Goutama M V served as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), the pioneering electronics company and the Defence major in India between 2016 and 21. Joined as a probationary engineer in 1983 at the Ghaziabad unit, he took over as GM, Technology Planning at BEL’s Corporate Office in Bangalore in 2010. Later he served as GM (Milcom) and was Executive Director (Missile Systems) till his elevation as CMD
During his tenure, BEL grew at a CAGR of 12% and saw many new initiatives for fostering innovation and talent within the company.The 30,000 ICU ventilators supplied to the Govt of India to combat Covid in a record time is one of his key achievement
He completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Communications from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati, in 1983 and M.Tech in Advanced Electronics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, in 2002
With Mr. Gowtama at the helm, BEL has won a host of prestigious awards including the CII EXIM Bank Business Excellence Award (2018) for Bangalore Complex and the Jury’s Commendation for Role Model Organisation. Mr. Gowtama has won many accolades for being a wonderful leader: ‘Business Leader of the Year’ Award; CEO with HR Orientation Award; Engineering Council of India's Commendation Award; Great Son of the Soil Award; Hall of Fame Award by Manufacturing Today; Amity Leadership Award for Business Excellence and Most Enterprising CEO in Electronics Sector.

R Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Kolkata University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a professional manager from 1967. He has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies and also as an independent director of Hemas Holding PLC, Sri Lanka. He serves as non – executive chairman of Castrol India and Independent Director of Press Trust of India. He is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. He has authored seventeen books.
Gopal mentors few start-ups. He is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. He has authored twelve books

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S. Rajagopalan received his Bachelor of Technology degree (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Delhi, Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Bangalore and Ph.D from IIT Kanpur. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology from 1982 to 1993 and was involved managing innovations that addressed the problems of Karnataka. In 1993 he and his colleagues founded Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE), a non-profit development society which focused on developing and disseminating technologies that were economically attractive, environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable in rural areas of Karnataka. He was its Chairman till 2007. For his work in TIDE (www.tide-india.org), he was awarded the Ashoka Fellow (1994), Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar (1999), one of the four finalists of Social Entrepreneur of India award (2006) and one of the 50 change makers of India chosen by India Today Magazine (2008). TIDE was awarded the International Green Oscar - the Ashden Award in 2008. Dr. Rajagopalan joined the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore as a Professor in July 2008. His areas of interest included innovation dissemination, Geographical Information systems, and urban mobility. He was a founder Director of the IIITB Innovation Centre, which aimed at incubating and promoting innovations in the area of Information and Communication Technologies. He retired from the services of the Institute in June 2020 and continues to be a honorary visiting faculty. He leads the MOSIP( Modular Open Source Identity Platform ) project since 2018

Director of Water Institute, CED, UVCE, BUB.

• Professor in Depart ment of Ci vil Engi neeri ng.
• Technical advisor to Storm Water Drainage and Lakes, BBMP, Bangalore
• Techni cal advisor to Storm Water Drainage, BBMP, Bangalore
• Technical committee member, Central Groundwater Board, Bangalore.
• NSS Program Officer, UVCE, Bangalore University.
• TEQI P- CED- Coordi nator
• NBA- CED Member.
• Liason Officer between Bangalore Uni versity and CGWB
• Member of State Level Technical Committee of CGWB, Bangalore
• Advisory services to CURIP for Revision of Master Plan of BDA
• Coor di nati ng for field training and painting competition to CGWB trainee

