Anurag Kashyap is an award-winning Indian filmmaker, writer and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013. He made his directorial debut with the film 'Paanch' and then he went on to release the critically acclaimed film 'Black Friday', a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. He then went on to make path-breaking films such as Dev D and Gulaal, Raman Raghav, Mukkabaz, Ugly, Manmarziyaan and Dobaara and Kashyap's prominence increased with the two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur. Kashyap subsequently co-produced the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox, and the biographical drama Shahid, the former earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language nomination. He also co-directed India's first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra's novel of the same name.

Apoorva Bakshi is an International EMMY Award-winning producer, most notably known for her Sundance favorite & International EMMY Winner Delhi Crime, National Award-winning films, Shut up Sona and Leeches; Netflix Musical What are the odds?; and widely watched Facebook Originals Homespun & Kashmir Creates. She serves as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Golden Karavan, Awedacious Originals, and Project FUEL carving her niche as one of the youngest producers of prolific South Asian productions.

An accomplished story engineer, Apoorva has collaborated with auteurs & filmmakers and developed a robust slate of genre defying projects, which include Book Adaptations, Period Drama Series, Animation Features, Scripted and Unscripted Film and TV shows.

A fierce guardian of independent voices, Apoorva has also successfully acquired and distributed over 50+ award-winning independents, notably the Cannes favorites, Gangs of Wasseypur; Golden Globe shortlists Fandry & Siddharth; IDFA winner Placebo and Indian Selection for the Oscars Visaranai among others. She has also worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment Networks Asia on large-scale format productions such as the Amazing Race Asia and India’s Minute to Win it.

Having experienced the creative and business side of the entertainment industry, Apoorva has successfully navigated both and continues to find new ways to innovate and merge the two.

Devdutt Pattanaik writes on mythology, which he defines as cultural truths revealed through stories, symbols and rituals. He lectures on the relevance of both Indian and Western myths in modern life. In the last 25 years, he has authored and illustrated over 50 books, including Book of Ram and Dharmic Leadership.

Known for his TED talk and his TV shows such as Devlok and Business Sutra, he is a regular columnist for reputed newspapers like Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar.

He was trained in medicine, spent 15 years working in the pharma and healthcare industry, but over the past decade has been fully immersed in exploring mythology and sharing its wisdom with the world.

Gazal Dhaliwal, lead Writer of the popular Netflix series ‘Mismatched’, is a proud Trans woman. Gazal has written the screenplay and dialogues for Vinod Chopra Films’ Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, starring Rajkummar Rao, Anil Kapoor and Sonam K Ahuja - India's first mainstream Hindi film about a gay woman’s romantic and family life. She has also written dialogues for Alankrita Shrivastava's critically acclaimed 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' and she wrote the dialogues and co-wrote the screenplay for Tanuja Chandra's Qarib Qarib Singlle, starring Irrfan Khan and Parvathy.

Jeo is an Indian Film Director, scriptwriter and actor who works in the Malayalam Film Industry. He graduated in B.Com from St. George College Aruvithura and started his career in entertainment industry by writing for television sitcoms in 2010. He was involved in scripting the initial episodes of popular television sitcoms ’Marimyam’, ‘Uppum Mulakum’ and ‘M80 Moosa’.

He made his directional movie debut through the Malayalam movie ‘2 Penkuttikal’ which was released in 2016 and Anna Fathima won State Award for the Best Child Artist. His second movie Kunju Daivam was released in 2018 and Adish Praveen won National Award for the Best Child Artist. In 2020 he directed Kilometers and Kilometers which has Tovi- no Thomas playing the lead role. His fourth Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen which has Suraj Venjaramoodu & Nimisha Sajayan playing the lead roles was directly released over ‘NeeStream ‘ OTT platform on 15 January 2021. With the positive response round the globe, the movie officially released on Amazon Prime Video. His fifth Malayalam movie was an anthology titled ‘Freedom Fight’(2022) which consists of five segments directed by Kunjila Mascillamani. Akhil Anilkumar, Francies Louis, Jithin Issac Thomas and himself. His sixth film is 'Sree Dhanya Catering Service' which recently had a theatrical release, his next film is with Mammotty and Jythoka.

