Arun Prakash is the founder of Guvi, a Chennai-based EdTech company that provides online coding classes in Indian languages. He has a passion for technology and education and has been in the tech industry for over 15 years. Before starting Guvi, Arun worked as a software engineer at companies like HCL and Infosys. He saw the need for quality coding education in regional languages and started Guvi to bridge the digital divide. Under his leadership, Guvi has trained over 2 million students and has partnerships with leading tech companies. Arun is also a TEDx speaker and an advocate for inclusive tech education.Arun Prakash is known for his vision to make technology education accessible to everyone, regardless of their language or background. He believes that technology can be a powerful tool for social and economic empowerment, but that many people are left behind due to language barriers and a lack of resources. With Guvi, he is working to change that by providing online coding classes in Indian languages and making sure that everyone has the opportunity to learn and grow in the tech industry. Under Arun's leadership, Guvi has become one of the leading EdTech companies in India and is helping to close the digital divide and build a more inclusive tech community.
Rajamanohar Somasundaram is the Founder & CEO of Aquaconnect, a full-stack aquaculture technology platform. Around five million rural farmers and coastal communities depend on shrimp and fish aquaculture, where traditional farming practices prevent them from achieving production efficiency and disease prediction. In 2019, He was awarded '40 UNDER 40 Ecosapien' by The New Indian Express for the promotion of sustainable aquaculture practices in Asia.Aquaconnect has recently raised its Series B funding of $15 million led by Lok Capital.
Sudharsanan Ganapathy is an entrepreneur and a personal branding expert. With over a decade of experience in social media marketing and personal branding, he currently runs a personal branding agency in Chennai, India. The Social Company is a Personal Branding Agency that specialised in LinkedIn and content creation.The Social Company is one of India's top personal branding agencies that has worked with multiple founders, directors, and CEOs of start-ups, MSMEs, and large-size companies on personal branding, content and marketing strategy, and growth hacking.
Premanand Sethurajan needs no introduction if you watch YouTube and love science. Premanand is the founder of Let's Make Education Simple (LMES) Academy, which started with a YouTube channel in 2014, today has over 1.6 million subscribers and clocked a total of over 17 Crore views since its inception.Later, he went on to start multiple ventures around education and career enablement for students with Chitti App, and PickMyCareer.Chitti App is a learning platform for K-12 students that explains the curriculum-oriented syllabus in an entertaining and interesting manner with real-time stories and animations.PickMyCareer helps school students to find their dream careers. Their AI-based career assessment, personalized career report, one on one expert session will help the students to find their career interest and maps them to the field that best fits their career.
In this episode of Founder Talks, Selvam will be joining us. [Registration pannidunga, we will notify you so that you don't have to miss the event]CADD centre was started in a small 400sq ft office in 1987.They have trained more than 8lakh people and currently operate 1000+ training centres in India & 30+ countries.They train people in CAD (Computer Aided Design), CAE (Computer Aided Engineering), CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)CADD Centre has partnered with L&T, SIEMENS, Autodesk, Oracle Primevera.Selvan covered 8000kms in 18 days to create awareness about skilling engineers.The first 30 minutes would be a conversation between Shyam Siddarth and Selvan. The next 15 minutes will be a live Q&A session where he will answer your questions.