Organizing Team
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Organizing Team
Find the organizing team behind the Change Makers' Summer Camp:
Regional Mentor of Change (Karnataka) associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India
Mr. Kiran Kumar is a Change Maker, Strategic Advisor, Management Consultant and Mentor with over 27 years of work experience. He advises & consults for IT Startups in the areas of innovation, product strategy and product management. He has earlier served in leadership, managerial and technical positions in several multi-national corporations developing, architecting, managing & offering innovative technology-based products, solutions & services to global customers across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
Mr. Kiran Kumar routines mentors school & college students, working professionals and budding entrepreneurs. He has been driving the "Tinker Champ" initiative since 2021 to spread a culture of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and change-making through student-led initiatives and actions. He has been associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog as a “Regional Mentor of Change” since 2018 and has been instrumental in conceptualizing, designing and driving several national-level, state-level and school-level initiatives to spread a culture of creativity, innovation & entrepreneurship for school children. He has been recognized as one of the Top-performing Mentor, Exemplary Mentor, Most active Mentor, Most consistent Mentor, and Most popular Mentor by Atal Innovation Mission on multiple occasions.
Mr. Kiran Kumar holds a PGDBA in Marketing from Symbiosis, M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangalore University, and Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Board of Technical Examinations, Karnataka. He has also completed a Certificate programme in "Leading beyond Authority" from Common Purpose, United Kingdom.
Mentor of Change (Karnataka) associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India
Mr. Shachidevi T K is a Senior Leader with 38 years of experience in Energy and Power sector. She has held several leadership positions at CXO level. She is also a Mentor of Change associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Government of India.
Mr. Shachidevi holds MTech. degree in Power Systems from IIT Kharagpur and BE from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore university. In addition, she holds Master Black Belt certificate in Six Sigma and attended several international leadership programs.
She was instrumental in setting up four Engineering and R&D centers across various organizations and worked extensively and represented Indian firms in international platforms.
She has initiated and led many first-time projects in India and published 5 US patents and 2 Indian patent disclosures, published several technical papers in national and international forums. She is bestowed with several awards and recognitions for her contribution.
She believes that growth in Indian industrial sector can be accelerated by giving more encouragement to R&D and innovation.
Regional Mentor of Change (Karnataka) associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India
Mr. Deepesh Goel is a Strategist, Mentor, and Business Transformation Leader with multi-industry experience of three decades in B2B / B2C technology-based products & services. He has led various Electrical / Electronics / Instrumentation businesses in 3M, GE, Tyco Electronics, L&T, Fortive, and Danaher.
Earlier, Mr. Deepesh worked as an Independent Consultant in Industrial IoT with Startups and Industry doing matchmaking of industrial applications to solutions given by startups and providing IoT-ready products to corporates.
Mr. Deepesh volunteers with Atal Innovation Mission as a Regional Mentor of Change for Karnataka region, mentoring mentors and school kids who are exposed to latest technologies at Atal Tinkering Labs such as AI / ML / IoT / Robotics / 3D Printing. He works on improving the employability of PG / UG students and conducts guest lectures at B schools & Engineering colleges. Mr. Deepesh also works as a Mentor for startups and is associated with Teach for India as a Fellow since June 2022. He has been involved in an e-learning initiative for career planning of teenagers called "Innopreneurship".
Mentor of Change (Karnataka) associated with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India
Pooja Salwan is the CEO & Principal Coach at Blue Ribbon Academy, a Bangalore-based effective communication & public-speaking coaching company. They enable participants to become confident and articulate speakers.
Pooja did her MBA from ISB (Hyderabad) and is an alumna of SRCC (Delhi). After ISB, Pooja worked in the retail industry in New York for several years. During her stint there, she also did her certification in marketing from New York University (NYU) and got certified in public speaking and effective writing skills from University of Michigan. She has vast experience in retail and e-commerce in the USA and India. Public speaking has been a passion for Pooja. She advocates the need for strong communication to further careers and influence clients. She is a Mentor of Change with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and a founder member of WICCI-SDG.
If you have any questions regarding the Summer Camp, please drop an email to studentsummercamp2023@gmail.com