AG TECH FARMING FOR KIDS

March 31, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (IST)

Agriculture Technologist, Alumnus of Harvard Business School and Diploma Holder in Farm Management from Tocal College, Australia

John Norman is a 6th generation farmer who owns an 18,000-hectare cotton farm in Australia. He is credited with increasing productive capacity by twenty-fold in 20 years by the application of best practices and technology in farming.

VINEET TANDON

STAYING HOPEFUL DURING SOCIAL DISTANCING

April 1, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (IST)

MBA, ICFAI Business School

A TEDx Speaker, Vineet Tandon is also India’s first and probably only Musical Motivational Speaker. Vineet’s musical motivational sessions are a blend of music, poetry, bhajans, popular movie songs, inspirational quotes, spiritual insights and talk all interwoven into one to create a powerful experience.

FUTURE NARRATIVE

April 2, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (IST)

MBA, AC Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the University of Wisconsin, Bachelors in Business Management from Brigham Young University-Idaho.

Kyle Nel is the EVP of the Uncommon Partners Lab at Singularity University. He is the co-author of Leading Transformation, a best-selling Harvard Business Review Press title from fall 2018. His passion for changing human behaviour led him to create the multi-disciplinary behavioural transformation approach, which uses tools like narrative and applied neuroscience to help organizations break out of incrementalism.

Kyle sits on the boards of emerging tech companies, is a faculty member at Singularity University and a former member of the XPRIZE Foundation Innovation Board.

RAPID PROTOTYPING - ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING

April 3, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (IST)

MBA, University of Cologne, Germany

Pascal is Co-Founder at Radical Ventures and Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, global impact, and culture; inspiring, educating and empowering entrepreneurs and change makers to tackle the most intractable problems of our time.

He has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes it can profoundly impact the betterment of humankind. He has led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe.

Pascal led Mozilla’s Open Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD. As Principal at Google.org, he invested in social impact organizations around the globe.

Pascal frequently speaks and writes about the magic and potential which happens at the intersection of technology, culture & global impact. Pascal loves to work with changemakers who want to, and can, make things better.

HOW LONG WILL I LIVE?

April 4, 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM (IST)

Master's Degree, University of Augsurg; PhD Political Economy, University of Hamburg

WOLFGANG FENGLER is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) for the Europe and Central Asia. Aftershock (2020) featured him as one of the world’s 100 leading futurists and the German weekly DER SPIEGEL called him a “big data virtuoso”. Wolfgang spent 20 years with the World Bank during which he lived in the USA, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

LOOKING AT THE GLASS HALF FULL DURING CRISIS

April 4, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST)

Bachelor's Degree Psychology, University of Pennsylvania; Master's Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Priyamvada graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university, with a double major in Psychology and Art History and a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology. A Positive Psychology expert - practitioner, she has worked with college students, medical professionals and business managers to build personal and workplace well-being.

ART APPRECIATTION FOR KIDS

April 5, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST)

Art curating, Sotheby’s Institute of Art; Marketing, Columbia Business School; MSc in Human Development, JD Birla Institute of Science

Meghna Agarwala is the founder of a prominent gallery in the heart of Kolkata and through the years has hosted many important curated shows within its premises.

She has been socially conscious and been involved in supporting various social causes through the medium of art, raising funds and other activities to promote art and culture. She’s an awardee of FICCI FLO excellence award of 2010-11.

YOUR LIFE, YOUR LENS: WRITING YOUR BOOK - FROM CONCEPT TO COMPLETION

April 6, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (IST), SESSION 1

April 9, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST), SESSION 2

April 13, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST), SESSION 3

CA, MBA from University of California, Berkeley and Alumni of Harvard Business School Executive Education

An out–of–the-box thinker, Kaushal is extremely dynamic with a practical approach to managing various enterprises across diverse geographies and cultures.

Kaushal has invested in several start-ups including, amongst others, in South Asia's largest aviation/flying training company - Yash Air Ltd. He also co-promoted India’s first non-institutional, private sector real estate fund.

PURPOSE DRIVEN COMPANIES - A NEW FOOD SYSTEM

April 6, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (IST)

BBA, Universidad del Pacífico (PE) and Alumni of Harvard Business School

Disruptive innovator & Entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the food, biotechnology and agri-business industries.

Founder of the first egg-products manufacturing company in Peru in 1997. Founder and President of Group Alimenta, which brings together innovation companies in food industry. Passionate promoter of SDG#2, Circular Economy, sustainable development and regenerative agriculture.

Founder of companies in the fields of food additives, algae, natural fertilizers and soil micro-biome for regenerative agriculture, real estate, forestry, among others.

HAPPINESS HABITS: PRACTICES FOR THESE TIMES

April 7, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (IST)

BA Economics, Fergusson College and MBA, XLRI Jamshedpur

Nithya Shanti is a facilitator and teacher of conscious living. He trained as a forest meditation monk for six years and now shares practical teachings for happiness and well-being with people around the world. He also runs Nithya Shanti Foundation (NSF) created to help spread teachings based on presence and gratitude.

