With a career spanning nearly three decades, Sanjay joins Google India as Country Manager and Vice President from Star and Disney India where he was the Managing Director. During that time, he played a pivotal role in Star becoming the largest media company in India. Sanjay played an instrumental role in extending their traditional television content to digital consumers through Hotstar. He is also widely credited for building their sports business via the acquisition of marquee cricketing properties and launch of the hugely popular kabaddi and football leagues: Pro Kabaddi League and Indian Super League.

Apart from his numerous strategic and business wins, Sanjay also displays deep consumer understanding and has used it to build strong brands. During his time at Hindustan Unilever he led marketing for two of the company's critical segments: Oral and Home care. Then at Bharti Airtel as Chief Marketing Officer for the mobile business, he spearheaded several successful sales and marketing initiatives. Sanjay is a post graduate from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kolkata, and is an engineer from Delhi College of Engineering.

Vishal is CTO at Fashion Retailer and part of its regional senior leadership team. He has 19+ years of experience in Retail, Media & Technology industries across India, Emerging Markets, EU and US. He’s worked on enterprise, Digital & Tech transformation initiatives that had significant impact on business and consumer ecosystems.

Unny is currently the CEO of Digitas India, a global marketing communications and technology services brand, and part of Publicis Groupe. He comes with over 25 years of experience in Marketing Communications, Technology Services and Sales. Earlier, he had a 11 year stint as Chief Digital Officer, South Asia at Wavemaker, part of WPP. He started his career as a programmer before moving into marketing communications. Unny is a graduate in Physics from Calicut University, followed by a PG Diploma in Computer Applications. Most recently he completed a Graduate Certificate Program in Public Policy, his new area of interest.

He is also part of the advisory councils of CuriousTimes, India’s first online news portal for children, Rustik Travel, an experiential travel brand, Imarticus Learning, an ed-tech and training firm and Victoria Venture Fund, an early stage fund by Networkonomy Ventures . He has also delivered guest lectures at IIM-A, ISB, IIT Kharagpur, and a regular speaker at industry forums. “Trying to make a sense of this world” is how he describes his almost constant state of being.

A passionate marketer, Anvesha is currently responsible for the digital marketing strategy of L’Oreal Professionnel in India. A thought leader in her field, Anvesha has been a speaker at various conferences, & her guest articles have been published in content portals like afaqs! & tvnews4u.com.

Recently, she was placed among the “Top 30 Digital Marketer” in India by ET BrandEquity. She has been a part of the coveted “Economic Times Young Leaders” List in 2018. She has also been placed by Social Samsa in “40 Under 40” Digital Leaders & “Top 100 Marketers in India” by Adobe in 2019.

Her journey started with Google, where she worked closely with clients like Sephora, Gap and Jet Airways to help them build successful strategy for their marketing campaigns on Google search, display and YouTube. Post this, she set up the online marketing team at Travelyaari.com and paved the way for digital transformation at the company with an ROI focused approach. Her recent stint was with Asian Paints, where she headed digital media.

She is extremely excited and optimistic about the adoption of digital technology in India and is looking forward to how digital is all set to change of shape of marketing.

Navin Madhavan, as VP of Growth Platforms at InMobi, helps brands globally drive growth and to achieve their performance/ outcome-based advertising goals by leveraging the digital medium, especially mobile. In his previous role, Navin worked with app developers across Asia Pacific to identify the right monetization strategy for their media properties to grow their revenue. In other roles at InMobi, he has led strategic partnerships with enterprises in India to help them leverage their existing data sets for effective marketing, driving the strategy & operations for InMobi’s global programmatic business and operated as a part of the CEO's office. Navin holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a degree in engineering from BITS Pilani.

Kiruba Shankar is the CEO of Breathe Digital (earlier Business Blogging), a social media, and digital marketing firm. Right from the first day of work, he has been in the digital space and now has 24 years of experience. He co-founded F5ive Technologies that focuses on Open Source Web Development.

