Speakers

Tanvi Drolia is the Founder and Director of “Cubby Tales”, the highly acclaimed premium chain of Early Education & Childcare centers based in Bangalore. Tanvi is passionate about Early Childhood Development and has instituted unique pedagogy such as the Integrated Learning and Parent Toddler Programs, incorporating fun methods for learning through tunes, signals, sensation, and inventive exercises among others, where each child’s uniqueness is nurtured, providing an inclusive environment. Tanvi aspires to spread the vision of Cubby Tales across the country with several more high-quality centers in the coming years but does not stop with physical centers. Hosting workshops, counseling sessions, video blogs amongst others, and creating new platforms to provide holistic solutions / precautionary measures to prevailing concerns amongst children are part of the offerings on the way. Being part of Summits as a panelist and speaker, Tanvi aspires to share her story with the world to inspire many to work towards achieving their dreams and rising above adversities in life. Cubby Tales has been recognised for Exemplary Contribution to Education Sector and awarded as the best “Emerging Standalone Preschool” at the “16th World Education Summit, organised by Elets Technomedia Private Limited and Digital Learning Magazine.

Sunita Jain is the Director of Hello Kids Chain of Pre-Schools. She has a BE degree from KIIT, Bhubaneswar, and has also worked for Infosys and Huawei. In 2007 she joined as the Director of Hello Kids & Riverstone Schools. In, 2017 she started a consulting firm for preschools as, School Consultant India. Hello Kids started franchising in 2009 across India and currently, they have 680+ centers across 27 Indian States and Bangladesh. She has been a speaker and panelist in various conferences and summits across the globe. Some of them include Speaker at 14th World Education Summit 2019, Delhi, Speaker at GTF World Summit 2019, Bangkok, Thailand, Speaker at India’s Top 50 Emerging Icon Summit 2019, Bangalore, Speaker at GTF Women’s Excellence Summit & Awards, Bangalore, and so on. Hello Kids as a brand has received multiple awards and accolades for its contribution to preschool education. To mention a few includes, Top Influential Preschool Chains of India, Brainfeed Early Childhood Conference 2019. ‘Hello Kids’ Awarded for Excellence in Early Years & Primary Education Program, ELDROK India K-12 Awards 2019, Top 50 Franchised Pre-Schools in Asia, EarlyED Asia, Hall of Fame Award, February 2019.

Mr. Tijay Gupta is the Co-founder & COO at BACHPAN Play School & Academic Heights group of schools which has 1200+ branches across India & Nepal. Awarded by Business World 40 under 40 Entrepreneur Award in 2020 he holds a graduate degree in Pol. Science (Hons) from Delhi University and has a vast knowledge and inclination for Computer Science & Management. Owing to this interest and talent, he went on to pursue a lot of popular and market-driven certifications & programs conducted by universities across the globe. He has been an eminent speaker, moderator & panellist in more than 200 webinars & seminars pertaining to education & technology of national and international repute. As an eduprenuer he has been awarded with many titles which recognise his amazing contribution in play as well as formal school sector.

Sir Kuldeep Surolia is the Founder Director and Trustee of Sorsfort International School. He is a teacher, academician, author, speaker and visionary with several decades of experience in teaching students from across the globe. An expert on various subjects, he is a firm believer of complete 360 degree holistic education to a child covering Body, Mind and Soul. Coming from the background of family consisting of teachers, Principals, academicians, writers, government officers and freedom fighters he started his career at one of the Fortune 500 companies – ‘Citi’ way back at the dawn of this century. Later he moved to Bangalore, the silicon valley of India. Before starting his dream teaching project – ‘Sorsfort’ he contributed to Infosys at Moscow, Dubai, Lagos, London to name some of the few places. Under his able teachings, guidance and mentorship, 1000’s of students and parents and teachers have got benefited in not only educating their child but also giving them a direction. As the ‘Head Teacher’ of the ‘Academic Research Team (ART)’ at Sorsfort, he is consistently researching and evolving the new innovating learning methodologies for students.

