Speaker:

Pravin Bhagwat

Pravin is an entrepreneur and a wireless security researcher. He was Co-founder & CTO of Mojo Networks -- a product venture which started in year 2003 from Pune and grew to become a leading provider of Cloud Managed Secure Wi-Fi for the global market. In 2018, the company was acquired by Arista.

Pravin started his research career at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and AT&T Labs where he was a lead member of Mobile IP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth research teams. He has numerous research papers and 27 patents to his credit.

Prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey, Pravin served as a Visiting Faculty at Computer Science Department, IIT Kanpur. In 2005, he was awarded MIT’s Global Indus Technovator Award for successfully engineering the world’s first multi-hop WLAN network. Pravin is also the recipient of IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award of 2019.

For the past seven years, Pravin has also been experimenting with a couple of non-tech ideas, such as leading a community level green/recycling initiative, jumpstarting an eco-restoration project near Pune and making a feature film length documentary.

Pravin has B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, India and MS/PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.