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An alumnus of NID, She brings a rich experience of 31 years in Design Academics and Design Practice. She has been the Founder Director of Pearl Academy Noida, Dean at School of Design, IILM University, Arch Academy of Design & Business. Her experience as an educator, mentor, business.

Strategy developer in Design education and management has contributed to design academics. As a design practitioner, she has worked extensively in trend development, fashion clothing, homemade-ups, carpets, woven textiles, soft toys.

An NID alumnus, she has more than a decade of experience as a designer and educationist. She has worked with Indian ethnic brands such as Fabindia and Soma Block Prints, and in the area of retail and marketing with brand names such as Samsung, Sony, Revlon, etc.

With a stronghold in design management and marketing, she has been an interdisciplinary faculty in the field of design and critical thinking, design research & methodology, luxury brand management, brand marketing, and consumer experience.

A Creative Director with over 10 years of experience in Design and Advertising. Currently, she is working at McCann Worldgroup, where she manages creative teams and leads design-centric projects. Prior to this, she served as an Associate Creative Director at Contract India and a Senior Art Director at McCann Erickson.

She has worked on projects across various communication platforms, including Graphic, Advertising, Film, Digital, Product, Exhibition, and Social Design. Annie studied at the National Institute of Design and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Her work has been recognized with several awards, and she is proficient in English, Malayalam, and Hindi.

A seasoned Senior Interaction Designer currently working at frog, a global design and strategy firm. With over 15 years of experience in the field, Panda has honed his skills in user research, systems thinking, and user-centered design. He served as a Design Lead at Times Internet and Moonraft Innovation Labs.

Educational background includes a PG Diploma in Industrial and Product Design from the NID and a B.Arch from the NIT, Hamirpur. His exceptional work has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Best Project of the Year and Best Regenerative & Sustainable Innovation Award.

A Fashion Design graduate from NIFT, has worked in the industry for several years. He has worked with several domestic & international brands alongside the designers. He has gained immense knowledge and experience working

with leading design studios in Italy and has conducted shoots for Diesel, Addict Style Magazine (Addict Design Lab), Trend Elephant, Hamburg, Germany, Dionis Design Studio, Hamburg, Germany, Rohit Bal, Raghvendra Rathore. He is passionate about self-evolution through meditation and working towards the betterment of society.

Rachita Rakyan is the founder of YME design, a design firm based in New Delhi, India, where she has been leading since January 2011. Prior to starting her own firm, she co-founded White Light Design and worked as a Creative Designer at Crayons Advertising Ltd.

and as a Graphic Designer at Ogilvy & Mather. Her top skills include branding, graphic design, and logo design. Rachita studied Graphic Design at the National Institute of Design.

An alumni of The IIPM, New Delhi And has 20 years of industry experience in marketing and advertising in India, Nepal and the Middle East working with companies like Ogilvy, BBDO, Grey, TBWA. Mccann-Erickson, Bates and Y&R.

He also has over 15 years teaching experience as guest faculty/consultant at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (JNU campus), Pearl Academy and IP College for Women, Delhi University. He has areas of expertise include marketing, advertising, consumer behaviour and digital marketing.

Illustrator and visual artist based in New Delhi, India. After completing her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017, she worked with publishing houses in Boston and New York as a designer.

She then had a year-long stint as the lead marketing designer for Paro Goodearth, handling communications both online and offline. Since going freelance fulltime in 2020 she's worked in a number of fields including editorial art, picture book illustration, food packaging illustration, visual identity creation, and board game development.

Ms. Sukruti Anah Staneley is the Creative Director at The Caravan Magazine, one of the India's most respected and intellectually agile publications, setting new benchmarks for Indian and South Asian media.

She has a BA in Mass Media (Advertising) from the University of Mumbai, and an MA in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster, London, UK. Ms. Staneley recently won the Cover of the Year (English) award for the design of the cover of Intimate City, published by Zubaan.

Communication design & Product professional with over 20 years of expertise in creative direction, design thinking, design strategy, academic talent and capacity development, Innovation and transformation in Media, Digital, EdTech, and Higher Ed organisations.

She has authored papers, driven publications, nurtured start-ups, Animation films and design education & training; having anchored design thinking workshops across India, Africa and the UK. Ms. Majithia has been featured amongst 50 most Influential Indians.