Prior to his entrepreneurship role, he was Associate Director of Sulekha.com and a senior manager at Sify.

He has authored 5 books: ‘Copy Right and Left: Understanding Creative Commons‘, ‘Wikipedia – A Beginner’s Guide‘, ‘Crowdsourcing Tweet’, ‘Unconference‘ and First Book.

He is a technology columnist and has authored tech columns at The New Indian Express, Business Standard, DTNext and Financial Express.

Kiruba is a passionate podcaster and currently hosts three podcasts. The Movers & Shakers Podcast in collaboration with India’s leading Business Newspaper, The Hindu BusinessLine, focuses on interviewing Global Leaders & CXOs. The First Book Podcast is the World’s first podcast specifically for aspiring authors where Kiruba interviews global best-selling authors. His latest Podcast project is called The Global Speaker, where he interviews the World’s best Professional Speakers.

Kiruba is a global professional speaker having given over 700 talks across 21 countries. He specializes in talking on Digital Excellence, primarily on how organizations can better leverage digital for improving their sales, marketing and reputation. He the founding President of the Professional Speakers Association of India under the aegis of the prestigious Global Speakers Federation.

Kiruba is passionate about teaching. He is a visiting faculty at Great Lakes Institute of Management near Chennai and Bharathidasan Institute of Management at Trichy. He has lectured on Digital & Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and Asian College of Journalism.

He is the curator of Cerebrate.in, an international event for achievers.

Kiruba blogs interesting experiences in his life at www.Kiruba.com and BusinessWorld magazine once ranked his blog among India’s top blogs.

With over 18 years of experience in Digital businesses, E-commerce, Investing and Finance, Dipanjan Basu is currently the Partner and CFO at Fireside Ventures where is actively investing and building a portfolio of new age Consumer brands. In his current role, he works closely with early stage brands and engaged in creating a ecosystem for the companies to grow. Previously worked with Myntra as its Chief Financial Officer. Before Myntra, Dipanjan was the Chief Operating Officer for Wipro’s Digital Consulting Business, where he was responsible for building and setting up new businesses, M &A and investments in startups. Prior to that he held many senior positions in Wipro Ventures, Global Large deals and Business Finance.

Anand Prasanna is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Iron Pillar, a fund manager focused on mid-stage technology investments in India with $135m of assets under management across two funds. Iron Pillar’s investors include institutions and family offices from US, Europe, Middle East and India. He sits on the board of directors of Indian technology companies, FreshToHome and Servify. He was also a member of the board of directors of NowFloats before its acquisition by Reliance Jio.

Previously, Anand was a Director with Morgan Creek, a global investment management firm, where he helped manage their Asia portfolio out of Shanghai. Anand also have extensive work experience in India and rest of Asia, with Sequoia Capital, McKinsey & Co and Squadron Capital.

Anand is a member and an active contributor to YPO, a global leadership community of chief executives.

Arun Chandran is the Founder and CEO of Trycle and has 12+years of work experience in the field of technology and product management. He is a 32 year old individual whose visions are closely associated with the Startup ecosystem. For most of his career,he has worked with early stage and funded startups like FreshMenu and Skoolbeep. Prior to Trycle, he held a startup in the food-technology industry. Holding an MTech degree in computer science and engineering, his domain experiences ranges from Food-tech to AI

Rasmi Poduval, the Co-Founder of "Seamstress & Cranganor" & a brand strategy consultant by profession, is an alumna of IIM, Bangalore. Rasmi started her marketing career with Coca Cola. She later moved to Saregama before starting her own clothing label "Seamstress" in the handwoven, sustainable space. She went on to co-found "Cranganor", a theme resort rooted in Kerala's rich history.

Charles Vijay Varghese is the founder of Nava Design & Innovation Pvt Ltd and has over 13 years of National & International experience in Project management, Sales & Marketing and also in Design consultancy. He founded the start-up company in 2016 and developed the “World’s First Coconut Sap Tapping Robot”. His device has patents granted in 28 Coconut growing countries including India which constitutes 90% of the global coconut production. His concept had received many awards and recognitions and won the prestigious National Startup Award 2020 under the Agriculture Productivity domain. Charles has a University degree in Electrical & Electronics engineering and a Post Graduate diploma in 3D modeling & animation. He loves nature and a passionate cartoon artist.

