Agenda

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a Data Scientist with expertise in Genomics and Network Visualisation. Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is currently a Scientist at NIPGR New Delhi, as well as Adjunct Professor of Data Science at IISER Bhopal. For the past five years, she was a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, on a Joint Deputation Program between India and the U.K. She has a diverse educational profile with a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the National Inst of Immunology (JNU), a Master’s degree in Biomedical Research and a Graduate degree in Botany, from the University of Delhi, India.

Dr. Yadav has received several awards, including the Hamied Fellowship from the University of Cambridge 2022, Exceptional Talent Award from the Royal Society of London 2016, INSA Medal (2011), and the SASTRA Obaid Siddiqi Life Science Award 2021. She actively promotes science as a way of life to students in schools and colleges, and has been a mentor for Women in Science (WiS) at various national and international fora. During the Coronavirus Pandemic, she began conducting a series of free online training programs in Data Science and Complex Networks, under the name “Protocols From Home”, in order to help students pick up vital skills in Computational Biology and make the best use of their time under global lockdown.

Dr. Vijay Agarwal, President – CAHO a crusader for Continual Quality Improvement in Healthcare, has a vision to raise the bar of Indian Healthcare Organizations to match Global Standards, through CAHO which is a national body of repute for promoting patient safety, healthcare quality protocols and accreditation.

He believes that ‘People Make Quality’. Driven by this passionate belief, a series of CAHO Certified Professional Courses were established to equip and train every healthcare professional to pursue the quality journey.

He was instrumental, in the country adopting pulse polio strategy for Polio Eradication and also played a key role in shaping the Bio Medical Waste Management Scheme in Delhi.

He was a member of the ISRO Health Quest Project, a unique collaboration between space scientists and healthcare professionals to take the country closer to the goal of “error-free” healthcare.

He is a post-graduate in paediatrics from the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. He commenced his professional career in 1973, has over the decades earned a sterling reputation as a Paediatrician and has been recognised by IMA as Hony Professor.

He has held various positions :

• Co-Chair of NABH Accreditation Committee (2014 to 2018)
• Executive Director- Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital (2007 to 2015)
• Former Advisor to Max Healthcare (Quality & Business Excellence);(2015 to 2019)
• Chair-Technical Committee, Karnataka Task Force for Public Policy in Healthcare
• Founder Chairman of Nursing Home Forum ( 1992 to 2002)
• Founder President of Society for Child Development (1995 till now)
• Chair Accreditation Committee NABET (QCI) ( Appointed in 2020)

He is recipient of –

• Distinguished Alumnus Award of Maulana Azad Medical College
• Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Lifetime Achievement Award of Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI)
• QIPMRO Platinum Standard- Healthcare Award for being : National Statesman for Quality & Excellence

Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President at Apollo Hospitals

Dr. Jaanus Pikani has been a practicing surgeon in head and neck oncology, hospital manager of National Cancer Centre and Tartu University Hospitals (www.kliinikum.ee). He was secretary-general of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia and the chief of staff of the President of Estonia.

Dr. Pikani has been an active member of the team that orchestrated the transition of Estonian health care from the Soviet-type system to the most cost-efficient health care system globally recognized by the World Bank. Dr. Pikani was among the initiators and architects of the Estonian Genome Project (www.geenivaramu.ee/en), a globally unique population-based health and genome databank of 50,000 participants or 5% of Estonian population as of now.

Currently Jaanus is an entrepreneur and consultant in health care, medical technology, and technology infrastructure companies. Dr. Jaanus Pikani is the chairman of the Tartu Biotechnology Park (www.biopark.ee) and board member of a number of life science and health care companies. He is also chairman of ScanBalt, a biotech meta-cluster organization in ScanBalt BioRegion, composed of the health and bio-economy communities in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Northern Germany, Northern Netherlands and North-Western Russia with more than 60 universities and over 3000 companies active in the region (www.scanbalt.org).

Dr. K Madan Gopal is a Public Health professional with MBBS, MD qualifications and has been working on issues related to Health Systems Reforms and Strengthening in India for around 30 years. He has worked on a variety of projects across sectors in India and abroad for providing and managing programmatic, technical, and operational areas. During his career span, has held many leadership positions and demanding roles.

