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Nikunj Thakkar

CEO at DataOne Innovation Labs

BIO

Nikunj is currently Co-founder & CEO of DataOne Innovation Labs, a business solutions company started in 2016, with a strong focus in analytical solutions, product development, and IoT implementations. He holds a degree for Master of Science in Information and Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and communication technology (DA-IICT). Nikunj is also the Lead at the Gujarat Chapter of Headstart Network Foundation where he leads initiatives like Startup Saturday and the Mentor program, while managing the Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat teams and arranging city wide entrepreneurship events. Nikunj also has an interesting student life, doing several jobs during his Bachelor’s to earn his own pocket money by picking up small ventures to sell used laptops and mobiles to pay his college fees. He also helped in his father's logistics business for three years and learned various lessons of entrepreneurship from his father. During his Master’s, he was also selected for Google Summer of Code and worked with Vienna University on Building Monitoring system.