Founder of WhiteHat Jr, acquired by BYJU’s. Author of the bestselling novels: The Freedom Manifesto (2022), The Yoga of Max’s Discontent (2016), The Seeker (2015), Johnny Gone Down (2010), and Keep off the Grass (2008), published by HarperCollins and Penguin Random House. A graduate of IIM-Bangalore & BITS Mesra, Karan has earlier served as the CEO for Discovery Inc. South Asia and held progressive leadership positions for P&G, BCG, and Kraft Foods Group in India and the US.

State award winning entrepreneur. Farheen Sayed is the Founder and CEO of vanillakart, Marketplace for unconventional Marketing services. Vanillakart caters to the needs of its wide range of clientele through its several automation and SaaS based products .Founded two award winning startups (brushflicks, 2015 and boxifer, 2017) with million dollar valuations. She has been a Blockchain enthusiast and experienced forex and cryptocurrency trader skilled in technical analysis and formulating trading strategies with over 4 years of trading experience. She is the author of the book trading with Japanese candlesticks.

Building BlueLearn and helping tier-2, 3 college students get benefits of top colleges. BlueLearn has more than 60k members and every 10mins, a new member joins in. Make BITS Pilani vlogs on Youtube. Run a channel called 'Curious Harish' which has garnered over 150,000 subscribers. Always open for synergies and collaborations

Akhil Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Questt.com is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. As an ed-tech start-up, Questt.com is making education data driven by simplifying homework. While in college, Akhil also co-founded Cubito.in  for which he was awarded as 'One of the most inspiring start-up’ of 2013 from India (by yourstory). Cubito.in aimed to change the way people travel in India by providing best comfort to cost ratio possible. He is also a co-founder of Invol.in  that works with many leading news channels of India like, TimesNow, MirroNow, Etnow, ETV and provides them a platform to engage their users.

Lohit is the Founder & CEO at Edzok. Lohit graduated from BITS Pilani in 2009, and started his company from the business incubator at BITS Pilani. Since then Lohit has worked with governments, chain of schools and higher ed institutions to better different aspects of education. Lohit was also instrumental in executing UDAAN by CBSE to empower underprivileged girl children write JEE. Lohit's was ranked globally among top 25 by the Alan Alda Centre for Communicating Science at the Stony Brooke University. Lohit has also been named the "Star Entrepreneur of the Year" at IIIS and has been the recipient of BITSAA Global 30 Under 30 Award. Lohit has been a speaker at TEDx, Harvard's HUII and others.

A 22 year old BITS Pilani alumnus. In 2018, he founded a child-welfare and education-focused nonprofit, YuvaSpark. Yuvaspark is digitizing learning at Anganwadi centres and improving infrastructure at orphanages. Over the last 5 years,they have engaged 700+ volunteers and impacted 346,000+ beneficiaries in 10 states of India. Funded by companies like Amazon and BCG. 

In 2020, he founded Grey Night, a conservation tech company. Akarsh believes every young person has the power to become a Changemaker!

Cdr. Ananthanarayanan graduated from the University of Bombay in 1973. He was thereafter selected as a Postgraduate Research Scholar by the Tata Memorial Cancer Research Centre, Mumbai for research in Cancer. He then continued his postgraduate research in the Bio-Medical sciences field at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. Love for an outdoor career prompted him to join the Indian Navy as a Commissioned Officer in 1977. After voluntary retirement, he launched Goa’s FIRST Free to Reader Neighbourhood Newspaper – Vasco Watch in August 1999. This neighbourhood newspaper has now been in print for 23 years and reaches 17000 homes every fortnight.

Founder Get A Life Pvt Limited (MyGALF), Set up in 2022 it is valued at ~5 million dollars .MyGALF s a fast growing wellness aggregator firm. Based in Mumbai, it has a PAN India presence and global aspirations. GALF Wellness App  creates support for several health concerns faced by todays youth, including both physical and mental health. 
An  advocate of mentoring women leaders and Amit is part of the UN He-for-She campaign. A doting father of 2 teenage girls, Amit is passionate about endurance sports and completed Ironman70.3 at Kazakhstan in August 2022.

Swostik Sourav Dash is an alumnus of IIT Madras from 2013. He is passionate about design and innovation - to use his energy, time and skills to solve problems that bring a positive change in the society. He is the co-founder of NeoMotion which creates life transformative solutions for the physically challenged and the elderly. Recently, Swostik and his team raised investment of 1 crore in the Shark Tank India season-2.

Energinee Innovations is solving the problem of Waste management by using it for making eco-friendly products by Jail Inmates. They have upcycled 12,650 metric tonnes of waste, preventing it from getting into the water Bodies, Offsetted 320 metric tonnes of chemical pesticides in the waste management journey. 
He is recipient of awards like by Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Chief Minister of Haryana, Young Entrepreneur award by Great Noida Authority, Udyam Veer Award by MSME and Appreciated by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Young Changemaker of the Year Award by the Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitaraman and many more. His story has been featured as a Documentary on Amazon Prime by the name "Ashes to Idols."

Yashveer leads the “Ashoka Young Changemakers” program at Ashoka. Ashoka Young Changemakers program was launched in the year 2018 to identify, select and build a global community of Teen Changemakers. Yashveer has co-authored a book #ChangeStartsYoung featuring inspiring stories of young changemakers from across India. For his work, Yashveer has been recognized in "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia" list in the year 2016. He was also awarded Youth Action Net 2012.
Yashveer earned his MBA at University of Oxford, where he was the only MBA student to receive Vice-Chancellor Social Impact Award 2014 for his initiatives as Co-Chair Social Impact, Oxford Business Network (OBN). As the President of Student’s Union BITS Pilani 2006-07, Yashveer co-founded the University VISION 2020 Plan.