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Cathedral and John Connon School
6 Purushottamdas Thakurdas Marg
Fort
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001
India

Ashwika Kapur

Science & Natural History Filmmaker

Ashwika Kapur is a wildlife and conservation filmmaker.  At 27, Ashwika became India's youngest and only woman to win the Green Oscar in a Global Category, also known as the Panda Award. She gained worldwide critical acclaim for her film Sirocco, a quirky, rags-to-riches story about the only bird in the world with a government job. Her wildlife filmmaking career has so far taken her to live and work in several parts of the world including South Africa, Kenya, Borneo, Nepal, New Zealand, United Kingdom and her home - India.  But having chosen an unconventional career as a young woman in India, following her dreams has always come with it's share of never-ending challenges. At every step of the way, she has had to fight for her aspirations, prove herself, win over the skeptics, and stay true to her cause regardless of the difficulties. 

Avnish Pandya

Director of Research and Development at Bombay Hemp Company

Avnish Pandya is the Director of Research and Development at Bombay Hemp Company. The Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO), is the mastermind of Pandya and 6 other young entrepreneurs, an organization breaking barriers by utilizing hemp from the Cannabis plant for industrial production. With a background in marketing and advertising, Mr. Pandya serves as a great inspiration for innovative thinking and entrepreneurship.

Manju Utamchandani

Consultant, Guest Faculty and Motivational Speaker

Manju Utamchandani is an inspirational and motivational speaker who invigorates her audience by sharing her life experiences. She has worked extensively in the field of disability as a project management professional with extensive experience and passion in the field of philanthropic education and advocacy, to actualise CSR programs in corporate and NGO environments. Ms. Utamchandani has many many awards including the District Governor’s Citation, awards from the Rotary Club, as well as from Give India for the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. Today, she is also a consultant and guest faculty advisor.

Neel Ghose

VP International Operations of Zomato & Founder of Robin Hood Army

Neel Ghose is currently a student of the Harvard Business School, and the founder of the Robin Hood Army. Before getting back into academics, Neel was the Vice President of International Operations of the startup, Zomato. He is a bit of a nomad and has lived in 8 cities across 5 countries, setting up the operations of Zomato and the Robin Hood Army, worldwide. In his free time, along with his friend Anand, Neel has set up the Robin Hood Army (RHA) - a volunteer based organisation which collects excess food from restaurants and distributes it to the less fortunate. In three years, the RHA has served food to over 2 million people through a network of 10,000 volunteers across 41 cities. He likes to believe that the RHA is just '1% Done'.

Peter Theobald

President (Security Business) at Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic

Peter Theobald is a Chartered Accountant & Software Professional by Training who ran a successful Software marketing company, IT Secure, which he sold in 2008. He is also an avid trekker, writer, wildlife & nature photographer & amateur magician, but his passion is health and nutrition. For the past 20 years, he and his family have been following a system of Health called Natural Hygiene, which teaches how we can achieve and maintain an excellent level of health by completely natural means. He is associated with NGO SHARAN, which guides people on how to reverse lifestyle diseases like diabetes and coronary heart disease by dietary interventions, and also with Ahimsa Parmo Dharma Group that propagates a cruelty-free lifestyle. He has written extensively on this subject, including on his website www.praana.com and has spoken on Natural Health and Yoga at several seminars and conferences.

Sneha Mehta

Entrepreneur

Sneha Mehta has a background in biomedicine and is currently an entrepreneur working on the Vegetarian Elite. Today she is here to tell us her encouraging story that received considerable media coverage from channels such as CNN and the Huffington Post. She was one of the victims of the Belgium airport attack that took place in March, 2016, and has become known as the survivor who wrote a letter to her unborn child. Her story inspires individuals to have hope and faith in our existence.