While holding down a day job, Vineet founded Atypical Advantage, a first-of-its-kind platform for persons with disabilities to showcase their work, find jobs (and for hirers to find them), and sell products and art. He is now doing this full-time. An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, he previously worked for a retail major, where he transformed how Indians with disabilities shopped through pioneering concepts like ‘sabke liye,’ a blend of assistive services and accessible spaces, and ‘quiet hour,’ a sensory-friendly experience for individuals with autism. An avid trekker, marathoner, and endurance cyclist, he dreams of criss-crossing the world on a cycle someday. He believes compassion is the only way to make the world a better place and has been a lifelong volunteer.

With over 16 years invested in building brands, Amrita is on a mission to build businesses with heart, that care for people, purpose and profits equally. Her career has been full of conscious attempts to make meaningful impact by using her strengths that meet at the intersection of growth marketing, business strategy, technology, social impact, education and storytelling. She is today a mission-driven marketer turned entrepreneur on the path of building a scaleable impact-led sustainable creative business, Raaha, a for-profit social enterprise that came to life virtually with a co-founder in San Francisco, in the midst of the pandemic, with the sole focus of powering growth in the artisan economy.

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At The Goa Project Sessions, we go this Sunday to our Fringe & Geekery track.

We will discuss left-handedness, and the hacks and adaptations lefties use to negotiate a right-dominant world.

Venkatesh works for the fact-checking organisation BOOM where he created an initiative called Media Buddhi. Prior to this he was a John S. Knight Fellow in journalism at Stanford University. He is a former editor of The Quint and a Senior Anchor at CNN-IBN. He is a Bangalorean who lives in New Delhi, which is very much like being the person in the Sting song, ‘An Englishman in New York.’

Neeharika works in media and advertising in the areas of growth, new business strategy and consumer behaviour. Her past work as a researcher with agencies in India and the Middle East cuts across various research disciplines and industries. Currently she works for the Publicis Groupe and shuttles between Gurgaon and Bangalore. Neeharika is a management graduate and holds a certificate in Advanced Semiotics from Market Research Society, London.

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This Sunday, Science & Technology: how software design exploits our behaviour patterns & lessons learnt on stage to make education more engaging.

Khuzema is an entrepreneur with a passion for using technology as enabler to build better businesses, which led him to start Siam Computing. He works with start-up founders across the world, helping them build technology products. A stickler for detail, nothing pleases him more than a solution that’s designed and crafted with the end user in mind.

Dushyanth is a director, author, playwright, teacher, creative producer and entrepreneur best known for founding theatre-in-education production company Crea-Shakthi. He uses theatre and storytelling as a means to empower children and find their innate creative power. Dushyanth also co-founded Crea-Play which uses courses and content for storytelling to help children create their own tales, perform them and get feedback.

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Soumya has spent 14 years writing and editing in the realm of progressive culture, design, arts, social issues, literature and creative lifestyle. She has formerly been associated with Platform Magazine, Hindustan Times, NDTV, The Guardian and The Times of India Group. Soumya is presently Commissioning Editor at STIR, a global publication for design, architecture and art. She has conducted lectures, moderated talks, held jury for a book of nature fiction and published a curated blog of poetry featuring poets globally. Her work appears on the literary landscape in various forms. She travels often in nature, and goes home to poetry.

A former creative writer and journalist, Sneha is a brand and marketing communication specialist who enjoys working with luxury, retail, fin tech and social impact brands on telling their story with heart and premise. She also teaches writing, criticism and marketing at Istituto Marangoni and Balwant School of Architecture. A creature of process and organisation and creator of empathetic content tinged with a sense of humour, she’s always trying to find new ways to push herself out of her comfort zone.

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