Theme: Decode

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Dhirubhai Ambani Vanijya Bhawan
The Jamnagar Chamber Of Commerce Hall
Jamnagar-Rajkot highway Road
Jamnagar, Gujarat, 361110
India

Afreen Bhugmara

Innovator, Entrepreneur & Activist

Afreen is currently pursuing Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University. An ardent fan of all thing's technology, she is often be found involved in the world of software development, algorithms, data processing, neural networks & mathematics. Afreen's passions have led her to work on multiple research papers & projects on Fuzzy Algorithms, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, while presenting her work at multiple international conferences. She has organized various events and conferences that helped shed a light on the importance of Women and their involvement in STEM Education. Afreen considers herself to be a feminist, a mental health advocate and believes strongly in body positivity. She believes that her words can shed light on various issues that our country faces, while opening up new perspectives, and changing the world one day at a time.

Anuja Kapur

Supreme Court Lawyer, Criminal Psychologist & Social Activist

Anuja Kapur is the famous Criminal Psychologist. She is a Delhi University Graduate and did her bachelor’s in psychology after that she joined Delhi Public School as a student counsellor. Later on, she got into the Criminal Psychology and did her Masters in same stream. The zeal to learn more led her into another course in Forensic Science from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science and University of Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Surinder Nath. Almost all leading News Channels like CNN, Republic TV, Ibn7, BBC Hindi, AajTak, NDTV, ABP News, India News, News X, News Nation, Zee News etc invite her for her valuable inputs on various issues whether it is women empowerment, rape or any kind of violence in the society irrespective of gender or age.

Jayant Shah

Chartered Accountant & Orator

Jayant Shah is a Chartered Accountant with an experience of 10 years and gives tax and regulatory advisory services to clients in financial service sector such as Private Equity, Banks, Wealth Advisors, etc. Despite failing in school exams several times he went to on to pursue, fail and then completed Chartered Accountancy.

Karan Joshi

Chartered Accountant, Legal Consultant & Stand-Up Comic

We see a very few people cracking CA in their very first attempt and Karan was one of them. Since 2012, he has been working as a Legal Consultant with a 40 year old Consulting Firm, Joshi Brothers, which operates exclusively in areas of Labour and HR Laws at Jamnagar and Kutch. He has also been performing and promoting the art of Stand-Up-Comedy since 2015 in various Tier 1,2 & 3 cities of Gujarat State. The diversified performances in past 1 year include Professional Conferences, Old Age Homes, Social Gatherings, Open Mics at Cafe, College Fests, Auditorium shows and shows with Established Comics of the Country. He is the Co-Founder of a Comedy Club called 'The Comedy Jams' which is based in Jamnagar city which performs and promotes Stand-Up-Comedy.

Mansukhlal Prajapati

Clay Innovator & Entrepreneurial Leader

Dubbed as India's most powerful rural entrepreneur by Forbes Magazine, Mansukhlal Prajapati is know for his famous innovation of MittiCool. He gave life to traditional pottery work which was once upon a time on death bed. Starting from his first innovation of Clay Pans manufacturing machine to making cow dung logs machine for using cow dung logs instead of wood logs in daily use Mansukhlal has been awarded several times and has been in a close touch with the various Presidents' & Prime Minister of India. MittiCool is a Clay Refrigerator which does not require any sort of Electricity/Power supply; is dubbed to be the Innovation that put him on highlight.

Monishwaran Maheswaran

Child Prodigy, Computer Scientist & Inventor

Monishwaran is a high school student whose main interest lies in mathematics and computer science. He was initially classified as a child prodigy, excelling in several Olympiads and went on to pursue research in mathematics at Harvard University. He has been working on a research (Computational neuroscience) to help in the early diagnosis of schizophrenia and Alzheimers using machine learning and mathematics at NIMHANS. In addition, he has been active in the field of physics (giving the idea of the thought experiment: "Vapsee") His inventions include Project TAR-Teaching Through Augmented Reality, Mind Controlled Automation, Assistive technology for the Hearing Impaired and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot. His current project is to bring the power of quantum computing to the hands of average people.

Rimmy Takvani

Prosthodontist & Academician

A Gold Medalist MDS (Prosthodontics) & BDS, a proficient clinician and an academician as well as a mentor for Current Generation of BDS Students. Rimmy is known for her different perspectives and implications to many existing issues. With a knowledge of many different languages and exposure to different cultures, she speaks on realms of life.

Sri Ram Kumar

Consultant, Coach & Facilitator

Consultant,Coach and Facilitator with more than 22 years of corporate experience and more than 9,000 hours of Consulting, Coaching and Facilitator experience that has enabled me get fascinating insights into what separates those that are successful from those that are not.

Viral Rachh

Lawyer, Theater Artist & Actor

Viral is an person who has associated himself with Jamnagar and Theatre since last two and a half decade. He believes that blindly Pursuing your Passion serves no purpose; you need your profession to pump in the oxygen for that passion to be alive. Viral is a lawyer by profession and a theatre artist by passion. He has played important roles in various Urban Gujarati Movies and Advertisements. He is also a powerful social activist. He has been awarded at various levels for innumerable times for his Passion of Theatre. His numerous powerful Gujarati Plays have been always a hit throughout India and overseas.