Shilpika Gautam

Shilpika (Shilps) Gautam is Founder & CEO of Opna and a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She is recognised as a leading voice in accelerating electrification, while ensuring AI-driven digital transformation becomes a force for regeneration, not extraction. Her north star remains constant: to level the starting line for everyone, everywhere.

She is also known for her 3,000-kilometre source-to-sea expedition along the River Ganges, completed on a stand-up paddleboard, which earned her a Guinness World Record and helped raise global awareness of water and climate challenges.

Opna is the market infrastructure for critical power equipment: transformers, switchgear, HV cables, and generators. Buyers get verification, speed, transferable slots they can hold before specs are finalised, and CapEx aligned to their draw schedule. Manufacturers get order book certainty they can build new capacity against.

A renewables developer and a data centre operator wait in the same queue for the same critical power equipment from the same factories. Every slot we find and verify is a slot either of them can take - the more projects we energise, the more clean power we energise.