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Aakanksha Gupta

Doctor, Educationist, Business Enthusiast

Dr. Aakanksha Gupta is a physician and a business enthusiast. She holds a coveted MBBS degree and a postgraduate degree in Healthcare Management IIM, Calcutta. She is currently serving as the Director at Delhi’s largest diagnostic centre—Must & More. She is also the Vice President-Media and Communications at S.K. Educations Pvt. Ltd. Besides, she is the Project Coordinator at Hum Honge Kamyab (HHK) Foundation and strives to raise awareness about disabilities among the general public. Dr. Aakanksha Gupta was born to Ajay Gupta and Deepshikha Gupta, who are both Polio patients. Dr. Aakanksha Gupta inherited her fierce spirit from her parents and developed it immensely. Dr. Aakanksha Gupta remained steadfast in her support of the family business and continues to be so. She is making phenomenal efforts to integrate basic concepts related to preventive healthcare.She also authored “First Aid Handbook” to create awareness about how to respond to emergency situations in an effective manner.

Asha Agarwal

IT Portfolio Manager / Life Coach

Asha Agarwal is an influencer, a full time IT Project Management Professional with Nestle Italy, and a life coach who inspire others to live an abundant life by aligning the core inner belief systems. She is an MBA graduate in strategic management and carry project, portfolio management experience at companies including Unilever, ABB, Target. She is a co-founder of Coachmeright LLP, a platform for life coaching that help in inner transformation through NLP techniques, Spiritual shadow healing and intuitive works. The commitment to her service embarks that “the choices are within and there is nothing to hold you back, if you thrive for a better life”. She is also a student of Metaphysical Science pursuing doctoral degree, an NLP Practitioner and gained practical knowledge on different healing modalities and an enthusiastic of applying spirituality into her daily practice

Ashish Agarwal

Shipping & Logistics | Energy Transition | Offshore

Ashish Agarwal is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Seros Logistics Group, a leading green and marine logistics company that supports end-to-end logistics requirements of dry bulk and break bulk cargo for the steel industry, ports, LNG and CNG consumer industries, and infrastructure project sites. Mr. Agarwal, as CEO of Seros, defines and evolves the company's strategic direction and portfolio of solutions, while fostering a strong leadership team to drive its implementation. Prior to joining Essar, Ashish worked as a Senior Vice President in The Chairman's Office,Ashish began his career with the Adani Group as a Group Management Trainee. Ashish is a Harvard Business School and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad graduate. He is a member of a number of organisations, including the YPO, TiE, AIMA, and CILT. Ashish enjoys playing a variety of roles and keeping up with digital technology-driven corporate change. He also enjoys travelling across the world.

Ashok Chandna

Politician & Youth Leader

Ashok Chandna is an Indian politician and elected member of 15th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Hindoli constituency as a member of Indian National Congress party. He also holds the position of Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports Department (Independent Charge), Skill, Employment & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Transport, and Soldier Welfare in the Government of Rajasthan. Ashok Chandna was born on 13 January 1984 in a farmers family at Shopuriya Ki Bawri, Nainwa, Bundi. He completed his schooling from Birla Senior Secondary School, Pilani and Graduate from University of Pune. He represented Rajasthan in the year 2001 in 200-meter back stroke. He also has represented Bhilwara Cricket Team from 2008 to 2010. Currently, he is heading Chandna Group Polo team which has won Sawai Man Singh Vase and Thunderbolt Cup in the year 2013.

Fani Bhushan

Inventor & a Physical Planner

Fani Bhushan is an inventor and a physical planner. His key area has been inventing new generation of transportation infrastructure with interchange as a major intervention. In the mean while he also worked with world leading urban Designers in the planning of CISCO campus ( east wing) , Airtel Campus in Gurgaon etc. Then he started his own inventions lab @ synergy building, IIT Delhi as an incubated Lab. He got the opportunity to present this before a DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS and found its mention in RAJYA SABHA report number 222 ( tabled in RAJYA SABHA on 11th December 2019, and in LOK SABHA on 11th Dec 2019).Hi has been awarded by some reputed agencies (HUDCO, Institution of Engineers( India ) for his innovations. He has also Judged an innovation competition by American Society for Mechanical Engineers.

