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Mar 21 2014

Sourabh Kaushal

Engineer, Space Explorer and INK Fellow

Sourabh Kaushal Sourabh Kaushal proposed new techniques to clean space debris (The collection of objects in orbit around earth that were created by human beings but no longer serve as any useful purpose in space and threat to our satellites, ISS and also threat to the life of astronauts.) that includes De-Orbit Kit technique using micro-satellite & robotic arm, use of nanotube mesh technique using laser &nanobot, recycling of space junk and energy production from space.

“I appreciate your interest in space debris mitigation techniques and the work that you have done. You have outlines a number of possible research areas to improve these techniques and proposed new techniques”-Sir Donald Kessler, Ex- NASA Scientist.


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Sourabh holds Bachelors in Electronics and Communication engineering from prestigious Kurukshetra University, INDIA. He has been conducting space research over the last five years. He previously worked with Axiom Research Pvt. Lab Ltd (a Google Lunar X Prize project) as a system engineer on unmanned lunar rover mission. His research papers got selected in many international and national conferences organized by NASA, ISRO, JAXA, ESA, MICROSOFT, IEEE, AIAA, IAC and so on. His research work appreciated and recognized by the Vice President of INDIA Sh. M.H. Ansari, Ex NASA Scientist, ISRO scientist and other space agencies. He proposed some new techniques to clean space debris and also working on space elevator system. For that he received various international and national awards. Previously projects from his work in University include Programming logic controller, sound processing system, Fuzzy logic controller, AI, cansat satellite designing and launching.[/expand]


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In his talk Sourabh explains his failure, struggle and success followed by reveal the mystery of space. Also the fascinating perspective why he believes imagination has not limits and doesn’t need any qualification. [/expand]


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Sourabh is an experienced space personality and his entertaining presentations are both informative and uplifting.[/expand]

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Feb 16 2014

Ken Segall

Former Creative Director at Apple

Ken Segall Speaker and Former Creative Director at AppleKen Segall is a creative director with a successful career in technology marketing, branding, product naming and strategy. For 12 years he was Creative Director at Apple and worked closely with Steve Jobs. He revolutionised Apple with his ‘Think Different’ campaign and added to the world’s vocabulary that powerful little ‘i’ which stands unabashedly before thousands of Apple products.

“One of the leading voices on creativity, innovation and branding”


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Ken also spent time as agency global Creative Director at Dell, IBM, Intel, BMW and Next Computer. His latest effort was the Ellen DeGeneres campaign for JCPenney that debuted at the Oscars. He consults usually about branding and naming and keeps a watchful eye on technology and marketing — offering insights based on his many years in charge of advertising for some of the most successful and iconic technology companies in the world.[/expand]


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In his presentations Ken gives interesting insights into what became one of the world’s biggest brands. He recounts his life at Apple and helps companies wishing to leverage the power of simplicity. [/expand]


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His powerful message makes Ken Segall a sought-after speaker at renowned conferences around the globe.[/expand]

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Feb 12 2014

Vijay Govindarajan

Internationally Renowned Authority on Innovation and Strategy

Vijay Govindarajan SpeakerVijay Govindarajan is an internationally renowned authority on strategy execution, strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He has been ranked as number 3 on the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s most influential business thinkers.

“He is widely regarded as one of world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation”


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In the 1980s, Vijay surveyed hundreds of executives at Fortune 500 corporations about their varied approaches to executing strategy across business units. In the 1990s, he helped companies that were expanding globally achieve the most effective balance of differentiation and integration among country subsidiaries. Since 2000, he has focused on teaching corporations to build breakthrough businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in their core business. He writes about innovation and execution on his blog, Harvard Business Review, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He has been ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization. One of his papers was recognised as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 40-year history of Academy of Management Journal.[/expand]


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In 2011, 2009 and 2007 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. Recognised as one of today’s leading business strategists Vijay Govindarajan helps companies adapt to the global business environment and change the way they look at strategy For 25 years, he has been advancing the field of strategy execution and advising senior executives in all industries on how to modify their organizations to achieve their strategic ambitions.[/expand]


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Warm, articulate and naturally funny Vijay Govindarajan is a highly popular keynote speaker.[/expand]

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Feb 07 2014

Magatte Wade-Marchand

Founder and CEO, The Tiossano Tribe, Inc. & Founder, Adina World Beat Beverages

Magatte Wade-Marchand SpeakerMagatte Wade is a serial entrepreneur born in Senegal, educated in France, and has launched her entrepreneurial career in the San Francisco Bay area. She is currently launching her second company, The Tiossano Tribe, Inc., a lifestyle brand initially focused on fashion accessories and body care products targeted at the cultural creative demographic. She also is the founder of Adina World Beverages, a multi-million dollar beverage company that sells culturally authentic beverages from diverse nations around the world.