Dr Ashok Hanjagi, currently serving as the Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics, Bangalore University has significantly contributed in various facets of the academic and research activities as one of the dynamic and competent leaders. One of his major contributions was in developing the Department as the unique and model department not only for generating the highly qualified students in the area of Geography but also in the area of advanced technology of space technology and its utilisation for national development. His contribution has helped in renaming the “Department of Geography”, into “Department of Geography and Geoinformatics”, by the University, in the similar lines of international academic institutions. He played a pivotal role in initiating the new programme of Geoinformatics, which is unique one of its kind in the entire Bangalore University. He also took lead role in setting up of Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory with high-end computing systems and other relevant facilities. With this new programme (Diploma in Geoinformatics / Post Graduate Degree in Geoinformatics) many students have got benefited especially from the students from rural areas. Dr Ashok has served as the Head of the Department during 2016-18 timeframe. Apart from regular teaching for students and guiding the research scholars, he served as “Course Director” for many of the technical training programmes, workshops and outreach programmes towards generating skilled manpower in the area of Space technology and its utilisation, sponsored by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The successful conduct of the programme has helped in getting regular and sustained support from ISRO. Dr Ashok Hanjagi has organised many international / national conferences in the topics of relevance to national development. He served / serving as the Principle Investigator / Co-principle investigator for many of the research projects sponsored by various national and state agencies. He has served / serving as Chairman/ Members in many of the committees not only within the University but also committees constituted by other major academic institutions, state and national agencies. Worked as a member in the Water Policy of Karnataka State Government as an expert in Geography field. During his Chairmanship of the Department, UGC SAP-DRS - II programme was approved with the funding support and he continued to coordinate the activity. He is now working as NAAC Peer-Team member for visits to Universities and colleges for accreditation & analysis. He established the Union of Geographic Information Technologists (UGIT) as a registered professional body with global memberships. He is the Chief Editor of (i) International Journal of Geographical Analysis and ii) International Journal of Geo Eye. He has large number of publications to his credit as the lead author in national and international journals. He worked as Australian Endeavour Executive Award -2009 in Sydney University, Australia for a month. Dr Ashok is a serious environmentalist and organizing several programmes like Environmental Day, Earth Day, Biosphere Day, Soil Day, Ozone Day, etc with active participation of his students. Major goal of Ashok Hanjagi: To serve academia, environment and community. To achieve the goal, he wishes to become Vice Chancellor as he has required ability and qualifications. Once he gets through, he wants to achieve the goal by adopting the best practice methods along with his experience. He is already serving as one of the Mentors in NEP on Pro-bono basis.

Gopal Naik is Jal Jeevan Mission Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India. After completing PhD in agricultural economics, University of Illinois he served as a faculty member at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, during 1988–2003. He has been teaching graduate courses on research methodology, econometrics, and managerial economics. He works in the area agriculture policy, agribusiness and natural resources management. He received Professional Excellence award in 2007 from The American Agricultural Economics Association. His co-authored paper was awarded the Title of Meritorious Paper for its contribution to the Practice of Electronic Governance in the 4th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. The team lead by him received the WSIS 2015 award for e-learning. He has served as Dean Faculty at IIM Bangalore for 3 three years and has been on various committees of both Central and State Governments and various educational Institutions.

Pravin Jith, MD of Ecoparadigm, is a member of the BSWML technical committee and the GWMC monitoring committee. His research focuses on the effects of climate change on consumption and sustainable solutions.

Goutam Surana, Founder and Director of Eco 365, discusses the newest packaging trends and how they relate to SDG-12.

Dr. Ramachandra Kamath Associate Dean Ramaiah Medical Hospital discusses Medical Waste Management

• A physician and 2x Entrepreneur and Currently, working as Product Strategy Manager, Dozee.
• Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, he pursued Stanford India Biodesign Fellowship from AIIMS Delhi and IIT Delhi in collaboration with Stanford University.
• His undergraduation, degree in MBBS has been from University College of Medical Sciences & GTB hospital, Delhi University.
• In the first startup, Led an interdisciplinary team to raise 100,000$ from BIRAC to develop a medical device and successfully exited.
• In his second startup venture, he was shortlisted among top 25 startups out of 5000+ startups from around the world, by Stanford Graduate School of Business in” Stanford Rebuild”. This venture was also featured in top 7 startups in eITT by Siemens Healthineers.

Bineesha is a result driven Institutional Builder and Change Management Expert with over 25 years of comprehensive experience in implementation of environmental projects with special focus on waste management.
She was also the Panel Member of PBD Convention 2019 on Waste Management, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
She has been involved in Gender Programmes and projects throughout her career. During her tenure with GIZ, She has been specially trained in Gender focus in technology related projects and development projects. She is also actively involved with Laghu Udyog Bharati’s women wing in entrepreneurship development. She has supported MSME activities and Kasuri Mane in entrepreneurship development among cottage and small industries. She has conceived a programme for Women Students of AICTE called “WAWE” to establish entrepreneurship in waste management throughout the country.
Conceiving innovative projects by identifying the problems and finding appropriate solutions and executing them successfully in the field has been her forte.

