Partha S. Ghosh, based in Boston, is a renowned strategist and an innovator of Business and Economic models - Mr. Ghosh holds B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur, Masters’ in Chemical Engg. and MBA from MIT, Cambridge and AMP from Harvard. He had a long career of 12 years with McKinsey & Company - out of that last 6 years as a partner. Among his other previous positions, he was the Chairman & the Chief Mentor of Boston Analytics, a firm specializing in providing precision analytical services/financial modeling tools. He was also the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of M&A/Strategic Alliance Advisory firm Access International Partners, and Chairman of Business Intelligence firm Intersoft K.K based in Tokyo.

He is involved as a faculty resource with MIT & Harvard University on strategic management /policy design and leadership, and Tufts University on Globalization & Innovation. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple organizations world wide.

Laveesh is a data scientist, empirical economist, entrepreneur and environment evangelist, now catalysing policies towards environmentally sustainable employment. He is the Director of Indicus Foundation and advocates inclusive and sustainable economic policies. He also co-chairs the SDSN Trends group that catalyzes learning and investment in data for sustainable development globally.

A PhD from Boston University, he started Indicus Analytics in 2001 with the aim of conducting data analytics and research in the socio-economic inclusion space. He has since advised and conducted studies for the topmost academic, policy organizations and industry ranging from RBI, GOI, state governments, Harvard and Oxford Universities, Google, IKEA, Microsoft, etc.

Laveesh has a deep interest in, and understanding of, emerging technologies. He has actively contributed to India’s accelerated progress in the digital domain and have seeded start-ups in online research and analytics, value-added services, and vernacular technologies.

Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari is the Academy Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, and Chief Mentor of Open Source Drug Discovery. He is also the Chief Mentor, Health Technology Innovations for ACCESS Health International, Inc. He is the Founder Director of CSIR – Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (1997- 2007) and former Director General of CSIR and Secretary, DSIR, Government of India (2007-2013). He conceptualized and implemented the functional genomics research in India and the Indian Genome Variation Project. He presently mentors several startups in Genomic Medicine and Big data analytics. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize. He is an elected fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, the European Society of Preventive Medicine and member of all four National Academies of Science & Engineering, India.

Saurabh has close to 22 years experience working with agencies like Leo Burnett, Mudra DDB and Innocean Worldwide India, which he has been a part of since its inception in 2005. Known popularly as a planning guy who loves to do his own creative, Saurabh started his career at the front desk of a hotel, moved to selling wireless modems, acted in television serials, and played in a folk band before he discovered advertising. He has won awards locally and internationally and has been performing jury duties for six years in a row for the ‘Dragons of Asia’ which is the Promotions Marketing Awards of Asia and for ‘The Globes’ The Marketing Agencies Association Awards. Besides that he has judged the New York Festivals, the Advertising and Marketing Effectiveness Awards and the DMA Echo Awards many times. He was also invited to judge the Cannes Lions in 2015.

Saurabh is a sought after lecturer on marketing and branding at some of the top business schools in the country including the IIMs.

Kalyan is the Co-Founder & Director of InQube Innoventures, which incubates "Innovative Inclusive Initiatives". Kalyan firmly believes that innovative and effective utilization of technology can lead to Equitable, Inclusive & Sustainable growth for the society at large. Currently, Kalyan is involved in incubating several start-ups in the areas of Technology, Education, Healthcare, BPM, Skill Development, Data Analytics and Agriculture .

Earlier, Kalyan Co-Founded an US based Healthcare Services company which was finally acquired by the World's largest employee benefits organization for US$ 140 Million. His ventures have won "Great Place to Work" award in India for 3 continuous years, as well as "Exciting Emerging Companies to Work for" by NASSCOM and was the All India Finalist for "NASSCOM Innovation Awards".

Kalyan graduated from St. Xaviers' College and is a Chartered Accountant as well as a Cost Accountant by Profession with All India Merit Rank in both the examinations. He is a regular Speaker in various Forums and is known for his business and social views and opinion in the Press, Electronic & Digital Media.

Kalyan is currently the Chairman of the National Education, HR & Skill Development Expert Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce as well as the Executive Committee of Bengal Chamber and Innovation & IT Sub-Committee of CII. He is also the Governing Body Member of Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) & Vice President of the Sector V Stakeholders' Association. Kalyan has served as the Jury for the CII Industrial Innovation Awards and is a Trustee of Sahaj Path, an initiative towards "Inclusive & Quality Education for All".

Kalyan has also been a part of Government and Business Delegates to overseas countries promoting the "Make in India" & "Bengal Global Business Summit" initiatives.

Jishnu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Knowledge Lab. After more than two decades in the industry with a diverse business development experience and scaling up companies, he finally plunged to start on his own and do something meaningful for the society. He launched Knowledge Lab in 2012, an EdTech start-up that addresses poor employability in higher education. He deeply feels that enhancing employability shall transform the society and the nation.

Jishnu has a solid track record of growing businesses, marketing and operations at regional, national and international levels for both start-up and established companies. Apart from India, he has extensively worked in SE Asia and Singapore. He has deep dive experience in SAAS, Professional IT Services, Training & Education, Office Supplies and Consumer Durables. He has put together robust B2B and B2C channels with his program management skills.

PGDM (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and recipient of 'SmithKline Beecham Award' for Excellence in Marketing at IIMC, Tridibesh has professional & entrepreneurial experience of over 20 years in Project Management, Strategic Consulting & Education Management.

Currently, Promoter-Director of InQube Innoventures, a knowledge management company platform for with focus on technology application for social impact - in areas like e-learning, agriculture, mobile governance, livelihood and remote healthcare. Promoted 2 national level business schools in India & Singapore with academic linkages with different Universities and qualification awarding bodies from UK. He is also member of the Academic Council of Karnavati University, Ahmedabad.

He is a Certified Corporate Governance Educator from Global Corporate Governance Forum, IFC, World Bank, and recipient of Education Leadership Award for 2013 from CMO-Asia. He is Member of Education and Skills committee in Indian Chamber of Commerce.

Subhankar has a rare blend of Technological Knowledge, Experience & Business acumen with an experience over 17 years Worldwide in ITprevailing over BFSI & Education Domain with top companies like Oracle, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, iFlex Solutions etc. Subhankar has worked in 5 different continents and has an unique exposure to Global Technology and Business Practices. Won several industry based International and Internal awards in different capacities.
Currently taken the plunge in Indian Start-up Industry and working as CTO with a goal for making Technology for next 500 Million common people with Healthcare, Education, Agriculture & Livelihood sectors. Vastly Experienced in different Project Management Philosophy & Techniques, with special understanding of Capacity Planning, Sizing, System Design, Benchmarking, Scale Testing and Performance Tuning. He loves to indulge in research work on different emerging technologies like Block-Chain, A.I., IOT and make them available to the mass for a greater good.