Education Innovation Conference 2019

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A purpose driven leader who works towards accomplishing organisation goals, by aligning, scaling and sustaining initiatives and programs that translate into accomplishing the final outcomes. At NASSCOM, over a period of 5 years he has scaled SME vertical to newer heights taking it global locations, strategized regional member outreach to become the strongest value add to the organization, and transformed non-performing assets into performing trends for IT BPM industry ecosystem, initiated disruptive initiatives to strengthen NASSCOM’s Skilling and reskilling goals.

With over 30 years of experience of working with IBM as a Geo Expansion Leader, and HP/Compaq/Digital as a transformation leader, he has the acumen of building and nurturing teams that hold up the vision of the organisations.

He is a member of the IT High power committee of GOVT of Kerala and in the board of ICT skills academy Karnataka and the NAIN (New age incubation network) board member of the Govt of Karnataka. He is also in the advisory board in numerous consulting firms in the areas of leadership and D&I.

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Vipul Redey is the Head – School Enablement at Khan Academy. An alumnus of Stanford University, he helps schools make the most of Khan Academy’s online learning resources in their classrooms.

He has also worked for Cisco, managing a large part of their multi dollar IT training and professional certifications portfolio. As a CXO at Global Discovery Schools and Director of Academics at Pearson Schools India, he has designed the daily classroom experience of thousands of students nationally. He is a multifaceted personality.

He is an educator, writer, lover, fighter, saint, sinner, an ice-cream-holic and a “wannabe engine driver” – as his Twitter bio says. He is also a TED-Ed Innovative Educator and a TEDx Colombo speaker.

Transforming the classroom learning experience and the education system from a race to resource is his IKIGAI.

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Natasha Joshi leads the education Systems Strengthening vertical at Tata Trusts, and oversees projects in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Tripura. She holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and has worked in the policy implementation space with UNICEF for a number of years, and more recently at NITI Aayog. Her views on different topics in education have been carried by periodicals like India Development Review, The Ken and Swarajya Magazine.

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Creating an Attitude… As the global economy has converged countries into borderless entities, the corporate world is continuously pushed by knowledge, fueled by technology. Innovation and creativity have become the key drivers. Indian corporates are growing in a fast forward mode, creating innumerable opportunities for enterprising young men and women. Global corporations are looking at India as a valuable source of manpower of high quality and competency. Imparting critical analytical skills and decision making capabilities among the students is essential. Sound academic foundation, strong and effective content delivery, by competent faculty, exposure to current business practices, through industrial visits, seminars and summer intensive projects as well as management research projects will pave the path and guide the students in their journey from campus to corporates. ISBR, an institution of new age, believes in the best and endeavours to create the robust, incorporating values and imbibing ethics in its approach to developing students. With flexibility to bring in innovation in teaching methods and the state of the art learning technologies, enriched by the wisdom of experienced faculty and committed leadership, the institution is geared to provide future leaders of India Inc . Our students, fired with determination to excel, march forward with grit and will, confidence and competence. To enable and empower them is our mission

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Intercell is the brain child of Arunabh Varma, a sales, digital & marketing expert and a seasoned professional. He has been associated with luxury automotive brands like Audi, Harley Davidson and BMW in the past. A versatile work experience of 15 years in Telecom, IT, Real Estate and Automobiles. Now an Entrepreneur.

As a marketing enthusiast and master’s degree holder in advertising and marketing management, Arunabh Varma has 15 years of successful results in luxury and premium marketing planning and executing brand strategy activities in customer-focused market. His entire work experience is enriched with product promotional projects carried out in teams where mostly he has worked in the leading position. This includes, but not limited to, launching various types of new successful brand initiatives.

Moreover, Arunabh has advanced analytical skills which can be proven by his ability to handle large and varied amounts of data, extracting business insights and customer buying habits, interpreting and analysing marketing research information as well as using the analyses and formulating business strategies and suggestions.

Throughout his professional career, he has demonstrated a keen ability to effectively influence internal and external stakeholders across the business with his exemplary communication skills. Also, has effectively managed budget and respective performance, product sales and consumer reactions.

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Rahul was born in Delhi. He received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and his PhD in Bio-Medical Engineering in USA in 1975. He worked as a research scientist in hospitals and then in medical industry. He was granted over 75 patents on various medical technologies and has authored over 90 manuscripts and 24 book chapters.

