Speakers

Mr. Chandan Anand is the founder, CEO & founding editor of ArdorComm Media Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Anand is a strategist cum implementer with recognised proficiency in spearheading business to accomplish corporate plans and goals successfully. An MBA graduate with over 17 years of experience, has been playing eminent leadership roles in areas such as team building, sales & marketing strategies, planning, content creation & brand management. Outstanding exposure in the print, electronic, digital & social media space. While hosting many conferences and symposiums in India & Abroad, has given him the exposure of inheriting strong community reach in sectors like Education, Governance, Healthcare, HR, Media & SMBs. Mr. Chandan has been previously associated with media conglomerate TOI (Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd), Sakal Media Group, Infosys BPM, SBI Life, Quikr.com, Elets & InnoServ to name a few. His positive attitude, passion, and ambitious approach to business have enabled ideation to impact the value chain of innovation.

Dr. Tabrez Ahmad is currently working as the Vice Chancellor of the GD Goenka University and has expertise in the areas of cyber law, intellectual property rights and Commercial Laws. He holds a PhD (Cyber Law & IPR), LLM (Commercial Law & Cyber Law); and B.Sc (Hons)from the AMU Aligarh, India. Previously, Dr. Tabrez has served in various academic and administrative positions such as Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean School of Law, Galgotias University; Director & Dean School of Law, UPES; Professor & Founder Director, Alliance School of Law and several others. Dr. Tabrez is the founder of Technolex Foundation and National President PNGI. He is also the National Vice President of International Council of Jurists London, Chair, Legal Education Section of Indian National Bar Association and Mentor World Teen Parliament MPs of Blub World. He is in the advisory panel of various academic and professional institutions of International repute. He has also practiced for a while at the bar of Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India. He has authored a pioneering book entitled “Cyber Law, E-commerce and M-commerce”, and published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. He is an active blogger, Youtuber, and editor of various International journals.  

Dr. C. D. Naidu is presently the Principal of VNRVJIET and Professor with the Dept. of ECE, VNRVJIET, Hyderabad. He obtained his B.Tech. Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from JNTUA college of Engineering, Ananthapuramu and M. Tech degree in Instrumentation & Control Systems, from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupathi. He earned his Ph.D. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad. Dr. Naidu worked as Faculty of ECE Dept. of KSRM college of Engineering, Kadapa, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad. He also occupied the positions of Head of ECE Dept. for about 7 years, Dean Academics, Vice Principal, Principal for about 7 years, Chairman Academic Council, Member Secretary Governing Council at VNRVJIET, Hyderabad. Dr. Naidu has 30 years of Teaching/R&D experience, and has 24 technical publications to his credit.  He successfully organized more than 25 Short Term Courses and Programmes under the aegis of ISTE/UGC/JNTU/VNRVJIET. He is a Member of IEEE (USA), Life Member of ISTE (India), and Fellow of IETE (India). His fields of interest include Image Processing, Signal Processing, Renewable energy Systems.

Dr. Sundararaman Krishnamurthy is an Academician and a leader in serving the fraternity of Education for more than 49 years. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Sri Krishna Institutions since 2015. He also served as the Principal for more than Ten years at Sri Krishna Arts and Science College from 2005-2015. Dr. Sundararaman is a Strategic leader in sculpting the Institution from 611 students to 8000 students. An influential leader in implementing the m-learning platforms and other Real Time learning methodologies. He was instrumental in the transformation of Capstone Matrix as a unique practice in the Examination Assessment of Sri Krishna Arts and Science College. He also promoted novel models in launching the Skill Card through the Blooms Taxonomy in the transcripts of the students. An ardent researcher with an extensive experience in guiding 28 Scholars with five published books and numerous articles to his credit. He is the Chairman for Board of Studies at Bharathiar University as well as member of Academic council at the top-ranking Institutes in India.  

