Builders, founders and operators across Bitcoin, FinTech and the frontier of money and AI. All on stage in Jaipur, October 30 to 31.
The people confirmed for the main stage in Jaipur.
Vikrant "Vik" Sharma is the founder and CEO of Cake Wallet, a leading self-custody platform for Bitcoin with privacy features. He and his wife run their own family office investing in companies that build decentralized and private financial systems that give users full control over their finances. Vik also serves on the board of Liberty Steel USA.
Prasanna Sankar is the founder of Vorflux, an AI platform that orchestrates teams of specialized agents across the software development lifecycle, which recently raised a $15M seed round. He previously co-founded Rippling, the HR and IT platform now valued at over $16B, where he served as CTO until 2020. A competitive programmer in his early career and a computer science graduate of NIT Trichy. When he's not building at Vorflux, he is deep in thought about the impact of AI, macroeconomics, and what the decades to come will look like.
Dr. Nishith Desai is the founder of Nishith Desai Associates, India's only India-centric global law firm, ranked among Asia Pacific's most innovative by the Financial Times for five straight years. Widely regarded as the Father of International Tax in India, he has spent decades advising governments through major economic reforms, work that earned him an honorary doctorate from Amity University in 2023. After India opened its economy in 1991, he helped build the country's asset management industry from scratch, launching its first five India-focused funds and helping the governments of India and Mauritius set up their offshore financial centres. His firm has since structured investments for over 1,400 funds across every asset class. He has served on the board of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and was named to the World Economic Forum's New Champions Global Leaders. Nishith is equally known for pushing NDA to the forefront of India's social impact sector, as a founding member of the Impact Investment Council and a firm recognised for pro bono work since 2001.
Harish B V is a co-founder of Unocoin, India's first bitcoin exchange (est 2013). A pioneer in the Indian cryptocurrency industry, he has played an instrumental role in developing the country's digital asset ecosystem. Notably, he served as a key petitioner in the Supreme Court case against the RBI's banking ban on crypto transactions, resulting in a landmark victory that stands as a major milestone in his entrepreneurial career.
Raj Maitra an ex-civil engineer is a self-taught developer who launched Bitshala to give curious minds across India a path into Bitcoin. Three years on, almost 1,500 people have completed a Bitshala cohort across India! What began as his own search for a community has grown into a reason a generation of Indian builders no longer has to walk this path alone.
Sooly is the founder of NeoWealth, a Bitcoin-only education and treasury-advisory firm for businesses and capital owners across the Middle East and Africa. Shaped by living through Lebanon's currency collapse and a decade on the ground across Africa, he teaches SMEs, corporates, and family offices to treat Bitcoin not as speculation, but as the infrastructure that survives currency debasement, banking friction, and cross-border payroll.
Kashif Raza has over 17 years of experience in Media Sales and Distribution, with previous experience at PepsiCo, Sony Pictures, and UTV-Disney. In 2021, he founded Bitinning to make Bitcoin and crypto education simple and accessible. Today, Bitinning's content reaches 1M+ followers across multiple social media platforms, covering Bitcoin, crypto, AI, macroeconomics, geopolitics, and gold through educational content and Crypto Ki Taaza Khabar, its daily news program.
Suril N. Desai is a Bitcoin lawyer, cypherpunk at heart, and student of freedom. In crypto since 2012, he has spent over a decade challenging the old assumptions about money, law and power. From India's landmark crypto battle against the RBI to advocating for smarter digital-asset regulation, his philosophy remains simple: Bitcoin is bigger than finance. It is code, speech, resistance and freedom. It is a way to move value across the information highway without asking anyone's permission.
Manoj Arora is a bestselling author, financial freedom coach, and environmentalist. A gold medalist in engineering from AMU Aligarh, he spent over two decades as an IT professional at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, L&T, and TCS before turning to writing full time. He has authored multiple national bestselling books on money, parenting, and happiness, including Rat Race to Financial Freedom and Happiness Unlimited, and runs the ELITE mentoring program for financial freedom. He is also founder trustee of Kalpavriksha, a tree plantation NGO working to plant and maintain a million trees.