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Simran’s pre-school journey began from a mother’s heart. First step was to pursue Diploma in Early childcare education to understand this pedagogy in-depth. Obtaining the gold medal was a cue to move further in the world of kindergarten. Journey with ever evolving Little Millennium team has been very exciting for her. At LM, she believes that every child learns best with play way method and multiple-intelligence. Curriculum is now designed to encourage overall development of a child. Her Etiquette Learning & Public Speaking curriculum has recently won her Best Practices Award 2019. Simran’s carefully prepared environment is designed to complement the activities and encourage the teachers towards holistic development. Keeping this in mind, she fosters program like cross learning, teacher development training, employee engagement etc. She firmly believes – that a nurtured teacher can have trickle effect on the children she educates! Teachers regularly inspire, whether they are aware of it or not. But sometime they struggle under the weight of doubt and anxiety! She has chosen to empower her teachers with two things – First, we believe in you, and second, you are the best. Her career spans from early beginnings with Education, Client Servicing to Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development for APAC and US markets. In last 20 years of her career – she has gained many skills that fall outside the traditional genre of Pedagogy. Her goals have always centred on using skills to improve the lives of those who she works with, as well as create value for her internal & external customers. She has often been told, “You don’t seem to fit the stereotype Education specialist person”. She actually takes that as a compliment, because it meant -she is meeting a personal goal to provide a linkage between people and business!

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Natarajan Krishnamurthy (Nats), Director is an engineer by qualification and has over 27 plus years of experience that straddles Manufacturing. BPO and IT industries. He held several Executive Leadership roles in leading organizations such as TI Group, HCL, Accenture, Wipro and cognizant.
He has a proven track record of setting up and running business units that span across markets as well as extensive Marketing and Distribution Networks. He combines a deep knowledge of business process Re-engineering, financial Deal structuring, Operations and technology that provides Voice Snap with a clear edge in our markets and a firm foundation for our Technology Innovations.
Nats look after Operations, Business Development, HR, and Administration in voice snap.

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Dr Shivananda C S is the principal at Global Indian International School- a pioneering K12 CBSE School. He has been a Principal for the last 13 years with CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE schools in Indiaand holds amazing track record of fuelling exponential growth of schools he has worked for.

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Ritika has over 10 years of experience in various sectors and responsibilities, including IT change management, implementation of personalized e-learning tools and managing sales, human resources and operations. She has a passion for improving the quality of learning and education and making learning more meaningful and joyful for everyone, including children, teachers as well as parents.

She has authored “Let’s talk about my feelings” – a rhyming book for children (reading level 7+ yrs) that is a one-of-its-kind on building emotional vocabulary. It is a collection of 12 short stories, each urging the child to express their emotions around difficult topics, such as bullying, gender stereotypes, friendship dynamics, chores and even abuse. 

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Dr. Hari Krishna Maram is the Vice Chancellor at Universal Digital University-USA, Digital Brand Ambassador- Vision Digital India, Chairman and Founder CEO, Imperial Group Trust and Imperial College, Bangalore. A highly motivated, experienced creative communicator with proven ability to “Achieve beyond Expectation”. He is specialized in concept development, market research, marketing, brand positioning, sales, sales training, educational consulting, university/AICTE/UGC guidelines, Institutional building, international marketing. He had been the Digital Brand Ambassador, Vision Digital India. He is also the Chairman and Founder- CEO of Imperial College. He has been a visiting professor at ICRI Group and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal. He has done his B. Pharmacy from Gulbarga University, PGDIBO in International Business and EEDC in Management from Indian School of Business. He has his articles published on Data Science and Scenario of Indian Higher Education.

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Srinivasa Rao K is the Vice President – Business Development at Campus Students Communities. The sole objective of the enterprise is to cater the finest housing experience for students and developing organized living spaces & great amenities.

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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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Rishi is the CEO of Edugild Global EdTech Program and Venture Partner of Global Scaleup Singapore. He is a Stanford LEAD alumni having already authored three books in academia, management and fiction genres. Rishi advises education technology companies all around the world to make relevant solutions, coaches professionals for higher order transitions and advises institutes to develop innovative programs and ecosystems. Prior to his own journey in academia, Rishi has been in leadership roles with Fortune 500s companies like Sony, Qualcomm, Ericsson and BP/Castrol to name a few. He has a dual masters degree in management with a graduation in engineering and law. Now based in Pune, Rishi travels extensively to meet and greet edtech founders, educational institutions and leaders.

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