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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Our Speakers
Rituparna Ghosh
Founder - Your Story Bag
A former television producer turned storyteller, Rituparna believes storytelling is the world’s strongest currency.
Specialising in storytelling, training, consulting, and coaching, she works with diverse audiences, including children, educators, entrepreneurs, non-profit organisations, and corporate entities. Through the art and science of storytelling, she helps individuals and organisations harness the transformative potential of stories. From designing story-based curricula for schools to assisting businesses in using stories for branding and culture-building, she offers tailored solutions to everyday challenges.
Sonia Manchanda
Founding Partner, Spread Design and Innovation.
Sonia intends to spread design as a way to sense the shifts and respond with creativity, optimism and imagination. She’s a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and a member of the CII Design Council. Her Open Innovation and Design Strategy Project – Dream:in was awarded as a global game changer by Metropolis Magazine USA in 2013 and is showcased worldwide. She’s also working towards designing a more meaningful and sustainable life.
Srilakshmi
Founder - In So many Words
Srilakshmi is a seasoned systems entrepreneur – meaning, a professional shifting needles in complex, wicked & emergent ecosystems – to enable inclusive, equitable and agency empowering social change.
Founder of – Insomanywords, Srilakshmi is in the space of consulting on strategic, behavioural and systems interventions to strengthen business, service & development programme outcomes globally.
Want to know more about her and her work? Don’t hesitate to email her at [email protected]
Her digital presence, to follow:
Written & Verbal musings – https://linktr.ee/sriiyer89
Mentza Folio – https://portfolio.mentza.com/portfolio/sri
Gunjan Pai
Founder - CopyLove
Gunjan is a first-generation creative entrepreneur with 20+ years of work experience, inspired by people who have ideas to make our world a better place. Through her boutique copywriting studio, Copylove, she works as a bridge that puts their ideas into words and carrying their message through to their audience, effectively.
She has been a TEDx Speaker and a Global Growth Fellowship 2022 Winner at the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program. She is a passionate mentor on platforms such as Google for Start-ups and a Jury member at Effies since 2019.
Vineet Gupta
Community Strategist
With a career span of over 15+ yrs having worked with 7+ companies & done more than 200+ community consulting projects from startup to scale, engaging with the stakeholders, ecosystem partners, customers, & supporters, where they come back again and again as they derive value from interacting with each other meaningfully.
He started a career as a Community Manager with 91springboard in 2015 & been doing it since then
Vineet is here to show how Community Building is done so that you can also grow your business further.
Neetu V Bansal
Sales Coach
Neetu is a Business Coach who specialises in Sales and Marketing. She has worked with hundreds of SMEs and startups across India, Africa, and the US. She assists business leaders by creating business coaching programs to suit their learning styles
Her programs focus on uncovering financial breakthroughs from within the organisation as much as exploring external opportunities.
Sarvesh Agrawal
Founder, Internshala
An accidental entrepreneur, Sarvesh was the first one to make it to an IIT (Madras) from his town. He was also one of the 2 students (of the batch of 500) who secured an international placement. But, he returned to India and was inspired to start Internshala in 2010. Today, it is the world’s largest internship platform and a lifeline for thousands of startups and millions of college students.
In 2022, Internshala was included in the book IITM Nexus – the story of 16 entrepreneurs from IIT Madras along with likes of Sridhar Vembu of Zoho and Anant Aggarwal who built edX at MIT.
Bobbie Carlton
Founder/Speaker/Marketer/Public Relations/Publisher/Editor-in-chief. Advocating for more women onstage
Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, or, as she calls them, the day job, the night job and the dream job.
Carlton is an entertaining, tell-like-it-is speaker who speaks extensively (and passionately) about public speaking and how it can be the driving force behind career growth and business success.
She’s a TEDx speaker; an entertaining startup event host; she’s spoken at the United Nations; and she’s been on the main stage for some of the world’s best-known conferences for technical and professional women. Carlton has been featured on CBS News, in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, USA Today and other major media. She’s inspired thousands of technical, entrepreneurial, and executive women to take control of their own speaking careers and worked with event managers to deliver diverse and inclusive events.
Vijay Ladha
Mentor
A first gen entrepreneur, chartered accountant, and believer of business plans and that numbers help in taking business decisions, and pro bono mentor with many entrepreneurship organisations, Vijay Ladha is a visiting faculty with Symbiosis University, Bangalore and St. Johns, Medical College, Bangalore, He is a promoter of entrepreneurship if planned with information.