Jaspreet Bindra, the innovative founder and Independent Advisor at Digital Matters, is a leading figure in the world of Digital Transformation, Blockchain, and The Future of Work. With a remarkable career spanning diverse industries, including Agritech, Real Estate, Next-gen Social Networks, Hospitality, Auto, and Financial Services, Jaspreet is a trusted guide through the intricacies of digital evolution. Previously, he held the pivotal role of Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation at Mahindra Rise, showcasing his profound impact. As a sought-after speaker on various subjects, including Blockchain, Jaspreet's expertise is widely recognized. He received the inaugural 'Digitalist of the Year' award from Mint and SAP, underscoring his visionary contributions. Jaspreet Bindra's is on a mission to shape the future of Digital Transformation. His workshops empower organizations to harness the potential of digital innovation, enabling them to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.
Simerjeet Singh, a globally renowned motivational speaker with over 1.3 million YouTube subscribers and 50 million+ video views, has impacted lives worldwide. With 14 years of international motivational speaking experience, he has served over 300 organizations across 80 nationalities. Singh, originally a hotel management graduate in Marriott International's Management Training program, cultivated a promising career in hospitality, overseeing businesses in Dubai, India, the US, and the UK. Transitioning to motivational speaking, he embraced risks to pursue a higher purpose. As a Certified NLP Practitioner and Personal Performance Coach, Singh engages diverse audiences, from CEOs to students, fostering growth strategies and inspiring authentic living. Each opportunity fuels his dedication to serve, uplift, and empower individuals globally.
Harsh Mariwala is the Chairman of the Board, and Managing Director of Marico Limited. He is an innovative and award-winning leader, renowned for maintaining Marico’s business at a sustainable and profitable growth pace.
In three decades Mariwala transformed a traditional commodity driven business, into a leading consumer products and services company in the beauty and wellness sector. His entrepreneurial drive and passion for innovation, prompted him to establish the Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) in 2003. MIF plays the role of a catalyst for innovation in India, through its awards scheme, as well as cutting edge research, knowledge creation and dissemination. He also launched ASCENT – Accelerating the Scaling up of Enterprises, to identify growth-stage entrepreneurs with potential, and support them on their journey to success.
Vinita Bali is a distinguished business leader known for her success in India and internationally. With significant roles at multinational companies like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC, she has expertise in marketing and general management across regions including the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Latin America, and the USA. Notably, at The Coca-Cola Company, she doubled brand growth and served as President of the Andean Division. In 2005, she became MD & CEO of Britannia Industries Ltd., where she diversified the geographic and product portfolio, promoted health initiatives, and quadrupled revenue. Vinita is a sought-after speaker at international forums and has received numerous awards for her leadership and business contributions.
The word 'Intrapreneur' best describes his professional career of 25+ years across various sectors. Ajay has been conceiving, creating, and nurturing unique initiatives within big organizations. He was able to achieve great success with most of these initiatives by leveraging my biggest asset, 'Relationship Capital'. The overarching approach that I have adopted in his banking career is "Frugal Innovations for Financial Inclusion (FI4FI)", wherein Ajay leveraged the pre-existing outreach of external partners to provide financial services to underbanked sections through a Win-Win-Win model.
Narayan has spent almost nine years training, coaching and teaching graduate students, financial advisors, content creators, managers, and investors of diverse backgrounds. Starting his career as an assistant faculty of CFPCM and Wealth Management courses, Narayan is now innovating how financial knowledge flows through investors and public to scale the reach. Narayan’s training and coaching experience has focused on life insurance, general insurance, wealth management, mutual funds, and alternative assets. As a professional trainer, Narayan has also assisted in developing popular courses like CWM®, CREP, and AFA for AAFM India and several modules of CFPCM certification for IIFP and other institutions. He is also well-versed in creating legally and socially acceptable digital and marketing content for BFSI brands. Over the years, he has worked with several renowned businesses and brands with their digital content generation activities.
Vikas have more than 21 years of experience and presently working as a Independent Consultant as well as working as a Co-founder/CTO in Hawk Aerospace Private Limited since Dec 2022. He has worked in Kohler Co. has Global Associate Director for 1.6 years, LG Electronics Global R&D Center as R&D Head for 17 years and Moser Baer India Limited as Leader Quality/R&D for 2 years.
He has a proven track record of success in leading and managing teams of engineering managers while developing and implementing innovative technology solutions. He has a strong background in Research and Development, Global R&D Centre Setup, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Operations and Quality. He is also well-versed in the latest trends in market.
Most importantly, he is a strategic thinker and thought leader with a proven ability to see the big picture and develop long-term plans that align with the company’s vision and goals.
Dr. Prakash Bagri is currently a professor of marketing strategy and innovation at the Indian School of Business. He is also the Founder and CEO of PRB Partners, a boutique consulting firm driving strategic transformation for companies. He has also been engaged as adjunct faculty at the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and Calcutta. Prakash's interests cover business strategy, innovation and hi-tech, digital transformation, business model design, and building partnerships, design thinking, and ecosystems. Prakash has over three decades of experience bridging industry and academia. During his long corporate stint, which includes senior leadership positions in Unilever and Intel, Prakash built a billion-dollar business, established three new product categories, divested two businesses, managed eight different distribution systems, and launched twelve different brands. Prakash is credited with leading major industry-shaping initiatives to broaden technology enablement and its impact in India.
