JUMPSTART 2017 will be held on 4 and 5 August 2017 at the India International Centre, New Delhi

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JUMPSTART started as a series of master classes and has grown to become an exemplary platform for ideation, training, development and collaboration in the world of children?s content. Widely attended by professionals from the field of education, publishing, the arts, and education technology, it is an ideal connecting ground and a learning opportunity for everyone involved in creating content for children. Led by Prashasti Rastogi, Director, German Book Office New Delhi, JUMPSTART this year aims to create new pathways, make new stories, learn new skills and understand new technologies. Renowned dignitaries like author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, dancer and choreographer Geeta Chandran, illustrator Moritz Stetter, and author and screenwriter Venita Coelho will be participating in JUMPSTART 2017 which will be held on 4 and 5 August 2017 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

Schools are a starting point for countless creative journeys. Learning, however, has moved beyond the four walls of the classroom?it?s embracing movement and innovation. JUMPSTART 2017 will look at learning from new, innovative perspectives to find ways to make it more integrated with life experiences. It will evaluate the impact of learning on authoring blended experiences, discuss the emerging landscape of learning, and review the use of technology for better learning among children.

With voices from various authors, teachers, tech evangelists, storytellers, artists and even children, JUMPSTART 2017 is all set to tread new grounds to understand learning and innovation. It will coax its participants to think like children again?take everything they?ve ever seen, heard, learnt, written, drawn, published, and look at it for the first time. With a fresh perspective, an illustrator may find a gaming world in her art, a teacher may find a storyteller in herself, or a publisher may find the next JK Rowling!

SPEAKERS AT JUMPSTART 2017

Amruth is an inventor and entrepreneur who loves solving intellectually challenging problems. He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Guru-G Learning Labs, a teaching innovations company transforming the teaching-learning process in schools through a gamified platform for teaching and teacher training. His first startup, Vita Beans, has designed over 100 research based products for some of the largest education and assessment companies in India and North America. He is an alumnus of BITS Pilani, a Sauve Scholar at EdTech Lab of McGill University, and an alumnus of Unreasonable At Sea - a global tech accelerator.

Devdutt Pattanaik, author and mythologist, writes on relevance of mythology in modern times, especially in areas of management, governance and leadership. Trained in medicine, he worked for 15 years in the healthcare and pharma industries before he focused on his passion fulltime. He has authored 30 books and 600 columns, with bestsellers such as My Gita, Jaya, Sita, Business Sutra and the 7 Secret Series. He was a speaker at TED India 2009 and spoke on ?Myths that Mystify, East versus West?. His TV shows include Business Sutra on CNBC-TV18 and Devlok on Epic TV. He is a culture, diversity and leadership consultant for multiple organizations, and also consults various television channels and filmmakers on storytelling.

Dhruv Kumar is a student of Class XI, Vasant Valley School, and New Delhi. He is a recipient of a full summer scholarship at Columbia University and the University of Notre dame.

Gayatri Khanna has 18 years of experience of teaching. She has worked as a professor of English as well as Journalism. At the school level, she has worked as Head of English and Academic Coordinator for schools affiliated to the CBSE as well as the schools affiliated to the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE). Presently she is a consultant and a resource person in CBSE where she has developed material for classes IX and X, and has been a material producer and an ideator for CBSE International. She is in the committee for preparing material for the e-pathshala, a joint venture of the NCERT and MHRD. She is also an author of English textbooks with the Oxford University Press. She conducts teacher training NCERT (National Council of Education Research and Training); SCERT (State Council of Education Research and Training); DIET (District Institute for Education and Training) and Oxford University Press.

Geeta Chandran is a celebrated dancer and choregrapher. She is not only known for her deep and composite understanding of the art of Bharatanatyam, but also for her Carnatic music, her work in television, video and film, theatre, dance education, dance activism and dance-issue journalism. She is Founder-President of Natya-Vriksha and Artistic Director of the Natya Vriksha Dance Company, known for the high aesthetic quality of its group presentations. In her effort to ?en-dance the universe,? she engages in a strategic range of dance-related activities: performing, teaching, conducting, singing, collaborating, organizing, writing and speaking to new youth audiences. Geeta was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri in 2007. She has also been conferred the equally prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Puruskaar.

Jairaj Bhattacharyais the Managing Director and Co-founder of Conve Genius,a mobile-first company focused on digitizing education in India and making it affordable, fun and rewarding. His key expertise lies in technology integration, product strategy, technology and business development. A graduate from IIIT Hyderabad in Electronics and Computer Science, Jairaj is also a Young India Fellow in Liberal Arts from the first batch of Ashoka University. He has worked as a Program Manager in Nanyang Technologica, l University, Singapore in collaboration with Rice University. He was also associated with NASA for a brief period after completing his graduation. Named the Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 from Singapore, Jairaj steered the first Indian team in the global CANSAT competition conducted by the American Astronautical Society and NASA, and helped cinch the first-ever win for India and Asia. He has also won the Undergraduate Research Award in 2009 for contribution in research as an engineering undergraduate in IIT Hyderabad.