Currently working with NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) the apex policy think tank for the Government of India, as Senior Consultant (health) and is contributing to various health sector transformative programs

Dr. Harsh Mahajan is an eminent radiologist and a pioneer in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of India. The national honour of Padma Shri was conferred on him by the government of India in the year 2002, for his contribution to the field of radiology in India. After specializing in Radiology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, he was awarded a Rotary Foundation International Scholarship and went to the world famous M.D Anderson Cancer Hospital at Houston, Texas, USA for a superspecialist fellowship in Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 1987. He did original research in cancer imaging using MRI and published several clinical research papers in leading international medical journals. Despite being offered a permanent job on the faculty of this hospital he preferred to come back to India with a dream of bringing the latest technology of India.

Sachin Gaur is a researcher cum entrepreneur in space of mobile and Internet solutions. He was in top 10 innovators in India under India Innovates Growth Programme 2013 by FICCI. He has founded/invested in multiple ventures in the domain of digital marketing, mobile solutions and Internet of Things. He has a double M.Sc.(tech) in Mobile Security and Cryptography from Aalto University, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia. He has worked in past with organizations like Adobe, C.E.R.N. and in research at the Aalto University in security related topics.

Also, he has a dozen patents issued/pending in USPTO apart from contributing book chapters in two books on topics of Innovation and Healthcare.

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Dr. Rakesh Lodha from AIIMS

Dr. Vibha is a process oriented, outcome focused healthcare professional with a journey spanning over two decades. She has been  been associated with multiple digital healthcare projects including EHR/EMR implementations with focus on CDSS, care protocols and pathways, BCMA, specialty specific EMRs, Radiology Information System and PACS, online tool for HAI tracking, online/digital OPD prescription, home care, integrated platform for Oncology including tumor board, AI in healthcare, digitalization of IVF processes etc. A clinician by qualification, she has been engaged in enabling clinical and business tech platforms with process and digital transformation empowering operational efficiencies for various organizations like ART Fertility, Max Healthcare, Action Balaji etc.

Dr. Vibha has done MBA from Symbiosis International University, post attaining my medical graduate degree from LLRM Medical College, and keen on improving healthcare delivery and outcomes by adopting best practices, healthcare digitalization and adoption of newer technologies like AI/ML and new innovations. She believes in improving adoption, increasing efficiencies, and creating options to have structured data for analysis and research to aide in improving clinical outcomes, standardizing care protocols, facilitating decision support and move towards prescriptive and personalized medicine.

With the changing health care scenario in post covid era, she is currently working as a consultant, contributing her bit towards creating an environment of holistic well being aided by digital healthcare tools and technologies.

Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President at Apollo Hospitals

Dr. AI is a large language model trained by OpenAI to assist with a wide range of tasks. He does not have a physical form and exist solely as a collection of algorithms and data. His primary function is to process natural language input and provide appropriate responses based on his training. He is not a person and do not have personal experiences or emotions.

Sunita CHAUHAN (Ph.D., DIC, Medical Robotics, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK -1999) is a Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Dept., Faculty of Engineering; Director of Mechatronics Engineering Program (one of the core Eng. branches at Monash); Chief Investigator of the BmRAS (Biomechatronics, Robotics & Automated Systems) research group at Monash University, Australia.

Her current research interests include three main areas:

Medical/Surgical Robotics (including Computer Assisted and Integrated Surgery, Medical Ultrasound – Imaging, Therapeutic and Surgical ultrasound, Tissue characterization, Image, and Sensor-data processing/fusion/interpretation and the like;

• Intelligent Diagnostics and Robotics in Infrastructural Healthcare (High-rise Buildings, Railways, Aerospace, Defense/Airforce, Solar farms, etc.);
• Mechatronics & Automation in Sports Eng.

