Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi to speak at the largest Indian summit for Doing Good
Bengaluru, 23 November, 2020 (GPN) – Goodera.com, the tech platform that unifies the CSR Lifecyle for companies in India and abroad, is hosting global visionaries of the CSR and volunteering community at their flagship event Karma Summit on Nov 25-26 2020 on the theme ‘Co-Creating A New Normal’. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only united the world through a global crisis, it has also brought together individuals and corporates who have made the world a better place during these trying times. Their contributions, whether in disaster relief work, charitable or product donations and real/virtual volunteering of both time and expertise have considerably contained the impact of the global pandemic for local communities, individuals. 

The event will provide opportunities to discuss strategic solutions for the post-pandemic period through the lens of cross cutting-issues such as gender, technology for good and the challenges of investing in a healthcare infrastructure in India. The summit will also help assess the expected impact of the pandemic on our ability to move towards the SDGs 2030.

At the Karma Summit, corporate leaders can gain insights on how to keep employees engaged in CSR and Volunteering activities; non-profits can connect with corporates and get guidance from experts on strategies to evolve amidst the pandemic, and HR Teams can find opportunities for meaningful employee engagement and resources for COVID relief.  
Among the over 30 renowned speakers across the pharma, tech, auto, NGOs and health sectors are Supriya Singh (Head – Corporate Social Responsibility, Tata Communications), Deepak Prabhu Matti (Core committee Head, Cognizant Foundation), Archana Sahay (CSR Head- APJ, Dell Technologies) and Susan Ferguson UN Women Representative for India. The Keynote Address will be given by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

“This summit brings under one platform, some of the most pressing conversations that impact how companies visualize and implement CSR and Volunteering initiatives for 2020 and beyond which the session on ‘‘Business with Purpose- A Changing Boardroom Discussion’ will address. From our panelists and speakers, you will learn how to create multi stakeholder partnerships that accelerate and deepen the ability to transform a region. We encourage you to attend the summit and take back something from it that will help you transform at least one life for the better,” said Abhishek Humbad, Founder & CEO, Goodera. 

The summit will culminate with the Karma Awards that will felicitate individuals and organizations that have created meaningful social impact by giving back to the community during the pandemic. The Jury members include established leaders in the CSR & Volunteering sector in India. 
To register for the summit, click here: https://goodera.com/in/karma-summit/ ENDS

About GooderaGoodera is a technology platform that makes CSR, volunteering and sustainability activity transparent, measurable and engaging. Used globally by corporations and foundations, Goodera simplifies CSR, volunteering and sustainability by automating processes, managing data and facilitating coordination with non-profits. At the click of a button, Goodera enables companies to showcase quantified impact to customers, employees, and investors with ease. Goodera is currently deployed by 200 clients — including Target, Gap, Dell, Amazon and P&G – and engaging 1 million + employee volunteers to 40,000+ nonprofits across 90+ countries across the globe. Managing over $500 million in CSR capital, the Goodera platform is used to collect and aggregate data from internal and third-party sources. Goodera social and environmental impact reports are used for internal progress tracking and in ESG reporting to investors, analysts and corporate boards. Goodera is co-headquartered in San Mateo, CA and Bangalore, India and is backed by Omidyar Network, Nexus Venture Partners, and SAIF Partners. For more details, please visit us at www.goodera.com 

SPEAKERS DETAILS:

Kailash Satyarthi

Nobel Peace prize winner 2014

BIO:

Mr Kailash Satyarthi – Nobel Peace Laureate-2014, is an internationally acclaimed child right activist working to end child slavery and exploitive labour practices for over four decades. Founder of ‘Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation’, Mr Satyarthi has been conferred some of the most prestigious awards across the world.

Svetlana Pinto,

Country Head Communications and CSR, Novartis India

BIO: 

Having started her career with a not-for-profit, Svetlana always wanted to go back to the social sector. Being given responsibility for CSR alongside her communications role gave her the best of both worlds. Svetlana is passionate about the field of communications and doing social good. She has successfully managed several crises in her three decade long career and is currently Country Head Communications and CSR, Novartis India.