I am Ebbin Jose, one of the first-generation food and travel bloggers from Kerala. I enjoy family trips but never hesitated to grab any opportunities to hit the road even if it’s a solo trip. However, my best partner in travel is my wife, and our best companions are our children. So far travelled to 24 countries and 3 of them were captured and presented through our YouTube channel. We are looking forward to exploring many more places and cultures.

Over the last 2+ years of YouTubing, I have noticed that no travel videos are complete without food. I have also noticed that no food videos are complete without the element of lifestyle. Our plans ahead comprise of complete travel experiences through our vlogs, which includes travel, food, and lifestyle.

Not so long ago, when we started our YouTube channel, we were pure travelers. Our love for travel inspired us to live our passion. In 2018 when we started Food N Travel YouTube channel, we wanted to explore the world and learn cultural diversifications, food habits, living style, and more. We still stand for the same cause, but we want our viewers to benefit from our experiences too.

Mrinal Das Vengalat was born in Udinur bordering Kannur and Kasargod districts in 1984. His father Ravindraan N is a retired Sales Tax official and mother Chandrika Vengalat is a retired headmistress. Mrinal did Electrical Engineering from LBS Engineering College, Kasargod and Masters in Business Administration from England. An avid travel and food buff, he started blogging in 2018 and has so far covered 400 restaurants in eight countries through his blog within a short span of time. He is running a management consultancy firm since 2016.

Daman heads growth at boAt and has grown multiple products to 50+ million users. Earlier he was the CMO and growth head at Mobikwik, Milkbasket and WeCash. He was also the India Head for LINE. He also consults startups on marketing, growth, India entry and go-to-market strategies. Daman is an ISB alumni, and has done his Engineering from NIT Rourkela. He blogs at www.damansoni.com about growth marketing and startups

Ajay is an Adjunct Professor at Amrita Viswha Vidyapeetham and has ben teaching at the Amrita Univ / SUNY Buffalo MBA-MS dual degree program since 2011.   He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hindu University of America.

Ajay is the Executive Director, IT Business Partner for I/O Cell Therapy TRC, Early Clinical Development and CP&P at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS).  BMS is one of the largest bio-pharmaceutical companies, where his group is responsible for partnering with the scientists to provide scientific informatics and IT solutions to facilitate development of new medicine.  He has been accountable for large capital investment projects, including a single multi-year $100M investment.

Before joining BMS, Ajay was the Director of Research Informatics and Research IT at the City of Hope National Medical Center (COH) and Beckman Research Institute, where he also directed the Clinical Research Informatics Core and Translational Research Informatics Core. His team of forty research informatics professionals was also responsible for providing solutions for pre-clinical research. He has also worked at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and a software company in past

Ajay is the co-founder and served as CEO of HinduNet Inc. HinduNet was the very first website on Hindu dharma and eventually expanded to a family of twenty India and Hindu related websites. These websites garnered reference in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Times of India and several other prominent publications. HinduNet and its associated software company, GHENSoft was successful in obtaining early stage venture funding.  Ajay's work on religion on the Internet was featured in the book, The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology Is Changing Our Spiritual Lives by Jeffrey Zaleski.

Ajay received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from University of Bombay, MA in Chemistry from University of Scranton and PhD in Chemistry from University of Mississippi followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona. Ajay earned an Executive MBA degree from the University of Arizona.

My Email address: ajayshah@mites.amrita.edu
My phone No. 858 442-5668

Dr. Sasangan Ramanathan, Dean- Faculty of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, brings with him over 25 years of international research, management and leadership experience. Dr. Ramanathan’s focus and dedication is in preparing the next generation graduates for challenges in Science, Technology, Engineering and Management. He is a strong believer in an educational process that promotes creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship while providing the students with strong fundamentals.

