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Auditorium, The Heritage School
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Kolkata, West Bengal, 700107
India

Agnimitra Paul

Designer

Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer primarily based in Calcutta and also works actively in the Bollywood industry. Paul was born in Asansol, West Bengal, India in a family of doctors and academicians. She went to Loreto Convent in Asansol. She dreamt of becoming a doctor initially and was all geared up to crack the joint entrance and even got admission in a medical college in Bangalore but fate had different plans for her. Her would-be husband, Partho Paul who went for a meeting with her father back then put her into oblivion regarding her career plans as he hailed from a business family where conventional paths of education were not considered a great choice. She completed her masters in botany from Jadavpur university and took a course in fashion designing mostly as a hobby and received her Diploma from the Fashion School of the Birla Institute of Liberal Arts & Management Sciences concurrently. It was after the degree that she finally prioritized her calling.

Baidurya Mukherjee

Entrepreneur

Starting his journey during his teenage years, Baidurya is a serial entrepreneur who started earning since his school days. A man of eclectic passions, he has helped over 50 businesses in different industries create and implement their online & digital strategy. He’s seen his share of failure and successes and he credits his failures as learning experiences instead of setbacks. From being almost broke to getting featured in Forbes at the age of 23.

Dr. Kamal Kar

Development Specialist

Dr. Kamal Kar is a renowned international development specialist in rural development and natural resources and a prolific social entrepreneur who has taken the challenge of ending open defecation head-on in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Being a specialist in livestock production, agriculture and natural resources Dr. Kar has pioneered a number of innovative approaches in natural resources management and low-cost appropriate technologies in farming. He has also been a leading figure in the field of collective management of pasture and natural resources (Nukhurluls) in the Gobi region in Mongolia. His other areas of work include urban poverty, slum improvement, and local governance in India, Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

Jeeja Ghosh

Human Rights Activist

Jeeja Ghosh was born with cerebral palsy, a condition caused by lack of oxygen to the brain either during pregnancy or at the time of delivery. Ghosh has been involved in the social sector for more than two decades. She believes in the rights-based approach and dignity of all human beings. She has been a part of the disabled people's movement and is connected to other disability rights activists across India. Her special interest is women with disabilities.

Manogya Loiwal

Deputy Editor for Aaj Tak+ Broadcast Journalist

Manogya Loiwal is a Broadcast Journalist with Aaj Tak and India Today Television and is currently the Deputy Editor of Eastern and North-Eastern India along with Bangladesh. With knowledge of more than seven languages... Manogya Loiwal reports extensively from the region for Television and Digital platforms of India Today Group. From Interviewing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, from Home Minister Amit Shah to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee..the list is just getting longer. Recently she has reported extensively in the Lok Sabha Elections and survived being roughed up by goons of political parties too. From reporting from eye of the Storm to epicenter of Earthquakes, from mid-waist flood water to landfall of cyclones. She is the first journalist in the world to have travelled nearest to Doklam, that too alone. Doklam was the bone of contention between India and China for almost three months.

Siddhant Agarwal

Entrepreneur

Siddhant Agarwal serves as the Vice President of Bengal Iron Corporation. He has studied Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore coupled with a quarter abroad at Stanford University, followed by a Master’s of Science degree in Technology Management and Entrepreneurship from Brown University. Prior to joining his family business, Siddhant has worked as an engineer for ExxonMobil Singapore and has also founded an AI for indoor agriculture startup in the US.