Payal Rajpal

Payal Rajpal is a Futurist, Educationist and Entrepreneur.

Upon relocation from the U.K to India in 2010 her mission was to bridge the gap between Industry & Academia by setting up innovation centers with an aim to elevate success rates on employability.

In 2015 she also started advising Indian stock-listed manufacturing and IT companies on Foreign Direct Investment to Finland, Estonia and into India, a conglomerate of companies worth $2 billion in FDI’s.

She launched Study in Estonia to India in 2017 as a Spokesperson providing a platform for students to access advanced technology ‘Future Skills’ education in Europe, elevate Indian Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Start-up ecosystem.

She is a pioneer in bringing robotics, AL, Coding and STEAM education to government schools in urban, tribal and rural areas. Robotex India has coached over 20,000 government school students thus far with a stupendous corporate ecosystem CSR support, ‘Girls who build robots’ ‘Robotex for Rural’ as one of the patent programs.

As a founder of Hack the Crisis, India which concluded two successful COVID19 solution finding Hackathons in April 2020 ‘Hack the Crisis – India’ largest in India with 15000 participants and ‘Global Hack’ the first digital initiative with the Ministry of Electronics and IT India MEITY, MyGov India, Digital India.

She has coached corporate leadership in over 100 companies and spoken in over 500global platforms from educational institutions to business forums. She is the vertical head for Ficci Flo Pune, empowering and impacting the lives of 10000+ women through various skilling projects and initiatives by raising 10 million since 2015. She is an advisory on Lets Do It, India and Ambitious Africa. An awardee of various accolades that of Women in Business Rising Star to Top Women in Technology, Top 100 Global Influencers.