At the day-long conference in Mumbai, the third of its kind, eminent speakers from different walks of life will share unique ideas from India and 14 other countries.

The work of one of the 22 speakers, Karthik Naralasetty’s stands out. The 23 year-old, who hails from the small town of Gunther in Andhra Pradesh, Naralasetty dropped out of the illustrious Rutger’s University graduate program in Computer Science. “To the greatest disappointment of my family and social circle, I returned home from what they thought would be a glamorous life in America,” he says.