TEDx
Talk · 2024
The Journey of Tenacity
Ravi Daparthi's TEDx talk on tenacity: failure, persistence and the long road from engineer to founder.
Speaking & Media
Speaking & Media
Ravi speaks about building AI products people can explain, leading teams that don't run on one person's weekends, and starting companies in India for the world.
01, Talks
Talks Ravi gives
01
Whatever works isn't whatever is right
Building AI products with mechanisms, not luck.
02
From IT to leadership
A 20-year path from delivery to founding, and what each stage teaches.
03
Legal tech in India
The next decade of the profession, from the courtroom's point of view.
04
Product, team, market
The three things founders get out of order, and how to fix the sequence.
05
Scaling enterprise AI
Governance and capability, what actually lets large organisations adopt AI, from his doctoral research.
02, On stage & on air
Featured talks & appearances
Talks & panels
NASSCOMPanel · NASSCOM GCC Conclave 2022
Leaders' discussion on design principles for sustained growth, attracting the best talent and building businesses where data and customers come first.
- QE Conclave
Panel · QE Conclave 2024
Panel with Anuradha Amudalapalli, Anita Manda, Jeyachitra Alagar, Madhu Murty and Parth Singh on AI adoption and the changing role of quality engineering.
- NASSCOM
Talk · NASSCOM Product Connect · 2023
Why ethical AI is not a contradiction, and how products can stop trapping people inside their own bubbles.
Podcasts & interviews
- Voice of Mogasala
Podcast · 2025 · 73K views · Telugu
With Teja Addepalli, hosted by Siva Kalyan Mogasala. Hard decisions, the philosophy of failure, the AI bubble and advice for young entrepreneurs.
- KC Talks Career
Podcast · 2024 · 38K views · Telugu
A step-by-step masterclass on starting a company, from idea to execution, with twenty years of lessons folded in.
- KC Talks Career
Podcast · 2025 · 1K views
With host Sri Lakshmi Iyengar: bootstrapping, product and people, and what scaling a company twice teaches you.
- Lollypop Design Studio
Interview · 2020
On leading full-scale turnarounds and aligning technology with what the business is actually trying to do.
- Guild TV
Interview · 2022
How India's SMEs are digitising, and what an AI-powered, all-in-one CRM, ATS and HRMS changes for them.
- MyStartup TV
Interview · 2019
An entrepreneurial journey, the vision behind Oorwin and what keeps Ravi motivated, recorded for World Disability Day.
Television
Hindustan TimesTelevision · Ideas Matter Most talk show · 2025 · 17K views
Hindustan Times' Ideas Matter Most talk show: AI, startups, T-Hub and what India builds by 2047, as Co-founder & CTO of Signitives.
NewsXTelevision · India A-List · 2024 · 1.2K views
Profile interview on building Oorwin's AI recruitment platform to 700+ customers across four countries.
- hmtv
Television · Game Changer · 2025 · Telugu
Television feature on Signitives and the road from engineer to founder.
Recent stages
Keynote · 5 Oct 2024
IEEE Student Branch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai
Chief guest & keynote: “Engineering to Entrepreneurship: Creating Solutions, Building Businesses”.
Event listing →03, Formats
Stages & formats
- Keynotes
- Fireside chats
- Panels
- Podcasts
- Campus talks
- Corporate leadership sessions
Languages: English, Telugu, Hindi.
Book Ravi for your stage
Conferences, corporate offsites, campus events and podcasts, in Hyderabad, across India, or remote.