Masterclass With Fearless Educator

A dynamic person, erudite on purpose, an entrepreneur by passion, and proud alumni of EDI & JNV. Yogendra is fervent about cars and executing futuristic ideas. He started in his 20’s and now heads ventures into learning spaces, food processing, and clothing under UWC group of companies. He is also a trustee member in Shiv Om Sai Trust working in many philanthropic activities.

Having tried his hands into quite a few formal and informal enterprises, he always felt a calling in helping people and making a change. He believes in taking the decisions and then making them right. You come as a spark, he will act as a catalyst. He co-founded CIVOM in 2012 after he got inspired by the way the libraries were/are designed in Australia, with a vision to create responsive environments that enhance learning for our future leaders. Being a patriotic self, he has made it his mission to work tirelessly towards the much needed transformation in the education system in India and elsewhere.

He also co-owns enterprises in the food industry and is a connoisseur of Italian and Indian food. He always aspire to bring the Indian food industry to the global heights. Being a technogeek and an early-adopter, he does use ample amounts of technology to make his life easy. At Civom, besides being the big wheel, he’s gung ho about philosophy, literature, fashion and being a therapist for people around him.

Anshu Sahi, M.Sc. Botany, M.Ed., B. Ed

As the first Born to my Gandhian father and a dynamic mother, she was always inspired by love for children which ultimately resulted in her becoming a teacher and a facilitator for children. She started her Teaching Carrier as a Lecturer in Department of Botany, in Regional College Of Education, Bhopal, and superannuated as Principal, Army Public School ,Dhaula Kuan New Delhi after completing a carrier of 32 years.

She is presently Trustee and Member of Managing Committee of Ayurgyan Nyas a Trust constituted for developing and implementing Curriculum on Universal Ethic based Education in Institutes of learning. She was trained for Development of Teachers Professional Guide “Call to Care” by Mind and Life Institute in Amherst University USA.  She is also working as an educational consultant imparting In Service and pre service Training to Teachers and Principals all over India.

 She is well known as an enthusiast who is endowed with exceptional capability in communicating ideas with good interpersonal skills, self-motivated and a good team contributor. She sincerely believes that the challenge for a Principal and teachers is to work as an integrated team to develop Ethics and Values in children so as they become productive and ethical members of society. She has often been commended for her services by Indian Army Personnel during her carrier.

Kunal Sareen is the founder and National Training director at Zoommer. After his MBA and a brief stint at his family business he soon realized that his passion lies elsewhere. Sport was always close to his heart but the hidden spark was his love for child development. He has a way with children like no other and has always been the pied piper of the family.

It was while running his chain of soccer schools, a business he helped scale across the country that he realised that children needed a structured physical literacy program that focused on developing motor skills. And that’s how Zoommer was born. From the very beginning his vision was to bring global standards and best practices to India in the early years physical development space. 

Zoommer is probably the only Indian organisation that has at its very core some of the best curriculum developers from world over. Zoommer PLAY is an Age specific program established to improve the quality and quantity of physical activity of children at HOME. It is a structured curriculum based Physical Education for young people that is delivered through the Zoommer PLAY KIT & Online Live sessions by expert educators. Zoommer is a movement that has been established to make every child physically literate.

About Speaker:

I Pankaj garg, started my teaching career 26 years ago in 1994 as a Maths teacher in a state board school.

After 8 years of teaching experience. I left my job and started a pre-primary school in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.

Within 2 years, I converted pre-primary school into a primary school up till class 8. I never thought of starting 9th to 12th class, because I feel there are so many things which should be changed in our primary schooling pattern.

During this process, I found out some problems in handwriting pattern in schools and where handwriting of students deteriorates. Bad handwriting impacts students academic performance in board and university exams. After deep analysis and research we found out some concepts which helps the students to keep handwriting better forever.

About Speaker:

More than 16 years' of corporate experience in Strategic Planning, Sales & Marketing, Business Innovation, Operations and Team Management. Currently, associated with 3 Idea Technology, Mumbai since 2015 handling 3D printing business. Conducted more than 50+ Seminars, Workshops at Colleges / Institutions, Corporate Houses & Webinars for Students, Faculty Members, hobbyist & Working professionals. Prior to 3idea worked with companies like Tata Teleservices Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd. Education: 

Post Graduate Diploma in International Business from IIFT, New Delhi.

B. Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from NIT, Hamirpur. 

PDDM (Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing) from DMI, Ireland.

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Vikram Shah is the Chief Business Officer at NoPaperForms.  Vikram’s primary responsibility is to lead the “Uniapply Business” in the school segment and ensure that we serve the School administrators and Parents across India. School admissions especially in India is a massive untapped opportunity and NPF is poised to lead a revolution there. Uniapply is a common application platform for school, which simplifies the school search, application, and enrolment process. 

