The conference is being co-hosted by Nikesh Arora – Senior VP and Chief Business Officer, Google; Asha Jadeja – Founder, DOT EDU Ventures; John Werner – Project Innovator, MIT Media; Steffi Czerny – Co-founder and Managing Director, DLD Media and Stefan Sagmeister– Grammy Award Winner for Designing.

Some of the renowned people in the roster of speakers at the conference this year are Amar Hanspal, Senior VP, Autodesk; Rajeswari Kannan, Head- media technologies lab, Nokia Research Center; Financial software maven – Scott Cook; musical innovator Tod Machover; renowned singer Usha Uthup; Deep ocean explorer David Gallo; Varun Agarwal, Author of best seller “How I braved Anu Aunty and Co-founded A Million Dollar Company” and Roger Fisk, PR Guru who devised the campaign for US President Barrack Obama in the year 2007 among others.

The speakers also include 28 members from the INK Fellows programin partnership with Google such as ‘CNN Hero of the Year 2012’ Pushpa Basnet; Inventors Luke Iseman & Ronak Samantray; Meditation neurotechnologist Rohan Dixit; Film makers such as Anand Gandhi and Shruti Ganguly, Entrepreneurs Sanvar Oberoi of Boheco, Girish Ramdas of Magzter and Anu Sridharan of Nextdrop to name a few.

“These speakers are icons for the current generation of Indians and their stories will inspire awe and leave an indelible impression on our audience. They are the agents of change who have gone against the tide, pursued their passion with creative thinking and overcome the inhibition of taking the proverbial ‘leap of faith’ – something which would be reinforced during the course of the INK Conference in association with TED”, added Lakshmi.

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