Theme: Fractals of The New Age

- Fractals are the never ending patterns. Knowingly or unknowingly, we are surrounded by many such. We wish to highlight the prevalent fractals of the coming era and deliver an insightful session on the same.

IIM indore, Mumbai Campus
Mahaavir Icon, A Wing , 7th Floor, Plot No.89-90, Sector 15, CBD Belapur
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400614
India

Anu Aggarwal

Founder Director Anu Aggarwal Foundation, AAF

Original Aashiqui star Anu is a Master of Social Work, a self-made young achiever, happiness awakener and social influencer. She is the founder of Anu Aggarwal Foundation, where she helps people to restructure their minds positively. She works extensively for the upliftment of children and women. Along with her acts of caring for humanity, she is also a yoga enthusiast and an international author of the book ‘Anusual – Memoir Of A Girl Who Came Back From The Dead’

Anvita Abbi

Ph.D. (Cornell University, USA). Formerly Professor of Linguistics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Eminent linguist and social scientist, Anvita Abbi has carried out first-hand field research on all six language families of India extending from the Himalayas to the Andaman Islands. She has widely published in the areas of areal typology, language change, language documentation, structures of tribal and minority languages, language policy and education, and analysis of ethno-linguistic aspects of language use. An author of 20 books published nationally and internationally, Prof. Abbi’s work on tribal and other minority languages of South Asia has been exemplary and has bagged several national and international awards including the Padma Shri in 2013 by the President of India and the Kenneth Hale Award in 2015 by the Linguistic Society of America for “outstanding lifetime contributions to the documentation and description of languages of India” and Rashtriya Lok-Bhasha Sammaan in 2003 for her contribution to tribal languages of India.

Praveen Wadalkar

Co-Founder & CEO at Techizer | Business Storyteller & Budgeted Solo Traveler

A successful digital entrepreneur and a real-life storyteller, Praveen always believed in doing things differently. As a storyteller, Praveen loves to convert real-life experiences and observations into stories. As an entrepreneur, budgeted solo traveler and HMI certified mountaineer he gets immense opportunity to meet people and pick several stories for his audience. He has conducted over 50 business storytelling workshops across various industries and has registered over 1000 hours of stage time sharing motivational stories. Through his work, Praveen has been able to cultivate strong relationships with corporate and youth. Praveen strongly believes that whenever we share a story there is always someone in the audience who wanted that story more than oxygen.

Puneet Kulraj

Founder Director, Vector Consulting Group

Mr Puneet Kulraj, Founder Director, Vector Consulting Group is a certified expert in Theory of Constraints and its applications in various facets of business. He has a rich experience of around 26 years in the domains of Sales, Product management, Project management and Consulting. He has been involved in consulting leading business groups like Bajaj Electricals, Raymond Textiles, Pidilite and many more. Along with being a speaker at International TOC conferences and a guest faculty at premier B-Schools, he has also co-authored “Apparent in Hindsight” – a TOC Business novel set in the Indian context.

Sameer Dhanrajni

Chief Strategy Officer – Fractal Analytics | Global Business Leader , Analytics & Data Sciences – Cognizant Technlogy Solutions | Country Head – Fidelity National Financial India | Vice President , Analytics – Genpact

Sameer Dhanrajani is a distinguished and widely recognized analytics and AI business leader. He is a visionary known for his deep knowledge, innovation and topical approaches in the analytics and AI space. Identified in the list of “Top 10 influential analytics leaders in India” published by Analytics India Magazine four times consecutively (2014-17), he is currently working as Chief Strategy Officer at Fractal Analytics. He has been recipient of “Outstanding Leadership Award” at India Human Capital Summit and “Exemplary Leader Award” during the Asia Pacific HRM Congress. His recent book “AI and Analytics: Accelerating Business Decisions" published by Wiley is a best seller and have been featured amongst top books in AI and Analytics space

Utkarsh Patel

Mythologist, Author & Speaker

Utkarsh Patel is a corporate-professional-turned-mythologist and now the author of “Shakuntala – The Woman Wronged”, published by Rupa Publications, and "Satyavati", a mobile-book published by Readify and "Kannaki's Anklet", published by Indus Source. He is a lecturer of Comparative Mythology at the Mumbai University and has qualifications in Mythology, both Indian and World from Mumbai University. He has been writing a Blog, ‘This is Utkarsh Speaking’ close to seven years now, and is a founder member of ‘Talking Myths Project’ an online archive of traditional tales from the Indian Sub-continent.