OUR EMINENT JURY

Mr. Gunjan Jaswal

Head of Product & Tech team at The Pablo Project

Gunjan has over 11 years of experience in Digital Space. He’s a Startup Guy, currently heading the product and tech team at a creative firm - The Pablo Project and he’s also the co-founder of WigglyPuff app. Works mainly on websites and apps using AI/ML.

Kunwar Vijay Parmar

Founder - Skilleit

Nominated Innovation Ambassador Expert by IIC (Institution's Innovation Council, Ministry of Education). A Social Entrepreneur launched India's 1st farm tourism start-up, Innovated World's 1st Start-up Game and Programs.

Ms. Anamika Sharma

Educator

Anamika Sharma is a Professional Educator with diverse experience and strong track record fostering child-centered curriculum and student creativity. She has been trained by the Oxford Sales Academy and has been the topper in her batch for three consecutive years. She has conducted more than 2000 workshops and teacher training programs so far. She is currently working as a consultant with an EdTech company and works with students across the country through specially curated tech based sessions with mentors across the globe. She has worked with over 10,000 students during the pandemic.

Saher Motiwala

School of Contemporary Media, Pearl Academy

Saher completed her degree in Marketing and Promotions from University of Arts London(London College Of Fashion) and went on to working with some eminent publications of the entertainment industry like Filmfare Magazine, NDTV Goodtimes, India Today Group as a senior content curator and anchor for shows in auto, property and culture. She has also worked for the lifestyle publication Robb Report. Her expertise lies in producing the content for broadcast mediums, anchoring and scripting stories. With an overall experience of nine years she also holds a certificate in photography and styling from Central Saint Martin's College, London.

Mr. Alok Gupta

Marketing & IT Consultant

Mr. Alok Gupta is a Management Professional with over 15 years of working experience in Telecom & IT sector.He has been a consultant in companies like Microsoft, Motorola & Ernst & Yong LLP. Also he is engaged in various programs and events promoting the Digital Education by the OEM’s.

Mr. Ashish Jain

Director, EduNext Technologies

Mr. Ashish Jain has 18 years experienced professional in education vertical for technology solutions and services. Deep understanding of education management and operations and re-engineering thereof. Conceptualized, designed and successfully marketed school management software in Indian and overseas market. Willing to help educational institutions in exploiting technology for efficient education delivery and make the journey of studying and teaching a pleasant experience. Helping school and institutions in branding including website, social media promotion, print, indoor and outdoor. Well networked in Indian education vertical including educational groups, vendors, bureaucrats and media.

Mr. Aditya Bhardwaj

Education Consultant, Eduskill Robotics India

Mr. Aditya Bhardwaj is Education Consultant at Eduskill Robotics India. He has an education in Animation and Graphics with specialization in User Experience and Interaction in Graphic Design and a background loaded with marketing and graphic design projects. He has also contributed to Education for the last 10 years where he has worked with the best of the school's of Delhi NCR and has empowered students with 21st Century Skills using Project-Based Learning and Design Thinking Projects.

Mr. Vinay Verma

CTO, Campfluence Technologies Private Limited

Catering into educational domain from last 10 years with deep understanding of education management and operations. Helping educational institutions with an integrated and intelligent solution that contribute in efficient education delivery and create an enriched & vibrant educational experience for teacher, student & parents. Successfully served more than 400+ institutions in Indian and overseas market. Managing key accounts like G.D. Goenka's, Army Public School's, DAV's, Delhi Public Schools and many others.

Mr. Tanmay Vij

Senior Software Engineer, Softobotics Technologies Private Limited

Mr. Tanmay Vij is a full stack developer and cloud practitioner, working on web and mobile technologies for over 8 years. He has published many open source projects on GitHub as well as NPM. He is a Facebook Artificial Intelligence Hackathon winner and is also a recipient of Special Recognition for International Collaboration & Peer Mentoring by the GSBI Foundation, USA.

Mr. Arun Kumar

Founder & Director, Sincgrid

Mr. Arun Kumar - Major devotion to hardware development for embedded and low power application. Experienced in developing educational platforms for learning. Graduate in Electronics and communication engineering from NSIT Delhi.

Irene Manning

Senior Mentor, 1M1B

Irene is a senior mentor at 1M1B and has been helping young students create positive impact in communities through their projects. She has mentored over 50 students in the last 2 years on ideation, fundraising, implementation and business plan development for their projects. She also leads the youth climate action initiatives at 1M1B. She previously worked at Intel in both the US and India and has experience in analyzing business propositions and project management. She loves dance, reading, and travel.

Abhiram Natarajan

Lead, Skilling & Rural Entrepreneurship, 1M1B

Abhiram works closely with the rural communities for implementation of 1M1B’s programs on-ground in the villages and is passionate about empowerment of young girls. He helped setup the world’s first aqua co-innovation lab in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India to solve the problems faced by shrimp farmers in the area. Along with this Abhiram has also created a rural tourism program for school kids. An engineer by education, Abhiram is interested in technology and using technology for social good.

