Dr Swathi Vurrakula

Dr Swathi Vurrakula

Business Development Manager India
Wageningen Food & Biobased Research
Wageningen University & Research

Ms. Swathi Vurrakula is a biotech researcher experienced in building partnerships and valorising knowledge. In her current role, managing India portfolio for World's leading Wageningen University and Research, she facilitates the great Indian leapfrog in the agri and food sectors by drawing upon the expertise of about 300 scientists at Wageningen Research.

She co-founded FarmBot in 2017, a predictive analytics platform providing forecasting services for the farming and retail industries and was instrumental in building the platform in its entirety and the MVP. Prior to this, she worked on Indo-Danish collaborative projects at the Danish Technological Institute.

Her background is in a wide-range of subjects spanning the agri, food and data analytics domains and holds a PhD from Copenhagen University in Denmark. Among the many verticals she works on, are cutting edge technologies like Computer Vision and 3D food printing. She specializes in knowledge & tech transfer and combines her scientific and entrepreneurial acumens to turn science into reality.

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