentures, a $35m early stage fund for AI (India’s first & only AI focused fund), investing in close to 15+ leading AI companies in India (Sigtuple, Niramai, Locus.sh & others). He also advisor at generative AI startup, Pixis. He has spent more than 10 years in AI space (Founded India’s first AI bot startup in '09) as an entrepreneur, strategy thinker and investor in enterprise, healthcare & logistics. He is also co-founder of ARTPARK, India's first AI & Robotics technology park promoted by IISc and seed funded by DST & GoK to the tune of 230 cr($32mn). He is an advisor to Govt. of India in AI policy and research ecosystem creation. Ex-Director India for Science Inc., he spent time in strategy and innovation roles at Wipro Ltd., one of the leading IT Services companies. IIT Kanpur Alum. Abstract painter in his spare time.

Subhashis is an entrepreneur and investment banker from his background and has previously worked for Standard Chartered Bank Real Estate Private Equity Fund, Tata Housing Development Company, Sequoia Capital, Tishman Speyer Private Equity Fund. He also confounded and served as CIO(Chief Investment Officer) at ARTPARK, growing an ecosystem of 19+ AI startups. He has worked and lived in most major cities of India and understands the real estate dynamics of those cities well. The list includes Mumbai, Bangalore, NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. He has been deeply involved in deals for both the residential market and office market as an investment banker and advised companies in domains like AI, financial sector, travel & logistics, defence apart from real estate. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta.

Pulkit is an academic and an entrepreneur focused on working in common sense/Humanlike AI, one of the next big evolutions in AI. He is Asst. Professor at MIT CSAIL leading "Improbable AI" lab, which helped create "MIT Mini Cheetah". He is also Co-founder of SafelyYou Inc, which is applying computer vision to prevent falls in elder care homes. His research focuses on curiosity driven machines & common sense problem in Robots. He has a PhD from BAIR (Berkeley AI Research) and Bachelors from IIT Kanpur. He was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal for best all round achievement and leadership at IIT Kanpur and is excited by the quest for singularity. He is also an accomplished musician.

Dr. Jain is the co-founder of Perceptive Code a Silicon Valley AI startup that builds intelligence into automobiles using Deep Learning. He also co-founded Uavio, a drone company focused on GPS denied environment. He is part of the Theano development team and a contributor to Torch - both of which are widely used libraries for Deep Learning. Dr. Jain received his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and his post-doc from NYU where he worked with Yann LeCun.

Badal has worked for 20 years in India and the US and has extensive experience in financial services, technology, innovation and business transformation having worked with Fortune 500 companies and Governments, public-private partnerships, and large-scale innovation programs. Previously, he was Founding CEO at Catalyst, a USAID and Ministry of Finance sponsored program. He has advised the National Payments Corporation of India. He has also worked as VP at SnapDeal, Group Product Manager at Intuit, Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co., and Economist at the World Bank. Badal holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Masters of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a BA in Physics & Economics from Brandeis University. He is a 2019 Chevening Financial Services Fellow recognized by the UK Government. .

Naveen Budda is the co-founder of Karmalife. In his previous avatar, he has created AI labs at Smartron under the tronX platform, one of the most innovative mobile phone companies out of India. His expertise in the area of Computer Vision , Mobile Security and Data Science.Has 10 patents in different areas. Worked at Samsung R&D, Celstream, Sasken.

QS World University rankings ranked IISc second in the world in terms of citations per faculty. With more 2000+ PhD students it is one of the leading universities in India and Asia too. IISc has one of the largest AI & Robotics research cluster with more than 60+ faculty members and 400+ masters and Ph. D. students.