About Speaker: Dr Dawood Vaid is a Mindset Coach, an educationist and quizzer. An Electronics engineer, MA in Education and an MBA. He left his lavish career as a Patent Attorney in Switzerland, Moscow and Dubai to work on SDG (Global Goals) and Skill workshops. He has authored The Education Riddle.He heads an online e -school and sustainable Academy, GoldenSparrow Hub Schooling headquartered at Mumbai. He loves horses, quizzing and travels. #theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
About Speaker: Nancy Ekpezu is the founder of the Educational Administration Network Facebook group and has authored several books on school administration, management, and personal development. As the Lead Consultant and Trainer of Pezu Smith Consulting, she is passionate about helping organisations in Nigeria and Africa function effectively. Nancy hasreceived several awards and recognitions for her contributions to education, and she offers coaching, consulting, and speaking engagements #theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
About Speaker: Maya Menon has been a full-time teacher trainer since 1996, conducting professional development programmes for heads and teachers of schools across India and abroad.Her areas of professional experience include conceptualising, designing and implementing a wide range of school and teacher-related projects and services – including the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools Teacher Empowerment Project initiated in 2001. #theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
About Speaker: Dr. Swati Popat Vats is the founder President of Early Childhood Association India and Association for Primary Education and Research. As President of Podar Education Network she leads over 490 preschools and Daycares in India and UAE. She heads the teacher-training wing at Podar. Swati has coined the term ‘Kiducation’ for early childhood teachers and parents to help them understand that young children need education from the point of view of their development. She is also an expert on the global think tank of Kidzania.#theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
About Speaker: Andy Homden has served as a teacher and leader in some of the most prominent international schools in the world, Andy co-founded Consilium Education in 2014. The establishment of new schools, strategic planning and caring for the ‘deep structures’ of a school have been central to his career as an educator. His Session Topic: What are the deep structures of a school, why are they important and how are they changing? #theTrainer #professionaldevelopment #educators
About Speaker: Dr. Tabrez Ahmad expertise is in the area of cyber law, intellectual property rights, energy law, and jurisprudence with a background in commercial law.He served in academic and administrative positions such as Vice Chancellor of the GD Goenka University and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Galgotias University; Director & Dean School of Law, UPES; Professor & Founder Director, Alliance School of Law.He is also the founder of Technolex Foundation. #EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
About Speaker: Evan Luthra is a leading Blockchain expert of 2022 by USATODAY. I have been building and investing in fast growing technology products since I was 13 , building 30+ apps and selling my first company at 17. Most Recently I was honored as a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient. I have been in crypto since 2014 and in 2017 used to run a crypto investment bank where we took projects like hashgraph from $10M to the current $10B+ market cap..I am an equity investor in Hashgraph, ripple and over 400+ token projects. In 2021, I invested in 250+ private sales and advised 20+ projects pre listing. I also have a NFT portfolio including 6 Bored Apes , 6 cloneX , Xcopy and many more blue chips. Business Insider recently selected me as a NFT Expert to follow on Twitter. #EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
About Speaker: Pratham Mittal is a serial entrepreneur who has founded companies like Neta App, Outgrow and Masters' Union, a leading business school in Gurugram. After a successful SAAS start-up in the US, Pratham is now all set to disrupt the Indian education space. With an undergraduate from University of Pennsylvania, Pratham wishes to bring world class education to India with Master's Union where students learn business by running businesses. #EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
About Speaker: Dr. Ashok Pandey is widely acknowledged as an innovator, classroom practitioner and effective educational leader. The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, IIMA, has recently published a case study on the impactful Professional Development Programme he carried out at Ahlcon International School. Recipient of the National Teacher Award 2012, Extraordinary Leadership Award 2021 by the Education World, and The Forbes India Top 100 People Manager's Award 2020 make him a reputed thought leader on contemporary educational issues. He is presently serving on the Governing Board of the National Council for Teacher Education, NCTE, Cambridge NEP Advisory Board for India and South Asia, and GEMs Education India.#EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
About Speaker: Sudhir Aggarwal was named as ‘IT Industry Leader’ in 2010 by eGov (CSDMS). Currently,working as Director and Faculty – Digital Transformation with the Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy. He is an Adjunct Faculty with RGIPT. He has 3 Copyrights to his credit and a few papers published. He has varied experience in conceptualising new initiatives, working on programs, executing projects, policy advocacy, and government ecosystem building. He is a thought leader on various aspects of Digital India. He has worked with Deloitte, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Oracle, IBM, and HCL & Niveshan Technologies among Indian MNCs. #EducationRevamp #sustainableschools
About Speaker: Sushama Sharma is the founder member and the Director of Anand Niketan, a school that draws its inspiration from Nai Talim, known as Gandhi's vision of Education and Gandhi's larger vision of equitable, non-violent and sustainable society. Anand Niketan, restarted in 2005, inherits its space, philosophy and spirit from the earlier Nai Talim experiment (1937-1970) and continues to explore their relevance in today's context. The school aims to create democratic environment where holistic development of children can be nurtured such that all three faculties Head, Heart and Hand are developed in a balanced and integrated manner to its fullest potential. #SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
