New Speakers

Nisha Millet

Nisha Millet is a swimmer from Bangalore, India. An Arjuna Award winner, Millet was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics swim team for India. Millet has won more than 600 gold medals at State, National and International Meets. She has represented India at the world swimming championships (1998 and 2004) & Asian Games(1998) […]

Laxmi Agarwal

Laxmi Agarwal, once known as the acid attack survivor, is now just Laxmi – a mother, a symbol of courage, hope and love for life. A motivational speaker and messenger for millions of social voices, she has inspired people and emphasised on the strength of inner beauty. Laxmi Agarwal was only 15 when she was […]

Guneet Monga

Voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by the Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today. Guneet Monga has been a force to reckon with and the youngest game-changing producer in Indian cinema. Guneet started her career in production with international projects […]

Shankkar Aiyar

Shankkar Aiyar is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist and author. His path-breaking book “Accidental India: A History of the Nation’s Passage through Crisis and Change” has fetched him national acclaim as a public intellectual. Accidental India, an in-depth study of the political and economic history of modern India, examines the country’s transformation through […]

Susmita Mohanty

Dr Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and entrepreneur extraordinaire. She is the only entrepreneur in the world who has founded space companies on 3 different continents. She is the co-founder and CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private space start-up that played a pivotal role in opening up the US launch market for India. She […]

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and her most recent, Three Daughters of Eve. Her books have […]

Anuj Gosalia

Anuj Gosalia’s first taste of the startup life was when he joined the founding team of What’s On India, led by media veteran Atul Phadnis. Working with a lean and versatile team to bring new business, service existing clients and optimize the website’s algorithm all at once, was his introduction to the grueling nature of […]

Ashwin Sanghi

Ashwin Sanghi is one of India’s five best-selling English fiction authors. His three novels, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, and The Krishna Key, are all based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India’s most popular conspiracy fiction writers, and is an author of the new era of re-telling Indian history or […]

Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy CBE, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He is the Founder of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981, served as the CEO during 1981-2002, and as the Chairman and Chief Mentor during 1981-2011. […]

Gopalakrishnan Ramabadran

R Gopalakrishnan (Gopal to his friends) is a non-executive director of Tata Group Parent, Tata Sons, and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of listed companies, Akzo Nobel India and Castrol India, as well as a Sri Lankan listed company, Hemas. He retired from executive positions in Tata in 2011. Gopal […]

Alan Rosling

Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer and businessman with specific knowledge on India.   Rosling helped to establish Kiran Energy, one of India’s driving solar power organizations. Kiran secured private value backing in 2010 and as of now has more than 80 MW of advantages working.   Alan Rosling spent 5 years […]

Ireena Vittal

Ireena Vittal is an independent director on the boards of some of India’s best known organizations. Following 24 years in business, she takes a shot at issues identified with India’s urban plan and agri-markets. Prior to this, she was a Partner at McKinsey and Co.   Ireena Vittal is an expert in farming and urban […]

Punita Lal

Punita Lal is a high level, proficient manager with more than 25 years of involvement in system, advertising and authority, spreading over numerous topographies and societies. Lal’s last position was as CEO for NourishCo, a joint venture between the Tatas and PepsiCo in the region.   Her professional career began in the promoting business with […]

Deepak Bagla

Deepak Bagla has had an expert career of more than 28 years, beginning with the World Bank in Washington DC before moving back to India to join the Corporate Projects group of RPG Enterprises. In 1989 he joined Citibank Global Corporate and Investment Banking group and for the following 18 years held various positions over […]

Suhas Gopinath

IT multinational organization. He was an extremely youthful CEO at 17 years old when he founded the organization and was named the world’s most youthful CEO.   He holds a diploma on global leadership and public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University.   Suhas Gopinath taught himself how to […]

Ronnie Screwvala

Ronnie Screwvala spearheaded Cable TV in India and went ahead to create UTV – spreading over Television, Broadcasting, Digital, Mobile and Motion Pictures, which he sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2012 .   Ronnie Screwvala is driven by his enthusiasm for championing entrepreneurship – he authored a book on entrepreneurship titled Dream With […]