Dorairaj Selvan is an engineer from IITM and an MBA from IIMA and for the last 34 years he has been in the IT Services Industry with varied exposure. He has played several roles across Sales, Business Development, Quality, Learning & Development (L&D), and Business Process Reengineering in multiple organizations.Currently, Selvan Heads the Learning function at Capgemini India where he is responsible for Talent Supply Chain, Cadre Building and Leadership Development. He is also part of the Transformation team of Capgemini University based out of Paris and contributes in the areas of content sourcing, analytics and automation for the Learning function. Lakshman R. Watawala is a Committee Member of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Convention Committee - Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Director of Richard Peiris & Co. Ltd., Deputy Chairman of Gestetner (Ceylon) Ltd., Director of Asian Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd., Director of - Transnational Lanka Records Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. and Council Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He was the Founder President of Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka.

Parameswaran N has been involved in the Licensing and Regulations of Telecommunication and Broadcasting services while working with TRAI. He has played a key role in the liberalization of the Telecom Sector, Internet and Digitization of Cable TV in India. . Presently he is working as Senior Consultant in Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) looking after all the connectivity and Broadcasting projects.

Barbara Oakley is an American Professor of Engineering at Oakland University and McMaster University whose online courses on learning are some of the most popular MOOC classes in the world.She is involved in multiple areas of research, ranging from STEM education, to engineering education, to learning practices.Oakley co-created and taught Learning How To Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, the world's most popular online course.  She has also written several books.Oakley has authored op-ed articles about learning in the Wall Street Journal  and New York Times.

Andreas Ganahl is Global Innovation and Product Manager at WolfVision, the Austrian presentation and collaboration solutions company. With responsibility for delivering WolfVision’s latest networked AV, active learning classroom collaboration solutions for higher education, Andreas is looking forward to sharing his ideas and observations on the latest advances in this exciting new technology, that are currently transforming learning space design worldwide.

Prateek Madhav has 18+ years of experience in IT Outsourcing industry and Social Sector.Currently he is the Founder CEO of India’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator (ATA) which nurtures Assistive Technology Start-ups to Empower Persons with Disability. In Accenture, Prateek was a part of Global Analytics team, driving key Strategic Initiatives and Differentiation through Digital Innovation, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & new service offerings. In his previous role as CEO – Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled (NGO), Prateek grew organization 40% y-o-y along with establishing Samarthanam pan-India (15+ cities) and Global locations (US, UK).

V S Basavaraju is the State Disability Commissioner with Government of Karnataka.In his previous role he was the Executive Director of Bangalore based NGO-Association of Persons with Disability (APD).

Abdur Rab Miah is a professor of management and a certified management consultant. At present, he is the vice-chancellor of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Bangladesh. His areas of specialization are Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. He is specially trained in the curriculum design, educational quality assurance & accreditation, faculty development. He has 40 years of teaching experience at undergraduate, graduate and professional levels in business schools. He was a faculty in international training programs in Mumbai, Delhi and Dhaka.

Sonam Choiden is an experienced Senior Executive with a demonstrated history of leading a Business School in the Royal University of Bhutan and lecturing in other Educational Institutions such as the Royal Institute of Management and Sherubtse College. Skilled in Research, Sustainable Development, Stata, Program Evaluation. Competent professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Economics of Happiness and GNH from QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Rajiv Noronha is a Human Resource Leader with extensive experience spanning areas of Industry Academia Relations, Talent Engagement, Performance Management, Employer Branding, HR Analytics, Org Assessments & Design, Job Evaluation / Analysis, Career Management, Competency Modelling, HR Systems and L&D. He is currently VP & Head - HR (Analytics & Insights Unit) at TCS.

Anant Agarwal is CEO of edX, the online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He successfully cofounded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012.

V S Basavaraju is the State Disability Commissioner with Government of Karnataka.In his previous role he was the Executive Director of Bangalore based NGO-Association of Persons with Disability (APD).

Mangala Sunder K, Professor, IIT Madras is one of the founding members of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). He is a member of the Standing Committee and Domain Experts Committee of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. He is also the Chief coordinator for the Educational DTH Channels of the MHRD). He is also the IIT Madras coordinator for the National Knowledge Network and Online Classroom project of the Ministry of IT and a member of their e-learning Task Force.

