Mini Mathur is a celebrated actress, VJ and a successful model. With a degree in English literature from Lady Sriram College and one in Business Management from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad - she went on to become a popular VJ with MTV India before hosting Indian Idol for 4 seasons. She currently hosts an interview-based show with politicians, industrialists and opinion makers called 'Dilli dil se'.

Pooja is the Chairperson of The Grassroots Foundation, a charitable foundation that deals with multiple concerns. Having been a columnist with multiple newspapers including Hindustan Times and Mid Day, she has also written articles for numerous publications, which include Femina and Men’s Health. Apart from being a brand ambassador for Kaya Skin Clinic and other reputed brands, she currently plays a relationship counsellor with her column 'Heart Chakra' in the Times of India.

Kiran Manral is a celebrated author who quit her work with the publication world to set up her own content supply firm during the first dotcom boom. After being India’s Trend Spotter and Cultural Lead at CEB Iconoculture US, she is currently senior consultant at Vector Insights LLP. Having been involved in the founding of various volunteer networks including India Helps and CSAA, she is also on the Planning Board of the Kumaon Literary Festival, an author mentor at Sheroes India and an advisor on the Board of Literature Studio, Delhi.

A leading business journalist, moderator and golf specialist, Shaili Chopra is known for being the Senior Editor for primetime programming at ET NOW. As one of the most trusted faces in Indian journalism, she was recently given the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism - the highest honour for journalists in India. One of the first journalists to report the Mumbai Terror attacks from Taj on 26/11, Shaili has also won many awards and merits for her contributions to the field of media. She writes periodically for DNA and Tehelka.

An award-winning author, journalist and TEDx Speaker, Meghna Pant’s debut collection of short stories ‘Happy Birthday’ was long listed for the Frank O'Connor International Award 2014, the world's biggest short story prize. Having won multiple awards for her debut novel, One and a Half Wife, the columnist is popularly known for having abridged the world’s longest epic, The Mahabharata, into one hundred tweets.

A journalist, columnist and blogger, Lalita writes for little people and big people and the little people in big people. The author of two books, she's a self-confessed cat slave and is currently in therapy for the same.

Anjali Kirpalani is​ the former Editorial head of the fashion website Stylekandy.com. Having been a TV anchor/producer with ET NOW, a lecturer, a management trainee & a marketing executive, she believes that writing is the only constant in her life. The author of two brilliant books, Anjali won two competitions with her short story, ‘Destiny’.

Sairee Chahal is the Founder, CEO of www.sheroes.in - an online career destination for women. Apart from being India’s foremost women at work evangelist, she is also the Convener at The SHEROES Summit and has been instrumental in bringing businesses and women professionals on a common platform. Nominated for the Editor’s choice for L’Oreal Femina Women’s Award, Sairee is also a Cartier Women’s Award Initiative and a TED speaker who has appeared on multiple path-breaking shows including Young Turks and What Women Want.

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on love, desire, popular culture, feminism and urban life. Her works include popular films and television shows such as the path-breaking Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Connected Hum Tum as well as many other standalones. Apart from being the founder of Agents of Ishq - a first of its kind multi-media project on sex, love and desire in India, she also writes popular weekly columns with Sunday Midday and Mumbai Mirror.

Having worked variously as a journalist, a corporate communications specialist and as the owner of a successful PR firm in the past, Shunali has multiple feathers in her hat. Having recently authored a book on motherhood, ‘Battle hymn of a bewildered mother’, she is also an avid blogger who writes about interesting things such as motherhood and the everyday quirks of family life.

Anjali drew strength from her own journey through the 3Ms – Marriage, Mobility & Motherhood to set up People Konnect, the premier talent search firm with deep expertise in diversity, leadership and start-up hiring. Her vision also resulted in the creation of Back To the Front, a recognized organization in the industry that drives the gender diversity mandate in companies and the workforce today.

A clinical psychologist with 12 years of experience, Sonali works with young adults, artists, children and parents to enhance their emotional well-being. Apart from having worked as a Student Counsellor with TISS for a decade, she also runs her own practice in Chembur and Khar. Featured as an expert in The Tara Sharma Show multiple times, Sonali now writes a weekly advice column for DNA that focuses on parenting and teenager concerns. She is also currently working on her first book.

Anupama Kapoor is a Women Coach & a Gender Advocate. During her two decades of experience, she has helped countless number of women by finally launching Reboot - an online Mentoring and Coaching Community of Returning Women Professionals in 2013. After joining the Post Graduate course in Gender Development Studies at the Research Centre for Women Studies at SNDT - she recently conceptualized and launched the World’s first full-time Post Graduate Management Programme for Women aspiring to return to work in collaboration with SPJIMR, Mumbai.

