The conference is an amalgamation of ideas from all industries that directly or indirectly affect Nashik. We aim at creating a platform that not only inspires people with ideas but also solutions!

The Gateway Hotel
Ambad
Nashik, Maharashtra, 422013
India

Clive Vaz

Musician

Clive Vaz A.K.A. Ayuddha Project is a musician, composer and an electronic music producer. His Music combines his art of playing multiple unique organic ethnic instruments like flute, didgeridoo, mouth- harp, African Djembe, and electronic production to create electronic live fusion music. Being a predominantly self-taught musician, he began his journey with music as a young child experimenting with various music instruments like Flute & mouth organ. He loved playing the sounds in his head and turned anything into an instrument. He believes music is in all things and everywhere. Clive loves to experiment with almost every instrument that he can get his hands on and this reflects in his music where he uses various rare instruments and versatile sounds. His music today is a versatile mix of genres like Indian Fusion, Dub, Ambient and world Music and EDM.

Kalyan Karmakar

Food Writer

He is an Independent food writer. His blog has grown to be considered as one of India's leading food blogs. It has won the FBAI awards consistently every year since the awards were introduced in 2013. Kalyan is a food columnist and has written for publications such as Femina, Mumbai Mirror & MW Magazine and sites such as Eazydiner. He is the Foodie Hub rep in Mumbai and a jury member of their global awards. He has been invited to share the Indian food story in international food summits such as Host Milano, Casa Asia and Madrid Fusion. He conducts personalised food walks in Mumbai. According to a 2016 report published by Indian Cuisine RR, Kalyan has also been rated as 'top Indian food influencer on Twitter'. He has Authored the Travelling Belly and is the Curator of the Times Kitchen Tales from the Times of India. He was featured in Upper Crust top 20 food writers list 2019 and winner of best food critic award 2019 in the ICF Chef Awards.

Karan Sajnani

Musician

Karan Sajnani is a classical guitarist, didgeridoo player and a hang drum player; he heads a group called Satori which specialises in study and research of sound based on ancient Indian science. The group specialises in applications of sound on a variety of industries, with a strong focus on healthcare. He is a practitioner of spiritual empowerment through sound in the lineage of Agastya. He has played and performed a variety of genres of music from childhood ranging from hindustani classical(tabla), rock n roll, blues, hard rock, western classical, Spanish, African, avant-garde, world, and tribal. He has had the good fortune of being mentored by world class music professors. He currently also manages a technology firm alongside his musical endeavours.

Maitri Shah

Founder, Mind Assets

At the tender age, Maitri Shah was diagnosed with the ‘Congenital Muscular Dystrophy’. Even though she was confined to a wheelchair, she refused to go to any ‘special schools’. She stood first in HSC MHT-CET examinations in PwD category (Maharashtra) after having scored a whopping 95.09% in her SSC examinations. She went onto graduate in Computer Engineering from K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering (Mumbai). She was recognized as a Young Changemaker by Dr. APJ Kalam, 11th President of India at IIT Bombay while she was an engineering student. Currently, Maitri is pursuing her online Masters’ in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She then co-founded an NGO named ‘WoW’ (Wills on Wheels) to engage, educate and empower people in wheelchairs. She then went on to form a tech start-up, named ‘Mind Assets’. This company provides online training and digital job opportunities to people with disability so that physical infrastructure is not a barrier to have a career.

Major Deepak Rao

Close Quarter Battle Trainer + Author

Hon. Major Deepak Rao is cited to be the Indian Pioneer of Modern Close Quarters Battle Training by the Defence Ministry. For his outstanding work, he was bestowed with the Presidents Rank award and made one of the Brand ambassadors of the Indian Army TA in 2011 along with MS Dhoni & Abhinav Bindra. He trained more than 20,000 commandos from Army, Para Special forces, Black Cats NSG, Marine Commandos, Air force Garud & 12 State Police Anti Terror Units receiving 4 Army Chief Citations, a record for a single individual. He is a resource for Govt of India to train small ATS teams as force multipliers. He has studied Samurai Warrior Culture from Tokyo Japan & Zen Buddhism from Harvard University. He has received World Peace Award in 2009. A rare combination of brain & brawn, Major Deepak Rao has multiple Doctorates in Law, Medicine & Military science. He is also a published author of 10 books.

Mardani Khel

Weapon-based Maharshtrain MMA Form

Originating from Maharashtra, Mardani Khel is a weapon-based martial art form. It owes its development to the geographic conditions of the state, i.e.hills, caves and valleys. This medieval form of combat emerged during the Maratha dynasty, and was also employed in wars during the religious persecution and conquest of indigenous Indians. Kolhapur used to be the centre of the Maratha kingdom, and the villages around it had talims (training centres) where skilled elders prepared youngsters for war. After the First War of Independence in 1857, the British banned the use of weapons used by Indians, with talims subsequently forced to turn Mardani Khel into a folk game to ensure its survival.The use of weapons- swords, katyar (dagger), lathi kathi (bamboo sticks), veeta (darts), bhala (javelin), dand and patta (long-bladed swords) continued but the moves were made more stylised and less lethal.

