Speakers

Dr. Hari Prasad is the President of Apollo Hospitals group. Coming from a medical family, after getting a graduate degree in medicine, he specialized in Anesthesiology. Having specialized in anesthesiology, Dr.Prasad worked in the family hospital for 4 years before embarking on a journey to contribute to the establishment of emergency medicine as a specialty in India. Dr.Prasad joined the Apollo Group of Hospitals and contributed to the launch of the first ever dedicated accident & emergency hospital in the country at Hyderabad. Partnerships and support of many individuals and organizations helped Dr.Prasad in creating the first model in Hyderabad. Dr.Prasad hosted the first ever conference on Emergency Medicine in India in 1999 at Hyderabad and during this conference formed the Society for Emergency Medicine, India which is today the professional body representing the specialty in India. Currently, he serves as the President of Apollo Hospitals group overseeing about 10,000 beds. Despite his busy schedule, he authored the book – “I M Possible” in association with Kitabaan Publications. He served as a Member – Healthcare Sub-Committee of CII Southern Region for the year 2015-16 &   active CII Council Member for the year 2019 -2020 & Active Member of Constitution of Health Insurance Advisory Committee @ Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDA)

Dr. Param Hans Mishra, COO, IQ City Medical College and Hospital is a Professional Leader with medical & management background. He is an MBBS Graduate from Delhi University, India and holds a Master’s in Hospital Administration degree from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Dr Mishra has cleared his DNB in Hospital & Health Administration (Equivalent to M.D) from National Board of Examinations. He is also an ISO certified lead Auditor and NABH trained Assessor and trained in Six Sigma Green belt. Dr Mishra’s twenty Eight years span of experience includes his tenure as COO, IQ City Medical College and Hospital, Group CEO, Kailash Group of Hospitals, CEO & Director BIMR Hospital, Gwalior, Dy. Director Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah, MS, Dean & Chief of Medical Administration ,Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Additional Medical Superintendent at Max Heart & Vascular Institute, Deputy Medical Superintendent at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 3 years as Govt of India posting at I.G.M.H. Male, Republic of Maldives and 1-½ yrs as C.M.O. at Batra Hospital & Medical Research Center, New (all multi-specialty tertiary care hospital). Presently he is working as COO, IQ City Medical College and Hospital. It’s a 700 bedded Multi specialty Hospital and Medical College with MBBS intake of 150 students at Durgapur, West Bengal.

Dr. Venkat Ramana Sudigali is a UK-qualified Consultant Radiologist with 20 years of experience in NHS as a doctor – licensed to practice in the UK, Ireland, and India. He is currently the Medical Director and CEO of Excell Hospital in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Sudigali is the first-ever Ambassador of the Royal College of Radiologists. Facilitation of international collaborations and partnerships in advanced healthcare technology, innovation, education, and public health. Dr. Sudigali has an MBA in advanced healthcare management. He is also an Advisor and Consultant for several world-class health technology firms and startups including Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, and Digital healthcare. Dr. Venkat is Patient-centric and keeps his emphasis on quality and safety.

Dr. Ravindra V.Karanjekar is the CEO of Kiran Hospitals Surat. Previously he has been associated with many hospitals in various capacities like, Corporate CEO, Jupiter Hospital Thane & Pune, President E Flow solutions Mumbai, C.E.O. Seven Hills Hospital Mumbai, Executive Director medical services & Quality Global Hospital Group & C.E.O. Global hospital Mumbai. Dr. Karanjekar has been the Associate Vice President Head- Wockhardt Hospitals Mulund-kalyan-Vashi, Chief Executive Officer, Padmashree Dr. D.Y.Patil Hospital, Mumbai, Director Fortis Health Ltd, New Delhi and Medical Director at Fortis Heart & MSH Mohali. He has been the Chairperson of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH) in Quality Council Of India an apex body for quality in the country since 2010-2014. He is the Assessor since 2008 at NABH and the Member Management council, Maharashtra Medical University.

Prof. Ajay Kumar Singh is Vice Chancellor of Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha. Dr. Singh is Fellow and Managing Trustee of Indian Commerce Association (ICA), Immediate Past President of Indian Commerce Association Delhi NCR Chapter, Past President of Indian Association for Management Development (IAMD), Fellow of Computer Society of India, Hony. President of Governing Body of Divine Group of Institutions, DSPSR, and many NGOs. Dr. Singh was conferred by Indian Commerce Association (ICA), BEST BUSINESS ACADEMIC OF THE YEAR (BBAY) AWARD – 2011 GOLD MEDAL & MMSM Research Award 2011& 2012 GOLD MEDAL. Dr. Singh served as Vice Chancellor of University of Jazeera, Dubai, UAE and has travelled to 23 countries and addressed in more than 200 conferences/seminars/ workshops/training programs & in more than 100 online sessions/webinars in the last four months.