Dr. Ramanathan holds a Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University (USA) and joined Amrita with a strong background in managing alliances and collaborations with key industry partners/consortia & universities across the globe.

Prior to joining Amrita, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for a large US based semiconductor capital equipment company heading their technology roadmap and strategic business development efforts.

Email address: sasangan@amrita.edu
Phone No: 759-815-528

Jose is often heard saying, “think differently”. He is a staunch believer that digital is on the path to becoming the oxygen that will become intrinsic to people across the world. Creating memorable experiences through this medium that leave users spellbound, and enriched, fulfil Jose. His aim is to educate brands who partner with Indigo on the impact that can be created in today’s “Experience Economy”.

He believes in the boundless impact brands can create by capturing and bottling memorable moments in a highly personalized and differentiated product for the brand – all of this backed by the powerful present and future tech. Jose is always up for this challenge, which he sees as a tremendous opportunity, considering multiple digital touch-points that a customer has to engage with brands.

As the COO at Indigo Consulting, he is backed by 20 years of powerful digital transformation experience at the helm of Fortune 500 companies. He thrives on transforming businesses through digital, by shepherding them through strategy, technology, project management, delivery and operations. From design thinking, augmented reality, machine learning, real-time analytics to block chain, Jose’s work has been integral to truly digitizing the biggest brands in the private, public and government sectors.

In his downtime, Jose works closely with local government authorities to leverage technology for solving social problems. With the mind and discipline of a true sportsperson on and off the field, he can be found running marathons, participating in other endurance sports or playing golf.

Raghav leads India and APAC business of Coursera. He is responsible for growing Coursera’s consumer and enterprise business in the region, and thereby bringing the world’s best education to learners. In this role, Raghav is responsible for driving impactful partnerships with universities, leading corporate and government institutions. Raghav has over 20 years of experience across consumer, internet, and management consulting industries in India, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Previously, Raghav was India Country Manager at BlaBlaCar, an inter-city carpooling service. By partnering with the company’s founders, Raghav successfully launched BlaBlaCar in India in early 2015. As a management consultant for 15 years, Raghav led the Retail Practice of Strategy& (erstwhile Booz & Co.) in India and served as President of Technopak Advisors (a leading consulting firm in consumer facing industries).

Raghav holds an MBA from INSEAD in France and is a recipient of the INSEAD Syngenta Scholarship for Emerging Country Leadership. He has done BE Mechanical Engineering from Padamshree Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth.

Email: rgupta@coursera.org
Phone: 99585 22993

Vishal Rupani has 15 years of experience in Search, Display and Mobile advertising. His most recent association was with mCanvas (a subsidiary of Affinity) where he served as the CEO. His contribution to mobile marketing earned the company several awards and trust of national & international brands. He serves as an Advisor at Tripper Technologies, an IoT-focused start-up in the International Roaming space.

Vishal has earned a place in Agency Reporter’s '40 Under 40' list of Most Disruptive Minds and also in Social Samosa’s '40 Under 40' list. He has also earned the 'APAC Content Moguls 50' recognition by Content Marketing Summit Asia. He is currently on the journey of unlearning and self-discovery.

Ashok is an award-winning global and regional digital, brand and marketing leader with over 27 years of diverse experience across both large established companies and emergent young brands. His experience is a unique blend of client-side roles, agency leadership positions, and multi-faceted advisory experience.

He has passionately leveraged the digital space to grow brands since 2000 and has the unique distinction of managing worldwide Digital Marketing for two Indian-born global brands – Taj Hotels for 10 years starting in 2000, and Infosys for 3 years from 2012.

As a Digital Business Advisor, Ashok’s engagements since 2015 have spanned almost 50 brands across 20+ sectors. He works with CEOs and leadership teams to help them use digital to deliver greater business, customer, and brand impact.

Ashok is active on Twitter at @ashoklalla and has a robust following of those interested in his views on digital, brands, leadership, and fitness.