Minari Shah

Director: Public Relations

Amazon India

Pankaj Ballabh

VP- CSR at Bajaj Auto Ltd

BIO: I have spent nearly 25 years working on issues of development, corporate responsibility and sustainability. This period has been evenly divided between grassroots development organisations and large MNCs.

I have worked with extremely disadvantaged rural communities, working with contested resources and under conditions of extreme stresses, as well as with migrants and displaced communities. I believe this has given me an understanding of the “field reality”​ that is unique, and also sectoral competence in all core areas of development intervention- Environment, Livelihoods, Education, Health and Community Action.

My second decade has been spent in a corporate environment, managing corporate responsibility and sustainable development portfolios for three large multinationals. In these roles I have led the transition to an impact and ‘risk’ centric approach– and also led the influencing outreach to impact a much wider stakeholder set. One key area of my work has been development of robust due diligence mechanisms around anti-bribery and corruption.

Specialties: CSR, Environmental and Social Risk Assessment, Social Performance, Sustainable Development, Stakeholder management. Crisis Communications. Social Tension, Social Media. 

Archana Sahay

CSR Head- APJ at Dell Technologies

BIO: 

Archana Sahay has professional experience of 17 years, working on a range of innovative and scalable programs across education, health, financial inclusion, environment, youth leadership, fellowships, community partnerships, capacity building of civil society and poverty alleviation. She has developed innovative social change programs with a focus on plugging gaps in the development ecosystem by nurturing youth to emerge as change.

She is a spokesperson for social development across national and international platforms, educational forums and mainstream media. She has engaged with Local NGOs, International Voluntary Organizations, funding agencies and leading the social wing of Corporates. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, she has lead the CSR wing of Thomson Reuters, Cisco and SAP 

Archana often speak at external CSR events and at several occasions have participated as Key Note speaker or in panel discussions. She has worked to achieve greater social impact by integrating with the business to support social causes. She has immense expertise in collaborating closely with the Global team and unified global focus to provide a strong link to business core expertise. She has done her graduation from Miranda House ( Delhi University), M.A and M.Phil ( Sociology) from J.N.U. She was awarded Group study exchange by Rotary  International to UK and has done Executive CSR Strategy course  from Harvard Business School.

Supriya Singh

Head – Corporate Social Responsibility

BIO: Supriya Singh heads Corporate Social Responsibility globally at Tata Communications, which is part of the Tata Group – one of the 100 most valuable brands in the world. Her work is primarily focused on creating large scale sustainability programs through multi-stakeholder partnerships for societal transformation, especially for young girls and women from vulnerable communities. She is responsible for cultivating deep relationship with the Board, Senior leadership, employees, external stakeholders, and communities at large. Prior to joining Tata Communications, Supriya worked with organisation like TERI, Going to School, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies as well as consulted for UN agencies. She is an alumni of Sir Robert Swan’s 2041 International Antarctic Expedition and traveled to Antarctica in 2012. She is the national coordinator and member of the ESD Expert Net – a four country network supported by the German government. Supriya holds MPhil and MA degrees in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Deepak Prabhu

Global Head-Employee Volunteering Program(Outreach) at Cognizant/Core committee Head of Cognizant Foundation

Deepak is the Global Head of Cognizant’s Employee Volunteering Program Outreach and leads the core committee of Cognizant Foundation in Karnataka. The Outreach program provides an integrated platform to enable employees of Cognizant to dedicate their time, skills and passion for making a difference in the focus areas of ‘Driving Inclusion in Tech’ and ‘Accelerating Community Impact’. These focus areas are aligned to Cognizant’s social purpose of ‘improving everyday life’. Since its inception 13 years ago, 200,000 Outreach volunteers across 30 countries have clocked over 3.4 million hours of volunteering to impact 700,000 lives.

Deepak is based in Bangalore, loves to go on walks to reflect, and attends photography tours to sharpen his photography skills.

Saswat Rath

Senior Manager, Global Sustainability with Gap Inc,

Deputy Chief of Party for USAID and Gap Inc.’s Women+Water Alliance

Saswat Rath is the Senior Manager, Global Sustainability with Gap Inc., and the Deputy Chief of Party for USAID and Gap Inc.’s Women+Water Alliance – a public-private partnership working on WASH for women in the apparel value chain. Saswat is trained as a public health management professional and has a strong 17-year background leading over 35 projects in sustainability, WASH, gender, and public health. His unique experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders such as government, corporates, UN bodies, and NGOs helps him to meaningfully advance the sustainability agenda through collective action.

