Youth Entrepreneurship Summit

Tom Charman is the co-founder and CEO of NAVA, a discovery platform connecting local people with venues and experiences nearby using machine learning. NAVA uses consumer data to create personalised recommendations about what's going on nearby, while helping local venues optimise their marketing efforts for footfall. NAVA has been recognised as a world-leading startup, having been named a top travel-tech company by the United Nations, and having graduating from world leading AI accelerator, Creative Destruction Lab. Prior to NAVA, Tom built and sold a data analytics company, which led to him giving a TEDx talk on the 'Future of Technology' focusing specifically on AI, Quantum Computing and Biohacking. Named one of the young entrepreneurs to watch 2017 by startups.co.uk, Tom has represented the UK at three startup world finals across the world, and placed in the top 5 in all cases. Tom was also shortlisted for the UK’s future face of innovation and technology.

Naveen Lakkur is the Founder and Chief Innovation Coach at Institute of Inspiring Innovation. Corporate divisions such as Dell R&D, Mercedes Benz Research & Development, Standard Chartered Bank, TCS Health Care, FujiFilm Sericol, Crimson Logic, have utilized his training programs to nurture their human capital with innovation competencies. Naveen Lakkur is a serial entrepreneur turned Innovation coach. Naveen loves to inspire enterprises and entrepreneurs to innovate and guide them to grow in the right direction. In his professional career spanning 25+ years in the industry worldwide, he has co-founded several innovative companies. He has also been a catalyst for 250+ ideas to have become commercial realities. He is passionate about sharing his practical knowledge of building companies and nurturing ideas. He brings to the table his personal experience of a unique combination of ‘Systemic Innovation ~ A Structured and Scalable Approach’ and ‘Tactical Innovation ~ A Frugal and Flexible Approach. Besides his active engagement with the industry, he indulges in writing books with international recognition and he loves telling business stories.

Stacey Ferreira co-founded her first company, an online solution for password storage and management, called MySocialCloud, when she graduated from high school. Through Twitter, she attracted investors like Richard Branson, Jerry Murdock and Alex Welch. She raised $1.2 million for her business when she was just 18 years old. In 2013, Stacey sold MySocialCloud to Reputation.com and went on to publish her first best-selling book, 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers & Changing the World. In 2016, Ferreira was named to Forbes “30 under 30” entrepreneurs. She has also been featured in several other media outlets, including The Huffington Post, Women 2.0, Business Insider, CNBC, TechCrunch, and the cover of Seventeen Magazine. She has spoken at popular technology conferences, including TEDxYouthSanDiego, TEDxNYU, and GRAMMY Media Week and has been a guest contributor to Women 2.0 and Forbes.

Shashi Jain is an Innovation Manager at Intel Corporation and prolific forward thinker who believes that AI will augment human creativity in space exploration, smarter manufacturing, and personal medicine. His work at Intel uses Lean Startup, Customer Development and Design Thinking to build new products within Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and 3D Printing. He brings a diverse skill set and 20 years of experience in business development, engineering integration, rapid prototyping, and community building to his work.   Shashi also gives back to the community as Global Education Director for TiE Youth Entrepreneurs Oregon, a program that teaches entrepreneurship skills and innovation methods to high school students. He works with the eNABLE community to deliver 3D printed prosthetic limbs to those in need. He is also the Founder of the Portland 3D Printing Lab, a community of over 1300 3D Printing enthusiasts in Portland, OR.

Vidyangi Patil is an innovation consultant, and working on her second book for reversing startup and innovation failures (with MIT Media Lab and Harvard Humanities & Social Sciences). From innovation strategy for a high tech Kumbha Mela (pop-up city of 30 million) to guiding AI student entrepreneurs who deploy their solutions to improve the community, with government bodies as clientele, she has advised incubators, startups, non-profits, and undergrads on digital transformation, pivoting, and more; and now her second book is focused on helping first time entrepreneurs and seasoned corporate professional increase their odds of success in problem solving for startup/innovation journey, with short one-page templates.

Aakarsh Naidu is an alumnus of The London School of Economics (LSE), Startup Ecosystem Enabler, and Founder of The Startupreneur®. He has been in charge of Initiatives at one of India's Top Startup Incubators - NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore. Following the great response for his #TheStartupVideo on social media, Aakarsh has also featured in the Startup Video Series of #TheStartupreneur and has more recently Written, Sung and Performed The Startup Song. Aakarsh has been on the advisory/jury panel of the Global Startup Awards, Small Enterprise Business Awards, Startup Karnataka's Elevate 100 and GINSERV's Accelerator Programme. He has also participated in the unveiling of the Startup India Action Plan in Delhi. Aakarsh is a Keynote Speaker on Startups, Design Thinking, Innovation and has presented on platforms like Asia Pacific Week, NITI Aayog (AIM), Headstart, Nasscom, IIMB, XIMB, IEEE, Startup Asia Berlin, British Council, Total Group and Bosch to name a few. He is also a mentor at The Founder Institute, World Resources Institute (WRI), IB Hubs and Catalyst for Women Entrepreneurs (CWE).

Dr. Frank O. Klein II resides in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, having recently returned to the United States after an absence of over 20 years. At the age of 22 and within a year of his arrival in India, he established a boys’ school/home for 75 boys with leprosy. Supervising a staff of 15, he designed and implemented the curriculum while managing the day-to-day running of the school. The school, now accredited by the Indian state government, still thrives today with 475 boys. He organized and coordinated job training and development centers, conducted classes for supervisory staff in personnel management and marketing, developed, with the help of his wife, small industry co-operatives, gave entrepreneurial assistance through small business loans, conducted vocational and personal counseling, and developed an adult education scheme for all workers interested in learning to read and write. He became the Associate Director of School Advancement for a private school in Japan, Director of External Relations for a British boarding school in Switzerland, and then Assistant Headmaster for Development for yet another boarding school in Switzerland. It was here that he founded a student organization, Assisting Children with AIDS (ACA) where ACN, the “umbrella organization” over ACA and other student initiatives, was founded. In September of 2008 he decided to leave the international boarding school system to return to the USA to give full attention to directing Assisting Children in Need.