We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
We are proud to present you our new Keynote Speakers
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...
Lt Gen Hooda has had a distinguished career spanning 40 years in the Indian Army. He has attended the prestigious Command and Staff College at Canada and was selected as the first Chief Logistics Officer for the newly raised United Nations Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea. He played a key role in setting up the mission throughout Eritrea in terms of camps, engineering and communications support, and food and health services. During the massive earthquake of Jammu and Kashmir in 2005,...
Harshwardhansinh Zala from Ahmedabad is not a usual Indian kid. Known as India’s drone wiz, He already has a Handful of patents to His Credit and is The CEO and Founder of Aerobotics7 International. Son of an Accountant Father and Homemaker Mother, He came up with His First Invention at the age of 10. He Made a Remote-control which could be used to Control and Operate Home Appliances Wirelessly. There was No such Device Available in the Market back then. It...
Atul Khatri is a Mumbai based Sindhi businessman who got up late in life and decided to do English Standup comedy so that he could tick it off his own personal bucket list. An Indian Computer Engineer and a British Mgmt. scholar who always orders soup one by two even when he is eating alone. CNN-IBN recently rated him as one of the top 20 comedians in India to watch out for. Atul Khatri recently won 'CEOs got Talent' trophy competing against 11...
Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman
Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman or commonly known as VVS Laxman is a former Indian cricketer who was born on November 1,1974 in the city of Hyderabad. He was a right-handed batsman and one of the best also. He was also a part time right-handed off break bowler. He was also popularly known as Very Very Special Laxman for his name VVS Laxman. Laxman made his debut for India U-19 team against Australia in 1994. He had a good match there while facing...
Nipun Malhotra was born on 1st September 1987 – blue, fractured and bleeding. His parents weren’t really sure why, so they compiled a list of doctors to see and assess him. It took a while (including a visit to a doctor who said he’d live the ‘life of a wooden doll’, not sure what that meant) before he was finally diagnosed with a disability called arthrogryposis which basically meant that the muscles in his arms and legs were underdeveloped and...