MARTY SIEGEL, PHD, PROFESSOR, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, USA

Marty is a Professor of Informatics, Education, and Cognitive Science. From 1991-1999 he was the director of research and development at the Center for Excellence in Education. In this context he founded Indiana University’s first start-up company, WisdomTools (founded in 1999). The WisdomTools Scenarios product is designed to develop deep, insightful learning, a kind of practical intelligence or tacit knowledge.

Marty holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973

AJIT CHOUHAN, SENIOR BUSINESS LEADER, HUMAN RESOURCES, HP ENTERPRISE, USA

Ajit is a Senior Global HR Leader with over 17 years of extensive experience in leading Human Resources transformation in Technology & consulting industry.

As a Senior Global HR Business Partner leader at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, he is the Human Resource leader for Office of CIO. He is responsible for aligning HR programs and process with key organisational strategy.

Ajit was rated 44 in the list of 175 in list of Top HR online influence’s list and also part of Global Top 100 HR trendspotters list.

ASHISH KRISHNA, PRODUCT DESIGN LEADER, PRINCIPAL DESIGNER AT PRYSM INC.

Ashish is an AngelPad Alumni. He has 13 years of experience in product and user experience leadership, mentoring and management. He is a TechCrunch, TechCocktail, Inc42 guest author, lover of startups and technology. In his spare time, he advises socially responsible businesses. His past work includes product management and design roles at Mammoth, Gaana, Microsoft, D.light, HP Labs and hush-hush stuff at Philips.

CHANDAN DASGUPTA, PHD, EDUCATION RESEARCHER, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, USA

Chandan is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the SmartCAD project in the ROCkETEd group (Research on Computing in Engineering and Technology Education) at Purdue University. His research interests include the use of counterexamples as primary generators for supporting productive disciplinary engagement, integration of design thinking and scientific inquiry into K-12 education, and designing learning environments that help students generate and use design heuristics and make effective tradeoff decisions.

ARAM BHUSAL, TECHNOLOGY EXPERT, FULL-STACK DEVELOPER

Aram is a full-stack hacker and entrepreneur who believes getting things done. He loves architecting and building world class products. He also loves meddling and experimenting with everything new and shiny, while polishing his good old skills. He has donned multiple hats through his career. He has helped some of the best global companies launch their products, while he was heading 88 Cordials. With Cloudaria he tried solving the enterprise content management problem, having Dell Services & Thoughtworks as users. Now he heads the technology in PoshVine, helping financial institutions provide the best offers to their users. While he is not coding, you can find him fiddling with his guitar, planning the next road trip or discussing world domination!