Chauhan worked as Associate Professor at the Mechatronics and Design Division, School of MAE, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Systems Eng. Dept. at Newcastle University (UK) prior to joining Monash. Other concurrent positions included Focus-group lead for Bio-Design, Bio-Robotics (Robotic Systems addressing aspects of clinical activity) of the Intelligent Devices and Systems, IDEAS Cluster, NTU; Principal Investigator of the BIDS research group at the Robotics Research Center, NTU.

Professor Chauhan received various fellowships and awards notably Hind Rattan Award (Jewel of India, by NRI Soc., c/o Govt. of India, 2015), nominated for Sword of Honor, Mahatma Gandhi Samman (House of Commons London, 2018), IEEE’s Most Inspiring Engineer of the year 2009 based upon her contribution to humanitarian technology, the Public-sector Innovation award (The Entrepreneur challenge, Prime minister office, SG) with her students, ROAR and OAS fellowship awards (professional attachments respectively at Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany and Kings College, London), C™wealth scholarship/fellowship award etc.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Ultrasound Industries Association (USA), nominated – Medical Advisory Board of Global Cancer Technologies (USA); Scientific board of ResearchGate (past), Editorial Board of Int. J. of Biomechatronics and Robotics, Editorial Board of Recent Patents on Medical Imaging, nominated – Editorial board of Springer’s handbook initiative on Medical Robotics, Vice-Chair WIE, SG (past), Geographic Coordinator (Asia)“IIWE, France (past), Judges panel of National Science Challenge, Science and Engineering Fair, National Junior Robotics Competition organized by Science Center and A*STAR, Singapore.

Sunita Chauhan is a member of several prestigious professional organizations, such as senior member-IEEE and its Robotics & Automation Society, life member-IACAS, member of UIA and ISTU & SPIE (past). She had been an invited keynote speaker and expert panel member in various Intl conferences and many scientific and public events, invited to hold special conference sessions, invited for expert IntL review panel of FP7 European grants. Her work caught IntL media attention several times and published in leading newspapers and scientific magazines.

She has supervised national and internationally-funded research projects and is a sole/principal inventor of several patents granted/pending related to her research. Sunita Chauhan delivered more than 50 invited talks and participated in various short courses/workshops conducted by local as well as overseas organizations. She is a reviewer of several international journals and conferences, and participates actively in their program and organizing committees as general chair, specialized session-chair, track-chair, publicity-chair, etc.

Dr. Kamini Khillan is a blood transfusion specialist. She is working as a senior consultant in blood transfusion services at Sir Ganga Ram hospital. She has also worked as a Quality Manager at Sir Ganga Ram hospital, established Quality Management System (QMS) for accreditation by NABH organization for blood banks and as immunohematology specialist. Also worked under the areas like patient blood management, research on transfusion-related immunomodulation, ABOi kidney transplant titer Standardization.

Dr. Kamini Khillan has thirteen years of experience in blood transfusion medicine services. She has served as a member of the expert panel group for developing pan India Blood Bank Networking and Training the Trainer protocols by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Dr. Debleena Bhattacharya holds a doctoral degree in Environmental Science from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad (India), where a major part of her doctoral research was to perform a comprehensive study based on the treatment of antibiotic residuals in the anaerobic hybrid reactor.

Her major skills are of Wastewater engineering and Treatment and eradication of toxic residues from water bodies (by anaerobic bacteria) which might lead to health issues in the near future.

At present she is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in MEFGI, Gujarat, India. Prior to joining MEFGI, Dr Debleena Bhattacharya worked in SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), an NGO based in Ahmedabad, joined as Research Fellow for BIRAC (Biotechnology Industrial Research Assistance Council) and gradually escalated as Project Co-Ordinator for BIRAC-SRISTI PMU,a joint venture of Government of India & NGO apart from being the laboratory Co-ordinator of SRISTI LAB.

Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is a Data Scientist with expertise in Genomics and Network Visualisation. Dr. Gitanjali Yadav is currently a Scientist at NIPGR New Delhi, as well as Adjunct Professor of Data Science at IISER Bhopal. For the past five years, she was a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, on a Joint Deputation Program between India and the U.K. She has a diverse educational profile with a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the National Inst of Immunology (JNU), a Master’s degree in Biomedical Research and a Graduate degree in Botany, from the University of Delhi, India.

