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Navtej Sarna is a diplomat and author. He graduated from Delhi University in 1980 with degrees in Law and Commerce and joined the Indian Foreign Service the same year. He has served in various diplomatic capacities in Moscow, Poland, Bhutan, Geneva, Iran and Washington . His recent appointments were as the Foreign Office Spokesman and India’s Ambassador to Israel. Presently he is serving as a Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs.

Navtej Sarna is the author of the novels ‘We Weren’t Lovers Like That’ (Penguin India, 2003) and ‘The Exile’ (Penguin India, 2008) as well as the short story collection ‘Winter Evenings’ (Rainlight Rupa, 2012). His non-fiction works are ‘The Book of Nanak’ (Penguin India, 2003), ‘Folktales of Poland’ (Sterling 1991) and ‘Indians at Herod’s Gate’ (Rainlight Rupa, 2014). He has translated Guru Gobind Singh’s ‘Zafarnama’ (Penguin India 2011) from Persian to English as well as the Punjabi partition stories of Mohinder Singh Sarna in ‘Savage Harvest’ (Rupa, 2013). He has been contributing regularly to journals and newspapers in India and abroad including The Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, The Hindu, India Today, Outlook and so on. His literary column Second Thoughts that appeared in The Hindu for seven years is being brought out as a collection by Harper Collins.

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Prof. Madan Mohan Pant is an internationally renowned expert specialising in pedagogy, technology and the development of tools and curricula for 21st century education. He has been known for developing, working models that enhance the pedagogy using latest available technologies. He is especially noted for his efforts in leveraging social media for improving learning and bringing the mobile into the classroom where it has been traditionally banned.

Prof. Pant’s current work and interests revolve around the development, delivery and promotion of educational products, processes and services that cater for the needs and interests of future learners, a framework that is named “Learning 221”.

His past roles include being the Former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity (IGNOU) and being on the faculty of IIT, Kanpur (the premier engineering institution in India), MLNR Engineering College and Faculty as well as Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

He has been a visiting scientist at European research centres in Italy, England, Germany and Sweden. Prof. Pant is the founder of the LMP Education Trust, an organisation that promotes new age learning and supports under privileged learners.

Prof. Pant has been associated with many educational organizations as member of committees or working groups, such as the NCTE, NCERT, CBSE, NIOS, NUEPA, CEC, UGC, AICTE, AIMA and several Universities. He has been closely linked with the IIT system, having got his Ph.D from IIT, Roorkee, a faculty member at IIT, Kanpur and a member of the Board of Governors, IIT, Delhi.

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Tonee’s passionate about technology and the opportunity it provides education in the developing world. A dyslexic learner. Love learning and technology. Intrigued by the combination of both. Tonee dislike how we learn. Most dyslexic people do.

A Social EdTech-prenuer building an education innovation that advance students in Africa while making a sustainable business model for education stakeholders. Adventures in his previous life: Founder of the largest IT incubator in Kenya, raised €5 Million for it. Current adventure: Building Kytabu( org), a textbooks subscription application for all desktops and laptops as well as android tablets for the developing world.

Beating the OLPC model with a big stick…it can be done better. Kytabu is an android application for phones and tablets that enables teachers and students to rent curriculum textbooks using mobile money. Kytabu leases textbooks as chapters, pages or complete books for either an hour, day, week, month or school term.

This fractured size and varied time reduces the cost of the content buy 72% and in some cases, by 1/1000 of the original price.

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Tom’s Hooper second venture in education technology is Third Space. He is passionate about the role technology can play in helping solve social problems. Tom spends his time building support for Third Space from grassroots to Government level. Third Space Learning connects teachers from around the world to children in schools across the UK, to provide live one-to-one maths support during the school day for children at risk of failure. Third Space was launched in 2013, and has established three academic centres in Asia – two in India, one in Sri Lanka – where local maths graduates are trained to be specialist online teachers, connecting to children in English schools via Third Space Learning’s online teaching technology. As an EdTech company that has built the foundation of its model in India, He is excited to be speaking at IEIC 2016.

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Supriyo Chaudhuri has extensive experience of Global Education, managing projects, leading businesses and developing and supporting partner networks. With an in-depth understanding of the Higher and Professional Education sectors, deep knowledge of Education Technology and global experience in Education Marketing, he has worked with some of the world’s foremost Education and Skills Training companies with distinction and success. He was until recently, the Director for Asia Engagement for Knod Education, a US venture-funded innovative skills company. He is now Senior Manager in Education for EPG.

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Under Selva’s leadership Regent Group was nominated for three industry awards as an award finalists by Education Investor in the categories: Education Business of the Year 2014, Higher Education Provider of 2014, Private Tuition Centre operator of 2014 Selva is in the process of launching Regent Leadership Academy in London and the United States with his management and thinking guru from Harvard University – Prof. Huete is mentoring Selva with the launch of Regent Leadership Academy in early 2015 with a view to nurture leadership in a very unique manner via managing and resolving conflicts Recently Selva has been instrumental in launching Regent English Academy to support the local linguistic needs of North West London’s incredibly diverse and cosmopolitan student population.