Born in a small town in Kerala, Mahesh Narayanan after completing his graduation from the Adayar Fim Institute, started off as an advert Editor. He quickly progressed to documentaries, short films followed by features. His editorial debut “Rathrimazha” bagged National award for the best director and five Kerala State Awards. Having rapidly climbed the ladder as a renowned editor in the Indian Film Industry, Mahesh proved his expertise in writing as well through the film“Mili”, which has opened to rave reviews in Kerala.

In 2017, Mahesh Narayanan progressed into film-making directing his debut feature Take Off, a 2017 Indian drama thriller film, based on the ordeal of Indian nurses in the city of Tikrit, Iraq. The film was awarded with the prestigious Silver Peacock(Special Jury) at the 48th International Film Festival of India. The film won two National awards and five Kerala State Awards including the Best Debut Director's Award for Mahesh Narayanan.

During the lockdown period Mahesh Narayanan made a film titled C U Soon, India's first screen based feature, which was released by Amazon Prime Video. "C U Soon" was screened under the category of screen-life at the 42nd Moscow International Film Festival.

In his role as Head of Content for India, Vijay is in charge of all content acquisitions for Prime Video and productions under the Amazon Studios banner in India. He is responsible for content acquisition, licensing deals and to drive Amazon’s India strategy for Original Indian content. Vijay joined Amazon in 2017 to lead the content strategy for Prime Video in India while also working with content creators to provide quality content to customers.

A veteran with over two decades of experience across all key forms of media - Print, Radio, Television, and Digital, Vijay comes with an astute understanding of the content industry. Prior to Amazon, Vijay spearheaded content and revenue functions at Disney Media Networks, where he was responsible for growth of 8 broadcast channels across three categories. Before joining Disney, he was associated with MTV India, Magna Publishing, Turner International and Star India.

Kyle Fernandes, a 22 year old, CEO and Co-Founder spearheads Meme Chat a social network of Memes. Kyle is working towards achieving the vision of making the app popular amongst millennials and Gen Z, and helping the creators who use this app to earn money and also provide incentives.

Meme Chat is a home grown innovative entertainment app that is also supporting the Government’s Make in India movement and also enables brands to grow and increase their engagement with organic marketing and growth hacking strategies.

Kyle started his journey five years ago from a meme page ‘SIS’ known as 'Shit Indians Say’ with his Co-Founder, Taaran. Today, ‘SIS’ is grown into the social media platform known as Meme Chat. Some of their other popular meme pages are Baba Chu, Terribly Dank Tales, Sarcasm hub etc.

Meme Chat has a vast social media presence on Instagram & Facebook and has a reach of more than 150 million approximately, and 650K+ total number of users.

Kyle has completed his education in BTech, CSE (Computer Science Engineering) from SRM University and in his free time he likes to explore social media and to read about science

Sabareesh Narayanan started his stand-up career in 2017. Later, he presented the opening act for Sorabh Pant & Praveen Kumar. He is an advertising consultant and freelance filmmaker. He happens to be an active member in the media club in his college & bagged several prizes at the college level for photography, writing, impressions etc. Sabararesh delivered the opening act for the first OpenMic of Kannur. He is the favourite of the students & has done gigs on all major colleges including Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Sacred Heart College Thevara, NIT Calicut. Sabareesh is known as the first English Stand-up comedian from Kochi. He was also one among the performers of Humor Society, Coimbatore. He recently gave his performance at TedXMits. Sabareesh operates under the name Standup-Sabari.

Rishi Varma is the Director - Media Products responsible for driving the product management and strategy for Akamai’s Media and Gaming Products in Asia Pacific and Japan regions, including Regional innovation and local market needs.

A seasoned technology strategist, Rishi Varma has been with Akamai Technologies for close to a decade and has worked in numerous roles across Asia Pacific and EMEA markets, helping companies with their Digital Media, Online Video experiences and Monetization strategies

Rishi holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and is currently based in the Akamai’s Singapore office.