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Surya Ramkumar is a business leader with more than 20 years of experience working in fast-paced and global companies across sectors and geographies. She was a Partner at McKinsey & Company and the leader for a successful multi-billion dollar business group at Microsoft. She is an entrepreneur and board member to tech start-ups and non-profit organizations. Surya has lived/worked in nine countries across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and has led and managed global teams in multicultural contexts. She has been a keynote speaker and panelist in events across the globe on the topics of strategy, innovation, technology and sustainability. Find out more at suryaramkumar.com

Yashraj Desai is a structural engineer with an MTech in Structures and Chairman of the Loknete Balasaheb Desai Sahkari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd., Satara, Maharashtra. Bridging rural realities and urban aspirations, he brings both technical expertise and grassroots political experience to his work. Having travelled extensively across global cities such as Zurich, Singapore, and New York, he examines why Indian cities struggle despite vast investments. A former self-published author of Living the Greater Life and a public speaker engaging diverse audiences, Yashraj explores urban challenges in India’s Urban Expansion: Crisis, Paradox, and Promise where he proposes the global readiness perimeter (GRP) as a bold blueprint for reform.

Dr C.V. Ananda Bose, the Honorable Governor of West Bengal, is a distinguished Indian Administrative Service officer known for pioneering social innovations in governance, housing, women’s empowerment, and culture. A recipient of 35 national and international awards, including UN recognition of his initiatives as global best practices, he has represented India at CERN, ITER and various international forums. A Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and the first fellow of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, he is also a prolific writer with over 115 books across genres, several of which are bestsellers. He is widely acknowledged as a visionary ‘man of ideas’.

Apoorv has worked for 12 years as an innovator, founder and investor, leading business teams in Godrej, PwC, Shiprocket (and his own startup). He has also been an instructor in Design Thinking & Innovation.

Madan Sundar Das is a spiritual leader, corporate coach and director of EVOLVE Pune—a platform dedicated to leadership development and personal excellence, where he guides thousands of students and professionals through courses on the Bhagavad Gita, mindfulness, and personal transformation. His mission is simple: to make ancient Vedic wisdom accessible, practical, and deeply relevant for the modern leader.

A graduate of The Ohio State University with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, he previously worked as a research engineer at Juniper Networks before dedicating his life to the pursuit of wisdom and service. His journey from Silicon Valley–bound engineer to monk gives him a rare ability to bridge the gap between analytical thinking and spiritual depth.

Over fifteen years, he has taught thousands of seekers through workshops, retreats, and immersive courses across India. He has designed a Leadership and Management course for MBA students rooted in Indian ethos and Vedic sciences, speaks at corporate events and leadership forums, and works with professionals, founders, and senior leaders on values-based leadership, emotional balance, and spiritual growth.

Shaan Kashyap studies and writes about Modern History. Having studied and researched the subject at BHU (Varanasi), JNU (New Delhi), and Ravenshaw University (Cuttack), he has witnessed the miscellany and medley of educational and political debates in India. He has presented his research to diverse audiences at venues ranging from IIC, New Delhi, to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He frequently writes for different news portals and reviews books. He is a Sir Jadunath Sarkar Fellow for Indian History (2024-25) with FIHCR.

For thirty-six years, BIJU DOMINIC has pursued a single quest: to understand and shape human behaviour. He spent his first seventeen years in top advertising agencies, practising the craft the traditional way. Then, in 2007, he co-founded FinalMile Consulting, a fractal analytics company, to break with convention, fusing neuroscience, behavioural economics and design into a new language for behaviour change. Today, he plays on the new frontier where neuroscience, AI and design meet. He is driven by a simple conviction: the better we decode the brain’s master algorithm, the smarter our persuasion strategies will be. Over the past nineteen years, he has applied this new approach to mitigate major behaviour challenges around the world.