Surojit Bose is Head Sustainability at Hindustan Coca Cola Pvt. Limited (HCCB). Prior to joining HCCB he was Associate Director with PwC and EY’s climate change and sustainability practices. Surojit has a MS in Environmental Engineering from the Louisiana State University and a B.Tech (Hons) in Civil Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Iram is founder of E Waste Social.
E-Waste Social Private Limited is an enterprise that is focused on providing an end to end B2B web and app auction platform and a seamless solution for waste / scrap recyclers, refurbishes, producers, generators, OEM(Original Equipment manufacturer)s and logistic partners.
Iram is affliated to United Nation Global Compact , UN subsidiary. She participated in their YSIP programme and our team was awarded the first place.
She is also part of UN women and Empretec capacity building programme for entrepreneurs.

After finishing her Bachelor's degree in Commerce from St Joseph's in Bengaluru in 2000, she worked at the Internationale Nederlanden Groep (ING) Bank.
In 2016,she started her journey with ethically made paper. She went to Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute in Jaipur and learnt how to turn cotton rags and waste, from the textile industry, into paper. Empowered with that knowledge, she started Bluecat Paper. Bluecatpaper produces sustainable handmade paper and paper products. The paper produced is upcycled and recycled without cutting down a single tree. They use the pulp of cotton rags, linen rags, coffee husk, banana fiber, mulberry, corn husk, elephant poo, bagasse, vetiver grass, ragi, tea waste, and flax fiber to name a few. They also manufacture handmade paper products for home, gifting, and packaging. Their products are 100% environment-friendly. She finds exciting synchronicity between nature, plant fiber, and papermaking.

Santosh Kumar J is into Integrating the parts and wholes of the lithium-ion battery's circular economy.
His passion for green-tech, He's always in a campaign for the eco-friendly world. With his venture LLi-Circle, he is initiating to recover the rare earth metals used in the lithium-ion batteries by urban mining.He is a passionate industrialist with environmental concern.

Professor Anil K Gupta is a visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; after teaching there for four decades, and at IIT Bombay. He is the Founder of The Honey Bee Network, National Innovation Foundation, , SRISTI and GIAN. He is a CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow (2018-21) and fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004 for his contributions to management education.
His mission is to expand the global as well as local space for innovations from and for grassroots, link ideas in informal and formal sector; to ensure recognition, respect and reward for creative communities, individuals, children and tech students etc., and to augment open innovations by individuals, institutions, corporations, and countries through frugal, flexible and friendly empathetic platforms.
One of his most popular courses is Shodh Yatra, (meaning 'research walk'), under which he took management students to different parts of the country to learn from local communities and study their knowledge systems.This course was derived from his larger concept of walking through the length and breadth of the country, interacting with farmers, traditional knowledge holders, grassroots innovators, innovative students, etc. He has pursued 43 Shodhyatras, learning walks in every state of India once covering more than 5000 km during 1998-2016 and has started the second round from 2017 onwards along with Honey Bee Network volunteers.

