Rafi-uddin Shikoh

Rafi-uddin Shikoh is Managing Director of DinarStandard, a growth strategy research and advisory firm specialising in emerging Muslim markets. He has 17 years of advisory and in-house experience and specialises in market expansion, investment planning and marketing strategy for large as well as small companies. He has led innovation workshops for Dubai Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the […]

Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar

Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar is Chairman of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. He was a CEO of three major organisations in infrastructure development, namely UEM Group, Telekom Malaysia and Maybank 2008 – 2013. He was Group Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, after completing his term as a senator and minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in […]

Shermin Voshmgir

Shermin Voshmgir is the author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen. She started BlockchainHub in Berlin, was the director of Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at Vienna University of Economics, which she also co-founded. She was a curator of the infamous project TheDAO  back in 2016. She is setting up a data driven farm in Portugal with […]

Professor Anicia Peters

Professor Anicia Peters is the CEO of NCRST, Adjunct Research Professor and was the Chairperson of the Namibia Presidential Task Force on 4IR. She is founder of Africa Human Computer Interaction Conference and Namibia Women in Computing. She serves on the steering committee of ACM CHI. She works among others on the intersection of technology […]

Dr Karim Michel Sabbagh

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 […]

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.