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Sam Barton is a Business development Manager helping businesses to mature from start-up upwards. Special Advisor to HRH The Duke of York, KG supporting iDEA and Pitch@Palace initiatives.

Global Sales & Markets group – Supported EXCO reporting requirements, worked on Gamification piece. Global People Performance and Culture group – Project Manager for Global Purpose roll-out. Restructuring: Key engagement, MF Global UK Limited (In Special Administration) working on inter-company loans, resolution of client asset positions (segregated and non-segregated), damages claims, debtor reviews and London Metal Exchange client account reconciliation.

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Ravi Dugal, President of Flipick Pvt. Ltd. (www.flipick.com), a self-catering online service that allows publishers and design shops to produce their own fixed-format eBooks directly from within Adobe InDesign.

Flipick is a technology-based partner that provides interactive, real time, self-paced ecosystems for learning and managed technical services. It helps create an immersive environment that is conducive to conceptual learning. Flipick delivers a 360° solution for the educational industry that includes content digitisation, re-authoring, interactive designs, game based eLearning, assessment and detailed analytics as well as content delivery on web, iOS, Android and Windows 8 platforms.

Some of the services include:

₋ Technical Need Analysis

₋ Building interactive content for higher education

₋ Authoring content for HTML5 based 2D/3D animation

₋ Re-authoring animations from Flash to HTML5

₋ Video production and enhancementsFounder Abacus Computers Limited the first in India to pioneer a revolution for open platform language publishing and newspaper editorial system in the eightees

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CEO of Mediawide group of companies. Pioneered self service real estate advertising solutions for UK newspapers almost 8 years ago. Solutions are used in leading newspapers today, one of the newspaper chain building almost 4000 broadsheet real estate pages every month

Architect of Brandmark, a unique solution for localized marketing for leading brands. Brandmark comprises media planning, ad building, automated adaptations, approvals management and electronic delivery. Leading brands including Singapore Airlines, Standard Chartered Bank, Hyatt, Monsanto, Goodyear, Shell and Wriggleys use the solution to build print ads, catalogs, flip books, web banners and visual merchandize

Vertical solutions of Brandmark include workflow and FSI (circulars) builder with full support of versions for regional promotions

Mediawide is actively involved in consulting and bespoke development around web to print, VDP, database publishing and integration with ERP systems

Specialties: Dynamic publishing, editorial systems, advertising solutions, brand marketing operations management and language publishing

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Rajay Naik was previously the director of government and external affairs at The Open University (OU) – the U.K.’s largest university and a global leader in online learning – Naik now leads Keypath’s European operations and is based out of its London office. During his time at The OU, the institution has continued its domination of adult education, grown its international partnerships and launched the FutureLearn MOOC platform.

Naik is a major figure in U.K. higher education, joining senior ministerial delegations on behalf of the British government and as a member of the high-level UK-ASEAN Business Council. Before joining The OU, he was a member of the landmark Independent Review of Higher Education, chaired by former BP CEO Lord Browne. As far back as 2006, he co-authored “Learner Voice,” which examined how technology would transform education. In May, Naik stepped down after six years as a non-executive director at the Big Lottery Fund where he managed a £1.7 billion per year budget as chairman of U.K. funding. He also recently served on the U.K. Digital Skills Commission and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills’ Education Technology Action Group.

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Paul Balogh (CEO) and Cristian Dinu (CTO) – cofounders of Learn Forward, a UK startup focused on making the digital classroom work by using real-time technologies to power two-way communication in tech-enabled classrooms (delivery of content but also collaborative work). Both cofounders are originally from Romania and they pack different backgrounds: Paul was involved with the publishing sector managing digital businesses in this space while Dinu has a strong background in designing IT solutions for large corporations such as IBM and Vodafone. They decided to move to the UK in 2015 after being winning a place with a London-based business accelerator specialised in EdTech: Emerge Education.

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Nathan Andrews believes in Working to deliver on the brand promise to all stakeholders while ensuring customer delight as well as the financial success of every business within the city. To make Lavasa India’s first hill city the preferred destination for residents, students and tourists. A city of learning, art and culture with a quality of life unparalleled in the country.

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Trevor Barratt is the Managing Director – TES Global

• Highly experienced media professional and owner with over 30 years’ experience managing content and event related assets.

• Twenty years’ experience at board level, with the majority as CEO

• Managed and sold two businesses via leveraged buy outs. In addition, made numerous acquisitions a and disposals of individual assets

• Extensive knowledge of digital media though events and publishing

• Key strengths are: strategy – in particular event dynamics, content led media and sales proposition, leading to the routes to extract maximum shareholder value.

