Word Up 2015
This isn't just another meet. This isn't just a blogger event. Nothing can prepare you for Word Up 2015 in Bangalore!
The speakers so far:
Arun Prabhudesai
Arun Prabhudesai is an Entrepreneur, Blogger and internet addict. After a long stint in IT Industry spanning 12 years and 3 continents, he came back to India to start on his own. His 2 startups have had mixed success. He is founder of Armoks Interactive Labs and founder-editor at Trak.in, one of the most popular Indian Technology News and Views Destination where he and his team of passionate writers present Insightful and Analytical stories on Technology, Telecom and Startup world.
Janhavi Acharekar
Janhavi Acharekar is the author of the novel Wanderers, All (HarperCollins, 2015), a collection of short stories Window Seat: Rush-hour stories from the city (HarperCollins, 2009) and the travel guide Moon Mumbai & Goa (Avalon, 2009) - the first Indian destination guide by the American travel book series Moon Handbooks.
A writer of both fiction and travel, she is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveller India. Her short stories appear in various anthologies of short fiction while her features on travel, books and the arts appear in leading Indian and international publications. She has curated several literary festivals including the Crossword and Kala Ghoda litfests in Mumbai as well as Lit.mus in Bangalore. Janhavi was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Writer’s Fellowship at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 2009.
Janhavi Stories | @WanderersAll
Prasanna Revan
Prasanna Revan is a designer and illustrator in Bangalore, India.
"He started apprenticeship with his artist dad when he was ten, and has been a visual artist ever since. His works spans close to fifteen years with brands like, Amazon, Yahoo, AOL and many consumer brands across the globe. Though his passion is design, his distractions are calligraphy, motorcycling, graphic novels, birds, nature, alan moore, ink, pigments, country music, indology, monsoon, and the list goes on..."
Dheeraj Sharma
I am Dheeraj Sharma, an Avid Traveler, a Day – Night Dreamer and a Passionate Lover of Himalayas who has a high zest for driving whilst exploring new places in Himalayas & sharing back those Himalayan Travel experiences with the other fellow Travelers… I am in love with Spreading Smiles in Himalayas through DoW Causes & currently enjoying life as Happy Traveling Soul at DoW Community.
Prasant Naidu
Prasant Naidu is the Founder at Lighthouse Insights (LI), a four-and-half-year-young online publishing startup which covers Indian social media marketing stories beyond press releases. Prior to starting up LI with his wife, Prasant worked as a Business Analyst for more than six years in India, UK and Singapore. You can follow him on Twitter - @PrasantNaidu.