Our partners and speakers

Archbishop of Bhubaneswar since 2011, and shepherd of the archdiocese that hosts this conclave. Born at Gaibira in Sundargarh, Odisha, he joined the Society of the Divine Word in 1976 and was ordained in 1985. He holds a licentiate in liturgy from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome, and served as Coadjutor Bishop of Rourkela before his appointment to Bhubaneswar.

Additional Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Social Work at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, where his field is adult mental health. His research examines the social determinants of recovery from mental illness - what in a person's family, school and community helps them get well, and what hinders it.

Member of Parliament for Bhubaneswar, first elected in 2019 and returned in 2024. She served in the Indian Administrative Service, Odisha cadre, from the 1994 batch until November 2018, and was Municipal Commissioner of Bhubaneswar from 2006 to 2009. Her last posting in the service was as Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of Rural Development.

Vice Chancellor of XIM University, Bhubaneswar since 5 September 2025, with a Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal and over thirty-three years of leadership in higher education. He was previously Director of XLRI Delhi-NCR and Professor of General Management and Communication for five years, and before that spent more than two and a half decades in leadership at the Loyola Institutions, Hyderabad. The Minority Commission of the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh honoured him in 2015 for his service to education. His academic interests include communicative competence, servant leadership and organisational transformation, and he is a strong advocate of the responsible integration of technology in education.

Principal, Montfort School, Guwahati. Leads the interaction after the first session on Saturday 10:00 and moderates the valedictory function on Sunday.

A Montfort Brother who has served as a Provincial Superior, and who led the Montfort Community Project at Kombuthooki in Yercaud from 2001, pioneering its school for tribal children. He managed the land and the first building for Lake Montfort School in Bengaluru, and started Deshayes Mount School. He takes Session Four, Montfortian Education and its Relevance.

Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at XIM University since December 2022, previously at GITAM University, Hyderabad and Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. He completed his M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. His research interests are blockchain, cryptography, cybersecurity, network security and wireless sensor networks.

An international educator and wellness coach from Pune, who has worked across four continents for more than two decades as a life coach, corporate trainer and speaker on public speaking and spiritual leadership. He holds a certificate in Ayurveda from the International Academy of Ayurveda and published Ayurjyothi, the first book on Ayurveda in Braille. He takes Session Five, the group discussion and presentation.

Secretary of the Jesuit Educational Association of South Asia and Conference Secretary for Secondary Education, and National Alumni Advisor to the Jesuit Alumni Associations of India. He is the author of Good Practices in Jesuit Schools, and works on collaboration between Jesuit schools across South Asia and beyond. He takes Session Six, Respond to Changing Times, and Session Eight, Way Forward.

A TEDx speaker and insurance educator who trains in soft skills, communication and leadership, and founder of the Crossover Training Academy in Bengaluru. His work runs to schools, colleges and universities as well as to corporates, and to carrying an understanding of insurance into rural India. He takes Session Seven, Look Beyond, Glance Around, Search Within.

Chief Executive of Intelligent Quotient Security System, Pune, and President of the Cyber Security Corporation. He works on the legal as well as the technical side of cyber security, assisting law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, companies and educational institutions with investigation and the collection of evidence, and lectures widely on the subject.

Professor of Strategy and Chairperson of the AIESS Research Centre at XIM University, Bhubaneswar, and President of the AIESS Society. Drawing on over three decades of field-based action research and policy engagement, he founded the All Interacting Evolving Systems Science paradigm to explain regeneration and degeneration in complex systems, and developed the Ecosystemic Transdisciplinary Action Research methodology for building regenerative ecosystems. He is Chairperson of the AIESS Global Consortium and Vice President of the International Federation for Systems Research.

Pro Vice Chancellor of XIM University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Master's degree in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, and has taught at ESSEC Business School in France and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. He has been Director at IMT Business School, Dubai; Pro Vice Chancellor at NMIMS University; and Dean at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. Before his academic career he spent over six years with the Reserve Bank of India.

Founder and Chief Executive of ThinkZone, an education non-profit based in Cuttack that supports more than 1.4 million children and over 100,000 teachers through technology-enabled, community-driven work built into government systems, in partnership with the Government of Odisha. Its two flagship programmes are PRAKASHAK, for parental engagement, and Empower Educators, for teacher and caregiver development. A randomised controlled trial published in the Economics of Education Review found the programme raised the chance of improvement for struggling learners by 33.5 per cent within four months; a separate study by Educational Initiatives and IIM Ahmedabad reported 1.46 times learning acceleration. He has led this work for over eleven years, and it has been recognised by the World Bank and by CEMEX-TEC in Mexico.

Assistant Professor at the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University since August 2023, and before that nine years at the Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune. He holds a Ph.D. in Organisational Behaviour from Symbiosis International University, where his research was on emotional labour among hospitality employees in India, and is a gold medallist in MA Human Resource Management from Jamia Millia Islamia. A certified Emotional Intelligence Coach Practitioner and an independent academic member of the British Society for Phenomenology. His work covers emotional intelligence, group dynamics, change management, feedback and servant leadership.

Takes XIM SPIC MACAY Team on Friday 19:20.