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Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blippar, a leading technology company specializing in augmented reality, artificial intelligence and computer vision. Under Mitra’s direction, Blippar has grown from a groundbreaking idea to an industry leader, which was listed 3 years in a row in CNBC’s list of most disruptive companies in the world.
Mitra started his tech career in 1997 as a 17 year-old high school who created a web portal to empower underprivileged women in India. Ambarish is today an active private investor in the field of AR, AI and Genomics.
With a vision to create the ultimate visual browser by recognizing everything in the physical world and giving people more from the world around them, Ambarish has been widely recognized for his pioneering work in the field of Augmented Reality. In 2016, Mitra was named UK Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Mitra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017.
All around us, we see innovation in technology at the heart of sustainable development in the 21st century.
From the slums of New Delhi to Silicon Valley, the award-winning Blippar founder charts his journey to start-up stardom, sharing what he learned along the way.