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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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