Anirban Ghosh 

Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group

Anirban Ghosh leads Sustainability at the USD 20.7 billion Mahindra Group. Under his leadership Mahindra has developed an award winning Sustainability framework, helped double per capita income for 20,000 Indians, become the first to double energy productivity, be a founding member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition and is striving to become a zero waste to landfill organization. He has, in partnership with the World Bank, facilitated the creation of the Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium, to accelerate the spread of green buildings in India.

Anirban takes great pleasure in implementing projects that drive positive change in society and has been acknowledged as a “Thought Leader” and a “Distinguished Sustainability Officer”.

Vikram Gulati 

Country Head & Sr. Vice President (External Affairs, PR, CSR & CG

Division) at Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Limited (TKM).

Currently working as Country Head & Sr. Vice President (External Affairs, PR, CSR & CG Division) at Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Limited (TKM). He is a postgraduate in Chemistry from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University and holds a management degree from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Earlier while serving as a Civil Servant (IRPS: 1992 batch), he has a rich and varied experience of over 22 years of working in the Government in various capacities. This includes working in Department of Heavy Industry (DHI) wherein one of the areas of responsibility was the automotive sector and, in that capacity, he was involved actively in shaping the electric mobility initiative and framing of the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020.

Ransom D’Souza

Vice President, Communications and Government Affairs at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK)

Ransom D’Souza is Vice President, Communications and Government Affairs at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK). At GSK, he heads the Corporate Communications, Government Affairs, Corporate Social Responsibility and Investor Relations. Prior to GSK, he has worked with Johnson & Johnson Ltd., Godrej Group, Cadbury India Ltd. and Pfizer India. He has over 25 years of experience in Communications and Public Affairs.

Minari Shah

Director – Public Relations at Amazon India

Currently heading Amazon India PR, I have more than two decades across different aspects of communication. My work experience straddles copy-writing, journalism, corporate communications and film writing. Working across brands and industries as well as across Asian markets, I am passionately convinced about the power of communications to make a difference for organisations in how they are perceived, with clear brand as well as business impact.  I am an advocate for how we must be strategic partners to business and play the role of strong moral compass as the brand reputation custodians.

I believe this is among the most exciting times in communication and what drives me is how technology is bringing in disruptive changes, redefining reach and remit of communications to make it more effective, holistic and powerful. I am committed deeply to nurturing talent to build leaders for the future who are fearless in experimentation, and to help mentor women for leadership across companies. I hold a Masters Degree in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Bachelor of Arts in History from Stella Maris College, Madras University. 

Chetan Yadav 

Chetan Yadav – Chief People Officer – Tally Solutions

A veteran in Human Resources, Chetan brings with him 19 years’ experience of working in new-age, values-centric and meritocratic work environments. He currently spearheads HR at Tally with a focus on employee development and further nurturing high-performance culture. He lays emphasis on organization culture, quality, doing the right thing and doing them the right way. Tally is highly customer, employee and partner centric and his role entails contributing further towards making a positive impact on these dimensions.

An IIM Lucknow alumnus, Chetan has played a pivotal role in building HR practices and the right organization culture in his previous stints. Prior to Tally, he was working as Vice President & Head HR with GreyOrange, leading the HR function globally. He was also associated with Myntra and Ocwen in his career journey.

Thomas Kress

Thomas Kress is the Director at the Office of Social Sector Initiatives at the USAID/India. Mr. Kress holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Literature from Loyola University New Orleans and a Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology from Louisiana State University. He is married with a son and a daughter, plays the clawhammer banjo and juggles. Mr. Kress joined USAID as a Foreign Service Officer in September 2005. He began his development career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangladesh from 1998-2000.

