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Ms. Paawan Kumar

Founder & CEO of PS-1925

A drone startup working on tackling issues faced by farmers in India.


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Founder & CEO of PS-1925®, a drone startup working on tackling issues faced by farmers in India. Our team has been working on UAVs for the past 5 years since our B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. Now, the Founder duo (myself and Shefali Vinod Ramteke) are pursuing Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Sciences at IIIT Allahabad (Specialization in Startup). We want to blend science (research) with entrepreneurship to bring technology-based scientific solutions to farmers in India. We bring in Crop Protection Spraying Drone Solutions for Precision Agriculture & Climate-Smart Farming in India. PS-1925® has been recognized in various national as well as international platforms from organizations such as Boeing, Cisco, Google, Qualcomm, etc. I am passionate about Aerospace and Drones and want to create new innovations in the field of deep technology. I define myself as a decisive researcher, engineer, and entrepreneur experienced in impacting business direction and performance with successful leadership strategies, tactical decision-making, and forward-thinking approaches. I am dedicated to product development and incorporation of ICT technologies such as AI, ML, Sensors, Big Data and IoT. And extremely passionate about science and technology and working towards groundbreaking research for different areas in aerospace & UAVs. We are currently providing Scientific and Technology-based Solutions to Farmers, Municipalities, and Agro-based Companies through Precision Agriculture or Smart Farming using Drone Technology. We are A Team of Transnational Entrepreneurs that wants to connect different countries to the humongous Indian market by collaborations with cooperatives, government agencies, environmental organizations, and agro-based companies. We want to leverage drone technology in different parts of the world and want PS-1925® to be the "Gate to India". I also joined as an Evaluator to evaluate the student innovation projects, ideas, prototypes, and business models received from student teams as part of competitions and national level contests are being organized by the MIC and AICTE on regular basis such as National Innovation Contest, Chatraviswakarma, Ideathon, Samadhan, Smart India Hackathon, etc. I was also selected as Global TFF®️ Ambassador for Thought For Food®️ 2020. One of the 550 TFF®️ Next Gen Leaders among 3500 applicants as one of the #TFFAmbassadors. TFF®️ community solves the global system's most urgent challenges and represents TFF®️'s mission, values, and approaches to build relationships and collaborations across the globe in agriculture and food systems. Thought For Food®️’s Founder and CEO Christine Gould has been appointed by the UN Deputy Secretary-General to join the Advisory Committee for the UN Food Systems Summit. Skills: Leadership Project Management - Scoping, Risks, Planning Problem Solving & Critical Thinking Organizational Design Creativity & Design Thinking Entrepreneurship Finance for Startups Hardware Technologies & Design Aeromodelling & Aerodynamics ICT Circuits Modeling & Design Strategic Innovation - Foundation, Formulation & Management Market Research Business Model Canvas, Lean, Agile Pitching Marketing & Sales Strategies for Startups