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Alex Mathew
Among all the fun and frolic we are continuously dealing with things that aren’t great with the LGBT community in India. Coming out of the closet, discrimination, and harassment at workplaces and public spaces and marriage equality to name a few. While we wait for the minds of the people to look at us with an open mind, we’ve got each other’s backs and have to help and grow as a community. Maya the Drag Queen is from Kerala, India and to be a drag queen in Indian society takes a lot of guts, confidence, and determination. Maya has been performing as an Indian drag queen since Sept 2014. Her first performance was at The Humming Tree, Bangalore, and continues to perform regularly at Kitty Ko, Bangalore. Her ideals are to fight against inequality, towards individualism, gender equality, and feminism. Along with that, she loves to act, sing, dance, and entertain people. She is an actor, singer, loves to vogue and dance to Bollywood numbers, LGBTQIA Influencer, TEDx speaker (3 times), professional host & emcee. Her purpose is to mainstream “drag” as an art form in many platforms that will give her voice.Manish Behl
Manish Behl is the founder of Asia’s biggest Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Mindfulness India Summit @MindfulIndiaNow and a research center Mindful Science Centre @MindfulMsc. As a leading mindfulness expert, he develops and creates mindfulness- and emotional intelligence-based solutions for individuals and organizations for leadership, performance, resilience, innovation, and well-being. With 25+ years of leadership experience in the corporate world, he works on the empowerment of professionals, individuals, and corporations through ground-breaking practices of emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and mindfulness. Manish is very well covered by First Post, Thrive India, Time of India, and many leading journals on his work on Mindfulness and Mental wellbeing. Behl is an author who has studied and developed transformational practices to see one's inner self, invoke positive thinking, augment neurological & transcendent energies, effective decision making, and connecting with one's hyper-intelligence. He is guest faculty at educational institutions in India and abroad. Website link: www.manishbehl.com www.mindfulnessindiasummit.comNarpath Next Door Mind Reader
He’s one of the most influential pioneers in the mentalism scene in India. He's the only mentalist to be named as one of the top 20 inspiring men in 2017. He's got a long list of influential clients all around the world. He's performed on television, for major corporations and celebrities. Especially, MS Dhoni! He's known to have astonished MS Dhoni revealing his first crush to the entire world. Although what Narpath does is quite supernatural, he's called the Next Door Mind Reader for his simplicity and fun approach. He uses a mixture of Methods-Psychology, hypnotism, and storytelling to pluck the thoughts out of your mind, influence the decisions you will make, and mess with your sense of reality. Website link:(if available): https://www.nextdoormindreader.com/Navneet Nair
Navneet is a seasoned design leader with over 20 years of experience in building User Experiences for software products. Having worked with the likes of Yahoo! and Google, Navneet now heads the User Experience Design team at PhonePe where he is helping India progress by making payments, purchasing and investing easier. You can find a transcript of this talk on Navneet's blog here: http://www.navneetnair.com/index.php/2019/11/09/3-traits-that-can-help-you-succeed-as-a-designer/ Website link: http://www.navneetnair.comPrashant Dhawan
Prashant Dhawan is the Co-founder of Biomimicry India (www.biomimicryindia.com) and since 2014, he has dedicated himself to teaching & spreading awareness about biomimicry in India. Prashant along with Seema Anand (Co-founder of the Biomimicry India), has conducted Biomimicry workshops for Engineering colleges, Business colleges, Design colleges, Arts & Science colleges, Corporations, K12 schools, multidisciplinary cohorts and ‘open to all’ groups and has successfully demonstrated Biomimicry as a discipline that can be taught across disciplines, age groups and integrated disciplinary formats. As of November 2019, Biomimicry India had taken Biomimicry to more than 25,000 people through various media platforms. Prashant prefers to call himself an amateur researcher of issues related to sustainable happiness and bliss.Organizing team