Vivek Adhia

Country Director (India), Institute of Sustainable Communities 

Vivek Adhia is ISC’s Country Director in India, where he oversees broader strategy, programs and operations. He comes in with over 15 years of management, environment, and development sector experience, closely engaging with large corporates, key policymakers, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Prior to ISC, Vivek created and led World Resources Institute (WRI) India’s climate program and spearheaded private sector engagement as a member of the organization’s India executive team. He most notably helped build-up and operationalize climate mitigation initiatives including the India GHG Program (an industry-led partnership with more than 55 companies collaborating on greenhouse gas measurement and management), and the GHG Platform India (a civil society-led initiative to strengthen India’s national and state emission inventory processes). Among other things, Vivek helped put together global strategy on internal carbon pricing and supported initiatives on science-based targets, circular economy, and sustainable consumption.

Vivek has extensively consulted for the corporate sector, through his earlier employment with Deloitte, on climate strategy, carbon footprinting and abatement, water footprinting and environmental mapping, sustainable business practices, value chain engagement, market-based approaches, life-cycle assessments, renewable energy technologies and related areas – across chemical/process industries, cement and steel, oil and gas, telecommunications, aviation, power, real estate and municipal sectors.

He also led a work stream on collaborative innovation with the World Economic Forum, advancing cutting-edge thinking on bio-refineries, energy harnessing, and alternative materials. At the Forum, he helped mainstream innovation across the food-water-energy and carbon nexus by engaging with key leaders including chemical and energy multinationals.

Vivek has a Master in Business Administration from the University of Pune, Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from Mumbai University, and has pursued a certificate course in Management and Leadership Essentials from Harvard University.

Sakshi Mehta

Sakshi Mehta, Head- Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson.

Ms. Sakshi Mehta is the Head- Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility at Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited. My professional experience of 20+years, has been a diverse one- starting from training, external and internal communication followed by CSR and sustainability implementation in two technology multinationals. I have spearheaded sustainability and corporate responsibility for Ericsson in India for over 9 years and previously, supported the Intel CSR team driving their Education initiatives in India. Conceptualized and implemented large Education, Healthcare and Technology projects in marginalized communities across India with various partners. I strongly advocate that technology can drive positive change and the partnerships we make can enable the same. As said by J.K Rowling “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better”

Krithika Ramanujam 

Krithika Ramanujam

VP, Network Partnerships,Kaleidofin

Over 15  years of experience in Operating Lease, Corporate Banking  across client coverage and credit with top MNC and Private banks. Have built and managed businesses across Large Corporates, MNCs, and Mid Market Enterprises in Chennai and entire TN.

Presently, part of leadership team at fast growing  neo-bank- Kaleidofin, wherein I’m leading their network partnerships in Corporate Segment. In addition to this, also driving key strategic digtial transformation (payments and analytics) for large institutions Pan India.  Prior to this, I was managing and leading Business development for an Operating Lease Group Rent Alpha [a Bravia Capital Invested entity] for TN market.

My core strengths are leadership, marketing & selling, communication and execution with a deep understanding of the financial services industry with specific emphasis on Banking and Leasing. Across industries, key achievements include originating various new relationships, cross selling and winning some of key corporates’ mandates across products

Anurag Mishra

Anurag Mishra

Head CSR Operations

Anurag Mishra completed his master’s in Anthropology and has been since last 20 years associated with both Corporate and Development sector in different capacities. He has for 7 years worked with national NGOs and multi-lateral donors including SEWA and USAID and then shifted to corporate sector for CSR.

He has worked in diverse sector including Oil and gas, Mining, Shipping and Ports with companies like Cairn India as well as Essar. His core area of interest include stakeholder engagement, shared value, social licensing and communication for change.

In his present profile, he is the Head for Cipla Foundation based at Mumbai and working on some innovative health models towards improving access and outreach for healthcare. Always visualize CSR more as an opportunity rather a responsibility for bridging different gaps which exist between different players of society.

He has also been conferred with “Outstanding Community User Award” by UNDP, India under their Solution Exchange programme for effective use and sharing of Information on “Social Audit”.