“An inspiring entrepreneur”


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Prior to her career as an entrepreneur, she served as Director of Business Development for Greenough Consulting Group, a leading consulting firm specialising in interim financial management services to venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. The former sponsorship chair for the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, she is also a board member of Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products, Afropop Worldwide, and SEED Academy (Sports for Education and Economic Development).[/expand]


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Drawing from her own business experiences Magatte offers audiences a wealth of useful advice and business know how based on her own life story.[/expand]


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A charismatic and charming woman, Magatte talks candidly about her life and success motivating and inspiring audiences in the process.[/expand]

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Jan 07 2014

Sanjiv Rai

Innovator & Serial Entrepreneur & Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

Sanjiv Rai SpeakerSanjiv Rai is an innovator and a serial entrepreneur. His initiatives BillionInnovators and AceWP Innovation Labs promote out of box designs and innovation for the technology-deprived 3 billion. He has been the founder and chief architect of CHANDRA project for NASA, aimed towards setting up a communication infrastructure on the moon for permanent human inhabitancy, of D5 Chip, AceWP, HOBO, Wi-Diplomat, PlasmaPHI, innovate2Learn, gniie devices, ChazeMe, coolATM and Rosenbridges Future Cities/Smart Buildings. He has authored several intellectual properties including industry standards, copyrights, articles, books and patents.

“A renowned global expert on innovation”


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Sanjiv has received several awards and honours, including Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Who’s Who in the World by Marquis, Top 100 Disruptive Innovators by Red Herring, Top 10 Asian Techno visionaries by ZDNet and Top 10 Emerging Stars by NASSCOM. Sanjiv graduated from University of Calcutta and shelved aside Engineering Doctorate (EE) at UCL in the pursuit of innovation. He is an alumnus of the Harvard University. Sanjiv has chaired several tech committees and is active in creating global standards /leading initiatives at IEEE/ Computer Society/ Nanotechnology Council/GEOSS, ASQ-Electronics and Communications / Nanotechnology committee and WEF.[/expand]


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Sanjiv Rai is frequently invited to speak about innovation, design thinking, frugal innovation and culture of Innovation; he takes an active interest in learning about diversity of talent across geographies. He promotes innovation and new venture creation as a way of life. [/expand]


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His enlightening and well researched presentations are full of examples and success stories. He encourages interactive simulations, team games and role playing in classes. Sanjiv is in great demand at events around the globe.[/expand]
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Dec 17 2013

Rex Jung

Published by under Innovation and Creativity

Neuropsychologist, brain imaging researcher & assistant professor of neurosurgery

Rex Jung SpeakerRex Jung is a leading scientist in the emerging field of positive neuroscience — the study of what the brain does well. As an Assistant Professor at the UNM Health Sciences Center Department of Neurosurgery, his groundbreaking research led to the first model describing a network of brain regions critically linked together in service of intellectual pursuits. His research is designed to relate behavioral measures, including intelligence, personality, and creativity, to brain function and structure in healthy, neurological, and psychiatric subjects.

Imagine if your creativity had no limits. The possibilities of what you could conceive would be endless.


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He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2001, and completed an internship in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Behavioral Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. His research has been widely featured in popular media outlets including CNN, BBC, Psychology Today, New Scientist, The New York Times, and Newsweek. [/expand]


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Rex translates neuroscience and psychological insights to business leaders. With his research he helps his audience to gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. Rex unsettles some old assumptions — and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, and creativity and purpose.[/expand]


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In his open and engaging presentations, Rex uses humour to make even the most complex ideas easy to understand and highly informative and fascinating.[/expand]
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Dec 05 2013

Gordon Torr

Published by under Innovation and Creativity

Author of Managing Creative People

Gordon Torr SpeakerGordon Torr is the author of “Managing Creative People”, his famously controversial critique of brainstorming, corporate groupthink, and the way conventional management practice inadvertently suffocates creativity and innovation. Always provocative, inevitably polarising, his views are described by American advertising guru Dennis Ryan as “…like power-chugging a gallon of emotional caffeine”.

