Our speakers

Dharamveer Singh Chouhan, CEO & Co- founder, Zo Rooms

Dharamveer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zostel Hospitality Private Limited, the fastest growing firm in Indian budget accommodation space. He has a strong inclination towards technology and believes in internet’s ability to revolutionize businesses and empower ecosystems.

Dharamveer is a serial entrepreneur and has tested various markets with successful business models. He started his first entrepreneurial venture at the age of 18 when he was still in his first year of graduation at IIT-BHU. The venture focused on building games around Cricket  called iplcricketgame.com. In the second year of college, he started his second start-up and hired a team to work on building applications on social media platforms called as Bright Ants Private Ltd. The company focused on building larger social games and applications. Its first game again reached to around 5000 users, but could not monetize and later shut down. Dharamveer went on to work with a German startup for 4 months during which he traveled to 11 countries and realized the huge potential in the Indian hospitality industry that had lacked innovation for years. Post coming back to India after his stint in the German ecosystem, he joined IIM Calcutta. During the early days of IIM itself, he along with his 6 co-founders had started evaluating the potential of the Indian hospitality industry and came up with the concept of Zostel which paved way for the concept of backpackers accommodation. While continuing to build on the success of Zostel, the team went on to build ZO Rooms, a premium budget hotel aggregator which is disrupting the multi-billion dollar short-stay space.

Dharmender Kapoor, CEO, Birlasoft Limited

Dharmendra Manwani, CEO, Jean - Claude Biguine, India

With great leadership qualities, Dharmendra Manwani co-founded Mindspring, Inc, a New York-based successful management & technology consulting firm. He also provided his consulting expertise to various Fortune 500 companies, which include New York Stock Exchange, ATT Broadband, JPMorgan Chase, Societe-General, and Schering - Plough. Currently, Dharmendra is associated with Columbia Business School where he mentors management graduates on retail service industry and ventures. He is the leading light for Jean - Claude Biguine-House of Beauty, as its Chief Executive Officer for India.

Dharmendra Rai, Mind Map Trainer & Co Inventor, Freelearningresources.com

Trained In Lateral Thinking By Edward de Bono, The Father Of Creativity & Nobel Economics Prize Nominee. He has a planet named after him !NLP Master Practitioner , Endorsed For NLP By Sue Knight One Of The Global Pioneers In NLP , Author Of NLP At Work. Conducted 284 Mind Map Seminars - Probably A WORLD RECORD ! Mind Map seminars done for Execs of Many Fortune 500 Cos , IITs, IIMs, Harvard Business School , Wharton Business School , Johns Hopkins , Oxford , & London School of Economics ( LSE ) Alumni. He Is The City Brand Ambassador of IIMnetWORK ! Founded by IIM Alumni. We organize seminars for professional development. Has over 600 Testimonials on his website Including One From A Guiness World Record Breaker. Probably the Most Endorsed Trainer In The World On Linkedin.

"Dharmendra Rai' gave rise to over 8 Million Reference Pages on Google. Speaker at The World HRD Congress 2012. One of the Most Connected People on the Planet. He Is one of the most influential people in the world on Social Media. Member of Mensa International ( An International High IQ Society ). Appeared on CNBC, Times Of India, Business World Magazine , DNA , Zee Business and Channel V.

15 Years Work Ex With Cos like Morgan Stanley, Alliance Capital. Last Position - National Sales Head , Benchmark Mutual Fund , Now Goldman Sachs. Joined the elite list of extremely rare human beings in the history of planet earth , who have been A TED x Speaker Not Just Once But 4 TIMES ! Spoke on Creativity & Mind Mapping & Invisible Selling . It was an honour for him to speak at a platform that has had Tony Buzan , Anthony Robbins , Ray Kurzweil , Bill Gates , Bill Clinton , Stephen Hawking , Richard Branson & Monica Lewinsky.

Dharmil Sheth, Co-founder, Pharmeasy

Mr. Dharmil Sheth is the co-founder of Pharmeasy, the leading medical and healthcare app in India that connects consumers with local pharmacies and diagnostic centres. At Pharmeasy, he particularly looks at the key areas of customer experience and also helms the operations and marketing divisions of the company. With a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering and a PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad, Mr. Sheth has been associated with renowned companies such as MakeMyTrip in key leadership roles. Fulfilling his entrepreneurial passions with new and exciting ventures, prior to Pharmeasy, he founded 91 Streets, a shopping search platform and BoxPlay Sports, a world-class sports infrastructure set-up for teams and individuals to play soccer and cricket. Mr. Sheth believes, that in five years, Pharmeasy will be the go-to app for all Indians to fulfill their need for affordable medication and medical tests. It will connect service providers and patients seamlessly across the country and enable digitization of all medical records on a single platform, truly revolutionising the way the pharma space works in India. A keen contributor to society, Mr. Sheth has also laid the foundation of and is President to Ekagrata Foundation, a Non-Government Organisation which works towards the welfare of underprivileged children. In his free time, he likes to teach these children and play a role in shaping up their future. A football fanatic, he also loves to spend his free time on his creation, BoxPlay pads to polish his skills in the game.