Eefa Shrof is an elite Fitness Lifestyle Coach & Consultant in Mumbai, India. She is also the proprietor at her company Supernova Fitness & Nutrition. Her brainchild, ‘The21’ – A 21 Day Fitness Challenge has taken Bombay by storm. The winner of a national award and voted as ‘The Most Promising Yoga & Nutrition Expert of 2016’ by The Indian Leadership Conclave, she was also voted as one of India’s top young leaders by the Young Women’s Achiever’s Summit 2016. The highlight of her life was topping the ‘U.S, Sports Nutrition’ with a 97.7% while studying with the International Sports Sciences Association at the age of 40.

Srishti Arya jointly runs the famous production house Rose Movies, with her brother Goldie Behl. Having made her production debut in 1998, she went on to direct multiple movies over the next decade and a half. With her acting debut with the revolutionary show Lipstick on ZEE TV, she set the stage for the kind of differentiated programing that Rose would henceforth stand for. An avid reader and mother to a teenager, she hopes that her infectious joie de vivre reflects in her productions.

Dr. Sheetal Sabharwal (MD, DGO) is a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist. A pioneer in hydro birth (water birth), she is a director and partner at the Tulip Women's Health Care Centre at Khar. She specializes in Obstetrics labour and delivery, Gynecology, Infertility, Puberty (adolescent gynecology) and Menopause.

Sharmistha Ray holds a dual degree M.S. in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture and M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute. The winner of the Joan Mitchell M.F.A. Grant, a TED Fellowship and the Montblanc Young Artist World Patronage Award she was also nominated for the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in the Visual Arts category in 2014. With solo exhibitions around the world, Ray has worked on art and design commissions and projects with organizations and corporates in America and India. In 2015, On the Seashore of Endless Worlds, her debut 3D sculptural painting on steel was unveiled at the prestigious Kala Ghoda Arts Festival.

Malini Agarwal is the Founder & Creative Director of MissMalini Entertainment, a leading new media network. As the #1 Digital Influencer in the world, the celebrity blogger was ranked #12 on IMPACT's 50 Most Influential Women in Media, Marketing and Advertising 2016. Named India’s most famous blogger by the Huffington Post and Forbes, Malini has been profiled by various international media outlets and has also a regular feature in local publications. She was also recently featured on CNBC's Young Turks as a fast-growing media start-up to watch, and is currently nominated for the Young Business Women Awards 2016 by CNBC-TV18.

A National Sales Capability Head by profession, A radio jockey by passion and Founder of World’s largest and fastest growing mommy community, UNIMO, Neha is an MBA who has been a guest lecturer and speaker on the panel of many reputed organization and educational institutes. Having been awarded “Young Learning leader of India”-2014 by CHRO Asia in association with World HRD Congress, she was also selected among the top women leaders of India. The doting mother of two boys is currently working as a National Sales Capability head for a Liquor Giant.

Fatima Mahdi Karan is Consulting Editor at BTVI, a leading business channel that is now partnering with the world's top news organization, Reuters. She has been a leading Anchor and Producer since the past decade. Holding a Masters in Diplomacy, Law and Business as well as Honors degrees in Economics and International Relations from Boston University, Boston, Fatima has been instrumental in moderating dialogues with organizations as diverse as the World Bank to the Women in The World. When not working, Fatima can usually be found snuggling her two young sons. She is also passionate about Indian Modern and Contemporary Art.

The CEO and Founder of BabyChakra, Naiyya Saggi has been lauded for being one of the leading young entrepreneurs in India by BusinessWorld, Economic Times, Google and Microsoft! A graduate of the Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright and J.N.Tata scholar, Naiyya has also had prior experience as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and the Bridgespan group (Boston) where she worked extensively on her areas of passion - maternal, child health and education.

A nutritionist to many stars, celebrity dietician Pooja Makhija has, to date, transformed the bodies and lives of thousands of people. She has further been the nutritionist for the Miss India and the I Am She beauty pageants, and was formerly on the Board of Studies in Food Science and Nutrition of the SVT College of Home Science. Apart from being a brand ambassador for various big names, she is now currently working on two more books, with her bestseller Eat Delete going on its third reprint. She also had her own TV show – the Pooja Makhija show – on the Food Food channel and has a regular column in the Bombay Times.

One of India’s few female Stand-Up comedians, Neeti is an ex advertising, ex- television writer, ex-introvert who is currently a Bollywood screenplay writer. Voted as the best Stand-Up Comic at the Oz Fest, she was India's first artist to perform at Melbourne for the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival 2013.