Dr. Yadav has received several awards, including the Hamied Fellowship from the University of Cambridge 2022, Exceptional Talent Award from the Royal Society of London 2016, INSA Medal (2011), and the SASTRA Obaid Siddiqi Life Science Award 2021. She actively promotes science as a way of life to students in schools and colleges, and has been a mentor for Women in Science (WiS) at various national and international fora. During the Coronavirus Pandemic, she began conducting a series of free online training programs in Data Science and Complex Networks, under the name “Protocols From Home”, in order to help students pick up vital skills in Computational Biology and make the best use of their time under global lockdown.

Dr. Ravi Gaur, MD Pathology, is a qualified Onco pathologist by profession and has 30 years plus experience in the field of Pathology and Health care management. His core competence has always been in Onco Pathology, Immunology and evolving technologies. Dr. Gaur is one of the pioneer pathologist who has changed the trend of pathology practice in India by introducing many advanced assays ( molecular, genomics , sequencing, PCR, FISH, IHC, Flowcytometry, NanoTech and near/ POC assays, Elisa & much more ) , algorithms, equipment’s and Integrated ICT (Information, Communications, Technology) systems, POC ,Health education, home services ,AI in India

He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Lab Director of Oncquest Laboratories, the largest Molecular and Surgical Onco-Pathology, general pathology and final diagnosis provider in India. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Oncquest Laboratories has become one of the most reputed laboratories in the country with 36 satellite labs and 1500 plus collection centers across India. Oncquest’s R & D unit has done India proud by developing the latest tests in Molecular Diagnostics which are validated for India specific population and at a much lower cost. In this role, Dr. Gaur holds responsibility of complete operations of the company, starting from finalising strategies ,market analysis, project execution ,setting up infrastructure incl IT and technical equipment, HR and skill up-gradation, new technology assessment ,marketing & promotion ,business development, quality & accreditation , client service & logistics ,finances incl profit & loss, and international growth incl clinical trial and education.

Dr. Ravi Gaur has vast experience in setting up Centres of Excellence for advanced diagnostic technologies including wellness , preventive health, basic radiology, health check centers, Multi-speciality polyclinics, IT and Artificial Intelligence-driven platforms for healthcare and setting up innovative & customized healthcare solutions. He works in close collaboration with various pharma companies for their patient support programs and CSR activities. He has set up almost 60 + pathology labs of various sizes across the country with the expertise of being a clinical solution provider with a profit and value.

• Eleven years of being a Podiatric Surgeon, with the lowest number of amputation rates in DFU patients (as per the independent study done by a pharma giant – 2% in comparison to the India average of 19%)
• Holds a blend of qualifications in Management, Artificial Intelligence, & Health Economics from , Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and World Bank respectively,
• Entrepreneur, with successful exits in 2 companies and presently investee in 3 companies. Mentor and Advisor for MedTech start up’s through NSRCEL, Stanford Seed, and Ginserv.
• Inventor with 6 international patents in MedTech and Telemedicine. 112 paper presentations, guest speaker and publications.
• Felicitated as the “Rising Star” in the Times Healthcare Achievers Awards, instituted by the Times Group and Govt. of Karnataka, in 2019. In 2022, awarded as the “Best Podiatric Surgeon, Karnataka” in Time Group. FootSecure was also awarded as the “Best Podiatry Clinic Chain” by the India Today Group in January 2020.

Khushboo Aggarwal is a healthcare industry leader and Founder, CEO at Zyla Health, India’s highest-rated personalized care management platform. With a Bachelors of Pharmacy (Hons.) from the prestigious BITS Pilani and MBA from IIM Kozhikode under her belt, she has been deeply focused on evolving the healthcare sector globally.

During her stint at Deloitte Consulting and Monitor Group, Khushboo pioneered the concepts of Value Based Care, by striking outcome based models between leading payers and providers in the US. She also led projects for the launch of billion dollar life saving drugs in Oncology, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity in the US and other markets. Some of her clients from the time include the Ministry of Investment and Planning Vietnam, Anthem, BCBS, Novo Nordisk, Novartis.