Divyanshu Ganatra is a multifaceted professional, excelling as a diversity and inclusion expert, clinical psychologist, educator, and avid researcher. He holds the distinction of being India's first solo blind pilot, mountaineer, trekker, scuba diver, and marathon runner. He also embarked on a groundbreaking journey as the first blind pillion cyclist to navigate from Manali to Khardung La, the world's highest motorable road. His extensive career spans a wide range of passions, including human potential optimization, rational thinking, positive psychology, IT for empowerment, personality development, counseling, psychometric assessment, and scientific exploration. As a globally recognized speaker, Divyanshu is celebrated for his insights on leadership, inclusion, and innovation. His inspirational story serves as a testament to being resilient, overcoming attitudinal barriers and stereotypes to achieve remarkable feats, including becoming the first blind Indian to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain globally.
Muthu is parallel entrepreneur having been involved in several startups over last 20 years. Muthu has over 25 years of experience in Engineering, Management and Entrepreneurship. Muthu has a MBA in Multimedia Finance and Muthu's passion is in Entrepreneurial Development, Mentoring, Management of Emerging Technologies and Innovation. Muthu' s first-degree is in Engineering. Muthu is a British Trained Chartered Electrical Engineer and Chartered Member (IET UK), a Chartered Engineer (Engineering Council, UK) and an European Engineer (European Federation of National Engineering Associations).
Tapan Singhel has a rich experience in the insurance industry of more than 25 years and has been heading Bajaj Allianz General Insurance for 7 years. He has won numerous accolades, to name a few, Personality of the Year at the India Insurance Summit and Awards 2019, 22nd Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2018 and Indian Insurance Summit 2017. He has been featured as a LinkedIn Top Voice in India consecutively for the past two years. He has also been recognized as the Most Promising Business Leaders of Asia at The Economic Times Global Business Summit 2018.
Operating at the intersection of business, brand, and culture, Nishant is a strategist passionate about uncovering the emerging relationships between new technologies and everyday life to drive significant business value and inform products and services that people love. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of a stealth mode startup in social networking domain. A Delhi College of Engineering alumnus, he worked with Maruti Suzuki's RandD division, before moving to Netherlands for his M.Sc. in Strategic Product Design at Delft University of Technology.
Avnish is an innovator, disruptor, strategist and a technology evangelist with more than 25 years extensive experience and track record around Innovation, Digital Transformation, Corporate Strategy, and Leadership Development for Top 500 Fortune clients in both mature and emerging markets. In his current role at Accenture India, Avnish is responsible for designing and leading the Innovation agenda for Accenture in India including partnering with Start-up ecosystem and is considered as the 'poster boy' for B2B Indian startups looking to scale and globalise.
An associate at Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Thillai Rajan is a revered professor at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He co-founded YNOS Venture Engine, where they offer a suite of products and programs for early-stage entrepreneurs, innovators, research centres and investors. He also co-founded GeoNomics Research & Technologies, an infrastructure analytics & consulting firm focused on infrastructure governance. In February 2020, he conceptualized the setting up of Innovation, Venturing, and Entrepreneurship in India (IVEIN) Network, a unique partnership between leading institutions, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode. He is the recipient of the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship at the London School of Economics, Endeavour Executive Award at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and the Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Giri Balasubramaniam, better known by his pseudonym Pickbrain, is a noted quizmaster and co-founder of Greycaps, Asia’s largest onstage quizzing and knowledge services company. Seen every weekend hosting quiz shows on national television channels in India hosting, he is also the mind behind the Global Awareness Program (GAP), one of India’s first focused and structured knowledge enhancement programmes for school children. He and his team have presented over 2000 shows across 94 destinations of India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, UK and USA to emerge as one of the fastest growing quiz hosts from the region.
Giri has previously worked with The Economic Times, The Walt Disney Company and Indiainfo.com for over a decade before launching Greycaps. He is a regular speaker at conferences and educational institutions. He has presented over 2000 shows across India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, UK and USA. Â
Anna Durai is Chennai's most loved auto driver. With 10,000+ followers on Facebook and more than 40 speeches at corporate offices and two TED talks to his credit, he is literally going places. Seven years ago, as a class 12 dropout, he stunned Chennai with his auto which offered a list of amenities that redefined the travelers’ experience. His speech went viral on YouTube, making him an overnight sensation. What started with newspapers and magazines has now turned into a tech-savvy vehicle and boasts a tablet, laptop, TV, and Wi-Fi service for people who don't have access to the internet. He installed a debit and credit card swiping machine to rid his customers of all the troubles due to the exact change amount. He is a keynote speaker on customer service and a customer delight icon. He has traveled across the country delivering talks in the metro cities.
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