Top 7 Innovation Speakers In India Who Will Ignite Your Event
Innovation is vital to any company’s lasting success; standstill or you will fall behind quickly. According to Zipdo’s Essential Innovation In Business Statistics In 2023 report, companies prioritising innovation across all levels are growing at a staggering 16% higher rate than their non-innovative counterparts. Innovation isn’t just for startups anymore; it’s a critical strategy for businesses of all sizes and stages.
Innovation involves performing new ideas or workflows, building dynamic products, or developing services. Whether you want to encourage your team to innovate, increase creativity, communication or customer service – an innovative keynote speaker is a perfect way to do it.
Top 7 innovative speakers in India
1) Jaspreet Bindra
Jaspreet Bindra a Managing Director and Founder, innovation speaker in India, Author and a renowned figure in the world of Digital Transformation, Blockchain, and the Future of Work. With a background in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in International Business, Jaspreet has made significant contributions across various domains.
He authored the bestselling book “The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable It”. His insights have also been captured in “The Immune Organization: Future Proofing Organization’s from COVID-like Disruptions”.
Jaspreet served as the Group Chief Digital Officer at the Mahindra Group, a $25 billion conglomerate, and held a key position at Microsoft India. His TEDx talk on Blockchain is widely acclaimed. Jaspreet has delivered 250+ keynotes and talks globally, sharing insights on digital transformation, technology, and the future of work.
2) Madhurima Agarwal
Madhurima Agarwal, an accomplished Innovation Keynote Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Business Coach, and Industry Expert, is a driving force in the sectors of entrepreneurship, innovation, start-ups, and work/life balance. With over 16 years of experience, she has made important contributions to both established businesses and start-ups.
In this era of digital revolution, Madhurima’s ambition goes beyond individual accomplishment; she actively contributes to the ecosystem by encouraging innovation and assisting start-ups. Additionally, she promotes diversity and serves as an adviser to NetApp’s Women in Technology (WIT) group, which focuses on the professional growth of women in the workplace.
3) Avijit Dutt
Avijit Dutt is a filmmaker, actor, theatre director, communications consultant, and TED & innovation speaker. Based in Kolkata, he holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Calcutta University. He started is career as an English teacher at St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling. Dutt’s achievements span various creative fields. He has not only acted in over 100 plays in English, Hindi, and Bengali but has also directed them.
He’s even written six full-length plays himself. Interestingly, Dutt also holds two patent applications, one for a sanitation solution and another for a healthcare process in rural areas. Furthermore, his organization, Enable, focuses on building toilets across northern India, impacting over 60,000 beneficiaries in 68 villages. Dutt’s passion extends beyond creative endeavours, as evidenced by his TED Talks, where he presumably shares his knowledge and experiences.
4) Krishnan Naganathan
Krishnan Naganathan is a distinguished innovation management speaker and consultant recognized for over 25 years of expertise in the field. Krishnan has dedicated his career to helping organizations systematically approach innovation, guiding them in defining their innovation agendas, selecting appropriate strategies, and innovating not only products but also processes, management systems, service delivery, production, and organization structures.
His extensive industry experience encompasses roles in steel, automotive, FMCG, and business consulting, with functional expertise in innovation, operations excellence, supply chain, and strategy development and execution. His skills have been honed at noted companies such as Ford, Castrol/BP, Ashok Leyland, and Jindal, as well as in consulting capacities with firms like Valcon, McKinsey, and ECS Ltd.
5) Musthafa PC
Musthafa PC,a founder of iD Fresh Food India. His journey from a school dropout to an engineering graduate from NIT Calicut and an MBA holder from IIM Bangalore is awe-inspiring. Co-founding iD Fresh Foods with limited resources, Musthafa revolutionized the Indian food industry.
As an innovation speaker in India, he shares his remarkable story, emphasizing traditional Indian values and authenticity. The company, committed to preservative-free products, now stands as a ₹3,000 crore brand.
Forbes India recognizes him as one of the “Tycoons of Tomorrow.” His supply chain management techniques are even studied at Harvard Business School.
6) Pranav Mistry
Pranav got his Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and a Master of Design from IIT Bombay, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Disclosure to fields like Design to Technology and Art to Psychology delivered him a pretty exciting world perspective. He embraces technology from a design perspective and vice versa, and it exhibited in almost all of my projects and research work. Pranav has worked with Microsoft, Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO, and Japan Science & Technology. He is currently the CEO and President of STAR Labs at Samsung.
7) Ram Rastogi
Ram Rastogi has worked as a Short Term Consultant (STC) with CGAP – A World Bank Organisation for Digital Inclusion and multiple driving global study agencies as their Senior Council Member. He has banking expertise for three decades with the State Bank of India (SBI) as a senior executive running its Strategy, Business Development, ATMs, and Emerging Payment Systems. He has also served with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), India’s parasol institution for hatching up retail payments operations as Head of Product Development and mentored real-time payment operations in India similar to Immediate Payments Service (IMPS), Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and AEPS Part of NPCI gist.
Bottom Line
1) Jaspreet Bindra,
2) Madhurima Agarwal
3) Avijit Dutt
4) Krishnan Naganathan
5) Musthafa PC
6) Pranav Mistry
7) Ram Rastogi
These Seven speakers stand out as beacons of inspiration, innovation and thought leadership. Their insights, experiences, and passion have the power to ignite creativity and drive change. To Book a Speaker for your next corporate event contact our Asia’s Largest speaker bureau.
