Theme: Bridging the gaps

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BML Munjal University
National Highway 8, 67 KM Milestone
Gurgaon, Haryana, 122413
India

Anupam Raghuvanshi

Professionally, Mr. Anupam Raghuvanshi has worked with the Indian Tourism Development Corporation, Japan International Welfare Association, PRATHAM, The British Council, UNICEF, Rotary International and T.I.M.E. He has Initiated two educational projects and runs a charitable school for the underprivileged students. He has been the chief mentor at 'The Start-up Weekend' By GOOGLE for IIT-BHU Chapter, and at the maiden 'Start-up Fair' of the city, organized by the Skill Ministry & MCIE, IIT BHU. Currently, he serves as the director of T.I.M.E. (Eastern UP Operations); Project Strategist at Bridge Course Program by JIWA (A Japanese Government Initiative); Chairman, Career Counselling Cell & Literary Projects for Rotary International; and as a Behavioural & Aptitude Trainer of IIT-BHU Students.

B. S. Satyanarayana

B.S.Satyanarayana holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engg from Cambridge University UK ( a first in the area of vacuum nanoelectronics at Cambridge Univ. UK). He has over 30 years of experience working in Industry, R&D institutions, Academics and Government Policy in India, UK and Japan and with other international partners. This includes establishing new entrepreneurial ventures, setting up new labs in Academic, R&D & industrial environment, change management, defining new government policies and defining new pedagogy in academic environment.

Chandan Chowdhury

Dr. Chandan Chowdhury is the Vice President (Global Affairs & Business Development) at Dassault Systèmes, India. Prior to this Dr. Chowdhury was the Managing Director of Dassault Systèmes-India and has been instrumental in developing and expanding the company's footprint across several sectors. Dr. Chowdhury has held a number of senior management positions in leading companies. Prior to Dassault Systèmes, Dr. Chowdhury was Country Manager, Software Group, Strategic Accounts in IBM, and was also the CEO and Director of IFS, a Swedish multinational. Dr. Chowdhury did his MS in Mechanical Engineering and has a double Doctorate, and comes from a unique background that is an excellent blend of corporate and academia. He was formerly the Dean (Academics), Chairman (Board of Research) and Member (Board of Governor) at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), a joint initiative of United Nations and Government of India.

K V Sridhar

K V Sridhar aka Pops, credited with the emergence of Leo Burnett as a creative powerhouse in India, rose from humble beginnings as a Bollywood film billboard painter to the National Creative Director of Leo Burnett India. He’s been on many Indian and International award juries and was honored with the New York Festivals Creative Achievement Award in July last year. Also, under his creative leadership, Leo Burnett India went on to win agency of the year in the Leo Burnett global network, twice. Today, Pops is widely respected as a creative leader in the Indian Ad-world.

Rajeev Karwal

Rajeev Karwal is an Indian businessman. He is credited with bringing LG Corp to India in 1997. He also served as the CEO of Electrolux Kelvinator and of Reliance Retail. Karwal began working at Onida Electronics as the Marketing Executive and became the Deputy General Manager. He went on to work with the Kishinchand Chellaram Group‚ in the Canary Islands‚ Spain. He joined Surya Roshini Limited and brought about an outstanding business turnaround in a very short time. At LG Corp India‚ as their Vice President Sales & Marketing‚ he transformed the company. From LG he moved in as Business Head of Consumer Electronics at Philips. He then moved on to become the Managing Director at Electrolux India. His turnaround in Electrolux resulted in the company posting a 49% growth in sales. After stepping down from the post of President & CEO of the Consumer Durables Vertical of Reliance Retail, he founded Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions in 2007.

Rajesh Dhuddu

Rajesh Dhuddu has 19 plus years’ experience in Payments, FinTech, Telecommunications & Business Process Management domains. Rajesh became a member of Quatrro’s corporate team in the year 2010 and currently leads Market Development initiatives for Quatrro's FinTech business in India and South Asia. Under Rajesh’s able leadership, Quatrro has become a globally accredited Third Party Processor of Visa, MasterCard and has also been certified by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). He has also played a pivotal role in adoption of Quatrro’s processing services by Banks, Financial Institutions and Merchant Acquirers in South Asia for both Issuing & Acquiring. He has spoken in several leading industry and social forums - CII, NASSCOM, CeBIT, Tedx and other events pertaining to Payment, Business Process Management and Leadership. He has also been invited by American Express (AMEX) to share his insights about Payment Industry Landscape in 2020.

Shaili Chopra

An Indian business journalist, author and entrepreneur. As a business journalist, she is known for working at NDTV-profit and ETNOW and has won the 2012 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism, including a few other awards. She then switched to being an entrepreneur and wrote three books. She has also covered international events like the G-20, WEF@Davos, The Bretton Woods Conference 2011, India Economic Summit and the World Retail Congress. She was named one of India's 50 most influential women in media, marketing and advertising by Impact Magazine. She was the lead anchor of ETNOW before she became an entrepreneur.

Shankar Srinivasan

Mr. Shankar Srinivasan is the CEO and co-founder of Inclov. Inclov is world's first matchmaking app focusing on people with disability and health disorders to find a life partner. It’s the world’s first matchmaking app for persons with disabilities of all kinds and is fully accessible to people with visual impairment with the help of a screen reader and talkback. Unlike any other dating app or matrimonial service, Inclov lets one find a match on different parameters such as – age, location, disability type and medication and cure availability. And finally, Inclov is poised to go global in the next two years which means it will cater to 600 million singles looking for love. In the near future, Inclov has planned to incorporate video calling which is critical for the hearing and speech impaired who can have conversation through sign language.

Shreyas Bharadwaj

Shreyas Bharadwaj is a conservative weekly columnist on urban affairs, transport and India's Education Laws at Swarajya Magazine's online news portal. He has also written for The News Minute. You can find him at @shreyasbdwa