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Divya is a visionary and charismatic leader and Ted X Speaker with over 2 decades of experience . Divya has created a special niche for herself in the Indian Education industry. Passionate about providing access to quality education to all, she strives towards creating innovative solutions which drastically improve the teaching and learning outcomes.  At Fliplearn, her role as Managing Director provides her the unique opportunity to bring all her skills on board to create a platform which can address the need for quality education in India. Divya feels strongly about bridging the digital divide that currently exists in the Indian Education system and is happy to work towards creating 21st century Future-ready education solutions.   She looks at Education as an opportunity to not just contribute to but to shape the future of the country.

Awards and Accolades

• TED X Speaker 

• Inspirational Leader Award 2020 by White Page International

• Visionary leader in education 2020 at education leadership conclave 2020 by ASMA

• Best woman director of the year award  - International Inspirational women awards 2020

• Change maker in K-12 Education - by Global Gurus Awards 2019

• ‘Edtech Icon of the year’ by Scoonews Global Education awards 2019•

• ‘Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’ Commendation for Education 

• ‘Visionary Leader Award’ at World Education Congress Global Awards 2019

• Women Achiever Award 2019 under the category “Women Achiever Awards for Excellence Enabling Education through Technology”

• ET NOW Education Leadership Award 2018 for Excellence in Education

• Exemplary Contribution in K-12 Digital learning at 13th World Education Summit, Mumbai‘

About Speaker:

An entrepreneur and educator, who wants to revolutionise the way the students learn. My aspirations to impact the education system made me a keen learner and thereby worked with schools in various capacities. Post my graduation from NIT Warangal, He pursued his passion for education with Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd as an Educational Specialist, where he worked as a content developer for math and science subjects. Later worked as Education Coach with XSEED Education Pvt Ltd and conducted workshops for teachers' professional development and coached schools to successfully implement XSEED curriculum.

Then worked as Associate Product Manager, with Next Education Pvt Ltd, developing product that can impact science education in India. My overall experience includes product development, content development, curriculum development, assessments and teacher training. So far, he worked with various organisations and made a difference in more than 500+ schools and 4500+ teachers.

Currently working as CEO and Co-Founder for ‘EdTech School’. As an official Google for Education partner, we are developing products and services that make schools independent and self-reliant using affordable technology integration. We are working with schools across the country and we have coached schools to cope up with pandemic ensuring continuous student learning. His vision is to create an efficient school infrastructure that can make students critical thinkers and independent individuals.

About Speaker:

Mayank Solanki is an Energetic Youth Prodigy & the Founder of Val-Ed Initiatives, India which provides 21st century Values, Life Skills & Character Education to Children, Parents & Adults across the Globe. A 2 time TEDx Speaker, He is the creator of the World's First Values Lab - A dedicated physical place in school to build stronger character in students & inspire values-based living. He is devoted to bringing character education to the forefront of conversation in the field of education and has been part of several initiatives across the globe that work on furthering the cause of Values-based Education, Social-Emotional Learning & Experiential Learning.

Val-Ed Initiatives design & build Saksham - The World's First Values Lab popularly known as "Temples of Self Reflection" in schools where 21st Century Values, Life Skills & Character Education is taught to Children, Parents & Adults through innovative, theme-based, inspiring architecture that inspire children towards values-based living. Val-Ed also designs & delivers both short & long, customised, curriculum-integrated programs that build stronger and healthier character in children in schools across India

About Speaker:

Hakeem Junaid is the Founder of Educatio Learning. Junaid has completed his degree in Business Management from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, Junaid started his career with a destination management company Nam Ho which is based in Delhi, but his love for technology and online learning all made him start his venture in the year 2020.

Junaid’s initiative is the first of its kind in the valley. Junaid plans to develop a platform to make education accessible to all. He plans to provide online courses for competitive exams like NEET, IIT- JEE, UPSC, various other state level and national level exams, and supplementary courses for the K12 level. He also plans to offer structured courses that run parallel to the school’s curriculum. This platform will promise to make learning interactive through interactive video lectures, assignments, video solutions, doubt clearing sessions, weekly tests, textbook solutions.

About Speaker:

A post graduate in Music Vocal and University topper, Mira wished to pursue a career in Music. As is said ‘Man proposes, God disposes’, circumstances propelled her into another direction. An opportunity to work in Delhi Public School under the mentorship of Dr. Shayama Chona  carved a career path for her and made her fall in love with the profession she was launched into. A passionate educator with a zeal to make a difference to the education arena, Mira has an extensive experience of working in acclaimed educational institutes and EdTech companies of the country. Wearing many hats of that of a teacher, administrator, curriculum lead at PlayAblo, and now Content head at eVidyaloka, the rich experience gathered over years has been an enriching one. 

4A firm believer that the right impact on our children can do wonders, she follows the dictum – ‘Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression.’ Working towards achieving best learning experiences for the eVidyaloka children, Mira is now working towards the goal – Teach me the way I can learn. She is on to the journey of revamp the eVidyaloka curriculum, content and assessment models to ensure a unique and impactful learning experience for the children in order to empower the disadvantaged children with an education par excellence. Working closely with the volunteers and community connectors, eVidyaloka is on the path to disrupt education through various vernacular mediums which still remains a grey area in our country. Children of today behold our destiny, and therefore eVidyaloka under her able guidance has taken up this coherent task of moulding the very instruments that will shape our visionaries of tomorrow.

About Speaker:

Mahesh Sangade is the founder of AmbiClass and a financial literacy expert. He completed his studies from premier institutes such as IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Guwahati. Mahesh worked with a leading foreign bank before getting into full time leading the team at AmbiClass. He has trained over 600 students in age group 8-14 yrs for financial literacy. He believes that financial literacy needs to be given utmost importance because every kid will have to deal with finances in future irrespective of career path!