About Speaker: Babar Ali started a school named Ananda Siksha Niketan (Home of Joyful Learning) in the backyard of his family’s home when he was nine years old, bringing affordable education to an impoverished area of West Bengal,India. At the age of 16, he was named as “Youngest Headmaster in the world” by the BBC. As a TED fellow and public speaker, Babar Ali inspired many individuals and organisations with his mission “Education for All”. From the last 18 years of inception more than 6000 students benefited with complete free education from this institution. His biography is a part of syllabus in different curriculum across the globe. Hon’ble President of India mentioned about him and his work in his speech towards the nation on 25 January 2020. #SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
About Speaker: Santhya Vikram is a passionate educator, dreamer, believer and a crusader for the cause of children. She is deeply moved by the need for renewal in the human spirit and in education. She believes in an education that is forming, life giving and nourishing. Set in a 30 acre organic farm, in an ecologically sustainable green building and a Railway carriage that serves as the library for the whole community, Yellow Train is a Waldorf Inspired School in Coimbatore, India – from Kindergarten to Upper School. The school holds in reverence the work of Rudolf Steiner and strives to bring to the children in Yellow Train an essence of wholesome and spiritual education. #SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
About Speaker: Bodhirupa Sinha spent her childhood and part of her college days at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, the Ashram set up by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, which later became a Central University of repute, specialising in indepth research in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, World Literature, different kinds of art forms and above all, in educational pedagogy. For the last eighteen years, Bodhirupa Sinha has been associated with Patha Bhavana, Visva Bharati at Santiniketan in the capacity of Principal . In her long career as an educationist and academic visionary Bodhirupa has delved into the world of education extensively, particularly in Pre- Primary, Primary, Secondary and Higher secondary education. #SchoolofThoughts #meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
About Speaker: Dr. Chhalamayi Reddy has an innate passion for innovation in education. Exploring and Enriching the practices of learning and actively engaging academicians, teachers and children in the process of self discovery are the two major areas around which her work revolves. A student of Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, Puducherry. She received her Ph.D. from Pondicherry University, on Sri Aurobindo’s critique of poetry. She is the Director Principal of Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad for three decades and a residential school ‘New Creation- a Free Progress School’. #SchoolofThoughts ##meetingofminds #educationphilosophy
About Speaker: Vishnu Karthik is currently the CEO of Xperiential Learning Systems (The Heritage Group of Schools - a group of K-12 experiential learning schools. Apart from being on the board of The Heritage Schools, he is responsible for strategic projects for the group, including new campus initiatives, curriculum development, instructional leadership, continuous school improvement, and technology integration. He is Keenly interested in building professional learning communities, instructional leadership, cognitive neuroscience, education technology, leadership coaching, authentic assessments, and deeper learning curriculum. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
About Speaker: Dr Nikita Ahya is the Deputy Director, Branding and Communication at KIIT and KISS. She has pursued Bachelors in Political Science, Masters in International Relations and PhD in Economics. She is a restless blogger, collaborator and a plus size body positivity enthusiast. But of all, she is an innate teacher. With her knack for writing and flair of creativity, she has overhauled Branding at KIIT and KISS. She believes in the power of teamwork and loves everything youth and the potential to change. She has taught and led the Humanities Section of KIIT to glory. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
About Speaker: Meru Miller is currently the secretary of Rural Institute for Community Education. He is working on innovative quality education focusing on transparent management practices, child rights, joyful learning, integrated and inclusive education. He has experience for more than 50 years in working for the development of children with special reference to child protection, prevention of abuse and penalisation. He has organised national and international workshops on prevention of child abuse and child trafficking.
About Speaker: Dr. Abdulla Rasheed Ahmed is an enthusiastic educationist with 30 years of experience in the field of education. He was a former Minister of State for Education in Maldives. Before He was the Vice Rector of Avid College, Maldives. He served as a principal of government schools for 18 years. He did a school management diploma from NIE, Sri Lanka, Bachelor of Commerce major in Accounting and HRM from University of Tasmania, Master of Educational leadership from Nottingham University and Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional Leadership from Asia e University, Malaysia.
About Speaker: Samuel H. Kim is the Founding President of the Center for Asia Leadership. The Center’s mission is to help key leaders in multiple spheres in Asia build robust frameworks, devise effective policies, and formulate new strategies for increasing their communities’ growth and sustainability. He holds an MPA from Harvard, an MA from Seoul National, and an LLB from Handong Universities. He has edited fourteen books to date, covering topics as political reform, innovation, education, entrepreneurship, economic development, the future of work, and women’s leadership. #Soulfulस्कूलConference #mysphere #zamit
