Theme: Wider Horizon

We believe that widening your view inspires creative thinking, creative thinking inspires ideas and ideas inspire change. Change for the better is the ultimate goal. We would like to have our audience see things from a different angle and then see what happens. What moves us, what shakes us, and what invites us to action is often a private journey that can lead to a very public reaction. That which others cannot see - our hopes, dreams, fears, ambition, trepidation, joy - remains ever present, moving us in a direction of our choosing.
This theme is quite broad and can easily incorporate all professional disciplines. Any good idea or talk can change the view of the individual regardless of what the talk is about.
We have moved into an important phase in the history of human evolution where new technology radically transforms our lives every day. The global conversation is growing at an exponential rate, and the playing field is leveling. Where are we going and what will be the next revolution?
It’s all about the next unknown – "The Next X."

Mama Magaret Auditorium
Don Bosco School, Panbazar
Guwahati, Assam, 781001
India

Anubha Goyal

Educationist

Mrs. Anubha Goyal began her teaching career in 1981 and has taught in some of the best schools of the country. her aim, as an educator has been to mould individuals into responsible and competent citizens who can face the challenges of life. She is the proud recipient of the prestigious ‘CBSE Award to Mentors’ awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India for 2012 in public recognition of her valuable and commendable services rendered to the community for the cause of education as a Mentor of outstanding merit. Her approach to education has been non-conventional. A strict disciplinarian, firm but loving, responsible, competent and an able administrator. An avid reader, a motivational speaker and a keen learner, she is open to adopting new ideas and implementing them. Her motto in life is “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached” as said by Swami Vivekananda

Arush Kakkar

Founder and CEO at Corseco Technologies

An Author, Entrepreneur and a Computer Vision and Deep Learning researcher, Arush Kakkar is currently the CEO of CorsecoTech, a company which he started. He graduated from Delhi Technological University and his primary focus is on autonomous robotics, which includes drones and self-driving cars, and he has been involved in building such systems in different capacities, such as navigation, localization, path planning. He is the author of two books on the Raspberry Pi, "Raspberry Pi By Example" and "Raspberry Pi: Amazing Products from Scratch" both published by Packt Publishing.

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

Miss India World 2016

Priyadarshini Chatterjee, an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India in April, 2016. She also represented India at the Miss World pageant held in December, 2016, being the first to represent India at the Femina Miss World from a northeast Indian state. Diagnosed with health issues constantly from the age of 9, she craved for a normal life all her teenage years, and has been a fighter throughout her childhood. She believes that everyone is born with a purpose and as we grow up, we find out what the purpose is and make a difference in this world.

Ramnath Narayanswamy

Professor of Economics, IIM Bangalore

Dr. Ramnath Narayanswamy, indulges in variety of fields like Spirituality, Self Development and Entrepreneurship. He is a professor of Economics and Social Sciences at IIM Bangalore and previously given a TEDx talk on 'Unbundling Creating Potential' At TEDxIITKanpur he shall share his ideas on ‘Engaging the Crisis of Leadership: Implications for Young Adults.'

Sanil Sachar

Indian author, a motivational speaker, entrepreneur and film producer

Sanil Sachar wears many hats with elan. By turns, he’s an author, entrepreneur, movie producer and motivational speaker. The 25-year-old who’s giving everyone career goals believes in leveraging the power of “now”. For he believes that it’s the stepping stone to success. Sanil with a bachelor’s degree from Sheffield Hallam University, worked with Star Sports before deciding to pursue all his different passions. Along the way, he’s written more than 120 poems, 25 fictional stories and 3 scripts, co-owns a sports brand, has co-produced a movie and inspires people to do more with motivational speeches.

Sattyakee D'Com Bhuyan

Theater Director

Sattyakee D'Com Bhuyan, founder director of the leading theatre group "D Passion Collective". His passion and flair for creative arts, especially the stage made him enter into the world of theatre at an early age and is one of the youngest in the field of direction in when it comes to English Theatre. In 2010, he was selected as the Youth Icon of the Country by India Today for his creative contribution towards the arts in the region. He voluntarily retired end of 2014 after serving the World Bank Group of South Asia Communications. He is currently working on his creative projects with D' Passion Collective and is a mentor at Royal Group of Institutions, Guwahati.

Uday Benegal

Lead Singer at Indus Creed

A Music producer, composer, writer and the founder of India’s frontrunning rock band Indus Creed, Uday Benegal has become India’s one of most influential musicians. Uday has been instrumental in setting the stage for India’s currently exploding indie scene. He has performed extensively across India and abroad, won an Asia-wide MTV Video Music Award, performed live with Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash, alsoshared the stage with Bon Jovi, and played at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD festival in the UK. n 2013, Indus Creed were awarded Best Band at the Jack Daniel’s Rock Awards and a year later were bestowed with Vh1’s first ever Hall of Fame award.