Gaurav Kheterpal is the founder and CEO of Vanshiv, a Jaipur based consulting firm he started in 2023 that helps organisations put AI, data, cloud and CRM to work on real business problems, now around 150 people with offices in India, the United States and Australia and clients across more than 20 countries. He is a BITS Pilani and MIT alumnus, a Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame inductee and a Google Developer Expert for AI, and he has spoken at Dreamforce more than ten times alongside Google I/O Connect, Google Cloud Next and London's Calling. He also serves as Chief Evangelist at Copado.
Ravi Handa is the founder of Handa Uncle, a free, AI-powered personal finance platform built for Indians that gives unbiased guidance on investing, saving, insurance, taxes, and retirement planning without upselling products. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he previously founded and ran the edtech platform Handa Ka Funda from Jaipur for eight years before selling it to Unacademy in March 2021, and earlier worked as VP of Customer Success at MindTickle. He stepped away from full-time work in 2022 and is known for blunt, unsponsored commentary on personal finance to a large following on X.
Sabina is the co-founder of Tando, which has turned Kenya's 40 million M-Pesa numbers into Bitcoin Lightning addresses, so any of them can accept a Bitcoin payment instantly. She's driven by the freedom Bitcoin provides, and committed to helping African communities access the independence this technology offers.
Abhay Raizada builds Formstr, a forms application that runs on Nostr instead of a company’s server, so the questions and the answers stay with the people who wrote them. A software engineer based in Bengaluru, he studied at NIT Durgapur and worked at PayPal before going independent.
Jodom is the co-founder of Minmo a P2P exchange that enables human and automated agents to on/off ramp between BTC and the local currency. He is also a founding member of Bitsacco Community, and co-organizer of BitDevs Nairobi community. When he's not in front of his computer engineering the next great thing in Bitcoin, you'll probably find him biking, running, or hiking.
Kgothatso Ngako (KG) is a catalyst accelerating the adoption of Bitcoin across the African continent. He founded Machankura, a service that lets people send and receive Bitcoin without an internet-connected device, using USSD and other text-based interfaces. He also founded Exonumia.africa, translating Bitcoin literature into African languages, and sits on the board of Blink Wallet.
Sujal Jethwani is an entrepreneur, content creator, and host of The Sujal Show, where he interviews leaders in crypto and emerging technology — including Michael Saylor, Arthur Hayes, and Peter Schiff — for an audience of over 1.4 million followers. He previously founded GrowRex, a Web3 marketing and media company that worked with Binance, Polygon, and CoinDCX among others, and was named among Binance's Top 100 global creators in 2025.
Adi is the founder and lead of Summer of Bitcoin, which has brought 45,000+ applicants from 1,000+ universities across 72 countries into the Bitcoin open-source pipeline. Since 2021, Summer of Bitcoin has helped hundreds make their first meaningful Bitcoin contributions, with alumni going on to become developers, maintainers, founders, and long-term contributors across the ecosystem.
Anmol leads engineering at Bitshala, training the next generation of Bitcoin open-source developers in India, and is lead developer of Shroud, a Bitcoin wallet built around BIP-352 silent payments.
Ken Carpenter is the co-founder and CTO of Foundation, where he leads hardware engineering and firmware architecture for Passport, its air-gapped Bitcoin hardware wallet, and the company's next generation of devices. Foundation builds hardware and open-source software to keep people in control of their own keys, and raised $6.4 million in 2026 to extend that work into securing AI agents.
Alok builds CryoBrick, which turns old KaiOS feature phones into air-gapped Bitcoin wallets. The app hides in plain sight as a compass, the seed phrase is never stored on the device, only an encrypted hash, and the software is open source. He makes it in India for a few dollars a unit, on the view that proper Bitcoin storage should be affordable to everyone.