Prof. R Karpaga Kumaravel is a Senior Professor & Dean, School of Behavioural Sciences, and former Vice-Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University. Prof. R Karpaga has completed post-doctoral in UK. with commonwealth Fellowship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, (ACU),Londo. He has served as a Consultant for Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and conducted Capacity Development Programmes abroad on Instructional Design Skills. He travelled widely across the world on various academic assignment. Besides, he was an Invited Speaker in the “International Conference” at the ‘National Institute of Education’, Sri Lanka, “SIM University” Singapore and also presented a “Faculty Seminar” in ‘Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education Singapore, Singapore. Prof. R Karpaga is also an Awardee of Senior Fulbright and Commonwealth Fellowship. He is an erudite scholar and man of letters, he bears many mantles as an Institution Builder and a Harbinger of many innovative initiatives and reforms, accomplishing challenges tasks in gis long Academic and Administrative Career.

A Marketer by Profession, and a strategist by Passion, Ms Richa holds 6+ years of experience in defining and planning the strategies for Indian colleges and universities to help them build a stronger brand value. While holding a strong belief in technology and smart work, she has always worked towards helping organisations digitise and upgrade themselves while saving their operational cost and time. And it’s this vision only, which has made her association with PinnacleWorks as Strategic Branding and Marketing Head, stronger with every passing year. Her forte lies in identifying the loopholes and working around solving them. She has worked with 20+ Educational Organisations to date and is known for her industry insights. And carrying this vision along with PinnacleWorks, these days she is working on SuperBot – An AI-driven conversational agent, which holds the potential of automating the entire admission process for educational organisations. Apart from work, her time engages in reading books, writing blogs and exploring new trends prevalent in the industry. She also feels passionate about Animal Welfare, Environment Conservation, and Education.

Sanjay Padode, President, Vijaybhoomi University & Chairman, IFIM Institutions, is an engineering graduate turned entrepreneur. In 2019 he founded Vijaybhoomi University, India’s first liberal university, which aspires to offer relevant and quality education and engage in high-quality research in Engineering, Business, Law, Science, and Liberal Arts. Mr. Sanjay Padode graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, with Honors in M Sc (Maths) and B E (Electrical and Electronics Engineering). He is also Secretary of the Center for Developmental Education, a not for profit society which runs the Jagdish Sheth School of Management (erstwhile IFIM Business School). He served as CEO of Religare Technologies from 2008-2010. In 1992, he founded Dataline and Research Technologies Ltd (DaRT), the company was the first in the country to pioneer the concept of online access to financial information and was also registered as the first market data provider in the country.

Abhishek Ballabh is the Co-founder at ExtraaEdge a VC-backed Marketing-Tech startup operating in the education industry. ExtraaEdge leverages the power of data science & marketing automation to increase, manage & predict admissions for the education industry. Abhishek has successfully built a 70 member strong team & was recently featured in the Elite BW Businessworld 40 under 40 Club of Achievers.Before ExtraaEdge, Abhishek was an early employee & Product Manager at MindTickle Inc. an award-winning and fast-growing Accel / NEA-funded startup. Abhishek has a proven track record & in-depth product management experience in building go-to-market strategies, running product engineering & sales teams, data science, and data architecture. Prior to MindTickle, he was a Data Architect at HSBC with stints in London for 2 years.

Sapna Sukul is the Founder of Edustart Solutions. In a career spanning 25 years in the field of education, she has explored many areas which have added immense value to all the institutions that she has served. Her innovative learning methods and teaching techniques too are often recalled by many of her students. While working at schools she has focused on giving more exposure to children. Sapna has worked closely with education correspondents of various news publications for matters of news, comments, and ratings of schools, Organised exchange programs with schools abroad. Conducted visits to foreign embassies, worked with NGOs such as TERI, Goonj, Earth Saviours Foundation and Routes to Roots. Awarded for work in environmental protection under Project Search (conducted under the aegis of Tetrapak and TERI). She is on British Council’s panel for a decade as a School Ambassador and Core Skills Trainer. She is now also on the panels of Pearson Education and Macmillan Education as a trainer and C-Fore as school surveyor. She has been in a leadership role since 2015, as the Director of NGO Sparsh, Rohini, and later as the Director of Petals World School, New Delhi and Ghaziabad. She regularly appears on webinars and conducts online sessions as a trainer and moderator.