Prior joining to NoPaperForms, Vikram was the Executive Director, South & Central Asia at The College Board. The College Board, a non-for-profit membership organization founded in New York in 1900, has been engaged in India for the last 50 years. Among other programs, The College Board is the owner of global entrance examinations such as the SAT, SAT Subject Tests and Advanced Placement (AP) tests.

Vikram was responsible to lead College Board’s new India office and on-the-groundwork related to the India Global Alliance, Outreach, Market Development and Relationship Management across South & Central Asia to drive strategic expansion of College Board programs in the region. Vikram spend nearly a decade at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) where he was Director, Product Management.  He played a pivotal role in establishing and growing GMAC’s work in India. He brings deep expertise on international education with a strong focus on India, but also a diverse set of experiences that range from relationship development to setting strategy to developing new products. Vikram was the youngest Director on the Board of GMAC’s subsidiary in India. 

Vikram’s career spans over 18 years across many reputed organizations that includes GMAC, Citigroup and Fullerton Securities & Wealth Advisors Ltd (Temasek Holdings subsidiary in India) and he has managed various responsibilities across a spectrum of functions like Market Development, Sales, Product Development & Management, Customer Experience Management, Credit & Risk Management, Quality & Operational Excellence. Vikram has completed undergrad in accounting from St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata and Master’s in Business Administration in Finance & Marketing from ICFAI Business School.

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Brindala Raju Manian is the founder and the CEO of AAIRA VENTURES, the company that owns YELLOWBUS PHOTOGRAPHY, India’s only company that specialises in School Photography. With a master’s degree in economics, she is also a qualified interior designer with training in entrepreneurship from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Her entrepreneurial journey has extended in founding and establishing companies in sectors of fine art, design, home interiors, furniture & furnishing, digital printing, and real estate.  

She has a passion for anything creative, functional, aesthetic and believes a work of art is an inspiration forever. Having spent 14 years in the field of art consultancy she provided solutions in all aspects of fine art & interior design to homes, hospitality and corporate sectors pan India. This endeavour to decorate and redesign spaces took an upturn when her 3-year-old daughter could not identify herself in her class group photograph. 

Her deep insight into creative arts helped carve a niche for her company YellowBus Photography that helps parents treasure the memories of their children at school with professionally clicked photographs. A multitasker, she is responsible for all the setting the context for creatives, client communication, sales and marketing.  Gardening, music, reading, current affairs and meaningful parenting are the areas that occupy her time. 

Her Session Topic is - A Fresh New Approach to School Photography – A presentation that explains why school photographs have a lasting impact on the child’s growing years.

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GIRISH NAIR is the Founder & CEO of Curiosity Gym. Curiosity Gym is an educational organization that provides curriculum and runs experiential learning Innovation Hubs is schools. Prior to founding Curiosity Gym, Mr. Nair was CEO at Netcore, India's leading email and mobile technology platform service provider and also a Partner at Tandem Capital a Silicon Valley based seed capital fund where he mentored entrepreneurs. 

Mr. Nair has worked in Silicon Valley, USA for over fifteen years at technology companies like Siebel, Webvan and Intel in senior engineering management roles prior to his return to India 15 years ago. At both Intel and Webvan, he was one of the youngest Program Managers, tasked with automation of large integrated robotic systems for material handling within Intel’s factories and Webvan’s distribution centres. 

Mr. Nair has a Bachelor’s in Engineering from IIT Bombay, a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech and also studied Engineering Management at Stanford. In his second innings, at Curiosity Gym he would like to create a platform for kids, youth and adults to have fun while learning. 

Mr. Nair’s hobbies are biking, basketball and playing frisbee with his sons and dog Leo.

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Rohith (Linkedin: http://bit.ly/INOV8) is an inventor & innovator with over 20 years of experience. Having worked in creating cutting edge technologies across telecom and internet, with Infosys-Bell labs, and later as director of Innovation in OnMobile global limited, a global leader in telecom services, he anticipated a rapid change in the world the tech would usher in. 

As a concerned father of two, with a stint as CEO of ThinkVidya, then a leading portal connecting students & teachers, he started http://futureReadykids.com, to enable kids to tackle the ever-changing future. Here using “Behavioural Engineering”, kids are habituated into “doing by self-learning” using principles of constructivism, bricolage, collaboration, & transfer of learning. Students through SmartProjects self-learn day to day activities connected to syllabus. Similarly, high school students get bite sized hands on experiences of current and future careers all connected to syllabus (video: http://futureReadykids.com/video) . Participants of these programs have also taken on real-life problems, invented solutions, used design thinking to create products, patented then and are selling them on Amazon.in (here) . 

He also runs Peer-Mentor (http://peer-mentor.com), a program for professionals, where he incubates start-ups based on the same principles used by kids. These start-ups span across sustainable agriculture, medical devices, Automotive, and transportation. Asides, in higher education, RV collage of Engineering has signed up as one of the first collages. Students know that the same principles are used in real world i.e., in peer-mentor. They also see other kids solving real life problems. This, along with the habituation of “doing by self-learning” empowers kids.