We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
Conferred with the Padma Shri, Rohan Bopanna is a Grand Slam Winner, Asian Games gold medalist, multiple Olympian and member of the Indian Davis Cup team for over 20 years. At 43, Rohan Bopanna is the oldest player to be ranked World No. 1 in Tennis history while he continues to play doubles at the highest levels of the sport. Hailing from Kodagu, he started playing tennis at age 11 alongside playing hockey and football, until deciding to pursue tennis professionally...
Geetha Kannan is a versatile entrepreneurial leader and a pioneer for the Women in IT movement in India. With over 30 years of global experience spanning business, technology and people, her focus has always been to raise the bar, build teamwork and drive far-reaching impact. As founder of Wequity, Geetha’s vision is to holistically provide high quality, integrated and accessible resources to expand equality of outcomes for women and their network supporters in technology. Through her career Geetha has taken on...
Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairperson Rothschild India and Senior Advisor Advent Private Equity, and a non-executive Director on the boards of Global and Indian companies and Past President of FICCI. She retired as Executive Director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and Chairman HSBC India. An MBA from Harvard Business School, she is the recipient of several international and Indian awards and honours including the Padma Shrifor her contribution to Trade and Industry. She is engaged in Indian and Global initiatives...
Major Vandana Sharma represents the face of today’s multi-talented Indian woman who pursued excellence in every field, from the country’s defence to the corporate sector over a rich and diverse career over 25 years. Major Sharma played a back-end role in the Kargil War in 1999 and her military contribution to the Kargil War of 1999 have been recorded and commended in the Military History of Army Ordnance Corps. Vandana was the Linkedin Top Voice, India for 2019. She has been...
Smita Tharoor is a Global Motivational Keynote Speaker. She is a Thought-Leader on the Unconscious Bias and how it influences us all. She has spoken at conferences globally, from Berlin to Philadelphia, Bangalore to Penang. Smita is an entertaining, erudite, dynamic, story teller who shows us how our personal narratives influence all the decisions we make. Among her topics are Emotional Resilience, Change Management, Leadership in times of uncertainty, Empowerment of Women in the workplace, as well as other similar...
Nusrat Durrani is a pioneering American media executive, filmmaker, and pop culture futurist. He is renowned for producing transformative, multi-platform storytelling and branded entertainment for commercial and social impact. Nusrat kept MTV front and center in the global youth marketplace in senior leadership roles from 1996 until 2016 by boldly and unflinchingly advancing the conversation around music culture, race, color, gender, and sexual identities. His inclusive vision and resolute allyship to underrepresented identities led him to develop platforms and content...
A mechanical engineer by education, Sonam Wangchuk has worked in the field of education reform for over 3 decades and has been instrumental in changing the face of education in the mountains. His sessions throw a whole new perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship that embraces social change. In 1988, he founded SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) that aims to reform the government school system in Ladakh. In 1994 he was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope,...
Prajna's thinking and work unfolds at the intersection of culture, environment, and progressive storytelling for change. She is committed to exploring and sharing how visionary cultural practices bend, meet, and mingle in transformative ways with rapidly changing practices of work, productivity, and knowledge production. Over the past fifteen years, her journey has involved research and leadership positions within the corporate art world in diversity-driven institutional initiatives, gallery exhibitions, and scholarship; in academia through teaching and publishing; and by way of...
Sjoerd Marijne had a dream to win a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with the women's hockey of India. He didn't win a medal but something much bigger and that is the hearts of all Indians and inspired 1.3 billion people who saw a team that didn't win a match at the Rio Olympics and now finished 4th and wrote history for India. Working with girls he didn’t understand and in a totally different culture without his family he...
Parmesh Shahani is an author, culture curator and the founder of the award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab. Parmesh is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in corporate India and has guided many of the country’s leading companies on their inclusion journeys. His first book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (Sage Publications) was released in 2008 and re-released in June 2020 as an updated edition. His second book Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace (Westland Business) was...
Mr Rajnish Kumar is former chairman of State Bank of India. He completed his 3 years term as chairman in October 2020. He is credited with steering the bank successfully through very challenging times. During his tenure, Bank developed YONO, a digital platform, which has established bank as a global leader in adoption of technology and innovation. Mr Kumar is a career banker with nearly 4 decades of service with State bank of India. His expertise in corporate credit and project...
With over 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube and 50 Million+ Views of his inspirational videos; Simerjeet Singh has touched many lives across the globe, inspiring them to take action on the things that truly matter in their lives. With over 13 years of international experience in the motivational speaking space, having served more than 300 organizations worldwide and 80 different nationalities, Simerjeet Singh specializes in customized, engaging & inspirational keynotes and virtual programmes for diverse audiences - from student groups to...
Pooja Bhatt is an Indian film actress, voice actress, model and film maker. She is the eldest child of Indian film director, Mahesh Bhatt. She has a brother, Rahul Bhatt and half-sisters Shaheen and Alia Bhatt. Her cousins are Hitarth Bhat and Emraan Hashmi.Bhatt made her acting debut at age 17, in 1989 with Daddy, a TV film directed by her father Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt's biggest solo hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, Dil Hai Ke...
Cdr Abhilash Tomy is the first Indian and the 79th person (1st Indian and 2nd Asian) in the world to perform a successful solo and nonstop circumnavigation of the globe under sail (wind power only) . Compare this achievement with 4,000 people who have scaled the summit of Mt. Everest – while Everest is still the holy grail of climbing, its has almost become a guided tour for most of its climbers. Sherpas actually set lines to the summit, before...
Gaur Gopal Das is an Electrical Engineer, having studied at the College Of Engineering, Pune. After a brief stint with Hewlett Packard, Gaur decided to upgrade his career to be a life coach. Ever since then he has been speaking at various prestigious academic institutions and corporate firms in India and abroad for over 2 decades and has even spoken at the United Nations and thrice at British parliament. He has also spoken at many charity events to raise funds for social...
Dr. Sujata Shetty is a US trained biological scientist with publications in peer-reviewed journals. She did her post- doctoral training from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. While at the National Institute of health she was curious about the interaction between the mind and the body and studied the mechanisms of how mental stress negatively impacts our physical health. Dr. Sujata Shetty has been focused on researching and writing on preventive health...