Rina Soni

Director, Public Engagement, Oxfam India 

Rina Soni has been working for the last 24 years in the corporate world before she made a conscious shift to move into the development sector. She joined Oxfam India to head their fundraising function in September 2014 and is currently Director – Public Engagement. She is leading the Public Engagement function and steering the organization to utilise the collective skills and knowledge across all areas within the organisation – campaigners, communicators and fundraisers to bring larger scale and power to Oxfam India’s influencing, engaging and fundraising. Prior to Joining Oxfam India, Rina worked in the financial sector for almost 18 years and has vast experience in sales and business development, strategic planning and marketing across consumer finance and insurance industry. She was part of the founder’s team at Max Life Insurance and has been well recognized for her contributions in the many roles she straddled within the organisation. In her last assignment in the corporate world she worked as Vice President Marketing with Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Prior to this, she has also worked with Bank of Punjab and Capital Trust Limited. Educational Qualifications Rina is an Economics (Hons) graduate from Miranda House (1991-1993), Delhi University and an MBA from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (1993-1996)

Shripad Desai

MD & Country Director, Americares India

As MD & Country  Director of Americares India, Shripad Desai leads the mission to help local health centres thrive by connecting health-conscious communities (the seeker) and efficient health system (the provider) to improve the health outcomes for those affected by urban poverty and natural disasters.

Shripad oversees all aspects of the organization’s work in the country including emergency response activities, access to medicine and highly successful clinic-to-community programs for the urban poor in India.

Shripad brings 30 years of experience in India’s healthcare and development sector. Prior to joining Americares in 2012, he served as head of sales, marketing and strategic planning for Chiron Panacea Vaccines in Mumbai and held positions with Oral CDx India, Novartis, Sanofi, and AstraZeneca in India.

 Shripad earned a master’s degree in marketing and a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Mumbai. He is pursuing doctoral research in public health from IIHMR University, Jaipur, India.

Mohammed Asif

Mohammed Asif is the Executive Director of Plan India since December 2019; and Chair of the Sphere India Executive Committee since 2018.  He has more than 20 years of Development and Humanitarian experience.

He has been with Plan India since 2006.  Prior to Plan India he has worked with Action Aid International India.

He is the Alumni of the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.  He has written several research articles and papers on poverty and development, urbanisation, good governance and gender equality.

Shilpa Sinha Harsh

Shilpa Sinha Harsh

Sr. Vice President – Global Corporate Communications, CSR and D&I, HGS

Shilpa Sinha Harsh heads the Global Corporate Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) teams at HGS. Her key responsibility is to strengthen the HGS brand across strategic areas such as media and industry relations, employee communications, digital communications, corporate branding, recruitment marketing, community relations and diversity & inclusion.

Shilpa brings nearly 20 years of experience in corporate communications, corporate marketing, sales enablement and talent acquisition branding, with core strengths in driving integrated marketing campaigns across geographies. Prior to joining HGS, Shilpa headed the Marketing & Communications function for [24]7.ai India and was part of the India Management team. Her earlier leadership stints have included with Accenture, Adfactors PR and LinOpinion, where she has handled strategic communication campaigns.

Shilpa holds a Bachelor of Arts (English Honors) degree from the Delhi University, India and PGDM – Advertising and Communications from National Institute of Advertising, Delhi, India.

Ramesh Balasundaram

Director, Bal Utsav

Ramesh Balasundaram is a senior professional & organisational catalyst with a passion for driving innovation in diverse sectors including but not limited to corporates, the citizen sector, and the government.

He wears many hats, one initiative that he spends most time on is – Bal Utsav 

Bal Utsav provides learning opportunities for children, parents, teachers, practitioners, researchers, and organizations working with children and youth based issues at the international, national, state, and local levels. 

Bal Utsav brings life-changing education to children living in poverty around the world, directly impacting over 800,000+ children, and is currently on a mission to reach One Million Children by 2021.

Suneel Janardan Padale

Suneel Padale – Director Programs, CARE India

Suneel Padale is Director Programs at CARE India, and has more than 23 years of experience in the development sector. Suneel holds expertise in leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams and has managed large programs across the country on livelihoods, natural resource management, community empowerment and habitat development. He has worked at senior levels with UNDP, GIZ, Aga Khan Foundation, Habitat for Humanity India, and Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India). He is a Post Graduate in Governance and Development, from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex with a Masters from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. Prior to that he pursued his Graduation in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut.

