Word-up!
From the makers of the original and legendary #IndiMum, it's an all-day, invite-only, super-charged, [insert superlative here] event on blogging, and nothing but blogging. Word up!
The speakers so far:
Lakshmi Rebecca
Middle class Indian girls are awesome. Ask me! I’m a filmmaker and anchor. I own Red Bangle, a film production house that’s made over 300 films including Ad Films, Corporate Films, Web Films and Animated Films. My debut online talk show, ‘Chai with Lakshmi’ has had over 30,00,000 views. The show features people positively shaping India for the future. I have a second series on Youtube titled ‘India Ahead’, which is a short documentary series offering progressive Indians a platform to celebrate their efforts. [more][twitter]
Sunit Singh
One of the cleanest and the most clutter free of Indian sites, Cleartrip serves as a benchmark in many respects when it comes to design. Sunit Singh, a graduate in fine arts from the Sir J.J.School of Art and a post graduation from Industrial Design Center at IIT Mumbai, has been obsessed with design ever since he started working for Paper Plane Solutions. From there on, he moved on to Burrp and Yahoo! and is now at Cleartrip. [more][twitter]
Vinit Goenka
Vinit is a fervent nationalist, technocrat, educationist, social activist, people’s man, & visionary with a tenacious drive to inspire and bring about change within society. After spending over a decade in the private sector, he quit his growing and lucrative career to join politics and serve his nation. Today, as a National Co-Convener for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Information Technology Cell, his responsibilities include, industry interaction, policy & e-governance and better governance with the help of technology.Vinit devotes a lot of his time to finding ways in which technology can be effectively used by not only the party but also the nation. He is a great believer in the power of e-governance, transparency, and works tirelessly to create synergies between the industry and government. [more][twitter]
Scherezade Shroff
She already has over a million views on her YouTube channel and a huge subscriber base from all over the world. Scherezade uploads fashion & beauty videos, makeup & hair tutorials, DIY's and lots of other fun videos on her YouTube channel. She also has a fashion blog called www.fashionalized.com. [more][twitter]
Varun Krishnan
Founder of FoneArena.com, he is probably one of the biggest fans of mobile phones and gadgets. He is currently in his mission of finding the ‘perfect phone’, so he ends up buying almost all the phones that makes its way into market. Varun is also the founder of Mobile Monday Chennai Chapter – which is basically an event where enthusiasts get to exchange ideas, opinions and of course knowledge. FoneArena.com is one of the popular sources for mobile consumers and technology enthusiasts from across the globe. The publication strives to deliver all the latest news and updates from the world of mobile phones [more][twitter]
Arunabh Kumar
Arunabh, also known as "TheQtiyapaGuy” has become synonymous with New Age Entertainment and is hailed by Media as the driver of revolution in Content Creation. The Viral Fever' Brand has been hailed as India's most Progressive Content Company by some of the best & biggest minds in M&E Industry. With approximately 690,000 subscribers, 48 million views and less than 100 uploaded videos; these numbers are something every YouTube user would crave for and media moguls will pay universe to get, but it was never easy to reach these figures. Arunabh’s story is nothing less than inspiration and passion personified [more][twitter]
Harsh Agrawal
Harsh Agarwal is a passionate blogger who loves computing, the internet, and manages ShoutMeLoud. He's an engineer by education and a blogger by profession. Once employed at Convergys, he decided to become a professional blogger despite having an opportunity to join Accenture in 2009. Why, you ask? To become his own boss! Technology has been his passion since he was a child, and after starting a few tech blogs and communities, he now blogs full-time via Shoutmeloud. [more][twitter]
Anshul Tewari
Anshul Tewari is a journalist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of YouthKiAwaaz.com, an online platform for young people to express themselves on issues of critical importance. As per popular media, he started YouthKiAwaaz.com for news and views of the youth that found no place in the mainline media, and to break the stereotype of the Indian youth being apathetic. [more][twitter]
Snigdha Manchanda
Snigdha Manchanda is the founder of TeaTrunk and Story Ninja. As a Tea Sommelier she rigorously trained under a Japanese Tea Master in Sri Lanka. She started Tea Trunk as a medium to provide people with good-quality tea.
Through Story Ninja she reaches out to content creators, marketers, teachers, bloggers, entrepreneurs or just about anyone who enjoys a story well told. She has been conducting various workshops focusing on understanding patterns in storytelling, story building & narrative techniques and digital storytelling. [more][twitter]
Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal is a personal technology columnist and founder of Digital Inspiration, a popular how-to blog since 2004. He is the chief curator of the IndianBloggers.org directory. Amit has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee and, other than blogging, he also enjoys writing web apps and scripts that enhance productivity. [more][twitter]
C S Krishna
C S Krishna is a self-proclaimed legendary development consultant. He wants to make it big as a public policy guru but three years of writing satire for The UnReal Times under the pseudonym Unreal Mama has rendered him incapable of thinking seriously. He is also the co-author of the political satire novel, Unreal Elections. [more] [twitter]