Mr. Siddharth Arora

Multimedia Producer, Photographer, Content Curator

Siddharth aka Siddology is a freelance content creator from Delhi. Specialises in field of Travel Photography and commercial cinematography. A BCA dropout, got his Cinematographer Certification from Film and Television Institute of India(FTII). Loves to flaunt his 6 years of roller coaster experience. While exploring his niche Siddharth got into every possible genre of photography which acts as a feather to his hat. Siddharth recently completed his first 2 hotel hopping circuits, Manali-Jibhi and Udaipur-Pushkar, understanding tourists & tourism post pandemic. He is currently handling Video Production for master Chef Kunal Kapur Youtube channel.

Mr Manusheel Gupta

Director & Co-Founder, Aspiring Investment

Mr. Manusheel Gupta is the Founder and Chairman of the Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities. Gupta has served as the former South-Asia Liaison at One Laptop Per Child(OLPC), where he acquired a wealth of experience in numerous technical and leadership roles. He worked closely with the governments and organizations in India and Sri Lanka to help build OLPC foundations in these countries. In the social profit sector, he has worked as the Director, Business Development at India School Fund. He has led efforts in developing environment friendly peer to peer software, and coauthored paint, spreadsheet, and e-book readers for OLPC laptops. He is a network security and ethical hacking certificate holder and an open source enthusiast.

Dr. Kumar Nitesh

Professor

Dr. Kumar Nitesh received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Ranchi University in 2009 and Master's degree (M.Tech) in Computer Applications in 2012 from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Then onwards, he worked for his Ph.D. in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks from February 2013 to March 2018 from the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. His research area focuses on algorithm design for wireless sensor networks. During the five year of his Ph.D., he has published in 8 International Journals and 10 international conferences.

Ms Meera Dutta

Associate Professor NIIt University

Mr Meera is with NIIT University as Associate Professor with the Electronics and Communications area. She is in charge of the NU Website. She has taught courses in Embedded Systems, ICT, Online Learning, Mobile Computing, etc. and has guided several B.Tech. student R&D projects in the areas of Virtual Olfactory Interfaces, Mobile Apps for Intellectually Disabled, etc. She is also involved in CII and government committees to envision the education ecosystem of the future. Meera has an Electronics Engineering degree from BMSCE, Bangalore and an M.S. degree in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Technology at NIIT University.

Dr. Yogender Pal

Assistant Professor, NIIT University

Dr. Pal earned his Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2009 and started his career as project engineer in C-DAC Mumbai. At the same time, he started producing videos to teach programming to Hindi medium learners. These videos are available on YouTube channel named "LearnByWatch". His interest in use of ICT in education brought him to the Ph.D. course in Educational Technology at IIT Bombay. He completed Ph.D. in Educational Technology in 2016 and the result of the Ph.D. is "a framework for scaffolding to teach programming to vernacular medium students". After Ph.D., he started another YouTube channel named ETmantra to provide training and support teachers in educational content development. In 2017, he joined CSE department of IIT Bombay as a project research scientist. Dr Pal was managing the frontend for IITBombayX, a MOOC platform of IIT Bombay.

Mr. Divanshu Dodeja

Founder, KARYTECK

Embedded hardware and software developer. Wide experience in system development. Experience of developing solutions for medical, industrial and audio industry. Worked upon more than 150 projects in a span of 7years.

Mr Nishant Rathee

MBA in Marketing & Finance and MA in Economics from IMI Belgium.

Mr Nishant Rathee has over 10 years of experience in the Education Sector specifically with Creative & Design Thinking Programs and Technology Programs. He has worked with the best of the schools of Delhi NCR and North India to empower students with 21st Century Skills using Project Based Learning and Design Thinking Projects.

Mr. Gurpreet Singh

Founder & CEO, YEP Publishing House

Mr. Gurpreet Singh is a Google Certified Educator (Level-2), Microsoft Innovative Educator and Microsoft Certified MS-Office Specialist. He has attained Google certification-Digital Unlocked. He is a core group member for Kips Partner-in Education. Endeavors with Intel, Microsoft, Google and Adobe. He has conducted many Workshops for Faculties for better IT Usage in schools by students and teachers. He has attended Microsoft Special Workshops on Design & Transformation for Engaged Learning Experiences. Mr. Gurpreet Singh is Postgraduate from GGSIP University, Delhi. He is himself a young-enthusiastic learner with good moral values.

Mr. Hardik Kohli

Pursuing B.Sc. in Physics

Physics and computer enthusiast. More than 3 years of experience with unity, and more than 4 years of experience in C# and Java. Currently pursuing BSc in Physics.