Rama Devi Lanka leads the strategic states’ engagement framework at NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech Hub — India’s apex think tank for anticipating and shaping the country’s next-decade technology shifts. Her work spans policy design, platform architecture, and ecosystem partnerships that help governments deploy frontier technologies responsibly and at scale, across AI, Quantum, Biotech and Digital Public Infrastructure.
Previously, as Head of the Emerging Technologies Wing at the Government of Telangana, she built one of India’s most advanced State-level technology ecosystems — establishing Centres of Excellence in AI, Cybersecurity, and Additive Manufacturing, launching India’s first AI startup accelerator RevUp,
A recipient of the Digital India Award from the President of India and recognised by Google as one of its Women in AI, Rama brings three decades of leadership across government, startups, and global technology partnerships — to the critical question of how India builds trusted, scalable digital intelligence for a billion people.