Sakina Baker 

Head -CSR, Philips India 

Sakina Baker heads CSR at Philips India. Having more than 18 years of experience in corporate social responsibility and voluntary sector, she has worked on varied social issues including healthcare, education, water & sanitation, disability, skill development, etc.

Manoj Gulati 

Managing Director, India at Water.org

Manoj brings over 25 years of experience in IT, supply chain management and development sector in both India and USA. As Managing Director, India,  Manoj champions Water.org India strategy and operations. He joined Water.org in April 2016, and is responsible for scaling credit financing for Water and Sanitation (WASH) as a financial product. Under his leadership, Water.org has been able to provide technical assistance to various  financial institutions enabling them to scale WASH as a separate lending category. This has resulted in over 3 million WASH loans being successfully offered, mobilizing over Rs. 4000 crores for this upcoming sector. 

Prior to joining Water.org, Manoj was the Senior Director, SE Asia and Country Director, India for SightLife. During his six year tenure, he established SightLife India as an advisory organization, instrumental in scaling operations for over 17 eye banks in the region. SightLife also partnered with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Eye Bank Association of India to formalize eye bank operating procedures and establishing international quality standards in India, resulting in better patient outcomes and more tissue available for utilization. Manoj serves on the Steering Committee for India Sanitation Coalition- FICCI, New Delhi, and is the Chair, ISC Credit Financing Working Group. Before working in the development sector, Manoj was associated with international advisory firm Gartner Inc.  Manoj has obtained his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Ranjini Manian

Founder,Global Adjustments  

Dr. Ranjini Manian has spent over two decades as entrepreneur, cultural ambassador and mindfulness coach connecting FDI to India. Founder of India’s premier relocation and cross‐cultural services company – Global Adjustments Services Pvt Ltd, Ranjini has served on the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board and authored several books. 

Ranjini currently is a full time philanthropist and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder-Chair of Global Adjustments Foundation (GAF), whose goal is to reduce gender gap in the workforce enabling women to contribute to the GDP of the nation. GAF conducts pro-bono #Championwoman life leadership coaching, and has already touched over 130,000 lives, in disparate groups such as Corporate and Government workforce, entrepreneurs, police, soldiers, nurses, faculty and students. 

Dr. Manian studied psychology and French literature from Bombay University and Sorbonne University in Paris. She serves as Advisory Board member of Apollo Hospitals and Managing Committee member of Madras Management Association. She is a three decade Mindfulness practitioner and coach.

Rumi Mallick Mitra 

Rumi Mallick Mitra, Leader, Strategy and New Initiatives, IBM India, South Asia

Rumi was leading the CSR function for India and South Asia till 2019. Responsible for designing and executing the India CSR portfolio to align with the Govt of India 2% CSR law, building large scale education and skills development initiatives in collaboration with the central ministries and state government in India. She has designed and initiated IBM flagship programs like STEM for Girls for govt schools running across 10 states, along with large scale impactful programs in blended learning models to build new age technology skills and professional skills. In the current role, Rumi is driving strategy and partnership to introduce global program in India, with a focus on digital platforms for learning.

Rumi has 18+ years of working on strategic priorities of responsible business and sustainable social impact. She leverages her strong understanding of India development priorities, her experience of the social sector, and business scenarios, to design and impact strong social impact programs. She has helped shape the dialogue in ‘technology for good’, diversity and inclusion and have spearheaded several large-scale impactful development programs focused on low-income and disadvantaged communities. She has functional experience in corporate social responsibility, public policy, education and ed-tech, technology in development, diversity and inclusion at workplace, skills and employability and urban development. Prior to joining IBM, Rumi was Senior Vice President with NASSCOM Foundation. Based in Bangalore.

Lavanya Shrinagesh

Global CSR and Diversity, equity, and inclusion leader, Genpact

Lavanya is leading programs that harness the energy and talent of Genpact employees for the economic, social, and environmental betterment of the communities we live and work in. As the diversity, equity, and inclusion leader, she is involved in steering initiatives to create a gender balanced and inclusive organization with 50% representation of women across all levels.

She has more than 18 years of experience across talent management domain – Hiring, HR, and Learning and development. ENDS