How can data, equity, technology and sustainability intersect? Rikin Gandhi explains how data drives real-world changes, how women hold the power to move the needle on agricultural data and how a “cold email” started his journey into the world of agricultural data and technology.

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Meet the guest

Rikin Gandhi is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Green. With a masters in aeronautical and astronautical space engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelors in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, Rikin began his career at Oracle and later joined Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team, where he researched ways to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development globally. The time Rikin spent in India’s rural communities changed his life. He developed a passion for helping the country’s rural farmers, whom he saw as heroes. More than a decade later, that passion has become Rikin’s career; in 2006, he co-founded what has become Digital Green.

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