Soumya is an entrepreneur, investor, tech influencer, and a secure software developer. At Digiotouch, he is on a mission to deliver secure, trustworthy, and sustainable solutions for the Next-Generation Internet (NGI) aka the Internet of Humans. At present, he is spearheading (i) a de-biaser system for Artificial Intelligence used in recruitment industry (H-E BIAS project), (ii) a data space for trustworthy and secure agri-data sharing (H-E DIVINE project), and (iii) a holistic sustainability measurement system for European plastic and agri-food industries (H2020 upPE-T and ZeroW projects). He has raised 2.4M+ € in public funding to bootstrap Digiotouch’s cutting edge R&D activities. He enthusiastically talks about Extended Reality (XR) and Quantum Computing.