Shri Umamaheswaran R is the former Scientific Secretary and current head of human flight mission of ISRO. He has made significant contributions to the system integration, checkout and avionics of ISRO’s launch vehicles viz PSLV, GSLV & GSLV-MkIII. He has been the Chief Designer (Integration) of major sub-assemblies including Equipment Bay of the Launch vehicle. Many of the mission critical circuits residing in the vehicle including the entire pyro chain for all the three launch vehicles have been designed by him. Over the years, he has evolved as a domain expert in the field of system electrical integration, checkout, ground station and avionics. He was also the Vehicle Director for the remarkably successful GSLV D5/GSAT-14 Mission with the indigenous cryo-stage.
He completed B Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum in 1985, MS in Software System from BITS, Pilani in 2007 and MA in Russian Language from Kerala University in 1996. He joined VSSC in 1987.
He took over the assignment of Project Director, GSLV with effect from July 1, 2014. As Mission Director of the GSLV-D6, GSLV F05 & GSLV F09 Missions, he led the entire ISRO Team and successfully accomplished the missions. This has been the first hattric success of GSLV missions under a single project team. He also lead the Operational Launch Vehicle Team of Avionics Production, Hardware Production, Structural analysis and Control guidance to enable & successfully deliver the products for the increased frequency of PSLV, GSLV and GSLV Mk III missions.
Subsequently he was assigned with the charge of Deputy Director, Avionics with effect from 29th May, 2017. As DD, AVN, he led a team of young enterprising Engineers, for the development of miniaturised avionics, performing the crucial role in making key decisions to overcome the various technical intricacies and mitigate developmental constraints in the realisation of these systems. He also spearheaded the induction of Electro-Mechanical Actuation Systems in L40, GS2 & S200 EGC systems for the coming missions. From May 4th 2018 onward, he has taken charge as Associate Scientific Secretary, ISRO HQ and as Scientific Secretary, ISRO from August 1st onward.
He has been awarded ISRO Individual Merit Award-2013, ISRO Team Awards-2006 for PSLV and in 2014 for GSLV and ISRO Outstanding Achievement Award for 2018. He also received the ASI-ISRO award for the year 2016. He is the life member of Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), Systems Society of India (SSI), and Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE). He is also the recipient of Honoris Causa from the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (2019). He is the National Vice President for Indian Society of Systems, Science and Engineering (ISSE) and the President of ISSE Bangalore Chapter. He became a corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics in 2019.

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Dr Indu K Murthy is Sector Head - Climate, Environment and Sustainability, at CSTEP.
She completed her bachelor's in Botany from Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai; master's in Botany from M S University, Baroda (with specialisation in Forestry and Environment); and PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Pondicherry University.
Prior to joining CSTEP, she worked as a Consultant Scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Her areas of interest include climate change vulnerability, land-based mitigation, and adaptation/resilience building or climate-proofing development to climate change.
Indu is on the Governing Board of South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs). She is an expert with the UNFCCC Roster of Experts for India (for GHG Inventory), and a member of the REDD+ Cell constituted by the Government of Karnataka. She is also an Academic Editor on the PLOS ONE Editorial Board, and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Mahila Abhivruddhi Society, Andhra Pradesh (APMAS)

Vishwanath Srikantaiah is a water conservation expert who is renowned for his tireless and pioneering efforts to find solutions to the country’s freshwater crisis. Popularly known as Zenrainman on social media channels, his insightful articles on water and environmental issues frequently appear in mainstream news publications.
A Civil Engineer and Urban Planner by qualification, Vishwanath worked with Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) for 14 years before dedicating himself full-time to solving water issues facing urban and rural communities. He is Trustee – Biome Environmental Trust, an organisation assisting communities in water and sanitation solutions; Director of Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an architectural firm specialising in sustainable design; and an Adjunct Faculty at the Azim Premji University.

After 26 plus years in Technology Leadership spanning Electric Vehicles, Networking, Telecommunications, Datacenter Infrastructure and Cloud Services, I am pursuing avenues to give back to the student and engineering community as a Mentor and Public Speaker. My day job is as a technology leader at Nutanix on next generation Hybrid Cloud Distributed Manageability by leveraging the goodness of IoT, DevOps and ML. My passion for applying Technology across domains in battling Climate Change helped me disrupt the Electric Mobility space at SUN Mobility by delivering the world’s first Unified Software IoT Edge Compute Platform for Electric Vehicle Li-Ion Battery Swapping and Charging for Electric Buses, Electric Scooters and Electric Rickshaws. This is currently deployed in production/trials in India and Sri Lanka. In addition to the above, I have had the pleasure of being at the heart of many key technology developments, innovations and disruptions, some of which are listed below:

• Cisco – Technology leadership in the development of the Serviceability platform for next generation DevOps enabled Webex Teams, the global market leader for Cloud based Video-Voice Conferencing.
• DELL – Technology leadership in the development of the iDRAC Embedded Data Centre Server Controller with Web Services, an industry first.
• Infinera – Engineering the distributed Management Plane for DWDM Optical Switches
• Hughes Networks – Technical Lead for the first Online Distance Learning portal via VSAT Satellite Networks
• IBM – Software Engineer for the world’s first 10 channel DWDM Optical Multiplexer network management offering

My “night-job” is to follow my passion for Mathematics, Physics, Space and Earth Sciences, the Human Impacts of Climate Change, the importance of Ethics and Values in Education and Society to name a few.

