Subodh Gajare
Lead Architect, Digital Innovation Leader, Technology Evangelist, Thought leader, and Tech Speaker with decades of experience in Nextgen Networking & Communications solutions building.
Subodh contributes as Research Mentor for incubating Cisco AI, 5G, and IoT industry solutions – in Digital Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Health care, Education, Energy, and Transportation.
He represents Cisco at Cisco Live in Asia, Europe & US. He is a mentor for Cisco Start-up program (Launchpad). He speaks at Cisco Technical leadership Forum globally and in industry events.
He has co-authored 4 patents in areas of AI/ML, IoT, Optical systems & SDN/NFV. His domain expertise in IoT, Mobility (3G to 5G transformation), Security, SDN, DC automation, Cloud, and AI/ML framework.
He is a regular contributor to MPLS/SDN/NFV Congress, IoT SWF, Mobile World Congress, Google Cloud Next, KubeCon/Cloud Native Con. He is highly engaged with SDO bodies (IEEE, IETF, TSDSI, Smart City Council, Ethernet Alliance & SANOG.
Currently, Subodh is a Lead Architect at Cisco R&D, India.
He is helping Pujar Academy learners as the Tech Mentor and Technical Skill Advisor.
Academia partnerships: IIT, NIT, IIM & Others
Subodh collaborates with academia (India, Singapore, Australia & US) for inserting industry impact courses around emerging trends for students and faculty.
He is laser-focused to industrialize impactful innovation & augment the start-up ecosystem in India. He is a research mentor for various start-up ecosystems – NSRCEL (IIM Blore), IISc Research labs & Launchpad (Cisco).
He is a humble contributor to numerous IITs, NITs, B-Schools & Engineering schools within India for shaping their curriculum, to align to industry needs including IIT-Mumbai, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-BHU, and IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Calcutta, and IIM-Lucknow.