Day 1 keynote speech

Chairman - India at McKinsey & Company
MBA, Harvard Business School
B.Tech, IIT Bombay

Mr. Adil Zainulbhai serves as Chairman of Advisory Board of Shipcom Wireless, Inc. He currently heads McKinsey's operations in India. He has been with McKinsey for 20 years, working in various industries, but primarily focused on the telecommunications and wireless space. Most recently, he has worked extensively with large companies developing telecom strategies and in helping venture funded startups within the telecommunications and wireless industries. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology. In addition to counseling several CEOs, he advises various Government Agencies on economic development issues like achieving GDP growth targets and challenges related to the metals & mining, transportation, and logistics industries. He has spoken extensively at various Indian and multinational forums like the World Economic Forum summits in Belgium, USA, Scandinavia, and Japan, and at NASSCOM and CII events.

President of Marketing at Olive Telecommunications
Filmmaker, Actor, Theatrical Director

Mr. Avijit is a filmmaker, actor, theatre director and communications consultant, living and working out of New Delhi. He took his MA from Calcutta University in English and began with being Senior English Master, St. Paul's School, Darjeeling. He has been the Chief Operating Officer & Creative Director of National Advertising Agency iB&W, and as the Director of D&K PR. He launched and worked on many Consumer products including Monte Carlo, Siemens, Wheel detergent etc. He has directed & acted in over 50 productions in Bengali, Hindi and English and made films for UNICEF, working extensively on the 'Meena' Project, launched Childline.

Chief Belief Officer, Future Group
Author, Business and Mythology

Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is an Indian physician turned leadership consultant, mythologist and author whose works focus largely on the areas of myth, mythology, and also management. He has written a number of books related to Hindu mythology, including Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, a novel, The Pregnant King, and Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata (2010). He is the chief belief officer of Future Group, one of India’s largest retailers, bringing the wisdom of Indian mythology into Indian business, especially in human resource management. He writes a column for the newspaper MiD DAY. He has done a television show on CNBC-TV18 with host Maneka Doshi called Business Sutra. The shows draws business lessons from Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Faculty Head at The School for Startups, US

Jim Beach is an author, speaker, educator and entrepreneur. He founded the International Entrepreneurship along with Chris Hanks 2001. He is also Executive Director of www.InternationalEntrepreneurship.com, the web’s largest source about entrepreneurship in over 100 countries.

He was the Co-founder and CEO of American Computer Experience of Atlanta. The company became the world’s largest technology training company for children, and enjoyed corporate tie-ins with Microsoft, Intel, Lego, NASA, and many others.

Founder & CEO, bosiDNA.com
Author, Entrepreneurial DNA

bosiDNA.com recently featured in the Wall Street Journal for its breakthrough technology and award-winning accelerator. He is host of the soon-to-be released TV Show “The Entrepreneurs” on PBS.

A serial entrepreneur himself, Joe has started up, grown and exited three companies of his own and invested in over 20 growing startups.

He is the author of Entrepreneurial DNA: The Breakthrough Discovery That Aligns Your Business to Your Unique Strengths (McGraw Hill 2011).

Joe has been featured on FoxNews, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC and numerous nationally syndicated radio shows in the US, on topics related to entrepreneurship and small business growth – and serves as advisor to entrepreneurship programs domestically and around the world.

On the personal side, he married his college sweetheart, has two (fast) growing sons and strives to be an authentic follower of Jesus. He enjoys hearty/tasty food, despises fine dining, needs 300+ hp under the hood and still plays competitive soccer.

Founder of Inspire1Million Campaign, UK

Sabirul Islam, a teen-trepreneur from the age of just 14, a global motivational speaker having spoken at over 650 events worldwide and author of the bestselling books The World at Your Feet and Young Entrepreneur World, with the latter having launched in March 2012. Sabirul launched his Teen-Trepreneur board game at 18, to educate young people about business, which has sold to over 550 schools in the UK and in 14 countries worldwide. At 21, Sabirul’s vision to inspire young people has expanded to a global scale, having set up the Inspire1Million Campaign with a vision to Inspire one Million people in 20 countries within 12 months.

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

MBA, Media, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

University of California, Irvine

Bachelors of Science, Economics, Management

Mr. Sid Shah is President & CEO of The Wild East Group, the premier brand development and licensing agency in India with some of the clients being Hritik Roshan, Yash Raj Films, HP, Jay Sean etc. He is responsible for strategic vision, client development, client management, and company culture. Mr. Sid is recognized as a ‘thought leader’ within the marketing function, and has been a recurring featured speaker at business schools across the world and has taught sessions on branding and selling. He has 8+ years of global consulting experience with Fortune 100 clients across the high tech, consumer goods, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors and he has lived abroad in Italy, India, Japan, Germany, and Thailand. Mr. Sid sits on the Board of Directors at Project Ahimsa (www.projectahimsa.org), a global effort to empower youth through music.