Khushboo founded Zyla Health in 2017 to drive Value Based Care in India, to provide a continuum of care for the 1.3Bn Indians that is accountable for their better health outcomes. Zyla Health proudly is the most loved care management platform in India (consistent 4.8+ rating) and serves large insurance companies and corporates who want to keep their policyholders/ employees healthy and out of the hospital. Few clients include Reserve Bank of India, Jindal Steels, Tata Steels, DHL, SIS, COWI, Defsys – many of these being Great Place to Work companies.

Zyla has developed deep tech to build a robust platform that can codify medical knowledge, analyse complex longitudinal data of the user and continuously converse with them to avoid future complications. With AI, NLP & ML we are able to decrypt pictures, voice & video messages, engage in a cognitive conversation with millions of users and address 100,000+ patient queries simultaneously.

Khushboo has been invited as an esteemed speaker at various platforms to shed light on paving the way forward to build the future of healthcare in India. Some of the renowned ones include FICCI Heal 2022, IIA Insurtech roundtable on “Bringing healthcare to insurance through technology”, Startup Innovation Hub at NATHEALTH – Healthcare Federation of India’s 8th Annual Health Summit, Transformation cloud series by ET CIO, 7th IHW Summit, Healthcare Executive’s 4th Annual Thought Leadership Summit by GE and many others.

Bhuvan Srinivasan is currently the Chief Business Officer at Ultrahuman. In addition to being responsible for business, finance and legal, he also designed the clinical trials that Ultrahuman is currently running. Prior to that he was a Director (private equity) in KKR’s Mumbai office and has led multiple investments in pharma, hospitals, waste management, tech and education.

Brahmjyot leads analytics solutions design and delivery of data driven insights for healthcare clients across the globe(barring the US) from the specialized and technical data analytics outfit Mercer Marsh Benefit Analytics. Brahmjyot has been with Marsh McLennan for over 10 years – in previous roles she has led Knowledge Services for Mercer where she was leading the data analytics Centre of Excellence, Sales Enablement and Innovation for the organisation.

Brahmjyot is a Harvard Business School certified leader in Innovation and a certified Big Data and AI leader from Kellogg’s School of Management. Her previous roles include management consulting at Deloitte, London and operations leadership at Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance in India. Brahmjyot was recently awarded ‘Healthcare Leader of the Year 2022’ at the Women’s Leadership Awards 2002 by Navi Mumbai Chambers of Business and Industries. Brahmjyot also won the SAP BI and Analytical Leader award in 2019 for a flagship healthcare analytics product.

Through her 19 year career, Brahmjyot has worked across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, United Kingdom, Europe and India. Her specialism is data analytics consulting – which include data strategy development, data analytics product design and go-to-market strategy, data analytics operating model design and delivery.

Dr HEMANT KUMAR is a medical doctor with an MBA in Health management from the prestigious Faculty of Management Studies – FMS, University of Delhi. In his career of 20+ years Dr Kumar has been associated with the fields of public health and healthcare Information Technology. He has worked in consulting roles with the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health.

He was the Director of Healthcare at Microsoft, India and Director of IT Services at Dell India. He has been associated with FMS as visiting faculty for the MBA Healthcare management program for past 15+ years, where he teaches a variety of subjects related to Hospital management, IT, Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Public Health. Dr Kumar runs his own HealthTech start-up Healthfort.in which works in the area of Personal Health Record Management, Analytics and Preventive Health.

Dr. Vibha is a process oriented, outcome focused healthcare professional with a journey spanning over two decades. She has been  been associated with multiple digital healthcare projects including EHR/EMR implementations with focus on CDSS, care protocols and pathways, BCMA, specialty specific EMRs, Radiology Information System and PACS, online tool for HAI tracking, online/digital OPD prescription, home care, integrated platform for Oncology including tumor board, AI in healthcare, digitalization of IVF processes etc. A clinician by qualification, she has been engaged in enabling clinical and business tech platforms with process and digital transformation empowering operational efficiencies for various organizations like ART Fertility, Max Healthcare, Action Balaji etc.

