Sonam Wangchuk

Sonam Wangchuk was born in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh in J&K, India. Though a Mechanical Engineer by education, he has been mostly working in the field of education reform for more than 30 years. Magsaysay Award - Asian version of the Nobel Prize (2018), The GQ Men Of The Year Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2017) in India, Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (Paris 2017), The Rolex Award for Enterprise (2016), The Terra Award (2016), The UNESCO Chair for Earth Architecture for India (2014), Real Heroes’ Award by CNN IBN Channel (2008), ‘Green Teacher’ Award by Sanctuary Asia Magazine in 2005, Ashoka Fellowship by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in 2002, ‘Man of the Year’ by The Week magazine (2001) and the Governors Medal (1996).

Lohit Sahu

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.

Sanskriti Dawle

Sanskriti Dawle is the CEO & Co-Founder of Thinkerbell Labs and graduated from BITS Pilani with a Bachelor's in Computer Science. She has extensive domain knowledge in R&D for assistive tech for people with visual impairments. She has spent 7+ years taking her innovations to the field and testing them with visually impaired students all over the world. She has looked after Strategy, International Business Development, and Finance at Thinkerbell Labs for the last 6 years. She was a speaker at Raisina Dialouge (2022), VIVA Tech Conference (2022), Kigali Global Dialogue (2022), and Kantipur Conclave (2022). She has also been a TEDx speaker, Mantra awardee (Social Leadership), and a KVPY fellow.

Rashmi Bansal

Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur, and a motivational speaker. She has authored 10 bestselling books on entrepreneurship which have sold more than 1.2 million copies and been translated in 12 languages, including Korean and Vietnamese.
Rashmi’s first book was Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, the runaway bestseller on 25 MBAs from IIM Ahmedabad who went on to create successful businesses. Her other popular titles include ‘Connect the Dots’, ‘I Have a Dream’, ‘God’s Own Kitchen’ and ‘Touch the Sky’.
Past client engagements: Cipla, NTPC, Morgan Stanley, Tata Motors, IKEA, HSBC, Infosys, Amdocs, Cognizant, Adani Green Power, Philips, GE Edison, Oriflame, Mahindra, VVF India, Software Technology Park of India, Kerala Startup Mission.

Alok Mathur

Alok has a degree in Engineering and an MBA from the University of Oxford. ​He is an avid serial entrepreneur, co-founder & business director, consultant, mentor, and public speaker with nearly three decades’ experience both in India and in the United Kingdom. Alok has trained and worked extensively in business and product strategy, leadership, operational management, supply chain, and international trade, in the Automotive, FMCG, Recruitment, and Management Consulting sectors. He has worked with companies like the Tata Group, Mercedes Benz, and MG Rover Group, and was co-founder of a pioneering, multi-award-winning British business. Earlier in 2022 he sold his drinks brand in the UK and now devotes himself to EnCore Mindseek, the Recruitment, Executive Search, and Consulting business that he co-founded in India and in the UK.

Sumit Nandedkar

Formally trained in mechanical engineering and business management, I gathered extensive experience in operations in international companies of repute. I have lived and worked in India, Oman and China - three countries with interestingly different industrial infrastructure, downstream industry and religious and cultural beliefs. This combination of formal education, 27 years of experience and immersion in diverse cultures helped me to become a change management, operational excellence, business finance and business strategy specialist.

Current Position - On a Sabbatical but helping Choithram Foundation, Indore as an Operational Excellence Coach 

Previous Positions - Chief Operating Officer at Microtek International, Shenzhen, China Director (Asia/EU BUs) at Vaupell Inc., Dongguan, China

Areas of specialization - Operational Excellence, Business Strategy

Aditya Ruia

A beach clean-up in Mumbai made the Aditya wonder how environmental damage is REAL. He with his group of freinds found an orange wrapper looking at which one of their parent instantly recollected that it was that of a Chocolate Bar which was discontinued in the 1990s. The mega plastic ban was the “moment of enlightenment” for them which led to the rise of Beco – A company that is eco-friendly inside-out.
Beco uses biodegradable and compostable raw materials like bamboo and corn starch to prepare various SKUs of bags, tissues, straws, toothpicks, cotton balls, and kitchen towels. Beco also claims to use recycled and craft paper to package its finished goods in contrast to the plastic packaging used by most of their competitors, hence they are 100% plant-based, plastic-free supply chain.
Beco is expanding its retail outlets to 10K across India and also, increasing its product offerings by launching new cleaner products and personal hygiene products.