Vinay Dora K............

In 2013-14, my focus has been on emerging markets, social ventures, open source community initiatives as well as on innovations in finance. During the period I have also been part of a several events. They include:

DrupalCampDelhi, DrupalCampMumbai - Host
NASSCOM Product Conclave - Media Delegate
CII Startupreneurs - Startup Marketplace Invitee
GMIC (Global Mobile Internet Conference) - Invitee
TechSparks & MobileSparks - YourStory Team-member
TiE Bangalore (Special Interest Group) - Speaker; Panelist
C-TIDES: Entrepreneurship Cell IIT-M - Workshop Organizer
Manthan (Digital Inclusion for Development) - Team Awardee

A 3rd person summary:

Vinay has the knack of reaching out to change-makers - be it at the Global Dialogues in Stockholm, or Social Capital World Forum event in Gothenburg, or the HPAIR conference at Harvard University Cambridge as a media panel delegate.

He relishes crowd mingles - like the ones he had last year during CommunicAsia/Broadcast Asia and Echelon 2013 in Singapore or those from earlier years - Good Morning 2012 in Stockholm and the International Day at Peking University Beijing.

In addition to events, he has hands-on experience with change-making through the Centre of Social Initiative & Management(CSIM) & via AoL workshops in Bangalore India. Vinay interned with an NGO Dream A Dream(DAD), helping them solve their 'life-skills curriculum using football as medium' dilemma - which he did by connecting them with trans-continental group GrasstRoot Soccer(GRS), who had the expertise.

During the same period, Vinay also worked full-time as a web journalist with Yahoo! in India, where besides original writing, his focus was on content curation & engaging audiences. He live-tweeted events like Y! Open Hack Day & Innovation Conference, ‘The World Interviews...’, Indian Elections 2009, Oscars & FIFA World Cup 2010, as well as organized a tweet-up with the editorial team & represented them at events like Twestival.

Prior to Yahoo!, Vinay worked with international business development, online Ad sales & blogging at Pressmart Media. He was also involved in an SEO activity for the project ‘Destination NASA Knowledge Challenge 2008’.

He may not have a presence in space yet, but in the Virtual World (SecondLife) his nickname