Jayakrishnan Divakaran has more than three decades of product development experience especially in real time embedded and carrier class/enterprise ICT software in the Defence, Telecom, Industrial, Healthcare and Automotive verticals. He has led many national and international projects for Fortune 500 clients successfully. He has also taught at a couple of Universities in Kerala as an Adjunct Professor on Sabbatical.
He holds a BTech degree in Electronics and Communication from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and MS degree in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani. He has also attended the Master of Business Laws program from National Law School, Bangalore and other continuing education programs from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. MIT Sloan Business School and Wharton Business School
He is currently VP, Engineering at a high tech startup, VNJ Systems LLP based in Bangalore. Before co-founding VNJ Systems, he was with Philips Innovation Campus, Bengaluru leading the global product sustenance team for one of their flagship radiology informatics solutions.
He is a fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE and was a Global Project Oversight Member and Community of Practice lead on Medical Devices in HAC during 2020. He also serves as the partner relations lead in IEEE MOVE, the international disaster response program in India.

Abhas is a hacker, entrepreneur and free software activist.
As the founder of DeepRoot GNU/Linux, an twenty-one-year-old Free Software Business that provides support, services and solutions for Free Software deployments. DeepRoot builds mail servers and clusters, provides hosting & support for a variety of Free Software tools and helps organisations of all sizes choose self-hosting for their infrastructure in general.
Abhas also leads a hardware venture called Mostly Harmless, where he experiments with and builds Libre and Liberated Hardware (like hackable mechanical keyboards, liberated computers, home automation solutions and more. The goal is to build and sell hardware and put owners in control of their lives by enabling them to run free/libre software on more hardware than usually possible.
Mostly Harmless operates the LibreTech.Shop - India’s first store for hackable and ethical products that offer convenience.
Abhas is a member of the Free Software Foundation, India working group and has been a participant in the community in India for many years. He advises colleges, govt / defence organisations and start-ups on using, building and adopting free software as a “way of life”.

Dr. Preetha Sharon is Professor & Dean (Research and Development ) at Oxford Educational Institutions in Bengaluru. As a humanitarian technology volunteer, she has guided many IEEE SIGHT Projects over a decade winning grants at Region 10 and section level.
She has executed government/ international agency funded projects and delivered projects for prestigious funding agencies across the world as lead investigator like Naval Research Board, DRDO, India, IEEE USA and Govt. of Karnataka (KVGST), AICTE-RPS. She has multiple patents in process, research publications reaching 100+ under her leadership.
She has visited facilities of leading universities NTU Singapore, Tohoku University, Japan and University of Macau and Univ of Limerick , Iyerland..Delivered lectures for VTU e-learning program via satellite for country wide classroom and has written many textbooks for national / international syllabus.
On the occasion of India’s 75th year of India’s independence she was honoured by naming in the list of 75 accomplished women in STEAM in the country by the principal scientific advisor to the prime minister and British High Commissioner in India. She was also awarded “Woman of the Year – 1998, 2009’’ by American Biographical Institute. Associated with Elsevier and McGraw hill publication as a reviewer.
Dr Preeta Sharan obtained her post doctorate from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D from IIT BHU

Manoj Kumar is a Senior Advisor to the Tata Trusts with executive responsibility for all university/institutional partnerships and manages the Innovations/R&D portfolio. He has conceived and co-founded the Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE) to nurture social innovators through their lab to market journey. He is also the Founder and architect of Social Alpha, an ecosystem stack that aims to provide full lifecycle support to social innovators and entrepreneurs. Manoj is currently raising a social enterprise fund to provide early-stage risk capital to high impact technology startups in the social sector.

Social Alpha has been designed as a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups that aim to address the most critical social, economic and environmental challenges. Social Alpha supports entrepreneurs through a network of innovation labs, startup incubators, accelerator programmes, seed funds and market access mechanisms. Selected startups get access to infrastructure, sandbox for pilots and validations, product management guidance, technical, business and regulatory expertise, early stage risk capital and entrepreneurial mentoring. Social Alpha raises financial resources to support these programmes from a number of philanthropic, government and corporate partnerships. Since its inception in 2016, Social Alpha has nurtured more than 200 start-ups including 60+ seed investments.