Priya is an Indian entrepreneur with ventures across India and San Francisco. She went to school for Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering. She has 7 years of experience working with several aspects of a hardware business, including sales, prototyping, and product design. She was the founding CEO of Arduino’s India office. She has worked on wearable technology in San Francisco with Luxottica’s R&D. She loves new challenges and takes an active interest in mentoring her fellow women in technology. Priya has working knowledge of product prototyping, component selection, Arduino and analog electronics. She also has scripting knowledge of python and javascript. She believes in taking a platform-agnostic approach to new product design. Her core strength is her out-of-the-box creativity.

ERA is an innovation lab harnessing the power of the decentralized web. ERA enables the architects of the future by seeding cutting-edge technologies in infrastructure, applications and security. Rooted in community, ERA fosters an open-source mindset enabling a truly free Internet. ERA is building towards a society that will be better for the next generation and which is underpinned by a new economic model. Some of the innovative technologies born inside ERA include GUN, its Open Source cybersecurity protocol for synchronising decentralized graphs, supporting 30 million Monthly Active Users and Meething, its brand new peer-to-peer video conferencing platform, sponsored by Mozilla.