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Founder & COO 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 IIIT Allahabad. Now, the Founder duo (myself and Paawan Kumar) 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. I am an Enthusiastic Researcher and Entrepreneur, eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. I am in the learning process of understanding business strategic development, product development, and operations through my entrepreneurial journey. And I am motivated to learn, grow and excel through research as a base for high-end technology commercialization. I am one of the finalists among the top 12 deep tech startups in India in the Qualcomm Women Entrepreneur India Network (QWEIN) 2021 Cohort 2.0 Program, powered by Qualcomm Ventures. and Qualcomm Incorporation. I was also a fellow in Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Fellowship Program 2018 at SINE IIT Bombay. I am also an alumnus of the Canada India Acceleration Program 2018 (First Cohort from India), an initiative by All India Technical Council of Education and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in association with the Canada India Center for Excellence. I have spoken on various international and national platforms, some of them including "Innovation & Start-up Ecosystem" at Annual National Convention 2018, Indo-Canadian Business Chamber on 27th November 2018, Next-Gen Women in Agri-Food Tech, a part of Tropical Roundtables, Thought For Food, in partnership with Crop Life International in a live session on smashing gender bias as a woman in STEAM, etc. 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®️ NextGen 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: Communication Effective Pitching & Negotiation Business & Technical Writing for Startups Business Plan Writing HR Management Operations Marketing & Sales Strategies for Startups Leadership Project Management - Scoping, Risks, Planning Problem Solving & Critical Thinking Organizational Design Creativity & Design Thinking Entrepreneurship Finance for Startups Strategic Innovation - Foundation, Formulation & Management Market Research Business Model Canvas, Lean, Agile