Dr. Vibha has done MBA from Symbiosis International University, post attaining my medical graduate degree from LLRM Medical College, and keen on improving healthcare delivery and outcomes by adopting best practices, healthcare digitalization and adoption of newer technologies like AI/ML and new innovations. She believes in improving adoption, increasing efficiencies, and creating options to have structured data for analysis and research to aide in improving clinical outcomes, standardizing care protocols, facilitating decision support and move towards prescriptive and personalized medicine.

With the changing health care scenario in post covid era, she is currently working as a consultant, contributing her bit towards creating an environment of holistic well being aided by digital healthcare tools and technologies.

Dr. AI is a large language model trained by OpenAI to assist with a wide range of tasks. He does not have a physical form and exist solely as a collection of algorithms and data. His primary function is to process natural language input and provide appropriate responses based on his training. He is not a person and do not have personal experiences or emotions.

Poonam is a Certified Holistic Wellbeing therapist and Mindfulness Coach. She is a member of the International Association of Therapists (IATH). She follows a CBT, REBT, or humanistic approach based on each client’s unique needs. She uses a mind-body connection via talk therapy and incorporates cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness-based modalities in her work.

Her experience ranges from doing one on one sessions with clients to doing workshops on mental well-being for Embassy staff and KR Mangalam University on an ongoing basis. Her specialization includes anxiety, anger, relationship/family conflicts, self-esteem & life – transitions.

She is an MEd, PMP, Educator, and business development professional with 22 years of experience across diverse education initiatives from pre-primary early education to school, college and corporate education domains. Driven by a passion to be around youth and mentoring them in their initial journey of student life, she created an umbrella approach for all education-related solutions.

Dr. Ravi Gaur, MD Pathology, is a qualified Onco pathologist by profession and has 30 years plus experience in the field of Pathology and Health care management. His core competence has always been in Onco Pathology, Immunology and evolving technologies. Dr. Gaur is one of the pioneer pathologist who has changed the trend of pathology practice in India by introducing many advanced assays ( molecular, genomics , sequencing, PCR, FISH, IHC, Flowcytometry, NanoTech and near/ POC assays, Elisa & much more ) , algorithms, equipment’s and Integrated ICT (Information, Communications, Technology) systems, POC ,Health education, home services ,AI in India

He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Lab Director of Oncquest Laboratories, the largest Molecular and Surgical Onco-Pathology, general pathology and final diagnosis provider in India. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Oncquest Laboratories has become one of the most reputed laboratories in the country with 36 satellite labs and 1500 plus collection centers across India. Oncquest’s R & D unit has done India proud by developing the latest tests in Molecular Diagnostics which are validated for India specific population and at a much lower cost. In this role, Dr. Gaur holds responsibility of complete operations of the company, starting from finalising strategies ,market analysis, project execution ,setting up infrastructure incl IT and technical equipment, HR and skill up-gradation, new technology assessment ,marketing & promotion ,business development, quality & accreditation , client service & logistics ,finances incl profit & loss, and international growth incl clinical trial and education.

Dr. Ravi Gaur has vast experience in setting up Centres of Excellence for advanced diagnostic technologies including wellness , preventive health, basic radiology, health check centers, Multi-speciality polyclinics, IT and Artificial Intelligence-driven platforms for healthcare and setting up innovative & customized healthcare solutions. He works in close collaboration with various pharma companies for their patient support programs and CSR activities. He has set up almost 60 + pathology labs of various sizes across the country with the expertise of being a clinical solution provider with a profit and value.

Born and brought up in Pune, Devdatta is an entrepreneur and passionate about
building businesses and making a difference. Because of his deep interest in Augmented Reality(AR) and Virtual Reality(VR), he started Sattvarise Technologies in 2014. In 2015, they launched the 1st ever AR app for the tiles industry in India for tiles giant Johnson Tiles. Over the years, the company has built more than 40+ AR-VR solutions for their clients in various sectors which include Manufacturing, Industrial, Education, Entertainment, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Real estate, and Interior design.