Passionate about social housing, sport (rugby, golf, cricket and squash). Member of Harlequins Rugby Club and the Nevill Golf Club.

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Isabel Newman supports all stages of the investment process from initial appraisal through to deal execution and portfolio management, with a specific focus on the fund’s Children and Young People theme.

Isabel has a background in social investment and international grant making, having previously worked at CAF Venturesome and Comic Relief.

She holds a BA in Geography from Newcastle University and an MSc in Globalisation and Development from SOAS.

Isabel is also a Trustee of The Midi Music Company, a south London based charity that inspires children and young people to get into the music and creative industries.

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Gurpreet Jagpal is an inspirational, transformational and visionary Director with the proven ability to transform business performance: managing and implementing change, delivering operational efficiencies and providing measurable results. Introducing strategies, turning ideas into reality and acting as an ambassador for business culture, branding and philosophy – promoting visions and values.

Championing strategies in entrepreneurship, business support, training, engagement and company creation I enjoy taking ownership of multiple project delivery, managing staff and funding, delivering measurable results & instilling a performance culture. Financially astute Gurpreet lead on controlling and planning departmental budgets, forecasts and reporting structures.

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Gaurav Mehra joined Kaizen in 2015 and leads the fund’s Education Technology investments. Prior to joining Kaizen, he co-founded Saba and helped build it into a $150 million public company and a global leader in Talent Management software solutions. With 25 years in building technology and scaling global product and service operations, Gaurav helps portfolio companies shape defensible growth strategies. Gaurav holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. As a Partner with Kaizen, an Education, EdTech and HCM focused fund, I evaluate deals, and work with our portfolio partners on operational and scaling challenges.

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Dame Asha Khemka OBE DBE joined Council in 2009 and is also a member of Finance Committee. She took up her post as Principal and Chief Executive of West Nottinghamshire College in May 2006. It is now one of the largest colleges in the country with just over 30,000 students and an annual budget approaching £70 million. The College, as an organisation, and Dame Asha, individually, have received public recognition and acclaim for their contribution to the Further Education sector and for their contribution to the ex-mining communities of North Nottinghamshire. Dame Asha’s lifetime contribution to the sector was recognised in 2009 with the award of an OBE and again in 2014 when she became the first Indian in living memory to be appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Dame Asha is a board member of several national organisations, including the Association of Colleges (AoC), being the Chair of its Quality and Performance Portfolio Group and Chair of AoC India. She is a board member of the Education and Training Foundation, D2N2 LEP and is a Trustee of City and Guilds. She is a founder member of the Inspire and Achieve Foundation whose main objective is to raise the aspirations of working class young people.

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Christine Major has more than 15 years of experience in the ed tech industry and has worked from Governments in Asia to classrooms in Canada. As Director of Global Solutions for Discovery Education, Christine cultivates deep partnerships with education partners, to develop customized solutions that support their strategic goals and help make the transition to digitally enhanced teaching and learning. A former UK primary teacher, Christine has led the UK’s largest technology focused professional development service for schools and her talks blend humor, deep insight and a wealth of global experience.

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Charles’ McIntyre experience has been in building businesses in a number of industry sectors including: financial services, media, media tech and more recently online education. He co-founded IBIS Capital in 2003 in order to create a flexible, boutique investment bank that could both invest in, and advise companies and their shareholders. 12 years on and IBIS Capital has evolved into three distinct businesses; investment banking, venture capital and hedge fund management. Charles also sits on the Boards of a range of entrepreneurial companies in the media and education sectors.

Charles began his career with the investment banking arm of Apax Partners, one of the leading independent private equity firms in the UK where he helped build the company’s media franchise. In 1998, together with other senior management, Charles spun off the investment banking arm of Apax Partners. Over the next two years the business was built up into a pan-European investment bank operating with offices in 7 countries with 140 people. Charles was the Managing Director responsible for European media investment banking and was involved in a wide range of fundraising and M&A transactions.

In 2003, Charles joined David Forster to form IBIS Capital. Now in its 12th year IBIS Capital has established itself as a leading investment banking boutique focused on the media and media tech sectors with over 50 corporate transactions completed. The company is also able to act as a principal investor both in the public and private markets. In 2013, Charles started focusing on the e-learning and edtech markets and is responsible for a number of key industry initiatives including co-founding EdTech Europe, an annual summit for strategic players and investors interested in the online education market.

Specialties: Media and Ed-Tech Investment Opportunities Business Deals in the Media, Media Tech and Ed-Tech Sectors Mergers and Acquisitions

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Ann Attridge is responsible for creating and developing Scotland’s first fully digital SQA qualification and building a team of talented designers and developers.

