Ms. Sujata Kohli is a leading architect with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from SPA and Diploma in Landscape Conservation from Florence, Italy. She has worked on projects based in India, Nepal and Pakistan. She has been part of the international group to have worked with World Bank Projects for infrastructure works in Bhutan. She is visiting faculty member to SPA, New Delhi. Currently, she is the President of Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA). As ISOLA president she is involved actively with many academic institutes and organisation like IGBC (Indian Green Building Council) for major public development trajectories. Ms. Sujata Kohli is a leading architect with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from SPA and Diploma in Landscape Conservation from Florence, Italy. She has worked on projects based in India, Nepal and Pakistan. She has been part of the international group to have worked with World Bank Projects for infrastructure works in Bhutan. She is visiting faculty member to SPA, New Delhi. Currently, she is the President of Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA). As ISOLA president she is involved actively with many academic institutes and organisation like IGBC (Indian Green Building Council) for major public development trajectories.
Environment – Sujata Kohli
Arvind Singhal is the Founder & Chairman of Technopak Advisors. Having started its operations in January 1992, Technopak is one of India’s leading management consulting firms focusing on 4 key sectors that include Consumer Products & Retail, Textiles & Apparel, Packaged Food, Food Services & Agriculture, and Education & Skills Development. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from IIT-Roorkee, India (1979) that has also recognized him as a “Distinguished Alumnus”, and an MBA from the UCLA, USA (1982).
Social Behavior – Arvind K Singhal
Mr. Ajay Batra is an entrepreneur, mentor, angel investor, and an active contributor to the innovation and startup ecosystems. He has been recognised for his ground-breaking work in Design Thinking and Startup Maturity Model. Currently, he is an Executive Vice President at Wadhwani Foundation, where he leads the global Venture Fastrack program. He is the Founding CEO of Startup Innovation Lab (SI.Lab).
He is a Charter Member of TiE, a member of LeadAngels and a Mentor for Atal Tinkering Labs, NITI Aayog. He serves on several national committees of FICCI and CII. He was the Founding Director of Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Bennett University. He headed Bennett Hatchery – the startup incubator. His first book Startups and Beyond: Building Enduring Organizations has received global acclaim.
Business Models – Ajay Batra
Harshit Desai is a Digital and Experience Evangelist, and a new-age Design Thinker whose mission is to automate and enhance experiences of our digital world. His purpose is to make users/customers happy by way of creating compelling, persuasive and meaningful design and interactions. He is a proud Stanford alumnus and has been a recipient of various national and international awards for path-breaking work in UX, Digital Products, Design and Entrepreneurship. His thought leadership is in ‘Experience Consulting’ for Fortune 500 companies, and his award-winning works have been across domains like FMCG, Telecom, Entertainment, Media, IT and Product Development. A seasoned leader with a decade-and-half of experience in building differentiated competencies, incubating and scaling large consulting practices and boot-strapping entrepreneurial ventures. Although being a qualified engineer in Electronics and Telecom, he spends the majority of his time teaching at various B-Schools and D-Schools.
Technology- Harshit Desai
Navyug Mohnot is the Founder and CEO of QAI, Founder of QGLUE, and a Director in several start-ups and not-for-profit Foundations.
Navyug recently founded QGLUE to help accelerate innovation through the systematic use of methods, tools, and enterprise-wide design-led practices. He takes a keen interest in supporting and mentoring start-ups, is an angel investor in exciting ventures and has led several initiatives for start-up ecosystem development through TiE and NASSCOM.
Navyug did his B.Tech from IIT Delhi and then went to the USA on a Fellowship. He is a certified Leadership Coach from Harvard University and a Certified Coach of “ Design Your Life”, the bestselling program from Stanford University. He is the recipient of “Outstanding Contribution to National Development” from IIT Delhi Alumni Association.
Technology- Navyug Mohnot
Alessandro Columbano is a Senior Lecturer and March Course Director at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. He co-established and leads the Collaborative Laboratory (Co.LAB), a teaching initiative and organization within the school that integrates teaching with inter-disciplinary design practice through live projects, staff research/design and consultancy.
Technology- Alessandro Columbano
Alessandro has worked in architecture and research practices in Manchester and London focusing on residential and restoration of historic buildings, with further specialized experience in evidence-based design at Space Syntax.
He has developed a portfolio of site-specific installations, architectural spaces and artworks commenting on the subversive qualities of our physical environments. Alessandro brings these characteristics forward to his teaching as an academic and researcher in the discussion of architectural pedagogy, the culture of creative environments, cinematic architectural design methodology and contemporary material vernacular. It is applied by engaging with the city’s cultural network through an ongoing process of collaborative practice, encouraging students to be entrepreneurial citizens through their design ideas.