Anitha Vadavatha

Founder, d.Cent Labs

San Francisco

Anitha Vadavatha is an entrepreneur, global strategist, and an exponential technologies advisor & consultant. She is the founder of d.Cent Labs with a focus to build a global ecosystem to drive application of decentralized & Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help support new architecture. She’s an alumna of Singularity University (SU) and a founding co-ambassador of SU San Francisco chapter to advocate exponential thinking/technologies to address global grand challenges. Anitha advises and mentors several startups in AI, blockchain, biotech & healthcare areas and affiliated with Singularity University Smart city accelerator, SU Ventures, California Life Sciences Institute, and GSV labs.

Anitha also founded Misu Labs, a boutique idea lab & consulting firm, and currently is an ExO (Exponential Organization) Works consultant. She has over 15 years of Fortune 500 corporate, startup and management consulting experience in Financial Services, Technology & Non-Profit industries in the US, India and emerging markets. Additionally, she is deeply engaged with various initiatives around science, technology, innovation & entrepreneurship; and is frequently invited to contribute at high level gatherings at the UN General Assembly, HOPE Global, REDX, MIT Media Labs Emerging Worlds; & Geeks Without Frontiers. She is a founding member of Project KC Scholarship, STEM on Stage, and has been part of the core team of REDX to innovate for billions. Her media engagements include co-executive producer and co-producer of award winning ‘The University’ & ‘Humanity Needs Dreamers: a visit with Marie Curie’ along with being a backer & founding member of A Total Disruption and A Great Collaboration. Anitha often speaks on AI, decentralization, smart cities, & exponential technologies.