Hilla Ovil Brenner is a serial entrepreneur in the high-tech industry for over 15 years. Named top 100 influential people in the hi-tech industry in 2015, Hilla started as a lawyer in Israel and NY and went on to co-found 3 companies, one of which is listed on TASE, and then went on to be a mentor and an investor. She is also the founder of "Yazamiyot", the largest female entrepreneurship organization in Israel, and created Campus for Moms, the first "baby-friendly" startup school at Google. Hilla is a true believer in innovation and team spirit and is currently the Managing Director of Techstars Tel Aviv Accelerator.

Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan graduated with a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany in 2014. Prior to this, Vaishnavi pursued a dual degree - M.Sc. Biological Sciences and B.E. Computer Science at BITS, Pilani, India. She started her independent group in 2014 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with her Dept. of Science and Technology (India) INSPIRE Faculty Award. She transitioned to an Assistant Professor position in the same institute in 2017. She was awarded the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT, India) Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award in 2015, Science and Engineering Research Board (India) Early Career Research Award in 2016, and was elected Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2018. In 2019, she was inducted to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) as a Young Investigator and was granted the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship. Most recently, her work was recognized with the Indian National Science Academy’s Medal for Young Scientists 2020, and the American Society for Cell Biology WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research this year. In June 2020, she co-founded BiasWatchIndia, an initiative to document representation of women, and to combat gender-biased panels at Indian science conferences.

Nandita Jayaraj is an independent science journalist, editor and storyteller, who is interested in the contributions and journeys of underrepresented groups in science. She is the co-founder of the award-winning feminist science media platform TheLifeofScience.com, and an author of several children's books, her latest being 'Rathna and the Ring of Fire' and '31 Fantastic Adventures in Science'.

Maitri Gopalakrishna, Maitri Gopalakrishna is a drama therapist, counselling psychologist, theatre maker and practice-researcher. She has a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) and an MA in Counselling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco). Maitri works in community building, preventative care, mental health support, psychotherapy, and training in a variety of institutional and community contexts. She has experience working with issues of gender, sexual trauma, and childhood sexual abuse. Maitri's recent areas of research include drama as an intervention for sexual trauma, therapeutic theatre, and drawing on theories and practices from the Natyashastra in therapeutic work.

Manal Haj-Zaroubi is a Researcher and Scientific Director of The Galilee Society Institute of Applied Research, ShefaAmr. After her PhD she worked as a senior chemist and Project Manager of athe staff chemists at the pharmaceutical company of Axon Medchem BV (The Netherlands), for 10 years. In 2017, Dr. Haj-Zaroubi became a researcher in wastewater treatment and medicinal plants at the same institute. In 2019 she became the scientific director of the Galilee Society Institute of Applied Research. Her current research interests focus on exploring the potential and, ultimately, the utilization of the organic components in the Olive Mill Wastewater (OMWW) to yield environmentally friendly products. In addition she works on the identification and characterization of biologically active secondary metabolites from different medicinal plants.

Shobhana Narasimhan is a professor at the Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore and a fellow of Indian Academy Of Sciences. She obtained her M.Sc. from IIT Bombay (where she was the Institute Silver Medallist), and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. She did postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, and the Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin, Germany. Narasimhan is keen on promoting participation of women in science. She was a member of Working Group for Women in Physics of IUPAP. As a member of the Standing Committee on Women in Science and National Task Force on Women in Science she has made recommendations on how government should change its policies to promote female participation in sciences. Some of these recommendations include having at least one woman member in every hiring, promotion and award committee, ensuring flexi-time for women and increasing days of maternity leave. She has also organized several Career Development Workshops since 2013 for Women in Physics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy and at the East African Institute for Fundamental Research in Kigali, Rwanda. As part of her paper titled, Leaving and Entering a Career in Physics, Narasimhan studied factors that cause women to leave physics and the effect of taking a break on their career. The possibility of a flexible career path and ways to retain female physicists were also discussed.