Theme: Igniting Minds, Changing Lives

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Jagran Lakecity University
Chandanpura
Near Kaliasot Barrage
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 462001
India

Aarti Sinha

Founder - Wizard of Sound

Aarti Sinha, the founder of Wizard of Sound, has been an active mystic professional, life coach and a healer and has been involved in the field of alternative health and holistic well-being since the past 20 (twenty) years. She is amongst the top few sound healers in India and is the first lady Gong Healer in Central India. She has set a new India record with the India Book of Records for “Mass Meditation with Singing Bowls”, where a total of 1313 participants were led into mass meditation by her.

Anand Rathi

India's Leading Wedding Photographer

Anand Rathi’s story runs parallel to Madhavan’s character in the movie 3 Idiots, although Anand discovered his true passion not after one but two degrees! Anand grew up between Jodhpur and Jaipur. He was an ace student in his school days and given our social structure and educational system, being good in academics almost inevitably meant gravitating towards engineering or medical sciences. His merit in competitive exams saw him getting selected into one of the most prestigious computer science colleges in India, IIIT Hyderabad. His college life was exciting but somewhere down the line he realized he was not cut out to be an engineer. Although he got campus placement in a very reputed company, he ended up not taking the job! Straight out of college, he dived into the stock market but unfortunately the market dived too! Anand decided to hone his finance skills better by attending an MBA program. He was selected by a prestigious school in New York.

Dr. Madhavi Shankar

Co-Founder & CEO - Spacebasic Inc

Entrepreneur, technology enthusiast with keen interest in public affairs and international relations. Passionate about building and engineering, consumer-driven products across scale. Contributing towards global women employment and equal opportunities.

Kanika Tekriwal

Founder & CEO - JetSetGo

An entrepreneur who is a relentless pursuer of hope, positivity and drive - Ms. Kanika Tekriwal was not only chosen as one of the 100 most inspirational women in the world by BBC but also recognized by Forbes Asia as one of the 30 under 30 leading entrepreneurs in Asia, CNN’S 20 Under 40 along with being awarded The National Entrepreneurship award in E-commerce by the government of India amongst various other accolades. Ms. Kanika Tekriwal started her journey in the aviation industry at the age of 17. During her tenure, she has seen the industry grow and has grown with it. It is well and truly safe to assume that she has learnt more than a thing or two about the industry in this time.

Lucy Plummer

Global Citizen Educator, World Traveller

Lucy has previously worked as a writer for The Better India and has spent a year travelling across India with Clap Global visiting schools in various cities and villages to exchange cultural experiences and perspectives with young people and have conversations with them on a variety of topics including sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, peace and non-violence and global citizenship. In August 2019, she was one of 60 global youth leaders invited to take part in the very first World Youth Conference on Kindness organised by UNESCO and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) in New Delhi commemorating 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. Lucy was part of the drafting team for the New Delhi Declaration on Kindness for the SDGs, which brought together the voices of more than 1,200 young people from 117 countries calling for a kinder world, and presented to the Hon'ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind.

Nemesh Singh

Founder & CEO - Appointy.com

Nemesh is the founder of Appointy, software-as-a-service (SaaS) based online scheduling software helping world manage their time efficiently. With perseverance and a delusion to start his own venture , failing to get a suitable job after his graduation he bootstrapped all the possible companies to fund for his startup which was a tough row to hoe. And as rightly said “All great achievements take time” It took him 15 years to reach his first $1Million ARR (Annual recurring revenue). He realised that his learnings should not only be used to build a billion dollar company for himself but also for others. With this vision, he started a new company in 2015 with a view to help entrepreneurs create billion dollar companies of the future from India. Presently, Appointy has over 200,000 businesses using Appointy in over 110 countries with their offices in 2 countries - Singapore & US.

Paresh Gupta

Founder & CEO- GCEC

5 times TEDx Speaker, Founder and CEO Global Centre for Entrepreneurship & Commerce (GCEC), Brand Ambassador Rajasthan Government Youth and Sports activities and Brand Ambassador Rajasthan Tax Practitioners Association. Mentor to some of the world's best startup award winners, mentor at Startup-O Singapore, Viridian Espark Singapore, MNIT incubation centre, Advisory Board Member at Headstart Network, Startup Mentor and Advisor at CVS, NMIMS, Enactus KMC and many other institutions. Alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce, a first attempt Chartered Accountant and an MBA from London School of Business and Finance. Trained financial modeler from Operis UK, rated amongst the top 20 credit research analysts team in Europe. Over 13 years of corporate experience across Asia, Middle East, Europe and USA with some of the most reputed names like PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, Adventity Global Services (now Sutherland Plc) and Keypoint Consulting Bahrain (Ernst and Young offshoot).

Pradeep Ghosh

Founder - OASIS

During his 15 years of Corporate career spanning 12 countries, he often wondered : “How are we different from Animals? Just like them, we feed only our families, not others. Only our ways of finding food are different”. This quest of becoming more than an animal, led Pradeep to step out of the Corporate world and find a meaningful purpose in life. After 2 years of research, he started OASiS - A Social Innovations Lab. Innovating new approaches and models for development, his models have solved long standing socio-economic-environmental problems and issues. This contribution got him the coveted international fellowship for social entrepreneurs and recognition as an Ashoka Fellow. Having won many international innovation awards including UNESCO’s Education Innovation Award, his models are now being replicated by Government, NGOs, Universities and Schools. Social entrepreneurs mentored by his Lab have also received national and international acclaim, including the Forbes 30 under 30.

Rajendra Singh

River Rejuvenator

Popularly known as the ‘Jal Purush, Waterman of India’, Dr. Rajendra Singh is a renowned river rejuvenator and environmentalist. He has received numerous accolades like the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001, Jamnalal Bajaj Award for the use of science and technology for rural development in 2005, and the Stockholm Water Award in 2015. For the last 44 years he has supported the society through his Tarun Bharat Sangh, which he founded in 1975, to construct 11,800 water structures making more than 1200 villages in the country water secure. As a result of his work, 12 rivers in the country have been revived. He believes that water problems can be solved through community involvement, policy, leadership and use of local knowledge to arrive at local solutions and has pledged to make peace in the world through water.

Vibhas Sen

Head - Brand & Digital Elementry

Mr.Vibhas Sen is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Ellementry, a Marketer, an alumni of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sports Diplomat and a Paralympian. He was selected by U.S. Department of State administered by the UT Center for Sport, Peace, & Society and embarked on a "Mission for Inclusion&" across United States as & "Emerging Leaders" of the 2017 Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP). Vibhas Sen says “It’s not how much you have, but what you do with what you have”. Having faced a rigid mentality where people believe that Paralympics cannot fence, he is a living example, which makes us realize that we can write the pages of our own life’s book.