Karen is an award-winning film producer and has been a reckoning force behind several path breaking films, which have been Golden Globe and Academy-award winners and nominees, such as ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ and ‘The Horse Whisperer’. She was actively involved in building Disney Feature Animation’s development slate, which includes Tangled, Winnie the Pooh and the Oscar winning film Frozen, (which recently surpassed the $1 billion mark at the global box office), Oscar-nominated Wreck-it Ralph and Moana, and the and Oscar-winning Big Hero 6 and Zootopia. She recently Executive Produced MONICA, which premiered in competition at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. She has also served as senior executive and producing partner to the Oscar-winning director Robert Redford at his company, Wildwood, for a decade. She currently works as an independent producer and consults for major studios, including Fox, Warners and Netflix, among others. Her work is global in scope and she has worked extensively in India and throughout Asia.

Laurence Bowen is a multi-BAFTA Award winning and Emmy nominated Producer, who most recently executive produced ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’ for BBC1, the UK episodes of ‘The New Pope’ starring Jude Law and John Malkovich, ‘Porters’ for UKTV/Dave and ‘The Eichmann Show’ for BBC2 starring Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia and Rebecca Front. He was presented with the Monte Carlo International Producer Of The Year Award, has won RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival Awards, received Prix Jeunesse, Rose D’or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and last year won The Japan Prize.

Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and two Peabody Awards during his thirty years writing for “The Simpsons”. He ran the show in Season 4, which Entertainment Weekly called “the greatest season of the greatest show in history.” Reiss has written twenty children’s books, as well as “Springfield Confidential”, a best-selling memoir of his three decades at The Simpsons. “Springfield Confidential” has been translated into German, Spanish, Russian and Czech, and was finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. Reiss has written jokes for such comedy legends as Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, Garry Shandling… and Pope Francis! For his comedic contributions to the charitable group Joke with the Pope, in 2015 Pope Francis declared Reiss “A Missionary of Joy”.

Neeraj is among India's leading contemporary filmmakers and is a National Award-winning director of the critically acclaimed Indo-French drama 'Masaan'. The film received widespread acclaim from critics, mainstream media, and audiences alike, currently among the top 250 films of all time from India. It won the FIPRESCI prize and the Promising Future prize (Prix avenir prometteur) in the Un Certain Regard section at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Aside from feature films, Neeraj co-directed the second season of Netflix’s acclaimed flagship crime drama series 'Sacred Games'. He also directed 'Geeli Pucchi', the most critically-acclaimed segment of the Netflix anthology film 'Ajeeb Daastaans' from Dharmatic. His films have earned four Filmfare awards so far. He has wrapped shooting Season 2 of Amazon's critically-acclaimed drama 'Made in Heaven'. He is currently developing his next feature film with a leading Indian production company, scheduled to go into production next year.

Sana Amanat is a Pakistani-American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics. She has worked on comics such as Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and Ms. Marvel. Amanat is known for co-creating Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim-American superhero with a solo Marvel Comics series.

Shonali Bose is an award-winning Indian film director, writer and film producer. Having made her debut with her feature film ‘Amu’ in 2005, which garnered critical acclaim and the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English and the FIPRESCI Critics Award. Her next feature ‘Margarita with a straw’ garnered critical and commercial success and won several awards at many esteemed festivals such as the NETPAC Jury award for Best Asian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her last film “The Sky is Pink’ premiered at the festival at the Toronto International Film Festival and received a 15-minute standing ovation. It later also premiered the the Busan International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival and won the Critics Award for Best film at the Screen Awards and the Filmfare award.

Peabody-award-winning Wendy Calhoun's unique career spans one-hour dramas, unscripted series, VR, and gaming. Currently, she serves as Writer/Co-Executive Producer for ABC's The Rookie: Feds starring Neicy Nash-Betts. In addition, she's developing new series for FX and Starz. Her scripted drama credits include Co-Executive Producing and writing the historic first season of FBC's Empire and debut seasons of Prodigal Son, Station 19, Nashville, Revenge, and Justified. Known as a champion for diversity and inclusion, Calhoun's developed and sold ten series pitches with bold leading roles for women and people of color since 2015.