SPEAKERS

Vivekananda Hallekere

Vivekananda Hallekere is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bounce.  Thanks to Vivekananda there's a new way to move around town and also beat the traffic.

Kalyan Sivasailam

He is the CEO of 5C Network and started the company in 2016. He has been recognized for his work by being an Honoree and Listee in the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 List for India and Asia. Prior to 5C, Kalyan led the Healthizen initiative for the Government of Karnataka

An Occupational Therapist (OT) by profession and a Gold medallist in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, with three decades, experience working with big names like Spastics Society of India, Mallya Hospital, Vydehi Institute of Rehabilitation and Align Centre.

Swathi Chatrapathy

Swathi Chatrapathy heads the digital content team at Indiahikes. She is also the face behind India's most popular trekking video channel, Trek With Swathi. Unknown to many Swathi also writes a weekly column at Indiahikes which has more than 100,000 followers.

Gaurav Basu

Bangalore-based graphic artist Acid Toad a.k.a. Gaurav Basu seeks to explore a world he sees only in his mind's eye, where any resemblance to real persons, places and things is purely coincidental.Basu also co-owns Bangalore based design studio Krack’n Inc. 

Karun Krishna

Magician Karun Krishna, 25 years old, started magic at the age of 3 and gave his first show at the age of 3 1⁄2. Till date he has done 10,000 shows all over India and abroad. He is the recipient of the State award by the Govt of Karnataka for exceptional talent in magic and also the Rotary Youth Icon Award for magic by the Rotary Club. 

Vishwanath Srikantaiah

S. Vishwanath is a Civil Engineer and an Urban Planner. He has 33 years of experience in the water, waste-water and sanitation sector helping design
rainwater harvesting, aquifer recharge, wastewater recycling, and ecological sanitation systems. 

Mehram

Mehram, a 3 year young but most sought after Bollywood band from Bangalore with it's unique New-Gen Sufi influenced Electro-Acoustic style of rendering popular bollywood songs. 

Paras Sharma

Paras is the Director – Programmes and Services – The Alternative Story and is based out of JP Nagar, Bengaluru. He holds a Master’s Degree in Counselling from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and is a Doctoral Scholar at the same university.