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Ajit Mylavarapu

Vice President of Development, Transactions and App-Dev Technologies, Oracle

Ajit Mylavarapu is Vice President of the Transactions and Application Development Technologies group for Oracle Database. His group is responsible for the core transaction engine for the Oracle Database. In addition to this, his group is responsible for building technologies into the Oracle Database that enable app developers to use GenAI to build enterprise grade apps using the Oracle Database. Ajit has 15 years of experience in the database industry. He has 25+ issued and pending patents in diverse areas ranging from database transactions to CPU cache architecture. Ajit graduated with a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, CA.

Dr. Pramod Varma

Co-creator & Chief Architect BECKN PROTOCOL and FINTERNET

Pramod Varma is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of FIDE.org leading global efforts such as BECKN Protocol and FINTERNET.

He has been the chief architect of most of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) efforts starting with Aadhaar - India’s unique ID system that covers 1.4 Billion people; eSign - an interoperable digital signature protocol that’s used over 100 million times; DigiLocker - digital credentialing and wallet system having over 9 billion verifiable credentials and over 480 million users; and UPI - the unified instant payment system that was launched in 2016 currently doing over 18 Billion transactions a month.

He also played a key role in designing and architecting India’s indirect tax (GST) system, national toll collection system, digital health infrastructure, digital agri infrastructure, and digital education infrastructure.

Under FIDE.org, he co-created Beckn Protocol, an open source protocol effort that helps create decentralized, peer-peer transaction networks. Beckn protocol, since its production ready launch in 2022, is used around In India and other parts of the world in sectors such as traditional e-commerce, agriculture, energy, and others.

He is also the co-creator of the Finternet vision released in 2024. This vision imagines a universal infrastructure that puts users at the center giving them the ability to unify their assets in a verifiable and transactable manner, enabling billions of people to participate in the global digital economy.

In addition, he holds the positions of Co-chair at the global Center for DPI (CDPI), Chief Technology Officer at EkStep.org, and advises many entities and initiatives in India and globally.

The initial 16 years leading up to 2009, he had his entrepreneurial career within the industry playing technology leadership roles globally.

He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.