Dharminder Nagar, MD, Paras Healthcare

Dr. Dharminder Nagar is the Managing Director of Paras Healthcare. He has the unique advantage of being a doctor, hospital administrator and entrepreneur all in one. Several qualifications that include an MBBS from Mysore Medical College, MPhil from BITS Pilani, MS from Imperial College and MBA from Harvard, have propelled this young and dynamic MD to the forefront of healthcare. Dr. Nagar’s missionary zeal to make health services accessible to all Indians led to the establishment of Paras Healthcare, which is founded on the three principles of affordability, accessibility and quality.

Dr. Nagar’s keenness to deliver accessible tertiary medical care to people of every social strata is obvious from the cutting edge technologies and infrastructure present in all hospitals, at affordable prices. He supports every Indian’s right to healthcare and plans to introduce new models of healthcare delivery that empower patients at every stage, from the primary to the tertiary. Imparting awareness about healthy living practices is an important component of services at hospitals. A strong rural marketing strategy that includes Telemedicine supports the activities of Paras HMRI in Patna also enables communities in the far flung areas of Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana to access medical care.

Dr. Nagar is a leader with a strong social bent of mind, committed to realizing his vision of providing healthcare solutions for the common man. Corporate social responsibility is integral to Paras Healthcare, and the three hospitals run by the group- Paras Hospitals in Gurgaon, Paras Bliss in South Delhi, Paras Bliss in Panchkula ,Paras HMRI in Patna and Paras Global Hospital in Darbhanga- were built in response to unmet healthcare needs of the rural and urban people in the region. Hailing from a rural background, Dr. Nagar is determined to bridge the gap between the rich and poor, and has built hospitals in areas that lack health infrastructure, specialists and tertiary care. Ultimately Dr. Nagar perceives Paras Healthcare as a partner in health for the common man.

Dr Dharminder Nagar has been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year (2015) Award at the India Health & Wellness Summit 2015 and Dynamic Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 by Six Sigma Healthcare Awards at the World Entrepreneur Summit.

Dhaval Agarwal, Director – Investments, Tuscan Ventures

Dhaval works as Director – Investments with Tuscan Ventures since 2009. He specializes in the financial services, logistics and food sectors. Dhaval has led both early as well as growth stage deals on behalf of the firm. He particularly enjoys working with companies in their early stages and working closely with the founding team on growing the business.

Prior to his stint with Tuscan, Dhaval used to be an entrepreneur where he incubated his own project logistics company. In the company, he managed global multimodal supply chains for several large infrastructure projects across India spanning Power, Oil and Gas, Metals and Minerals, Cement, Infrastructure etc.

Dhaval holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York.

Dhaval Pandya, Corporate CIO, Piramal Enterprise Ltd.

Dhaval Pandya is the Corporate Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Piramal Enterprises Limited. He is responsible for strategizing and implementing end-to-end technologies for Corporate Functions and Corporate Applications for the Group as well as Pharma businesses. Dhaval will also drive technology team’s vision for the group, strengthening technology Culture in the organization.

In his prior assignment, he was the CIO & CDO at JSW Paints Private Limited, Mumbai – a startup within the billion-dollar JSW business conglomerate. As a part of the Core Leadership Team, he was involved in all the strategic initiatives and discussions across the functions. Being a startup, he developed the complete digital & information technology backbone grounds up across the entire value chain – spanning across Internal Customers, Operations & Supply Chain, Channel, Field, Influencers and Consumers.

He comes from a consulting background and his vision is to deploy technology that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage in the long run & enable business of the future. He adopts a KPI driven approach for identification of technology & levers of change to drive business outcomes & increase user adoption. Some of the key considerations include leveraging Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI & ML), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Industry 4.0 & IoT, Blockchain, AR, VR, Chabot / Digital Assistant, Cloud, Analytics, Mobility and Social (CAMS) among others

He participates as an expert, speaker & panelist at various forums to deliver thought leadership around providing a point of view, evaluation, applicability & futuristic potential of various levers in information technology and digital.

Dhaval V Pandya, Corporate Chief Information Officer, Piramal Enterprises Limited

Dheemant Thacker, Digital Banking Head, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Dheemant is a digital banking and product innovation professional with over 15 years of experience in Banking & Financial Services. He has successfully built teams and setup business verticals to operate as independent P&L units in Mobile Innovation, Social Media & Artificial Intelligence and UI / UX. He has successfully led the development, launch and management of digital products, channels & innovations in Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and new-age technologies like IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality etc. space with a focus on generating better ROI for the organization. He has worked with HDFC Bank, Aditya Birla Capital and Bandhan Bank. At Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, he has setup the Digital Banking function and is driving the digital initiatives of the bank.