“I don’t think there’s a single industry that wouldn’t gain immediate advantage from Gordon’s scrupulous and enlightening detective work”
Jeremy Bullmore, WPP


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Born in South Africa, he switched from TV journalism to copywriting, lived and worked in Mexico for three years, with his advertising career culminating as Global Creative Director of JWT in London. He has spoken at creativity conferences from Lagos to Lisbon and from Glasgow to Reykjavik; he has lectured at the London Business School, Brunel and Henley, and is currently consulting with Bilbao’s Creativity Centre. He worked extensively in Europe, the US and Latin America with multinationals such as Unilever, Kellogg’s, Nestle, Ford, De Beers, Vodafone and Diageo, and with pharmaceuticals giants like Pfizer, Bayer and Abbott.[/expand]


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For companies and organisations who know their continuing success depends on a fresh stream of creative ideas, Gordon will identify the bottlenecks, demolish the unproductive assumptions, and share radical new approaches to creative productivity.[/expand]


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Passionate, provocative and iconoclastic, be prepared to have your views on creativity and innovation challenged, questioned and tested to the limit.[/expand]
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Nov 14 2013

Jorgen Christian Juul

Start Up Entrepreneur and Expert in Point of Sale Software

Jorgen Christian Juul Speaker Jørgen Christian Juul is the Chairman of the Board at Wallmob, a Danish-based software company with global reach that primarily focuses on POS systems, but with very few similarities to the conventional global POS Suppliers. His real expertise is in business development in the fields of Internet, Marketing and Communication. Jørgen has started 13 businesses and helped numerous start ups. By analyzing current market needs and defining a strong global position he was able to actively contribute to the start up of Wallmob and in so doing created a highly successful and extremely fast growing company.

“A leading expert in Sofware Solutions for today’s hyper competitive business environment ”


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Jørgen realised that increased multichannel competition and changes in buying behavior has created a need for rethinking the Point of Sale. At Wallmob he has developed a new POS platform that can meet business demands as mobile selling, cross and omni-channel integrations – designed to optimize sales and earnings, and at the same time improve the shopping experience as well as customer loyalty[/expand]


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Jørgen Christian Juul is a passionate entrepreneur and business start up expert. In his presentations he shows audiences how to re-invent existing products and market positions by using a disruptive approach and a personal built in desire to challenge “Sleeping Market Leaders”. His research is based on detailed market analytics, historical product development and real life examples of changes in human behavior.[/expand]


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Jørgen’s passionate and high-energy presentations motivate, inspire and challenge audiences around the globe[/expand]
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Nov 12 2013

Erik D’Auchamp

CEO at Mahou India

Erik D’AuchampErik d’Auchamp has worked in several countries, cultures, and companies over the past decade in sales, marketing, start-ups, and managerial roles. At present he is the CEO at Mahou India (Mahou San Miguel). He brings an extensive marketing and innovation background to the table having worked with global brands across 5 continents. Erik is a true citizen of the world and is able to connect with many different cultures.

“20th century ideas and ideals applied to the 21st century –
business anything but usual!”


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An alumni from Harvard Business School and Copenhagen Business School, Erik is still on a quest to keep learning and challenge conventional thinking[/expand]


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Erik takes audiences through unconventional ways of helping solve traditional problems, finding inspiration in unimaginable places and applying them to business. Erik d’Auchamp gives managers a framework which can help them get themselves, their employees, and ultimately, their company back on track through personal growth by giving alternative solutions to traditional problems using 20th century ideas for 21st century business solutions.

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Erik engages his audiences using quotes from Gandhi, giving a fresh and unique approach to business challenges.[/expand]
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Oct 28 2013

Gary Card

Published by under Innovation and Creativity

Set & Prop Designer

Gary Card SpeakerGary Card is a set designer, illustrator and all-round growing brand. His work has covered Penguin’s Kafka reprints, he has since been unrelentingly commissioned for commercial jobs that have utilised all of his creative talents. Known for his playful positivity, Gary has an unsurpassable grasp of colour, texture and print. The unique Card stamp has been spotted on Topman shorts, in the Christmas windows for Loewe, and an array of watches for Swatch.

“Eclectic creativity with a clearly defined style”


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Gary graduated from Central St Martins in 2002 where he studied theatre design and has gone onto work as an illustrator, graphic designer, comic artist, costume, set and props designer. Gary has collaborated with the likes of Nick Knight, Dinos Chapman, Tim Walker, Nicola Formichetti, and Stella McCartney as well as designing headpieces for Comme des Garcon’s and Lady Gaga. His interior design for Dalston retailer LN-CC was nominated for a ‘Design of The Year’ Award at the end of 2012. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused, i-D, British Vogue, Vogue Homme Japan, V, Pop and Love.[/expand]


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Drawing from his experience as a young and highly successful set and prop designer, Gary provides audiences with unique insights into his enthusiasms and the way they shape his creative process.[/expand]


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Gary has as a unique presence and charisma and is well received at worldwide events. His speeches are cultured, entertaining and provocative.[/expand]
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