The Foundation is guided by the simple philosophy that everything which happens is an opportunity for our growth and awakening. Apart from this he also runs open programs like talks, Joyshops, retreats, pilgrimages, and other initiatives are through Nithya Shanti Foundation, spreading Happiness.

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF COVID-19 AS PARENTS

April 8, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST)

BTech, Computer Science Engineering || Author

Anoushka Sundaram is a freelance writer, and frequent contributor to multiple blogs online and newspapers offline. Author of "The Top 10 Indians", her Book featuring biographies of 10 extraordinary Indians will be out soon!

HOW TO CREATE AN ECLECTIC ART COLLECTION

April 8, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (IST)

Art curating, Sotheby’s Institute of Art; Marketing, Columbia Business School; MSc in Human Development, JD Birla Institute of Science

Meghna Agarwala is the founder of a prominent gallery in the heart of Kolkata and through the years has hosted many important curated shows within its premises.

She has been socially conscious and been involved in supporting various social causes through the medium of art, raising funds and other activities to promote art and culture. She’s an awardee of FICCI FLO excellence award of 2010-11.

THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS

April 9, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (IST)

Alumnus of Harvard Business School and BA & MA, the University of Southern California.

Spencer is the Chief Representative Australasia for Sports beams Lighting Inc. He is an experienced executive with a demonstrated sales/marketing oriented history. He is skilled in strategy, business entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship), East Asian languages, and sports.

He is also a contributing writer to the Sports Examine and The Roar Sports Media publications.

DESIGN THINKING - INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

April 10, 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM (IST)

MBA, IIM, Lucknow and a Bachelors in Economics, Punjab University, Chandigarh

Sunil is a Professor of Management Practice at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities. He has close to 30 years of multi-sector corporate experience across banking, media & entertainment, manufacturing, and consulting sectors. He has worked across functions ranging from Sales, Marketing, Financial Appraisal, Financial Control & Management, Fund Raising, Investor Relations, Strategy Management and International Business.

He enjoys practicing and teaching in the areas of Innovation, Design Thinking, Strategy, and International Business. He is a keynote speaker and a practicing corporate consultant, trainer and a coach.

He is currently building capability for Design Thinking and Innovation with some of the largest Indian business groups and also for several international businesses operating in India. Sunil has also played several entrepreneurial roles

THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY STYLING TO ENHANCE YOUR CHILD'S INDIVIDUALITY

April 10, 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM (IST)

Graduate, Symbiosis College, Alumnus from the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Textile and Interior design graduate from BNCA, Pune.

Preeti Jatia, is the Founder, Director and Lead Designer at Fayon Kids, Delhi NCR that specialises in customised clothes for boys and girls, new born to teens.

Born and raised in Pune, Maharashtra, she is a BNCA graduate in Textile, and Interior Design. She has also dabbled for years with Chartered Accountancy, post her degree from the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountancy.

Post her stint through an exchange program in Paris, she found that her interest continued to be in the textile industry, through which she gained a year’s experience with an export house in Delhi and later started Fayon

DISCOVER YOUR MAGIC SCENT

April 11, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST)

BA, Brunel University and alumnus of Singularity University

Camila is the Vice President of Innovation Technology at Puig and is responsible for Puig Future´s innovation technology arm, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

She has extensive experience in building luxury brands through product development, advertising, and storytelling and has had an illustrious career with global luxury brands including Loreal, Armani, YSL and P&G.

OUR CLEANER FUTURE

April 12, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (IST)

Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University

Ramez Naam is the Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University. He speaks around the world on innovation, exponential technology, and disruptive energy technologies.

He was one of the first to forecast the incredible price decline in clean energy. He’s an expert in the area of exponential trends in wind power, energy storage, and electric vehicles and their disruptive impact on the energy and transportation sectors.

Ramez spent 13 years at Microsoft, where he led teams working on artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and internet search. He’s the author of more than 20 patents, many of them co-authored with Bill Gates.

CRACKING TOP US COLLEGE ADMISSIONS

April 13, 5:15 PM to 6:15 PM (IST)

Director, Essai Education -- India's leading admissions consultancy

Nick graduated from Harvard in 2006, during which time he rowed for the heavyweight crew and occasionally read philosophy. After graduation, he taught at the Shrewsbury School (UK). In 2010, he wrote Pearson's "Official Guide to the SAT". In his spare time, he enjoys writing plays.

HOW 3D PRINTING IS CHANGING THE WORLD AND HOW YOU CAN TOO !!

April 14, 5:30 PM to 6:15 PM (IST)

BA in communication, Pennsylvania State University and MA, in special education, The College of New Jersey.

Gina Scala is Stratasys’ director of marketing for worldwide education and design where she works to listen to the voice of the customer and translate that into meaningful marketing messages and product solutions that meet teaching and learning needs for schools and design firms.

Prior to this role she served as Vice President of education & professional development at the Direct Marketing Association. Prior to DMA, she served as Director of Marketing for a global professional development company.