Fair Game
Play Confident

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Srijan received his Bachelor's and Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad. During his studies, he published two international conference publications. His work was recognised with an undergraduate research award. Post graduation, Srijan worked at Nvidia during the day, and used to play Poker in the evenings. During this journey, he started playing poker online - only to discover a lack of Verifiable fairness in online poker, founding FairShuffle.

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Shaker is a senior executive with 20+ years of industry experience, including 19+ years in managing Large scale multi-million, multi year business transformation programs with Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Shaker is also a Startup Entrepreneur, Business and Technology Advisor, Keynote Speaker. Founder and Chief Innovator. He is very passionate about Innovations and realizing ideas to help people in the mainstream. Before venturing on his journey as an entrepreneur, he spent many years as a Business and Technology Advisor for fortune 500 companies, working with C level executives and managing large scale multi-million, multi year global business transformation programs.

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Ram has an illustrious career where he served the Indian government, across several different domains. An exteremely driven person, he brings in elements of discipline, commitment and time bound execution in every aspect of the project. A Cybersecurity expert, Ram is a graduate from the JNU - New Delhi Campus.

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An IIM Indore MBA Graduate, Soumini was one of the few 100% scholarship recipients for MS from the prestigious University of RIT, New York. A growth strategist to her core, she has diverse experience across various sectors like Telecom, IT, FMCG and has been a growth consultant for various companies ranging from e-commerce to real estate primarily focusing on synergizing online & offline business growth. She has cofounded Kasturi Diamond, which is one of the top 3 online jewellery brands in India. Being from the engineering background, she believes technology can solve most of the problems faced by humans today with the correct entrepreneurial approach and acumen. She was nominated as the Top “Women to Watch” in India by the Entrepreneur magazine.

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Gaming Industry Veteran, Dinesh Kumar, brings domain expertise in online gaming, technology and business. He has taken care of Digital Marketing in India for several online gaming companies. He has also been an accomplised Techology Program Manager taking care of multi platform environments such as C++/C/Java/Android development and R-Studio, with innovation and delivery as his strong suits.

Dinesh has over 20 years of IT industry experience in the US, Canada, UK, Gibraltar, Sweden, and India in different domains ranging from Entertainment Industry, Insurance, Utility & Document Management. During his stint as the ex-managing director for Internation Game Technology(IGT) India, he took care of Lottery, Gaming & Online Casino products. His specilities are : management, leadership, team building, technology, strategy and business drivers.

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Abhishek Verma is a national award-winning director, animator and producer. He is an animation & communication designer from IDC School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is also a Young India Fellow from Ashoka University. He has a keen interest in experimental narrative, traditional 2D-animation, screenwriting, illustration and production pipeline. He has authored books in Graphic Design and Scratch program learning through animation for Maharashtra State, India. Part time he teaches courses in animation and story narrative in different academic spaces. He owns and creatively manages an animation production space, TheMatchbox.co, which is involved in creating original 2D animation films and series for the mature audience in India.

His films draw inspiration from the surroundings and try to bring the idea of culture in his narratives in the medium of 2D hand-drawn animation. His first film was Chasni (the sugar syrup), which deals in understanding daily routine of acid attack survivors through Chai(tea). His second film Maacher Jhol (the fish curry) tries to bring the concept of food and coming-out in Indian family space. Maacher Jhol is selected as one among the top 39 films from the world for Academie Des Cesar 2019. This is the first Indian independent film to be awarded at Annecy International animation festival. It also was awarded for the best animation film, best animator and best director at 65th Indian National Film Awards.

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Shiben is the Founder of Dhantra, an indie game development studio building games with a never before seen Indian art style : by bringing Indian art and culture in modern art forms. His two games Krishna Legends (highly rated) and "The Vaanar Game" (highly anticipated) are testimony to the above. He has several years of creative experience in Hollywood animated feature films, such as Boss Baby, Trolls, Madagascar3 etc. working with the DreamWorks Animation Unit, and later delved into technical artwork pursuits.

A research graduate from IIIT Hyderabad, he has several publications in top conferences in Computer vision and Computer Graphics. A proud nerd, he has also worked for big tech companies like Adobe & Microsoft. In his free time, he loves to garden, play indie games, write something for his blog, or just listen to indie music.

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Ojasvi is a graduate from IIIT Hyderabad. He has worked at top technical firm such as Microsoft and Google, where he has gained experience in leading engineering teams on products from inception to launch for multi-million (100 million$+ ARR) product. He has gained extensive knowledge of online ads ecosystem including bidding, ranking & creative management. He also gained experience in implementing and improving large scale service based architectures handling terabytes of data. A Silicon Valley resident, he is advising a variety of startup in the area.