Deepak B. Phatak is Professor, IIT Bombay and co-chair of FoL 2020. In 2009, he was ranked among the 50 most powerful people in India. He has won several distinctions and awards and was conferred the Padma Shri by the Government of India in the 2013. An Open Source evangelist in India, Deepak has pioneered several initiatives to popularize Free and Open Source Software usage. He believes that India should soon migrate from the status of a net taker from Open Source, to that of a net giver to the Open Source community.

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works., Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India and was named the Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate in 2018. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits.” Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes’ list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. Anant, a pioneer in computer architecture, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. He hacks on WebSim, an online circuits laboratory, in his spare time. Anant holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor’s from IIT Madras.

Devi Prasad Shetty is the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIM Bangalore. He is also the Chairman of Narayana Health which he founded in the year 2000. He initiated the concept of “micro health insurance scheme” in Karnataka.. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours for his pioneering work in the field of medical care. These include ‘Padma Shri’ and ‘Padma Bhushan’ Award in 2003 and 2012 respectively and the ‘Rajyotsava Award’ in 2002 conferred by the Government of Karnataka. He was an Honorary Fellow at the College Physicians and Surgeons of Mumbai, Doctor of Laws in 2011 and has also been awarded the Doctor of Laws by the University of Minnesota in 2011.

Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is currently the Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. in Management from Purdue University.... Das previously has been Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education, Chair of the Executive Education Advanced Management Program and the Program for Leadership Development, as well as course head of the required first-year Marketing course in the MBA program. Prior to that, he taught the Business Marketing Elective in the MBA program. Das has twice been selected as the Class Day faculty speaker (2001 and 2004), and has received the award for teaching excellence from the graduating HBS MBA Class on several occasions. Other awards include The Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community (two-time recipient), the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Das’s background includes management experience in sales and marketing that involved field strategic planning, field salesforce management, new product development, channel management and marketing communications. Das has co-authored two books and his articles have appeared in publications that include Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Sloan Management Review. Das has been quoted in publications such as The Economist and U.S. News and World Report amongst others. Das has consulted and/or developed and executed in-house training programs for such companies as Areva, Arrow Electronics, Alghanim Group, GE, Honeywell, IBM, ING, J&J, Northrop Grumman, Mitsubishi Corporation, Linfox, Fonterra, Interbank, Stryker, Merrill Lynch, Tata Group, ThyssenKrupp, Zeiss, Fidelity, Liberty Mutual, 3M, and Microsoft among other companies in the areas of B2B Marketing, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Management, Strategic Marketing, Pricing, Personal Selling and Sales Management. Das’s current research interests focus on business-to-business marketing and management of client relationships in professional service firms Das currently serves on the Board of Directors of AllianceBernstein and Titan Industries (India). In addition, Das is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, and the Harvard-IESE Committee.

Digital Learning Strategist (Education and teacher training) at Campus – Israel’s online education platform. Educator and entrepreneur. Leading the product development. In his previous position, he was the CEO of ‘To Be Education’, an educational start-up specializing in problem-based learning.

A former Manager with Midland Bank plc and as a full-time Senior Lecturer in Banking and Economics at Loughborough University have accumulated 40 years of experience in Business and Banking education, Higher Education management and teaching innovation. I am passionate about sharing experience with peers and frequently present at learning and teaching conferences and seminars. He recently stepped down as inaugural Associate Dean Teaching (2010-2017) at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University and now focus on on-line education. Research interests include personal and corporate insolvency, as well as debt counselling, SME lending by banks and student engagement with group work and technology in learning. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD based on personal insolvency research. He has intensely practical approach to his teaching and research work and have wide experience in teaching undergraduate, post-experience and postgraduate students both in the UK and abroad, including Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Finland and Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (now LIBF) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Recently he had been working with EFMD in Brussels on accreditation and the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

Lawrie Phipps is a senior co-design manager. His current portfolio includes digital leadership and a range of emerging issues impacting on student experience. Previously he was the programme manager for the transformations programme, the users and innovation and institutional innovation programmes. He has a background in environmental sciences and learning technology, working on various projects and programmes supporting and enhancing learning and teaching in higher education. He moved to Jisc in 2001, setting up and running the Jisc TechDis service, advising staff on supporting disabled students through the application of technology, before moving to the Jisc executive in 2006 to look at issues around emerging technology and web 2.0. He has over 20 years experience in developing and delivering staff and educational development and was nominated for a SEDA@20 award for his work. He has intensely practical approach to his teaching and research work and have wide experience in teaching undergraduate, post-experience and postgraduate students both in the UK and abroad, including Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Finland and Singapore.He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an associate fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association.

