Tipparaju Surendra, born and brought up in Hyderabad, has always been a techno geek at heart from school days. After his schooling at Nrupatunga High School in Kacheguda, he pursued his engineering from Osmania University and his post-graduation from BITS, Pilani. He started his professional career in IT and led many teams for major MNC’s across the world. He returned from the US in 2007. He is currently working as Lead of Architecture for Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Microsoft playing a key role in developing products and solutions for a wide range of projects worldwide. His core passion is to bring technology and people by engaging actively in various industry forums, to play an advisory role for startups and to support social activities. He writes technology articles and speaks in many industry forums in AI, management and product development. He is Vice Chair for IEEE, Technology and Engineering Management (TEMS), Hyderabad chapter. With deep love for India he is passionate to help children in developing technical and social skills to be future leaders and entrepreneurs.