Manjula V is a self-made entrepreneur who has a mission to make a difference. Her innovative social engineering “Quality Education to all” manifests through personal volunteering while harnessing CSR into the power of giving. Her enthusiasm is so inspiring that invokes spontaneous volunteerism from institutions whose demeanour has a clear indication of encouragement to her work. Her rise to prominence in such a short span of time is because of her strong will power, devotion, dedication, contemplation and leadership qualities. Right from the beginning till date of her career as a teacher, she has been passionate about empowering teachers and students with scientific temper and human values. Her urge to help and educate teachers made her pursue her education in the field of learning sciences and cognitive neuroscience. She has been rightly called the “Voice of the Teachers”. Her knowledge from education is received through Masters in Education, Science and Arts have been rightly channelized to empower the teachers and students. She has a multidisciplinary talent. The trajectory of her career shows that she is the President of the Board and Founder -Trustee of the Institute of Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation® steering the Teachers and students across the world. Her expertise is utilized by many educational institutions in various ways especially for training students, teachers, administrators & parents as well. Recently, she was honoured with South Indian Women Achievers Award 2019 at Chennai and the Real SuperWoman 2020 Award from STAR INDIA AWARDS-Fsia organization.

Kavitha Jain is the CEO of MDN Edify Education Pvt Ltd. She has a doctorate in Learning styles of Children. Dr. Jain has been leading MDN Edify Education for over 12 years. The Company under her leadership has won many awards including the most innovative education franchising brand from Price Water House Coopers. With a network of 68 K-12 Edify Schools & 2000 Edvisor schools & 164 Edify Kids, she has made Edify the most sought-after school by Parents across India. Her experience in Education segment is close to 2 decades. Having consulted schools across the world she brought the global best Practices in education to India.

Pratima Sinha is the Chief Executive Officer of DSR Educational Society Hyderabad. She has three decades of progressive qualitative experience in the field of Education, across a wide gamut of functions such as Academic Audit, Curriculum Development & Planning, Teacher Training, Mentoring & Monitoring, School Operations & Finances and Setting up Schools. Sinha holds a post-graduate degree in Education, with a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Business English. She has done extensive research and developed modules in Teaching Pedagogy and English Enhancement Programme for adults. Sinha has headed schools with CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge and IB programmes and she has held the position of Regional Academic Head with Pearson Education. She is an EDEXCEL (Pearson Teacher Training) Certified Trainer. She is also on the advisory board of organisations like IECS and ISLI. She is currently working and researching correlating life skills with theatre and the benefits of theatre on autistic children.

Dr. Pranati Tilak, Chairman of Tilak Maharashtra Vidalaya is a 5th generation dynamic leader of the Tilak family is a versatile genius and a multi-faceted personality.  Her success is rooted deep in her childhood. She has shown traits of her leadership ability at an early age and has bagged positions like student representative, President of Rotract club and has earned accolades and merit for her contribution. Her educational prowess is incomparable! She has a Doctorate in Management, Masters in International Marketing Management from Leeds University, Diploma in French from Alliance Francaise and an Advanced Diploma in Multimedia. She is also an unprecedented innovator and has holistically tackled the entire gamut of government approvals and liasioning of the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, while simultaneously playing a key role in recruitment and selection of the personnel for various posts of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyalaya, Joyland (Pre- school) and Vidyapeeth’s teaching and non-teaching staff.

  Dr. Mona Lisa Bal is the Chairperson of KiiT International School, Bhubaneshwar. She graduated in Political Science with Honors from Calcutta University and post-graduated from Utkal University. She is also a Post graduate in Business Administration from KiiT University. She did her Doctorate in “Effective Learning in a Joyful Environment”, culminating into publication of a pioneering book “Transformation in the Pedagogy of Education in India”. Dr. Bal is the guiding force behind the Vedic Memory Lab, a first of its kind initiative in the country for empowering students to enhance learning with the best amalgam of traditional and modern pedagogical practices for holistic learning. She was recently conferred with Mahatma Gandhi leadership award from the NRI welfare society in the House of Commons of Parliament in London. She also received “Emerging Leader” award at Leadership Excellence Award 2019, Thailand an initiative by Meccademia Education Group. Besides, she is proactively engaged with KISS, a School for 25,000 tribal students and mentors selected tribal students for achieving the civil services. It is under her leadership that KiiT International School has achieved all round excellence and is ranked among the top ten Schools of India. Several international awards and MOUs with organizations for academic excellence have been achieved under her tutelage.