Chief Innovation Catalyst​​ - Research Innovation Incubation Design Laboratory, Somaiya Vidyavihar UniversityLead Developer Circles MUMBAIGoverning Board Member - Indian STEPS & Business Incubator AssociationEntrepreneurship and Innovation Committee Member - Indian Merchant ChamberE-Yuva Advisory Committee Member - BIRAC Government of India

Seeker | Founder CEO, Bluebolt Electric | Founder CEO, BlueBolt Startup Factory | Founder Chairman, Startup India Foundation | SculptorAnil is an entrepreneur at heart & believer in the power of dreams. Life has come full circle now - Anil started consulting after exit from his Edtech startup, spent a few years mentoring startups and building a successful accelerator program with $100m+ startup portfolio - and now back being an entrepreneur again! Anil is founder of Bluebolt Startup Factory, an enterprise deep tech startups accelerator. Anil founded Startup India Foundation, a non-profit initiative by a group of successful and experienced entrepreneurs to help grow the early-stage startup ecosystem in India. Anil is a well-regarded startup mentor in the Indian startup ecosystem and a TEDx speaker. Anil was the anchor judge for Haywards 5000 Haunslay ki Udaan, India's First Startup Reality TV Show and the official startup coach for The Vault Show, India's answer to Shark Tank. Fondly known as Katappa of the Indian startup ecosystem, Anil is admired for his outspoken no-nonsense views about the startups and the ecosystem. He is the most sought after judge for startup pitching events and hackathons. He has judged over 5000 startups in the last 36 months. In 2001, Anil founded 24x7 Learning and led its growth over a decade to become India’s largest e-learning implementation company besides successfully raising multiple rounds of investments including $4m from Network 18. Prior to founding 24x7 Learning, Anil had successfully set up and launched businesses for two large multinational companies in India.

Experience of over a decade juggling highly challenging roles as an entrepreneur, an ecosystem enabler working with Govt. initiatives for startups, strategising and managing corporate innovation programs and working extensively on startup corporate collaborations and partnerships. Since 2015, in India, Link (formerly known as NUMA Bengaluru) accelerates startups’ growth and corporates’ innovation adoption while supporting the larger ecosystem’s emergence by creating key collaborations.Today Link’s network is evolving and deep-diving into the specificities of our startup ecosystems. Link’s upcoming mission is to fastrack innovation adoption and be the partner of choice for startups and corporates in Asia.

Uday (UD) Wankawala has been active in the Indian Startup Ecosystem as a collaborator, facilitator & motivator since 2010. He is involved in envisioning, planning and providing overall leadership to AIC-RMP with an objective of nurturing and supporting New Age Entrepreneurs for New Age India. His endeavour is to unearth the huge entrepreneurial potential among youth and actively contribute in setting up a robust startup eco-system driven by Innovation & Technology.He has travelled all over India addressing over 50,000 students, covering 300+ academic campuses including IITs, IIMs and NITs, on ‘Entrepreneurship’. In his last stint, he had worked with Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) Incubator at IIT-Bombay, handling outreach, partnerships and special projects including National Entrepreneurship Awards Scheme (NEAS) instituted by Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Govt of India. He has also worked with a leading early-stage social entrepreneurship incubator for a year & was with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN- Wadhwani Foundation) from 2010-15 wherein he was the program lead- Innovation and consulting academic Institutions to set up robust entrepreneurship ecosystem.He holds a Post-Graduate degree in Management from University of Mumbai. He is a certified Instructional Designer and has successfully completed ‘Entrepreneurship Educators’ Course’ offered by NEN-Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He loves travelling and exploring new places & local cultures. His other interest areas are Research, Publication & experiential pedagogy which can help in creating start-ups.PS: He traveled more than 20,000 Kms. during October 2016-March 2017 period visiting cities like Indore, Surat, Nagpur, Nashik, Gwalior, Raipur, Amravati etc... apart from Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore in an endeavour to study & build a strong entrepreneurship eco-system in Tier II, III cities.