Prof. Amit Banerjee is currently the Pro-Chancellor of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University. He is a two-time vice-chancellor with a well-acknowledged history of working in the education management industry. Prof. Banerjee is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.); MS, MCh focused in Cardiothoracic Surgery from Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Irwin (lok Nayak) & G B Pant Hospitals, New Delhi, INDIA. He is skilled in Team Building, Academic Writing, Management, Healthcare Management, and Healthcare. He is associated with international Healthcare and Academic Organizations in various capacities with responsibility of curriculum development and Post-doctoral education. Prof. Banerjee is also involved with national and international academic and healthcare related periodicals and expert in community level traffic engineering innovations.

Dr.Madhur Gupta, The director of St. Francis Business School and Dean of St.Xavier’s College, holds a doctorate degree in Education psychology with Masters in Psychology, MBA in HR & Marketing, Masters in English Literature, Masters in Education, CIG.and B.El.Ed. She is having 19 years of extensive experience in higher education industry. She has been instrumental in the development of many institutions like BTEC University Dubai, St. Xavier’s Sn School – New Delhi, MCT College of Education – Mumbai, Mother Teresa College – Mumbai, BTL Institute of Technology – Bangalore, ISME – Bangalore & SFS PG College – Bangalore as Principal, Head, Coordinator & Professor. She has consulted various institutions in the area of students development, psychological counselling, administrative design, orientation, faculty training, marketing, strategic planning & educational interventions. With a long-standing record of initiative & innovations in teaching, training, administration & marketing, Dr. Madhur Gupta published more than 20 International Research papers including, Scopus and Web of Science.

Ms. Ekta Modi (MBA; Healthcare Administration) represents Parul Sevashram Hospital as Chief Operating Officer and has a 16 plus years of strong experience in diverse areas of Healthcare; a firm believer of Patient Centricity approach model. She has honor of undergoing the prestigious “Management Development Program” from AIIMS (New Delhi).

Mr. Niteesh Kulkarni, Mechanical Engineering alum from Mumbai University, is currently working as Deputy Manager – Products for Knauf Ceiling Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. He has more than 10 years of experience in Product Development & Product Portfolio Management, R&D Projects, Key Account Management, Channel Sales and CAPEX Sales having worked for organizations such as Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd and Hafele India Pvt. Ltd prior to joining KCS India.

Pankaj Gupta is a Global Academic Leader with successful professional experience of over 25 years – as a professor, researcher, and an institution builder.Dr. Gupta is currently, Professor JGLS and Dean OCS at O P Jindal Global University, an Institution of Eminence. Earlier, he was the President of IIHMR University. He has earlier served in senior positions in several top organizations such as IMT Ghaziabad, IIM Kozhikode, Symbiosis, University of Washington, S P Jain (Dubai & Singapore) among others. Gupta is a PhD, Fulbright Fellow, CMA, GCPCL , Fellow of ICAI, and an alumnus of Lucknow University & IIM Ahmedabad.

Dr. Anupam Karmakar is multifaceted hospital management professional. Visionary in the field of “Healthcare Delivery Systems”. He has a goal-oriented and focused approach to ensure smooth alignment of hospitals operations and technology initiatives with business objectives and “Strategic Goals”. His experience spans from operations at the grass-root level in Healthcare Management distribution to managing new systems and strategies – includes Healthcare Operations, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Bench-marking, TQM, Change Management, Business Process Re-engineering, and Program Management in Healthcare Domain. He has expertise in operations management, planning, design, development, implementation and SLA’s of Healthcare Information Systems. Expertise in the Domain of Medical Device Integration, Patient Monitoring, and Management Information Systems. Establishing appropriate operational structure to ensure timely decision-making and issue resolution helping to establish the framework for proper communication, reporting, procedures, and administrative activity. Dr. Karmakar has been actively participating in the continuous development of redefining strategies, refinement of methodology, project work plans, assets, outcomes, and best practice recommendations to support work in the field providing guidance and counsel to the Project Team leading transformation and implementation initiatives. He has a strong business perspective in Healthcare Delivery, “Clinical Transformation” and adoption including excellent technology adoption and process optimization to transform organizational business, improve efficiency and drive innovations for better outcomes. Specialties include Healthcare Operations + Administration, Quality, Planning, cost control, design, documentation, government – liasoning, performance analysis, policy analysis, pricing, progress, promotional materials, quality control, re-engineering, 6 sigma implementation, research, strategic planning, teaching & training programs.