"Technology is imperative to transform education and enable students and academia to realize their full potential in today's mobile-first, cloud-first world. We must adopt and promote technology advancements that can change both the path and the pace of teaching and learning, thereby, building engaged, aware and digitally empowered citizens."

Mr. Rajiv Arora, currently the Director, Product Marketing, Education & Compete Business Strategist at Microsoft Corporation India, has over 24 years of experience in building and leading solution and operational services management across the globe. He leads strategic engagements and also works on policy issues related to education sector. As a Compete Business Strategist, he advises CXOs/BDMs/TDMs on business solutions across large Enterprises and Small & Medium Business.

As a strong process person with GREEN Belt - Six Sigma certification, Rajiv has received numerous awards for his achievements at GE Money, IBM & Microsoft. He won the "IT Asia Excellence" Award for leading best "IT Functional" Excellence across GE Money Asia & Best CIO award 2009.

Had been a part of the core team of Ministry of Information Technology for Cyber Security implementation in the country. He is also part of the advisory board of number of Large Universities