Munaf Kapadia

Chief Eating Officer, The Bohri Kitchen

Before selling Samosas at TBK, he sold ads for 4 years at Google. The Bohri Kitchen was created to simply keep his mom busy, so he could get more time with the living room television. Eventually with the power of his mother’s cooking skills TBK turned into a mini bohri food revolution. The momentum required him to quit Google to sell Samosas and take up the mantle of Chief Eating Officer. 3 years hence he’s fortunate to have raised funding from the who’s who of the Restaurant Industry, set up their first outlet in Kamala Mills, taken TBK to the Top 10 on TripAdvisor, achieved recognition as the “Best Bohri Food Restaurant” by Times Food Guide and was elected as Forbes 30 under 30 and one of the top 50 food influencers in the country. Munaf Kapadia, in his late twenties, did something not many would have the courage to do so. He decided to connect the two dots of the unavailability of the authentic Bohri cuisine and the fact that his mother loved to cook food.

Prabhat Sinha

Founder, Mann Deshi Champions

Prabhat was born in a farming family in the rural India. He worked in the US with sports brands and athletes from NBA to Track & Field. Het left the Industry to make Indian villages future sports hubs of India. He aims to empower young girls with the power of sports and he is also working for water conservation and agricultural practices. Mann Deshi has developed 8000+ athletes in India. 3 athletes are playing at the International level including Junior Olympics in Argentina 2018. 150 athletes are representing at the national level. He has built an entrepreneurship/ career development academy for 1000 rural Indian girls. He has built 16 water reservoirs in rural India.He is a visiting guest Speaker at Georgetown University, Trinity College, NYU, World Bank, BBC World, and TEDx. He was one of the representatives at the World Economic Forum Davos 2018.

Priyanka Joshi

Ballerina

She is a Certified Fitness Consultant from International Sports Science Association, Certified Progressing Ballet Technique Coach from PBT, Hong Kong, Certified Reiki Practitioner, pursuing ballet, and teaching ballet to kids. My recent distinction was to get qualified as a PBT Coach. Besides, recently, I have performed at India Kids Fashion Week and Mumbai Sogetsu Ikebana (a fusion event organized for Japanese Consulate).

Reema Sathe

Founder, Happy Roots

Happy Roots is a National award winning company which has helped smallholding farmers and rural women build sustainable food supply chains since its inception in Yr 2016. So far they have touched lives of over 15,000 smallholding farmers across Maharashtra, increasing their incomes by 50% and have created over 1,000 rural women entrepreneurs in Ahmednagar, building a first of its food processing unit - owned, managed and run by these women. They are now building an AI powered tech platform which aims to create economic opportunities and financial inclusion for rural poor by digitising their offline economic & credit history and facilitating access to organised credit systems. She is awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar ‘17 by the Hon’ble President of India. She is also awarded Business Today’s Most Powerful Women in Indian Businesses (2017) and Digital Women Awards 2017, Social category by She The People TV, Google India & Facebook India.

Sabeena Karnik

Paper artist + Typographer

A paper illustrator and typographer making purely paper artworks for clients like Google, Adobe, Instagram, Disney publishing worldwide, Tanishq and many more! Mumbai-based artist Sabeena Karnik is able to shape paper to her will and bend it to the sway of her imagination. She excels in creating three-dimensional decorative designs using paper as her principal medium. The degree holder in graphic design, who has some 160,000 followers on Instagram, is going places with her passion for paper quilling, an art form that involves rolling strips of paper, and shaping and moulding them to make exquisite expressions. Her skill at merging quilling and paper sculpting with typography has seen her do a Google Doodle for Independence Day, 2015, and create a miniature replica of the Mysore Palace for Karnataka Tourism.

Satyam Mishra

Educator

Satyam Mishra hails from Bhagalpur in Bihar. He believes that teachers are vectors of education and proper education for girls is a topic very close to him. He came up with a different approach to teaching math and it created history in the Teach for India network with all his students going to college and 100% of them being first gen college students. The new approach was recognised by Teach for India as the 'Transformational Impact Journey Math Specialist'. He became the first Indian to be invited by the Malala School, started for the Syrian refugee girls in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanese-Syrian Border. He then got invited by the American University of Beirut to motivate volunteers to join and help educate the refugee girls. He has worked with Teach for Nepal. He has trained fellows who then are going to teach students in Nepal, South Africa, Lebanon, Austria, Bulgaria and of course India. He is also a National Consultant for secondary classrooms in Teach for India.

Shishir Joshi

Founder & CEO, Project Mumbai

Project Mumbai is a not-for-profit, engaged in social transformation through initiatives of scale. He has led one of the largest public private initiatives of beautifying 36 railway stations of Mumbai within seven days in 2016. Launched one of the biggest plastic donation-collection-recycling volunteering initiatives in Mumbai in 2018 with over 85,000 donors. He is also the recipient of the iVolunteer Hero of the Year award by social volunteering organisation iVolunteer. he has scaled up the initiative one year later with over 1.25 lakh volunteer donors, in 2019, converting all plastic waste into amenities for Mumbai. The action has found mention in the Limca Book of Records , 2020 Edition. He has played the role of a catalyst in bringing citizen volunteering to the next level to protect Mumbai's water bodies. The initiative is now being listed in the Limca Book of Records Edition 2020. He is also the recipient of the IdoBRO RISE Award for contribution to India's Social Development.