About Company: AmbiClass started with 2 kids early last year and now has grown over a family of 1100+ students which are trained in various self-development-oriented sessions. Power Peace Practice (PPP) is our flagship program which is tailor made for age 8 to 14 yrs group to get ready for future! It’s a need of the hour to teach students the art of managing people (self and others) along with finances. This live workshop will transform the way kids approach these both essentials! There are three main modules: Building powerful habits, mastering social influence and Learning financial literacy in a fun and interactive live online session. Additionally, we host numerous hobby workshops and competitions as well under the banner: AmbiClass Events.

After my Masters and Management degree, I started my journey with Repro India, and was soon one of the leaders for their CQ (Creative Quotient) division, that looked into content and design development.

Soon I found my calling into the education space, with passion to bring innovation to learning content I moved to leadership role at Quadrum Solutions, it gave my opportunity to ideated and developed over 1000+ books and learning material across spectrum and across countries.

Being a self-learner, my profile, passion and interaction with people give me an opportunity to research and bring innovation, and I was able to add a differentiator to every product developed. I enjoyed conceptualising, developing the blue print and then guiding the team to develop a WOW product.

I enjoy being an author (and at times a co-author too), but most of all I enjoy my sessions with children and educators. These interactions help understanding and empathy for both these sections of education society. Add to this the knowledge sharing with the Principals and visionary members of education sector encouraged me to come up with something that bridged the gap for; a holistic development of children; to support teachers to make classrooms welcoming for their children and overall partner schools to achieve their vision.

Thus came about Sensorian Edutech. It simply means, a technology aided approach to feeling, absorbing and retaining knowledge through your senses. SE is a reflection of the variety of experience that I have gained from a career spanning over 20+ years.

After 7 years as an educator, curriculum developer and taking on different roles in schools, Vishakha has her dream gig—an entrepreneur/educator/mom who helps families everywhere, including hers, learn outside. 

Vishakha has earned her Bachelors in elementary education degree from Delhi University. She went ahead to explore the forte more and did her MA in Education and Leadership from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. Prior to Bag of Tricks, Vishakha has worked as an Elementary, Middle school educator for different schools. She taught subjects like English, Theatre and Humanities. 

When she is with her son, Vishakha is that unapologetic mom who plays along with him in mud, dances in the pouring rain, and builds a darn good pot with her bare hands. Therefore, when she was on her maternity leave, she realised that her passion solely lied in working together with kids in the best classroom possible- the nature! She puts together activities that help build core skills in the learners of today’s generation!

Kanu Priya Sekhri, an alumna of IIM Bangalore, founded In-Fluent Learning 7 years ago to enable students and teachers to easily develop excellent Public Speaking and Interpersonal skills since these are a critical element of professional success. This year, under her leadership, In-Fluent has seen unprecedented success in developing and delivering fun-based classes for overall personality development and students from across the world have been part of these classes online. 

With several years of business experience as a founding member of various start-ups, Kanu Priya has led teams in the areas of strategic growth, business development, marketing & communication, establishing partnerships, and designing leadership training. Apart from leading Team In-Fluent Learning, she conducts workshops for organizations in the space of Personal Excellence and Mastery. These are a combination of skill-building in the areas of Leading Self and Leading Others. 

She started her career working with Tech Mahindra as part of the Strategic Initiatives team and was recognized with the Extra Miler Award. She has been a founding team member of the School of Inspired Leadership and has spoken as a panelist at forums organized by Business World, TIE, and CII and has contributed articles to Financial Times, Economic Times and Education Times. She has also been part of the founding team at ISDM (Indian School of Development Management). 

As a student, she completed the highest grade in Effective Communication from Trinity College of London and was a national level debater. Her passion for communication saw her travel to Europe as a master of ceremonies at the age of 20. More recently, she has been part of Dramatech's award-winning productions Merchant of Venice and Towards Zero which had more than 40 shows in Delhi NCR.

Dr Sangeeta Saksena is a gynaecologist, author, counsellor and activist; working in the field of life skills, sexuality and personal safety for over 25 years. Along with Dr Saldanha, she cofounded Enfold Proactive Health Trust in 2001 to work with children, adolescents and adults in this area. Along with Dr Saldanha, Dr Saksena developed a curriculum on understanding sexuality and personal safety that is age appropriate, culturally relevant, values and rights based and respectful and empowering of Self. She has lead the development of the “Suvidha Kit” by Enfold Trust to explore these topics with children with intellectual disability, autism, and sensory impairment.

Dr Saksena has co – authored “On Track” series on Life Skills and Personal Safety for school students from grade 3-9 (published by Macmillan India). She is the author of Life Skills for Self Development, written for Jyoti Nivas College (Autonomous) Bangalore and the author of Life Skills - workbooks for adults, and Facilitating Life Skills with adolescents (brought out by Enfold. Dr Saksena initiated and established a PG Diploma and a Certificate program in B Ed course at Christ University on life skills based personal safety and sexuality education. She has presented papers on personal safety and sexuality education for children with intellectual disabilities, and other subjects, at national and international conferences

 Dr Saksena has advocated for and participated in developing policies with regards the safety of women and children like the Karnataka State Child Protection Policy, besides working with the Govt. of Karnataka, Delhi, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh on these issues. Since 2018 Dr Saksena has been acquiring training in Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices in the US and in India. Through a trained team at Enfold, she has been promoting training in this field in schools, Child Care Institutions and among Government and NGO staff.