WKD Live

Recorded

Agenda

Keynote

Tej Gundavelli - Founder & CEO, Touch-A-Life Foundation

J A Chowdary - Chairman, Indian Blockchain Standards Committee

Panel

UN SDG Goal 9 - Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

Moderator: Tushar Vakil - Leadership Coach-Individual & Team Coaching-Certified, Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching

Speaker: Solomon Darwin - Director, Center for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley-Haas Center for Corporate Innovation

Speaker: Shawn Seipler - Executive Director, Clean the World Foundation, Inc.

Speaker: Gregory Kepferle - CEO, Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County

Speaker: Tej Gundavelli - Founder & CEO, Touch-A-Life Foundation

Keynote

Christopher Salem - Executive Coach, CRS Group Holdings LLC

Rafiq Dossani - Economist & Educationist, RAND Corporation

Panel

UN SDG Goal 2 - Zero Hunger

Moderator: Raj Asava - Co-Founder, HungerMitao

Speaker: Anna Asava - Co-Founder, HungerMitao

Speaker: James Kanoff - Co-Founder and CEO, The Farmlink Project

Speaker: Ben Collier - Co-Founder, The Farmlink Project

Speaker: Robert Lee - Co-founder & CEO, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

Speaker: Mohit Kumar Tornala - Technology Lead, Fiserv

Keynote

Ajit Rangnekar - Director General, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad

Bill Ottman - CEO and Co-Founder, Minds

Panel

UN SDG Goal 13 - Climate Action

Moderator: Prasad Jaladi - Chief Facilitator, Suraksha

Speaker: Raul Gouvea - Professor, University of New Mexico

Speaker: George Cummings - SDG14 Ocean Science Ambassador Advisor, SDG14 For-Profit Corporations

Speaker: Ken Alston - Partner, Circularity Edge, LLC

Keynote

Tushar Vakil - Leadership Coach-Individual & Team Coaching-Certified, Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching

Brooke McKean - President/COO, Chicago Scholars

Panel

UN SDG Goal 5 - Gender Equality

Moderator: Vijji Suryadevara - Entrepreneur & Tech Leader, NEOM

Speaker: Manju Latha Kalanidhi - Senior Assistant Editor, The New Indian Express

Speaker: Jennifer Bouey - Tang Chair in China Policy Studies, RAND Corporation

Speaker: Oluneye Oluwole - Storyteller, Host and Speaker, OLUNEYESPEAKS

Keynote

Shailu Tipparaju - Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, Examity

Mattie Scariot - Director, Poppy Jasper International Film Festival

Panel

UN SDG Goal 4 - Quality Education

Moderator: Shailu Tipparaju - Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, Examity

Speaker: Lord Leomer Pomperada - President, World Youth Alliance

Speaker: Jeffery Beckham - CEO, Chicago Scholars Foundation

Speaker: Kelly Maurice - Executive Director, Educando

Speaker: Ricardo De La Fuente - President, AIE - NEI / Lanufer S.A.

Keynote

Manak Matiyani - Executive Director, The YP Foundation

Gitesh Sarma - Retired Ambassador

Panel

UN SDG Goal 3 - Good Health & Well-Being

Moderator: Christopher Salem - Executive Coach, CRS Group Holdings LLC

Speaker: Jordanna Eyre - Chief Sorceress of Life & Business, Modern Day Sorcerer

Speaker: Jeff Spar - Technology & Digital Transformation Consultant, Spar Transformation Advisors, LLC

Speaker: Carl Clark MD - President & CEO, Mental Health Center of Denver

Speaker: Anita Chandra - VP and Director, RAND Social and Economic Well-Being

Keynote

R. Chandrasekhar - Former President of NASSCOM

Puneet Pushkarna - General Partner, Solmark

Panel

UN SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work & Economic Growth

Moderator: Roopa Sunku - Sr.Director, HCM Fusion Development, Oracle

Speaker: Summer McAfee - Lead Program Manager, USAA

Speaker: Susan Reichle - President & CEO, International Youth Foundation(IYF)

Speaker: Lauren Levicki Courville - President & CEO, Dress for Success Houston

Speaker: Sabari Raja - Co-Founder & CEO, Nepris Inc

Keynote

AGK Karunakaran - President & CEO, MulticoreWare

Jingting Liu - Assistant Professor, Business School, University of Colorado Denver

Panel

UN SDG Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Moderator: Sai Padma - Director, Global AID

Speaker: Seetha Anand Vaidyam - Remedial Therapist, Ananda Foundation

Speaker: Rohit Chowdhry - Expert at building high performing offshore operations

Speaker: Usha Raman - Professor, University of Hyderabad

Keynote

Kishore Gadiraju - Vice President, Engineering, Solix Technologies, Inc.

Panel

Reimagining Giving with Touch-A-Life Foundation

Moderator: Himanshu Baral - Head of the Enterprise Advanced Analytics Lab, Wells Fargo

Speaker: Tej Gundavelli - Founder & CEO, Touch-A-Life Foundation

Speaker: Kishore Gadiraju - Vice President, Engineering, Solix Technologies, Inc.

Speaker: Venkat Ram - Engineering Lead, Touch-A-Life Foundation

Speaker: Anil Kumar - Product Manager, Touch-A-Life Foundation

Speaker: Priyanka Chaudhari - Product Marketing Manager, Touch-A-Life Foundation

Keynote

Reena Chawla - Founder, Social Entrepreneur, The Brain Studio

Steve Wymer - President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

Panel

UN SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions

Moderator: Roger Royse - Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP

Speaker: Bill Ottman - CEO and Co-Founder, Minds

Speaker: Sanjeev Kumar - Principal and Managing Partner, Hunt Pennington Kumar & Dula PLLC

Keynote

V.C.Sajjanar - Managing Director, Telangana State Road Transport Corporation

Annie Duflo - Executive Director, Innovations for Poverty Action

This agenda is subject to change^*

About the Event

Get Inspired, Educated, and Entertained with a focus on kindness and its impact on attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Touch-A-Life Foundation is excited to invite you to join our World Kindness Day celebrations with a virtual event to promote kindness. We have a variety of panels, performances, and special guests lined up to discuss causes impacting our communities! Register the whole family for free today!

The 2021 TAL World Kindness Day theme is pivoted upon the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).