Karim Michel Sabbagh is Managing Director of E-Space, the world first satellite-based hyper-scaler for IoT. He leads developments in Europe and the Middle East. He was former President and CEO of Société Européenne des Satellites in Luxembourg. He successfully executed its restructuring, as the company achieved number one status globally. He was a Senior Partner and Global Practice Leader for media, technology and communications at Booz&Co. He shaped and implemented strategic transformations in digital domains such as smart cities, smart governments and satellite sectors, at the level of national governments, boards and CEOs.

Karim is a board member of Aanaab in the Gulf and E-Space SAS in France. He is on the advisory board of Portulans Institute. His areas of expertise include finance, strategy and technology. He holds degree from Columbia University, the American University of Beirut and the International School of Management.

Ajith Basu

Chief Programme Executive

Agastya Foundation

India

Ajith Basu is Chief Consultant-Programs at Agastya International Foundation, an NGO that uses interactive, hands-on methods to educate over 1.7 million government school children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in 22 Indian states each year. The foundation handles teacher training programmes and coordinate ‘giftedness’ identification programme in STEM among rural children with various organisations including National Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Ajith developed an impact assessment framework to assess various Agastya field intervention models in collaboration with various agencies in Bangalore. He designed and coordinated Agastya’s leadership of HP Catalyst New Learner Consortium which worked across eight countries. He also designed and coordinated Maverick Teachers’ Global Summit at Agastya campus where teachers participated, creating school-level pedagogies around UN SDGs.