Dipanjan Das, the CEO of Greycells18 Media Ltd. Das is a business leader with a deep passion for technology, education and people. He is a Startup India hub mentor, industry speaker and a guest lecturer in business schools. He is currently leading the EdTech practices at Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. in the broadcast and…
Arijit Bhattacharyya believes in bringing about a change and that’s how he dared to start his own game development and VR development-based company named VirtualInfocom in 1998 “I’m a technologist, founder of a wonderful technology company, non-executive director of others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops among innovation and teams…
Ashish Kulkarni is the founder of Punnaryug Artvision Pvt Ltd. and the Chairman of FICCI Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comics (AVGC) Forum. Kulkarni spoke about how India started its animation journey two decades back and how it all started with hand-drawn cartoons and finally led to animation. India with a young and technology-oriented population…
Cyrus F Dastur, a prominent name in the Indian theatre circuit, kickstarted the short film wave in the country over a decade back. He has been a part of theatre ever since he can remember. He has produced, directed, scripted and acted in several plays with stalwarts like Tom Alter, Luke Kenny, Juhi Babbar, Rajeev…
Anjali Raina, Commercial Head of ULLU Digital, is quite optimistic about the future of the OTT platforms. She spoke about the marketing strategies, which the OTT giant ULLU has been practicing. Also she emphasized that web entertainment is the fastest growing sector in terms of revenue. She reiterated that the need of today’s OTT platforms is…
Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist, who has reported and written on Indian business for over 25 years. He is a media executive and entrepreneur whose ventures are safeguarding the transparency, accuracy, and integrity of the internet in general and news in specific in India and worldwide. Most recently, he founded BOOM, fake…
Pratik Sinha is the Co-founder and Editor of Alt News. Alt News is one of the best non-profit fact-checking websites in India. He is also a former software engineer and he earlier worked with multiple technology companies. He got inspiration from his activist parents to expose fake news. He is a member of the Jan…
Dr Ankuran Dutta is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Gauhati University in Guwahati. Dr Dutta is a media educator by profession with an experience of about 15 years and he is currently involved in different academic activities in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and…
Renowned Indian director, producer and a screenwriter, Bejoy Nambiar marked his foray into commercial cinema with the critically acclaimed ‘Shaitan’ in 2011. His latest Hindi directorial venture was ‘Wazir’ starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Bejoy is the winner of Sony Pix’s filmmaking reality show ‘Gateway to Hollywood’. Bejoy…
The young and dynamic filmmaker Amit V Masurkar delved on the importance of ideology in the world of cinema. He started his life to become a scriptwriter. He explained the difference between sketch writing and scriptwriting. He said that there are two types of scriptwriting. Sketch writing is for two to three minutes and is…