Key Speakers 2012
This year’s edition is empowered with more outstanding speakers and more interactive sessions, bringing to the forefront the best industry practices and key note addresses by industry veterans.
Mr. Amit Gupta
CEO, S Chand Group, Co-Chairperson, Indian Education Congress 2012
Prof. Dr. Kamal Kant Dwivedi
Vice Chancellor of Apeejay Stya University in India
Mr. Pawan Aggarwal
Adviser (Higher Education), Planning Commission , GOI
Dr. K.K. Khandelwal
I.A.S., Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana
Dr. S. S. Mantha
Chairman, AICTE
Mr. Vineet Joshi
IAS, Chairman, CBSE
Mr. Shantanu Prakash
CMD, Educomp Solutions Ltd.
Mr. Dilip Chenoy
CEO & MD, National Skill Development Corporation
Mr. Karan Khemka
Partner, The Parthenon Group
Dr. H.S. Srivastava
Former Dean, NCERT
Mr. Ashok Ganguly
Former Chairman, CBSE
Mr. Lokesh Mehra
Director-Education Advocacy, Microsoft
Mr. Sandip Somany
President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ms. Vanita Uppal
Secondary School Principal, The British School
Dr. J. D. Singh
Director General, Jaipuria Institute of Management
Mr. Ian Gordon
Director, VET Quality Compliance, Australia
Mr. Andrew Mowat
Principal, Group 8 Education Consultancy and Research institution, Australia
Ms. Nesha O'Neil
Advisor, Childcare Association Australia
Mr. Jonathan Marshall
MD, Plataris Learning Systems
Mr. Pramod Sharma
Director, Genesis Global School
Mr. Raman Kalyanakrishnan
Practice Head-Infocomm, Media & Education, Tata Strategic Management Group
Prof. Sanjeev Swami
HOD of Management, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra
Mr. Krishan Khanna
Chairman, i2k Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Ms. Seema Jhingan
Senior Partner, Lex Counsel Law Offices
Mr. Salil Pande
Founder & CEO, VMock.
Mr. Ashok Kumar
CEO, Indian High School Group & Principal The Indian High School, Dubai
Prof. (Dr.) A. K. Bakhshi
Vice Chancellor, U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad
Mr. Larry Anderson
Head-International Business, Gold Coast Institute of TAFE, Australia
Mr. Deep Mishra
MD, Everstone Investment Advisors
Ms. Lina Ashar
Founder, Kangaroo Kids Preschool and Billabong High International School
Mrs. Madhulika Sen
Principal, Tagore International School
Mr. Gulraj Shahpuri
Founder, Promise
Ms. Neenu Puri
Director (Education), S. Chand Harcourt (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Col. Gopal Karunakaran (Retd)
Project Director (Schools), HCL Comnet Limited
Ms. Shobha Mishra Ghosh
Director-Education, FICCI
Mr. Varun Khanna
Director, IREO Management Private Limited
Mr. Jatinder Singh
Head, Education & Skill Development Committee, PHD Chamber, New Delhi
Mr. Sanjiv Sharma
Vice President - K- 12 Solutions, S. Chand Harcourt
Mr. Vinod Raina
Member , Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)
Prof. Rameshwar Rao
Vice-Chancellor, JNTU Hyderabad
Mr. Sanjiv R Pande
Managing Director, SMART Technologies, South Asia
Mr. Anand Joshi
Regional Representative, The College Board(New York)
Lt. Col. Rohit Agarwal (Retd.)
Principal Consultant,Global Knowledge Network Society
Mr. Sushil Prakash
Sr. Consultant, NMEICT
Mr. Amit Singh
SBU Head- EuroKids Pre-Schools
Mr. Ujjwal Singh
Partner, Indus Balaji Pvt. Equity Education Fund
Mrs. Rita Wilson
Head of Business, Develop Schools
Mr. Kamal Puri, Founder President, Skyline University College, UAE
Dr. Shreesh Bhardwaj, Principal, G.D. Goenka Public School, Faridabad
Dr. Amarjit Singh, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy,Ministry of Human Resource Development
Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai, EVP and Principal Secretary, Kerala State Council for Science,TechnologyandEnvironment
Mr. Dinesh Jhunjhunwala
Mrs. Shroff, CEO, Calorx
Enterprising Education
Indian education industry is characterised by great business opportunities and low infrastructure to support the growing demand. It is the right time to deliberate on ways to link demand with opportunities and crave out newer business avenues as well as improvise the exiting systems.
- Indian pre-school industry to become a $ 1 Billion market by end of 2012.
- 2,00,000 public schools to offer computer courses to their students.
- K-12 education industry growing at 14% annually & 30% rise in IB curriculum schools.
- 93% of workforce untouched by formal training- opportunity for vocational institutes.
- 450,000 Indian students spend $13 Billion to acquire higher education overseas.
- $ 600 Million worth private equity (PE) investments in Indian education industry.
Debate. Dialouge. Deliver
Top policy makers, educationists and corporate came together at the Indian Education Congress 2011, the National Convention on the Business of Education, for interactions and knowledge sharing on various topics related to the best practices, regulatory issues and future trends in the education field.
Dilip Chenoy
Managing Director & CEO, The National Skill Development Corporation
Barry O'Callaghan
Chairman & CEO,
EMPGI
N. RAJASEKHARAN PILLAI
Vice-Chancellor,
IGNOU
2011 Golden Moments
The Indian Education Awards 2011 felicitated achievers, innovators and suppliers who have contributed significantly towards the growth of the segment. The awards were presented across 23 categories for which over 700 nominations were received.
2011 Business Opportunities & Unlimited Networking
