| Samriddhi Nahar | Individual | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | When Authentication Fails: Fallbacks for Food Entitlements in India’s DPI | Submitted |
| Sambhavi Vasudevan | Individual | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Who Keeps the Internet Running During a Cyber Crisis? Building Secure, Accountable and Inclusive Internet Resilience in India | Selected |
| Tanmay Arora | Prequate Advisory | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Who Pays When Your AI Agent Pays? Setting Citizen-First Rules for AI Agents on UPI and India’s Digital Public Infrastructure | Submitted |
| Shatakshi Shekhar | CCAOI | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Safeguarding End Users: Addressing DNS Abuse | Selected |
| Neeti Biyani | APNIC Foundation | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | From Last Mile to First Principle: Community Networks as the Foundation of India’s DPI | Selected |
| Agatsya Dabral | National Internet Exchange of India | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Can AI Agents Be Trusted on the Internet? | Submitted |
| Shipransh Pandey | National Internet Exchange of India | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Beyond Connectivity: Strengthening India’s DNS, Routing and Internet Infrastructure Resilience | Submitted |
| Deborah Swati Lall | Individual | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Trusted Agents for Every Indian: Open Standards and a Common Language for the Agentic Internet | Selected |
| AISHWARYE PANDEY | National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | From BGP Routes to User Trust: Strengthening India’s Internet Resilience | Submitted |
| Vinay Singh | International Trademark Association | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Phishing at Scale: DNS Abuse, Brand Impersonation and Protecting India’s Digital Users | Selected |
| Ishita Trivedi | ISOC India Mumbai Chapter | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | Last-mile DPI: Architecting universal accessibility for the next 100 million users | Selected |
| Saurabh Srivastava | Digital Empowerment Foundation | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | AI Infrastructure and Data Centres: Assessing the Efficacy of India’s Fourth Industrial Revolution | Selected |
| Suruchi Kumari | Digital Empowerment Foundation | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | From DPI to Digital Empowerment: Can Phygital Models Bridge India’s Last-Mile Divide? | Selected |
| Shivansh Bibra | National Internet Exchange of India | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Rolling the Keys: Strengthening India’s DNS Trust Infrastructure Through Key Changes and Future Cryptographic Transitions | Submitted |
| Chahat Goyal | National Internet Exchange Of India | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | The Internet Never Forgets: Verifiable Data Erasure and Trustworthy AI Infrastructure in India | Submitted |
| Ritesh Goel | National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | Universal Acceptance (UA) in Government IT Procurement | Submitted |
| Syed Sultan Kazi | Council for Social and Digital Development | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | From DPI to Digital Empowerment: Understanding Last-Mile Barriers among Tea Tribe and Adivasi Communities in Assam | Selected |
| Ashika V | Broadband India Forum | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | Maximising the Local Economic Value of India’s Data Centre Growth | Submitted |
| Shubhika H Goel | Broadband India Forum | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Resilient by Design: Securing the foundations of India’s Internet | Selected |
| Mudassir Inam | National Internet Exchange of India | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | AI for All, But Accountable to Whom? Governing Inclusive AI in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure | Submitted |
| Yatharth Singh | National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Cracks in the Foundation: Why India’s Billion-User Digital Future Is at Risk from Single Points of Failuree | Submitted |
| Abhishek Anand | National Internet Exchange Of India | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Building a Governance Framework for Universal Acceptance (UA) Certification and Self-Certification in India | Submitted |
| Pranjal Soni | National Internet Exchange of India | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | Beyond the Screen: Strengthening Routing Security for a Billion Users | Selected |
| Shivi Khandelwal | National Internet Exchange of India | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | India’s Internet, Unpacked: Traffic, Trust and Resilience | Submitted |
| NANDINI MITTAL | National Internet Exchange of India | From DPI to Digital Empowerment | Beyond the QR Code: Building Redress, Correction and Exit into India’s Digital Public Infrastructure | Submitted |
| RUTU VANI | RASHTRIYA RAKSHA UNIVERSITY | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Strategic Autonomy in the Age of AI: Securing India’s National Security through Indigenous AI Capability | Submitted |
| Ashika V | Broadband India Forum | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Who Builds, Who Benefits, Who Decides? Defining India’s AI Future | Selected |
| Sandeep Singh | National Internet Exchange of India | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Accountability for AI-Powered Public Services in India’s Languages | Submitted |
| Dushyant Dubey | Broseph Foundation | Keeping a Billion users Connected & Secure | When the Helpline Doesn’t Pick Up: Citizen Networks and the Last Mile of Cybercrime Reporting | Submitted |
| Nikhil Raj | National Internet Exchange of India | India’s AI Pathway: Intelligence, Inclusion and Agency | Edge-AI and The Last Mile: Decentralizing Compute for True Linguistic Inclusion & Privacy | Submitted |
