Theme: Looking Ahead

Through this event, our goal is to bring together bright minds to encourage intellectual discourse
on a variety of topics like the meteoric rise and potential of the Indian startup ecosystem, the
impact of widespread internet accessibility in India and other interesting trends.

Ramada Plaza By Wyndham Palm Grove
Juhu Beach
Concord Hall
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400049
India

Aayu K

Growth Product Manager, Eros International

Aayu Kharbanda is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Harvard, and ISB. He has also worked in the product management and data science sector and is the founding member of Languify.in. He was also the ex-vice president of Toastmasters, a club known to build best public orators.

Aseem D

MD & CEO, SBFC Finance Ltd.

Aseem Dhru has overall responsibility for guiding SBFC towards its goal of being India's most trusted financial for MSMEs. Mr. Dhru is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He has extensive experience at the senior level of India's financial sector, including pioneering innovative credit services for under-represented segments of the market. Before SBFC, Mr. Dhru led HDFC's business banking offer for India's agricultural sector and rural communities.

Dheeraj S

CEO, Leo Burnett South Asia

Dheeraj Sinha, CEO, Leo Burnett, South Asia &Chairman BBH India. He's the recipient of numerous awards including the Atticus Awards. Dheeraj has been on the AdAge's (India) list kf Ad People of the year. He's an avid speaker and has spoken at the Cannes Lions Festival of adversity, The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity to name a few.

Praveen T

MD, Pace IIT & Medical

An Educator and Entrepreneur with a passion for innovation. Armed with a degree in engineering from IIT-Delhi, has set up PACE - IIT and Medical in 1999 to help students prepare for engineering and medical competitive examinations; over a span of 25 years it has grown into one of the biggest institutes in India with colleges and coaching centers under its name across the globe. In this endeavor, along with a team of more than 200 IIT-ians Pace is committed to deliver the highest quality of education with the philosophy that ‘’Quality education is the most efficient tool to transform a nation into a superpower”. The long term vision is to facilitate a major transformation of the educational landscape.To build web-based tools and learning management solutions that help parents and teachers engage students all across the globe.

Shishir S

Head of Robotics/GI & Thoracic Surgeon, Apollo Cancer Institutes

Dr Shishir Shetty is the Head of Robotics/GI & Thoracic Surgeon Apollo Cancer Institutes and was Director of Oncology at Fortis. He has more than 14 years of experience in his field. His previous experience includes working at prestigious institutions lsuch as LTMC&H (Sion Hospital ) , Tata Memorial Centre and the Emory University. He has more than 5000 cancer surgeries to his credit. His special interests include Minimal Invasive Cancer Surgery, Complex Thoracic and Hepato-Biliary Surgery Organ Preserving Surgeries for Breast, Head & Neck as well as Colorectal & Uro-Gynaec Oncology

Sonia G

Author, Non-Fiction

Sonia Golani is a non-fiction author. Her first book, Corporate Divas:Stories of 18 Indian women business leaders was published by Penguin in 2011. Ever since then, she has 6 books on various influential personalities, including Union Minister of Defence Mr. Manohar Parrikar, R Madhavan and Praveen Tyagi.