Kunal Upadhyay is the Co-Founder of Bharat Fund and CIIE.CO at IIM Ahmedabad which back startups across deep-tech and inclusive technologies. Prior to this, Kunal led Infuse Ventures which is India's first cleantech focussed incubation and venture fund - backed by MNRE, BP, IFC, among others. Kunal is also an advisor to Asian Development Bank to invest in climate tech innovations. He is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and BTech from IIT Madras, and was recently awarded Forty under 40 by Economic Times.

Rakesh is a global business leader and has been at the helm of operations as CEO and Director on board of multi-billion Corporations spanning across continents. The recent positions he has held are – Global President Energy Solution on Wartsila Corporation Board of Management, Helsinki, followed by CEO International Business and Member of Executive Group, Suzlon Energy, India. He is currently on the Board of Companies as Independent Director and engaged in consulting with Corporates & International Funds. Amongst others, he is member on Advisory Board of O2 Power Holding Company at Singapore (Temasek, Singapore & EQT, Sweden JV), launched in India a year back. He is also bootstrapping two start-ups in the space of tech enabled Holistic Wellness and Organization Performance Enhancement. Rakesh is alumni of IIT BHU & Oxford University. His passion lies in the wellness of people, corporate performance and greener & cleaner environment.

Sanjeev Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of Amplus, one of Asia’s largest Distributed Solar Company. He has approx. 25 years of experience in the thermal and renewable energy sectors working with power utilities, banks, and consulting companies in India and Europe. Prior to Amplus, as a managing director of AES Corporation’s Indian subsidiary, Sanjeev led the business development team and was involved in AES’s greenfield coal, gas, and hydrogen projects in Southeast Asia. His vision of providing Low Carbon Energy solutions to everyone has enabled Amplus to scale up exponentially in 5 years. Amplus owns and operates over 800 MW of distributed solar assets catering to more than 200 C&I customers. Amplus is a member of PETRONAS’ Renewable Energy platform. In 2013 Sanjeev was recognized as a Young Leader by FICCI and has also won the Global CEO Award by Finance Monthly for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. He currently serves on various committees as an industry expert including FICCI Solar Energy Task Force and CII National Solar Committee. Sanjeev is trained as a mechanical engineer, with an MBA degree from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Tanya Singhal is the Founder and Director of SolarArise. SolarArise is a unique Solar PV asset management firm that owns & operates large-scale grid-connected solar projects. In 2010, after spending years at Strategy Consulting at the Boston Consulting Group and working across sectors, she decided something was needed to be done to make clean solar energy an affordable reality in India. Thus started her entrepreneurial journey and SolarArise was borne. Tanya, together with her co-founders, has raised over Rs 400 Cr of equity from marquee investors and Rs 800 Cr of debt. SolarArise has successfully built and operating sustainable solar PV plants of across remote villages in India - Beed, Maharashtra , Gadwal, Telangana & Koppal, Karnataka. Her goal is to move India to a low-carbon development path, away from fossil fuels. Tanya holds a Bachelor in Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is currently the Director, IIT Delhi. Prof. Rao was earlier P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 450 research publications in the area of nano-scale devices & Nanoelectronics and is an inventor on 45 patents and patent applications, which include 17 issued US patents. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. Prof. Rao has received many awards and honours including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, the Infosys Prize, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship award from DST, J.C.Bose National Fellowship, Prof. C.N.R.Rao National Nanoscience award and VASVIK Award. For more details of Prof. Rao, visit: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~rrao/.

Ms. Vandana Bhatnagar is the Chief Program Officer at the National Skill Development Corporation (India). As part of the leadership team she provides strategic oversight for programs and knowledge management functions at NSDC. She leads teams working on occupational standards, digital skilling, industry partnerships, monitoring, research and analytics. Vandana has over 29 years of professional experience in the development and financial sectors. She has worked with Standard Chartered Bank, The World Bank, IDFC and TERI. Prior to joining NSDC, Vandana worked at the World Bank as Senior Institutional Development Specialist in the Water Global Practice, where she led several sector strategy and policy level engagements at the national, state and local levels. She is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) and St. Stephens College in Delhi University.