About the Community
A Community, Not a Social Feed.
Deep Tech Community began in 2023 as a fourteen-person meetup in Bengaluru. It is now a 12,400-member enterprise network across 38 countries — member-run, free to join, and strictly focused on scientific and engineering rigor.
Summit 2025 · Singapore
Mission
Make deep tech knowledge accessible to anyone with the discipline to learn it.
We remove the three barriers that keep talented individuals out of hard technology: access to honest guidance, access to practitioners, and access to a room where rigorous questions are welcome.
Vision
A world where the next breakthrough is as likely to come from a study circle as from a well-funded lab.
Regional chapters in every technology hub, open technical libraries, and a seamless pipeline from first workshop to published paper — governed by members.
Governance & Ethics
Four Operating Principles
Rigor over hype
We discuss what is real, reproducible, and peer-reviewable. Deep tech moves fast enough without exaggeration.
Knowledge in the open
Talks, notes, and roadmaps are shared with every member. What one person learns, everyone learns.
Builders welcome
Students shipping their first project sit beside principal engineers. Titles matter less than curiosity.
Local roots, global reach
Chapters run in-person, in local time, with local organisers — connected to a worldwide network.
Leadership & Operations
Core Team & Track Leads
Supported by over 140 volunteer chapter organizers, lab leads, and peer reviewers worldwide.
Elena Marchetti
Executive Director
Former ML research lead. Believes communities are the best research instrument ever built.
Rahul Venkatesh
Head of Programs
Quantum engineer turned educator. Runs the workshop and roadmap machinery.
Sarah Okafor
Security Practice Lead
Red teamer and conference organiser. Keeps the community's standards sharp.
Tomohiro Sato
Space Programs Lead
Satellite systems engineer. Coordinates the space track and chapter space events.
Wei Ling Tan
APAC Chapters Lead
Builds the bridges between research institutes, founders, and members.
Ananya Iyer
Community Operations
First chapter lead, now keeping the whole network running week after week.
Institutional Partners
Organizations Backing the Community
Knowledge-sharing agreements, lab access, and sponsored research seats without editorial compromise.
Become a Track Volunteer
Every workshop, reading group, and paper summary is community-built. Roles open quarterly for event organizing, mentoring, reviewing, and chapter operations.
Contact Us
Reach the Executive Office
General inquiries, institutional partnerships, press
Hubs: Bengaluru · Singapore · Kuala Lumpur
Visits by appointment on symposia days