Theme: HOPE

Hope is the essence of life. Many of us could not even live a life of peace without having hope deep inside their heart.
Life is unpredictable, hard and quite notorious at times.
Things go out of hands and beyond of our control many times.
Hope helps us to keep the fight on and improve the chances of making our life better to best.
Hope keeps our eyes wide open for an improved and better future ahead we all wish and dream for.

It's really tough to keep up with inner faith many a times. And we know that for sure.
During most critical times all we have to is never lose HOPE
And keep striving for every tough phases ahead with an attitude of whatever may come
We will get through
All we need is HOPE.
To keep moving forward in life and in all aspects in life..

C M GANDHI AUDITORIUM
K C Gandhi School
Kalyan, Maharashtra, 421301
India

Aditi Nair

Social Entrepreneur

Aditi Nair is a social entrepreneur, where she focuses in the field of animal welfare. She is the sole founder and director of Mypalclub foundation where she laid the first stone in the year 2010 and has not looked back since. Her work in the field of animal welfare has been significantly appreciated by mainstream television and media. Throughout 11 years of her foundation's legacy, she has contributed in successfully changing the lives of more than 30,000 animals and birds by means of treatments, vaccination & sterilization drives, adoptions, rehabilitation, and awareness programs.

Arjun Deshpande

Entrepreneur

Mr. Arjun Deshpande is the founder of Generic Aadhaar - an innovative Pharma Venture. At the heyday of his life, at 16, he came up with this incredible clause to venture High Quality Medicines at affordable prices with up to 80% discount for Indians. In 2020, business icon - Shri Ratan Tata joined hands with him in this noble mission to bring out a rebel change in the pharma industry and mend the old tradition of the pharma world. Due to his unique and noble business ideas, he has been invited to many renowned platforms and has given TEDx talks for 3 consecutive years.

Deepa Mahesh

Life and Leadership Coach

Deepa Mahesh is a multifaceted personality who has done everything from being a corporate employee, a leader to an Entrepreneur, and is now a decorated Life and Leadership Coach. She is the founder and CEO of Poorna Wellbeing, an initiative that focuses on enriching the core skills of leaders by conducting corporate group interventions. She has drawn wellbeing programs and leadership programs for corporate giants like Whirlpool of India Ltd., Vodafone Ideal Ltd., TVS Motor Company and many more. Deepa strives to create a movement of “LEADERSHIP SUCCESS WITH WELLBEING” through her curated offerings.

Gladson Peter

Musician

Gladson Peter, famously known as One Man Band is one of the 1.4 billion people who can play 14 instruments at once. Peter is a multi-instrumentalist who can play over 45 instruments. He has gained an astounding 25 Million+ views on one of the most iconic and heart-warming songs - Maa Tujhe Salaam. In addition, he has also performed for the EU Chambers of Commerce and represented our country on one of the world's biggest stages. Through his music and his story of winning over a deadly lung disease, he strives to inspire us all.

Gopalkrishnan Srinivvasan

Entrepreneur

G Srinivvasan is the founder and CEO of SPORJO, a start-up publicised in July 2020 that aims in making the process of pursuing a career in the sports industry easily accessible. Prior to this, G Srinivvasan worked with Reliance Sports group for nearly 6 years. He was the part of the team that set up and launched the Indian Super League and subsequent expansion to 10 teams spearheading the sponsorship sales and marketing functions for the first three years. G Srini, as he is commonly known, has also worked with Nike where he led the football category business and brand communications for 4.5 years.

Mohammed Salim Khan

Content Creator

Mohammed Salim Khan is an explorer and content creator from Mumbai, India. Better known as MSK after the name of his YouTube channel, he is a passionate and professionally trained cricketer. He has learned acting and film-making in an acting school. Leading his own production company, his team won an award for the Best Short Film in 2016. Later, he came across being a content creator and started his own channel named MSK. He has received the "Vlogger of the year" award in 2020 and has been featured in many media portals.

Rahill Mehta

Dancing DJ

Rahill Mehta, popularly known by the name "The Dancing DJ" has been making the right noise for his phenomenal work. By taking his self created concept - the fusion of Dance & DJing to an international scale - he is now the World’s First Dancing DJ. In December 2020, Rahill Mehta announced himself as India’s First Dancing DJ. Rahill Mehta, now the World’s First Dancing DJ is by far the fastest growing artist in recent times with a tag like no other.

Rohit Mishra

Retired Indian Army Officer

Lt. Col. Rohit Mishra served in the Indian Army for 22 years before he decided to take a premature retirement and move to civilian life. He served in the elite Kumaon Regiment and a specialized Scout battalion. Rohit was a part of the United Nations Peacekeeping force in Congo, where he authored a book. He started a women's safety program along with his friend in 2017 which aims in training women the techniques of self defence. Lt. Col. Rohit and his program, Mission Fight Back has been featured in Chime for Change and was nominated as the 'Face of Doon'. He is currently authoring a book.

Sakshma Srivastav

TV Personality

Sakshma Srivastav is a multi-talented personality, from the dream city of Mumbai, India. In the year 2016, she emerged as a finalist of the National Beauty Pageant, Miss India Universe. Currently, she has emerged as one of the most popular television hosts among the Gen Z audience all across the globe. On 5th June 2021, Sakshma hosted an interview on her television talk show E Now, a show that she is the Director & Producer of, where she interviewed the biggest boy group in the history of music and entertainment, BTS. She has interviewed many other popular celebrities from Bollywood as well as Hollywood. She kicked off her journey in the entertainment industry at a tender age of 11 and has been a finalist of the National Beauty Pageant, Miss India Universe.

Suchitra Pillai

Actress and Singer

Suchitra Pillai has excelled in every spectrum of her life, from being a persevering theatre artist to a decorated actress. She started off her acting career in the year 1993, debuting as the lead in a French film - Le prix d' une femme. She portrayed phenomenal roles in some iconic movies and shows. Her debut album 'Such is Life' received phenomenal reach in 2011. Her work is well appreciated throughout the years, the most extravagant being her best actress award for the movie “The Valley” at the Milan and Long Island international film festivals.

Tenzin Chodon

Public Speaker

Tenzin Chodon is an entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, translator and host and producer of her own talk show - The Tenzin Show. Her talk show aims at unraveling the lives of noteworthy achievers and their success stories ranging from Bollywood celebrities to Scientists and researchers. She is also a social worker and activist for underprivileged children who have no access to education and opportunities. Her work has been featured in several renowned media coverages.

Vijay Bijlani

Entreprenuer

Vijay Bijlani has dedicated over 18 years of his life to entrepreneurship and the corporate world. He has remarkably spearheaded some of the leading departments in past years in companies of Coca-cola, Shoppers stop, Crosswords bookstore and Asian Paints. Abiding by his philosophy of "Sometimes you have to create what you want to be a part of", he became the director of Stories and Ideas, a platform that draws and leads a road map for small businesses. He has been an inspiration and a helping hand to many budding entrepreneurs.