Startup Festival

Dr Ashwin Mahesh is a journalist, technologist and public policy researcher who studies the way cities are growing in India, and the implications for managing them. He studied to be an astronomer and a climate scientist and worked with NASA for a few years, but since returning to... Read More →

Mr Mannivanan, graduate from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, a 2008 batch IAS officer, took charge first as MUDA Commissioner and in - charge Commissioner of City Corporation on 24th August 2007 and then as Deputy Commissioner on 28th January 2008. He was also in charge of... Read More →

D Kalyanaraman is a graduate in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and also was a honor roll alumnus from the Indian Institue of Management Calcutta. He was a member of the ISI standardization committee and a nominated member in the standardization committee... Read More →

 35 years of industry experience across information technology, banking and financial services and lately, working with an NGO, educating children and women Lived and worked in UK and India, now retired and living in Bangalore  

Mr. Vidyashankar holds a M.A. Degree in Economics and M.Phil. from the Delhi School of Economics and a MBA from Harvard University, USA. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1982 and served in different departments in the state government including Rural Development, Revenue... Read More →

Somesh is an independent graphic designer and illustrator. He is an avid reader of graphic novels, and invests his late evenings in inking his own comic. When not inking, he's busy doing his bit for urban wildlife rescue, writing Hindi poems as 'Khufiya Kaatil', sketching crowded... Read More →