Gagandeep Siidhu

Life & Law of attraction Master Coach | VitaminG

VitaminG - Gagandeep Siidhu is a Life & Law of attraction Master Coach also the owner/founder of Positiveminds. Gagan explains how the Subconscious mind works and how you can use it to build your dream life. Gagandeep Siidhu brings a wealth of knowledge of both people & organisational development alongside his expertise in Law of attraction, CBT & NLP techniques. It is his desire to inspire million souls to honour their own values and follow their dreams. To break away from what you are “supposed to do”, to tap into what you really want to do and let it flow easily into your experience. While He overcame his own depression, finances and broken relationships the next step was to save souls and make this planet better place to work. He has a huge set of fan base with his Daily dose of positivity - #VitaminG.

Meghan Sahni

Educator + Social Activist

Sahni, who spent his money and built the airplane-shaped library to arouse kids’ interest in attending government school in Bihar. He adopted the idea because he wanted students to experience the same joy of boarding an airplane while also learning. In 2018, we painted the classrooms to resemble train coaches and dubbed them ‘Shiksha Express’. The model was well received, and students became more focused on their studies.

Priyanjali Datta

Entrepreneur | Performing artist

Dr. Priyanjali Datta specialises in fundraising, product development and management of human centric, technology enabled products, which are mostly in the arena of deep tech and solving complex problems. She creates content both visual and in literature. She works with her team in marketing and PR. Priyanjali is a creative entrepreneur, a dental surgeon by education, she has built 4 startups, produced 3 documentary films on women's health, social taboo in India, and gender equity, and formed impact supporting fashion clubs since her early college days. She has been trained for design thinking, organisational development, fundraising, product development and management and social innovation to create globally scalable products in multiple international scholarship programs, some being Mulago design thinking, OYW-Novartis, Birla fellowship, CISCO - Nudge Incubation of best Indian start ups, Millenium Alliance - UK, Indian and US government funded

Sangya Ojha

Puppeteer / Puppet Consultant

Sangya Ojha is a puppeteer and co-founder of The Puppetarians, a unique Puppet Performance Initiative based in Mumbai. Sangya also puppeteers popular puppet characters like Elmo & Aanchoo for Sesame Street India (also known as Galli Galli Sim Sim, on Indian Television) since 2006. Sangya has been playing puppets for over 16 years also performing in famous T.V shows like Dance India Dance & Kaun Banega Crorepati. She also does live puppet plays, puppetry workshops, creates online educational and entertaining content with puppets, and trains puppeteers worldwide. Sangya has received Jagran new Media's Awareness Warrior's Award and the prestigious mBillionth Award for her Puppet Video Series 'Tara hai Taiyar' that she created under The Puppetarians with UNICEF, U.P. Sangya has an M.A in Mass Communication and is also a trained Indian classical dancer. Over the years she has collaborated with the biggest names in entertainment, education and corporate sector to spread the art of Puppetry

Santosh Dev Thakur

Career Counsellor

Santosh dev thakur is founder of campusview. By profession he is a motivational speaker and corporate trainer. He has been 3 times awarded as the national motivational speaker by different firms. Mr. Thakur is committed for social development of students. He completed his engineering from a college in odisha. By know his firm campusview has 4 offices in Patna, ranchi, Bhubaneswar and kolkata. He has been an author of a book named "who made engineering a joke" Being a student itself, he started working for different organisations so that he could achieve enough experience that can help him to be an expert in this field. Currently he is working for his firm called "zeet zindagi" for uplifting the needy students. As motivational speaker he has been politically associated with bjp, bjd, Indian oil, aakash institute, tatwa technology and many more.

Satwik Mishra

Entrepreneur, Social Worker

The recommended speaker is a Change Agent; who received the highest recognition given to any youth for his/her contribution towards nation building by GOI in 2018 i.e. National Youth Award. Satwik graduated in engineering from VIT University and has been working in the development sector for the last seven years. He provided advisory support to many policymakers and bureaucrats of Bihar and Jharkhand states of India before starting his own development consulting firm ‘Motive8 Group’ in 2019. Prior to that, he completed three national prestigious fellowships i.e. SBI Youth for India Fellowship, SPARC Fellowship and Aspirational Districts Fellowship. He was one of the few Indian entrepreneurs to build a million-dollar venture during COVID pandemic. With an achievement of running India’s first ever district-wide campaign over menstrual hygiene issues, he also got first of its kind MHM Libraries installed in 113 government schools of Jharkhand