As he was continuing his entrepreneurial journey, he got selected for Flame University’s Flame Origins Program along with 7 other entrepreneurs. The program helped him to learn and practice different business aspects, network, and brainstorm with fellow entrepreneurs and mentors. Devdatta’s curiosity and a keen interest in AR and VR, he spotted the next opportunity.

The top 3 markets for AR, and VR are Gaming, Healthcare, and Education. Considering India’s education, there is still a long way to go to give the best technological tools for students to practice. He explored medical education, talked with many doctors and professors, and understood their challenges. After identifying the gap, Devdatta decided to change the course of Medical Education in India. He launched a product called DEFTXR with the idea that medical students can benefit from these 3D technologies to learn and practice the skills needed for their medical proficiency. Also, DEFTXR has a teaching version which helps Professors in imparting knowledge with ease.

He loves to collaborate with people who are joyous and vibrant about life. He has a deep interest in spirituality, quantum physics, sports, and playing strategy board games.

Principal
Holy Family College of Nursing

Dr. Hara Prasad Mishra is a physician at the University of Delhi, India, and a medico-legal consultant. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics (PGDMLE) from the prestigious NLSIU, Bangalore, and has experience working as a consultant and in other leadership positions on different projects with the Government of India, MNCs, and health-tech startups during the past few years. His understanding of the constitutional dimension of the “right to health,” the obligations of medical professionals , emerging issues in the field of medicine like pandemics, clinical trials, regulations, and complex issues such as “consent,” “confidentiality,” surrogacy, and euthanasia help him take informed decisions that are also legitimate in law and develop more ethical healthcare policies. He is comprehensive in his approach to contemporary medicolegal case narratives and the legal, economic, and practical dimensions of different types of intellectual property rights such as copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, designs, and trade secrets.
Dr. Mishra also has interests in areas such as clinical pharmacology, digital health, computational medicine, and integrative medicine, in addition to medical law and ethics. He received his medical education (MBBS, MD) from the University of Delhi. He has authore India’s first medical documentary on COVID-19 by a medical physician, and his vision is to touch “a billion lives.”

Dr S Venkat is an Associate Professor in Operations Management at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. He has around 28 years of teaching and research experience gained from premier Institutes in India and Singapore. Dr. Venkat is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, post graduate in Industrial Engineering and Ph. D in Operations Management.

He has published around 100 papers in various peer reviewed international and national journals and conferences. He is also certified in Lean Healthcare. His teaching and research interest include Healthcare Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability of SMEs and SME Cluster Development, Operations in religious organisations etc.

Prof Saurabh Gupta, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology Raipur. He received his Ph.D. in the area of Machine Learning from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2014. His teaching and primary areas of research are inverse problems, medical imaging, stochastic optimization, medical devices, and entrepreneurship. Also, the part of his research is to develop technologies for community medicine and public health.

Prof Saurabh Gupta is also the Mentor of Change in ATL; StartUp Panel Member, CII Chhattisgarh; Prof. Incharge of Innovation Cell, Makerspace and Startup Cell at NIT Raipur; Convener, NITRR CII Innovation Club & NITRR MHRD Institute Innovation Council and looks after the industrial – academia collaborations in Healthcare domain.

Mr. Saurabh Kumar Chaubey is Chief Executive Officer at IHUB ANUBHUTI IIITD FOUNDATION. IHUB ANUBHUTI is an innovation hub set up by Dept of Science and Technology and IIIT Delhi to foster research and startups in area of Cognitive Computing and Social Sensing. He has done MBA from IIM Raipur and B.E. from BIT Durg. He has experience of developing innovation and startup ecosystem in state of Chhattisgarh, TamilNadu, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. Previously, he had set up Atal Incubation Centers in Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu. He handled DST incubator at IIT Mandi in his previous assignment. Earlier he worked in Software, Banking and Investment sectors and worked with MNCs HSBC Bank, IDBI Bank and TCS. He did his startup venture in Edutech domain.