Radhika Vaz is an improvisational comedian and writer who lives and works in New York. She gave up a career in advertising to follow her true calling: making people laugh and think. A bi-weekly columnist with the Times of India's op-ed page, her comedy web-series 'Shugs and Fats' won a Gotham Independent Film Award in New York and was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. The author of a book, 'Unladylike, A Memoir', her hobbies include power lifting and watching an embarrassing number of low-quality reality TV shows.

Anuradha Menon is an actor- turned Lola Kutty- turned ex-Lola Kutty- turned mom- turned stand up comic. While she's not juggling her various roles on stage, she sorts out time to make cameos in popular films!

Manasi Scott kick-started her professional singing career with Pune's hottest rock band Dark Water Fixation that was offered an international recording contract with Sony in the 1990s. Having turned composer, writer and singer for multiple films and projects over the past few years, she made her lead acting debut last year in Abbas Tyrewala's Jhootha Hi Sahi, opposite John Abraham.

Known for being India’s leading Nu-Disco act, Imaad Shah & Saba Azad team up to make the Madboy/Mink duo - blending old school swing with live guitars and soulful vocals. On the back of their EP launch 'Union Farm', Madboy/Mink are well on their way to becoming crowd favourites at festivals across the country!

As a singer-songwriter and music teacher-extraordinaire, Alisha Pais has made a solid impact on India's indie music scene. A self-taught singer and guitarist, she first began her tryst with music when she was chosen to play the lead role of Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the age of 13. Strongly influenced by bands such as Damian Rice, Cat Power, and American country music legend Johnny Cash, she aspires to form Mumbai's first all-girl band and go on a pan-Indian tour.

Ankur Tewari is an Indian artist, who is the front man of the rock band Ankur and The Ghalat Family, which comprises of Sidd Coutto, Johan Pais and Gaurav Gupta. Having worked on multiple Bollywood projects, including SlumdogMilionaire (2008) and Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi (2009), he wrote his big hit 'Sabse Peechhe Hum Khade' at the age of 23.

An actress, model, anchor and VJ, Suchitra Pillai moved to England and made her debut in the French film Le Prix dune Femme in 1993. Having worked in films such as Dil Chahta Hai, Page 3, Fashion and Fitoor, she also hosted the first season of the hit comedy show The Great Indian Comedy Show. She was recently seen in television shows such as 24 and Beintehaa.

Kaneez Surka is an actor and comedian, born in South Africa. Having moved to Mumbai in 2005, she spent the next year training with leading theatre personalities, learning the intricacies of theatre trends in India. Joining the cast of CNN IBN’s 'The Week That Was' in 2006, Kaneez is now a vital part of Improv Comedy Mumbai and The Improvisers.

A regular performer at the Canvas Laugh Club, Sonali Thakker is a comedian who often performs at corporate, college and charity show across the city. One of the Top 10 finalists at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2013, she was also a part of East India Comedy’s Bachelor Of Comedy. She even worked as a writer with them for two years, apart from working with brands such as Home Shop 18, ICICI Bank, Xoom Money Transfer and Tinkle Magazine.

One of India's youngest professional comedians, Sapan Verma has done over 300 shows in the last three years. As one of the founding members of India’s busiest comedy company East India Comedy, he has regularly performed at various auditoriums, college festivals and corporate events around the world.

A Delhi-based multilingual singer-songwriter; Prateek, with his unique blend of minimal, folk arrangements and pop rock melodies, effortlessly captures life's complexities in his songs. Having performed at venues across New York, Prague, New Orleans and India, he has also played at festivals such as the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, Ziro Festival and more.

A singer/songwriter by passion, Nush Lewis can make pensive, acoustic and minimal compositions with her beautiful harp. One of the highlights of her illustrious career includes a stellar acoustic performance, supplemented with the soulful vocal stylings of Meghana Bhogle and the very young Aaron Pereira on percussion.

An Indian stand-up comedian and YouTuber, Kanan Gill is commonly known for his YouTube series, Pretentious Movie Reviews, which he hosts along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. Gill also worked in an improv sketch comedy show, called The Living Room on Comedy Central. He will soon be making his acting debut in Sunhil Sippy's Noor alongside Sonakshi Sinha.

Mali, the stage name of singer-songwriter Maalavika Manoj, has collaborated and performed with several prominent musicians including A.R Rahman, Dualist Inquiry, Sapta and Sofia Ashraf to name a few. Having shifted permanently to Bombay from Chennai, she is now working on her sophomore album Rush, which should be out later this year.