Awarded Approved Centre status by the SQA for the delivery of the National 4 ESOL course using Klik2learn’s e assessment system. Nominated for an Elton award by the British Council for ‘Excellence in Course Innovation.’ Responsible for operational and strategic business planning.

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Douglas Sperry Makepeace learned marketing from IBM, and the investment business from Merrill, Lynch. Sir John Templeton was Sperry’s first investor, seeding a fund of funds in 1989. In 2004, the JPMorgan Private Bank created funds for Sperry to advise, based on the record of that first fund. Sperry’s total assets grew to $500 million.

In 1991, Sperry sponsored a single-manager fund, and raised $40 million for the manager. The largest investors were Soros funds, Haussmann Holdings, and many early funds of funds.

Currently Mr. Makepeace advises several institutions on hedge fund investing. Their assets total about $10 billion. He also continues to represent managers that he admires, introducing them to investors he admires. He is registered with both the SEC and CFTC.

Why I spend so much time in the San Francisco Bay Area

In 2014, I read a book about the growing power of technology. This power is growing so fast that it will solve many of the world’s shortages in the next five to ten years. The result will be abundances, and Abundance is the title, by Diamandis. The future is being made in the Bay Area.

I’m working with several ventures that have a Stanford connection. Together we can rebuild education from the ground up, so people can learn at their own pace, in accord with human nature.

And I am working with several technology companies, like the ones in Abundance. Certainly, many ventures will need more capital over the next several years. Many excellent people have good ideas, and deserve to have investors.

Sperry Fund Management has been finding and evaluating and monitoring hedge fund managers for 25 years. Now Sperry Fund Investments is bringing excellent venture managers to investors.

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Aldo de Pape is a strong believer of opening science and education for the betterment of society. Aldo previously worked at Springer and Digital Science, a corporate venture capital fund of Macmillan Publishers investing in scientific technology.

Aldo was trained in Utrecht and Gent and has a Masters degree in International Relations and General Management. In 2007 Aldo published I am! (a children’s book). TeachPitch is a web-based platform that helps teachers and schools identify the best online learning resources. We would love to hear your ideas and feedback on our new product TeachPitch for Schools, a repository technology that helps individual teachers, departments, schools and districts find, share, manage and monitor the very best of learning.

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Professor Mammo Muchie holds a DPhil in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development (STI&D) from the University of Sussex. UK. He is currently a DST/NRF rated Research Professor at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. He is a fellow of the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences. He is also currently adjunct Professor at the Adama Science, Technology University, Arsi University, Addis Ababa University and University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He has been senior research associate at the SPMTDC programme and also has become Senior Research Associate at the TMD Centre of Oxford University.

He is collaborating with researchers (DILIC) on the potential research areas of Africa-China industrial high-technology sectors. He has been invited as Associate Faculty professor at Sussex University, UK for the next three years; at the University of Economics in Prague as visiting professor, Jawarahal Nehru University India, Tonji and Shanghai University, China; Honorary Professor Jiaxing University, China, Assistant Professor Amsterdam University, Visiting Professor Carleton College, USA; Principal Lecturer, Middlesex University, Professor, Aalborg University; Part–time Lecturer, Cambridge University; Honorary Professor UNISA. Professor Mammo held various positions globally, including the Director of the Research Programme on Civil Society and African Integration at the then University of Kwa Zulu-Natal; board member at the North Western University, Chengdu, China.

He is currently the chairman of the advisory board of African Talent hub of the Community Interest Company (registration no.10461990) to raise funds for making Africa the talent, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and knowledge hub of the world. He has been appointed as special distinguished advisor to the Africa Union’s Student Council and a mentor for the African Entrepreneurship award. He has initiated the African Unity for Renaissance and Knowledge Exchange series of conferences since the last six years. He is a founding scientific advisor to ´the African Solar network, founding chairman of the Network of Ethiopian scholars. He has lead the SIDA, Sweden funded research on engineering design and on transformative innovation for African integrated development and educate on public media to speed up the creation of innovative and renascent Africa. He is also a co-founding member of the Nano Technology Institute in TUT leading the innovation side of the research.

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Managing Director for boutique economic consulting firm EPG, specialising in economic analysis, strategic communications and market entry assistance with India, with offices in London, Bangalore and East Africa.

He was additionally, until August 2017, UK Director for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the premier and largest industry body in India. He is also the co-founder of a tech start-up in the CSR space. Previously he worked in Economic Consulting at FTI Consulting and Deloitte in London and Abu Dhabi, with a focus on public policy and arbitration. He was Chairman for a not-for-profit membership organisation with several thousand members for three years.

He studied Economics at Warwick University, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence, and LMU University of Munich. His dissertation won a prize at an international economics conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published academic research on behavioural economics and social impact and is a regular commentator on public policy and India across print, TV and online media, featured on BBC News, CBC, CNBC, CNN, NDTV, South China Morning Post and Huffington Post.

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