Balaji Lakshmanan

Balaji Lakshmanan is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dvara E-Dairy. He brings over 12 years of entrepreneurial and professional experience in innovation, product design as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise. Balaji has built robots and AI driven products for Banking, Telepresence and HR companies. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and a MS in Research from IIT Madras. He has been a speaker at several TEDx industry events and holds a joint patent. Balaji is inspired by many great minds including Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Iron Man. He is also inspired by people who are less fortunate but who work twice as hard to ensure a better life for the next generation. He enjoys soft, melodious, country music and the music of AR Rahman, Sid Sriram and Arijit Singh. Balaji enjoys travelling and loves to unwind on long bike rides on ECR, Chennai. His favourite cities are San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Kanyakumari. Balaji can play the violin and enjoys reading non-fiction and self-improvement books. His friends describe him as aspirational, intelligent, hardworking and a jovial person with a kind heart.