Amol is a finance professional with experience in banking operations and corporate credit, now focused on exploring Bitcoin as a path toward financial independence and the future of money.
Piccolo is the Curator and Chief Volunteer at BOB Space Bangkok, a Bitcoin only hacker space he founded in August 2022 that holds regular meetups and workshops, including sponsoring four Open Source Residency Cohorts funded by the Human Rights Foundation and OpenSats. Outside Bitcoin, he has spent more than two decades in investment banking and corporate finance, and currently runs a crowdfunding fintech in Thailand.
Andy Wong hosts Code Orange's monthly self-custody workshops and created selfcustody.academy, a hands-on simulator for practicing Bitcoin self-custody.
Bala co-founded Bitasha, a Bitcoin hardware manufacturer based in India. At Bitshala he runs Latest in Bitcoin Tech, a weekly club following technical developments across the Bitcoin space, and mentors on the Bitcoin Protocol Development and Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line courses.
Contributor at selfcustody/krux since the start of krux-installer development, his focus today is on code quality, testing, and reviews for both Krux and Krux-installer. He is also developing Bornal, an integration test framework for Krux to deal with a plethora of Bitcoin implementations—like Core, Electrs, Liana, and others. He has a strong interest in inheritance, Miniscript, and collaborative multisig.
Digvijay is the creator of The Bitcoin Dialectic, where he stress-tests ideas shaping the future of money.
Jesse Pielke is the founder and operator of HashrateUp, an independent Bitcoin mining business registered in Estonia and operating globally, covering ASIC hardware sourcing, hosting vetting, site evaluation, hydro/thermal reuse, project advisory, and capital introductions. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he studied energy economics and spent several years in the energy access sector, including work with an off-grid utility company in Mali, West Africa, before being drawn into Bitcoin through cross-border payment problems. Since founding HashrateUp in August 2023, he has hosted the HashrateUp podcast, talking with mining operators and energy experts about unlocking stranded energy across emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa.
Kamal Gaur spent over two decades in analytics and strategy across financial services and technology before stepping away from corporate life, financially independent, to build and write on his own terms. He is the founder of Zenca, where he helps people think more clearly about money, investing and financial independence. Kamal has also been actively involved in India's Bitcoin ecosystem and policy conversation, contributing to research, industry initiatives and policy engagement, including work presented before Parliament.
Rama Gan is a software engineer, Bitcoiner, and innovator researching low-tech solutions to improve self-custody. His current project, Penlock, offers a straightforward way to create seed phrases by hand and split them into 2-of-3 multi-phrase backups, no electronics required, enabling offsite recovery and inheritance planning without dependence on any third party.
Mineey is CMO of NonceLab, the company behind the Bitcoin self-custody wallet Coconut. She also co-runs Bitcoin Center Seoul, a home base for Bitcoin builders in Korea, and is Creative Director of Saturday Block, a Bitcoin-only culture brand based in Seoul. Focused on building a Bitcoin circular economy, she runs the meetup program at Bitcoin Center Seoul, brings Saturday Block booths to events like BTC Prague and Tokyo Bitcoin Base, and connects Asian Bitcoin communities through Bitcoin Squad Asia. She also contributes UX design to Bitcoin and Lightning wallets. In Korea, one of the world's most active crypto trading markets, she works on getting people from trading to actually using and holding Bitcoin.
Nakul Kumar is co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Cashify, India's leading re-commerce platform for used phones and gadgets, which he co-founded in 2009. He served as the company's COO from 2013 to 2020 before moving into the CMO role in 2022, shaping Cashify's brand as it built trust in algorithm-driven pricing for a market that had never had one. He studied at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, and is based in Gurgaon.
Paco de la India sold his furniture, bought $200 of Bitcoin and set out to cross 40 countries in 400 days spending nothing else. On day one, at a meetup in Bengaluru, a stranger handed him another $200, which turned out to be the pattern for the whole journey, filmed and posted as Run with Bitcoin until it ended in Curacao. He took the idea from Nellie Bly, who raced around the world in 72 days in 1889.
