Sowmya Krishnamurthy gets fascinated while learning and creating new business opportunities by exploring new paradigms. She has worked for over 15 years in the fields of Telecommunications, Insurance & Web technologies in reputed multinational organisations. She has experience in playing pivotal roles across Business Development, Marketing and Product Management. She also holds a dual MBA in Marketing & IT. She began to explore new business opportunities that would be truly sustainable, have significant social impact and contribute to protecting, promoting and empowering India’s artisan community. Currently, she promotes AATIKE™, a brand developed by SK Nirmiti, a company founded by her in 2007. AATIKE™, creates products under the toys, home and office décor categories that are relevant today, by basing it on the rich domestic history and craftsmanship of wooden toys, which are non-toxic and made from sustainable materials.
M Senthil Kumar is an entrepreneur and a techie. He began his career as an engineer in Samsung and later moved to Qualcomm, both Fortune 500 companies. He then quit the job to pursue his own venture “Save Mom”. Following this, he founded two tech startups, Geomeo and JioVio in health and urban infrastructure sector. He actively engaged in community empowerment in order to empower the powerless, education initiatives especially among girls and women through ‘MetooMentor’. Now he has been honoured as the top 5 Technology Explorers in India by Nasscom.
Sahar Mansoor is an entrepreneur, researcher, fervent learner, zero waste enthusiast, and a curious traveler. After an undergraduate degree in Environmental Planning and Masters from the University of Cambridge in Environmental Economics and Law, she was concerned on social justice impacts of the waste problem. She moved back to Bengaluru and led a zero waste lifestyle. Now she is a zero-waste advocate. She also worked for WHO in Geneva. Currently she works as an analyst at SELCO and runs a zero waste startup on the side named “Bare Necessities” which sells personal care products that are cruelty-free, non-GMO, and recyclable. All these products come in recyclable packaging made from jute or in glass jars etc. In Spite of that she loves biking, scuba diving, travelling and being with nature. She is also a freelancer for Huffington Post UK and India.
RJ Vigneshkanth is an Actor and the CEO of the popular YouTube channel “Smile Settai”. His performances in many films were lauded, especially in "Meesaya Murukku" which was one of the Best films of the year 2017. His humorousity gained him recognition which lead to opportunities to work with many famed personalities in Film Industry. Vigneshkanth is currently the host of the Nanbenda comedy talk show in Zee Tamil which also serves as his television debut.
Orissa Balu @ Mr. Siva Balasubramani is a researcher and archaeologist by profession. His research works are mainly concerned on the “Kumari Kandam” and Turtle Guided ocean routes. One big step in his life was moving to Orissa which served as a turning point for him, kindling his interest on the Orissan royalty, the works for which he is popularly known as Orissa Balu. His research on the Kalinga-Tamil relationship made him the passionate about Tamil history that paved the way to approach the existence of the Lemuria Continent. Presently, he is working on his Integrated Ocean Culture Research Foundation.
Mrs. Meenakshi Umesh is an educationalist, who has fine-tuned her own method of learning through life and experience. She holds an undergraduate degree in the architectural domain. Mrs. Meenakshi went about to build a community of people whose passion in farming and education could be translated into opportunities. This activity has evolved into the Puvidham learning center, “An education to sustainable living and rural development”. This learning centre, suited in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu was the outcome of a long cherished dream of hers and has 90 students presently. For her efforts in alternative education she gained recognition from an “Aval Vikatan” article.
Shyam Sundar Ramaswami is a Security Researcher with Cisco -Umbrella India Security Research org. He is a security Ninja Black belt, a security blogger, boot camp trainer, conference speaker, mentor, a Batman fan and a python enthusiast. His publications include “The Dark Knight of security – Pen-testing series” and “Domain names : Are you watching closely” which talks about a new concept called "Modern way of Parking domains", where his research was instrumental in stopping a new format of attack. He runs a mentoring program called “Being Robin”, where he mentors students across the globe and helps them with their masters projects on security. Currently there are 100 students around the globe in “Being Robin”.
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