Madhulika Kaushik is the Pro Vice Chancellor at the Usha Martin University. She works as an Education Specialist, Higher Education at Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver. She was earlier with Indira Gandhi National Open University, India and the Wawasan Open University, Malaysia. She has been in the space of education for over 30 years, with 23 years in open and Distance Learning.

Madhulika Kaushik is the Pro Vice Chancellor at the Usha Martin University. She works as an Education Specialist, Higher Education at Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver. She was earlier with Indira Gandhi National Open University, India and the Wawasan Open University, Malaysia. She has been in the space of education for over 30 years, with 23 years in open and Distance Learning.

Mangala Sunder Krishnan is a Professor in the Chemistry Department and specializes in the area of theoretical molecular and magnetic resonance spectroscopies, quantum chemistry and quantum information. He obtained his Ph. D. in theoretical chemistry from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1988 and has spent several years in Canada as post-doctoral research fellow in Canada before returning to India as a faculty in IIT Madras. In addition, he is one of the founder-coordinators of the NPTEL project and has been associated with it since 2001.

He studied BA Economics from Madras Christian College, Chennai and MA (& M Phil) in International politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He studied MBA in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Studied MSc in macro-economics from University of Bradford UK on Commonwealth Fellowship He is working as Principal Secretary, Rural Development department Government of AP. He worked as Commissioner Weaker Section Housing and MD of AP State Housing Corporation implementing the INDIRAMMA housing programme aimed at creating a ‘hut-free’ State. He worked as Director in Ministry of Textiles in Govt of India in Delhi; Director of School education; District Collector of Hyderabad and East Godavari Dts.

Saravana Kumar is Joint Secretary, Higher Education, (ICC& TEL) Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. Joint Secretary. In his role as a SWAYAM Board Member he guides the activities of the digital learning initiatives of the Government of India.

Raghuram has been Director, IIM Bangalore, since February 2017. Prior to taking over as Director of IIM Bangalore, he was Professor and Chairperson of the Public Systems Group at IIMA. He has been Dean (Faculty), IIMA, Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University and Indian Railways Chair Professor. He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management. He conducts research on the railway, port, shipping, aviation and road sectors. He has published over 35 refereed papers in journals and written over 160 case studies. He has published six co-authored books. He was awarded (i) ‘Life-time Achievement Award’ for Transport Excellence, by Mahindra and Mahindra, supported by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in 2018 (ii) ‘MC Puri Memorial Award’ for contribution to Operational Research in India in 2016 (iii) ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for contribution to Logistics and Infrastructure by EXIM News in 2014 and (iv) ‘Academician of the Year’ by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society of India, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He has teaching experience at universities in India, USA, Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Tanzania, UAE and Japan. He is a member of the Global Future Council on Mobility of the World Economic Forum and of the Board of Directors of four companies in the fields of infrastructure and logistics. Overall, he has been on the Board of 14 companies. He is on the Board of four educational institutions, one NGO and on the Advisory Board of a few other educational institutions. He has offered consultancy services to over 100 organizations including multilateral agencies. He has been part of various government policy making and advisory committees for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Shipping, Cabinet Secretariat, Comptroller and Auditor General, the Planning Commission and various State Governments. Raghuram has a BTech from IIT, Madras; a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad; and a PhD from Northwestern University, USA.

Dr. Deepak B Phatak has been working with IIT Bombay since 1971. His main concern is improvement in quality of education, at a large scale commensurate with the Indian national aspirations. Towards this end, he has dovetailed the synchronous distance education, which he started at IIT Bombay 15 years ago, into an innovative program for training 10,000 teachers at a time. He believes in developing affordable technological solutions. He heads the national initiative on Aakash tablets. He has been an advisor and IT consultant to organizations and companies, and has worked on many company boards. He has won several distinctions and awards, and has been conferred ‘Padma Shri’ by Government of India.