Paperpsych is a creative working full time in Bitcoin. Four years ago the question was how a non-technical person could help Bitcoin, today Paperpsych helps non-technical and technical people alike take their first step in. Main field of work is community management, event planning, design, copywriting, and Bitspace operations.
Sajith Caldera came home to Sri Lanka from the UK and built the on-ramp the country didn’t have. Bitnomi lets Sri Lankans buy Bitcoin with rupees and hold it themselves, pairing a non-custodial wallet with an OTC on and off-ramp built for local conditions. He studied computer science at the University of Hertfordshire, and worked across The Coin Bureau, Sonic Labs and the Meththa Foundation before starting it.
A speaker interested in how incentives and attention shape the way we think, work, and care for our health. Their work turns complex ideas into practical guidance for staying clear-headed in a noisy world.
Sameer is the founder of Epoch Shield, where he builds sovereign tools at the intersection of Bitcoin and Nostr.
Saqeer Shah is a lawyer, policy strategist, and co-founder of the Bitcoin Policy India, India's first Bitcoin think tank, working at the intersection of Bitcoin, monetary policy, and financial sovereignty. A practicing advocate at the High Court of Karnataka, he brings over a decade of legal experience to the Bitcoin ecosystem, with a focus on regulation, property rights, taxation, and the broader legal and policy implications of Bitcoin in India. His work centres on the questions that decide how Bitcoin is actually treated in Indian law.
Saurabh is the Programs and Operations Lead at Bitshala, contributing to open-source Bitcoin developer ecosystem initiatives, education clubs and cohorts, and IRL meetups across India.
Veronika is the founder of HODL Designs and a UX designer on Zeus, the open source Bitcoin and Lightning wallet. She works on how free and open source software gets designed, and what that asks of a designer that commercial product work does not.
Shambhavi Soni founded BitcoinHer to get Indian women into Bitcoin in person rather than online. Its luncheons have run in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata, teaching the halving through sats games and walking people through verifying a real transaction on chain. Attendees have gone on to host their own sessions in cities that were never on the plan. She trained as a journalist, writes on Bitcoin, and is based in Bengaluru.
Sunil spent ten years in the Merchant Navy, working on oil, chemical and bulk carriers with multinational crews and visiting more than 90 countries. He brought that global outlook into Bitcoin, where he is co-founder and Head of Hashrate at OurPool, a mining pool registered in Prospera, Honduras. He is also co-founder of InfraStack Partners, a brokerage and advisory firm for Bitcoin mining and AI and HPC data center infrastructure, with projects across US & Europe.
Anna is the CEO of Hodl Hodl, the leading peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading and lending platform. With almost a decade of experience building freedom-focused technology, Anna specializes in self-sovereign approaches to Bitcoin for individual and institutional usage.
Krishna Yogi is a serial entrepreneur, technology leader and data architect with over 20 years of experience building data-driven businesses and technology platforms. He founded Valuete, a multisig-powered Bitcoin lending platform, and has been a Bitcoiner since 2017. He has introduced hundreds of people to Bitcoin through conversations, education and his book, Why Bitcoin, and brings a founder's perspective to turning ideas into products.
Yo started out in law, then became a FOSS contributor in Bitcoin. Back in India, Yo helped found Bitshala and then led the effort to bring Bull Bitcoin to India. Today Yo is COO of Sovereign Engineering, the programme behind Blossom, Zapstore, Nutzaps, FIPS, Tollgate and more, focused on fixing the internet and building freedom tech.
Stark is a protocol engineer at Openswap, working on private, decentralized swap infrastructure on Bitcoin.
TheMhv is a Brazilian software developer, Bitcoin student and open-source contributor, and a fellow of Vinteum. TheMhv contributes to the Cashu Dev Kit (CDK).
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