Moritz Stetter was born in 1983 in Stuttgart, Germany and is currently based in Hamburg, where he works as a comic artist, illustrator and portraitist. His first graphic novel Bonhoffer (2010, G?thersloherVerlag) is a biography of the well-known theologian in resistance during the Nazi regime. The second book Luther (2013, G?thersloherVerlag) deals with the life of the famous reformer, his strongest convictions and how he struggled with them every day. In Das Urteil (The Judgment) (2015, KnesebeckVerlag), Stetter depicts FranzKafka?s short story as a dark and gripping drama, which was divided into three acts. Stetter?s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, such as in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Rome and Lisbon.

PremindaLanger is an independent education management professional. Her hallmark is developing a progressive curriculum with social responsibility and group work that goes hand-in-hand with academics. She was part of the core team that compiled the Shri Ram School Junior School Curriculum in 2004. In 2005, she won the Outstanding Educator, Gold Award in ?Unsung Heroes No Longer??an all-India competition conducted by the RustomIrani Foundation, Mumbai. Preminda was actively involved in developing the pre-school curriculum for S. Chand & Co. and for the Army Pre-Schools.

Rituparna Ghosh is a story sniffer, story digger and story tickler and a compulsive storyteller. She believes that there is a storyteller in each one of us. Children and adults need stories and telling skills all their life, to make sense of the world and give shape to their ideas. As the Founder of Your Story Bag, Rituparna works as a storyteller, trainer and consultant. A regular at storytelling festivals, schools and colleges, sheworks with varied age-groups including children, teachers, parents, professionals, entrepreneurs and corporates. She is also the founding member of the Delhi Storytellers? Network.

Prof. M. M. Pant is a Ph.D. in Computational Physics with a professional degree in Law. After a long innings of 50+ years as an academic researcher, a lawyer and an educational entrepreneur, he is now exploring new pedagogy, technology and curricula for the future, with focus on the period heralding the fourth Industrial Age. His special focus is on mobile Whatsapp-based lifelong learning, transcending traditional education, and blending personalized and social learning. Some of his current educational initiatives are: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence, Coming of Age in the 4th Industrial Age, Smart Parenting and Developing Teacherpreneurs.

V. Anand is an experienced learning professional working in this field since 1994, spanning the entire learning lifecycle including training need analysis, learning solution design & development, learning systems design and implementation, training design and delivery as well as content development and delivery. He has worked with reputed companies like NIIT, eMind, LIQVID, Knowledge Platform and Max Life Insurance. He has experience in various industries including BFSI, IT, Education, Airlines, Telecom and Manufacturing.

Venita Coelho works with words, images and paint. She has authored four books for children so far. Dead as a Dodo won The Hindu Good Reads award for Best Fiction for Children 2016. Her book of feminist ghost stories Washer of the Dead was longlisted for the Frank O?Connor award. She has had a long career in television as a writer and director. Her book Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India is a standard text in media colleges.The shows she has worked on includes JassiJaisi Koi Nahi, Na Bole Tum Na Maine KuchKaha, and Trikaal. She has been the Vice President at Sony Television, Cinevistaas and Endemol India. She is currently writing films for Sanjay LeelaBhansali and Raju Hirani. Her work on canvas and glass was shown at her solo exhibition in Goa titled ?The Naked Gaze?.

Subir Shukla studied and taught English Literature at University of Delhi. He began his career in school education in 1986. For seven years he lived and worked in a tribal village in Betul district, MP, developing primary education that would be both feasible and desirable in situations marked by deprivation. He has worked with National Book Trust India, as Editor (Training and Promotion) where he set up the National Centre for Children?s Literature and promoted reading as well as the development of children?s literature in all Indian languages. He has worked extensively as the Chief Consultant to MHRD and later as the National Educational Quality Advisor, to develop the Quality Framework for the Right to Education, currently being implemented through the SarvaShikshaAbhiyan (SSA). He also worked independently as a quality improvement consultant with several international agencies such as UNICEF, UNESCO, DFID, World Bank, European Commission, and USAID.

Vishnu Karthik is currently the Associate Director of The Heritage Group of Schools. Apart from being on the board of the Heritage Schools, Vishnu is also responsible for the new school initiatives and strategic projects for the group. In his prior role, he was the head of the Senior School of the Gurgaon Campus. He was also a grade IX and grade X economics teacher and a trekking instructor. A proponent of experiential learning, Vishnu has visited over 50 experiential and deeper learning schools worldwide. Among his other administrative responsibilities, Vishnu keenly interested in building instructional leadership capabilities, college placements, student leadership development, adolescent coaching, authentic assessments and deeper learning curriculum. Prior to working in schools, Vishnu was a management consultant and has worked with organizations like Accenture. An alumnus of Harvard University, he is personally passionate about cognitive-neuroscience, project-based learning and incubating experiential learning schools. In 2009, Vishnu co-authored (along with Swami Mitrananda) Seeking, a travelogue on a 14-day sojourn across the Arabian Sea on a cargo ship. He is currently working on a portal focused on deeper learning.

Nina Sehgal is an education consultant. She retired as Principal of Delhi Public School Noida after which she worked as the Director in the Delhi Public Society. Ms. Sehgal is a recipient of the National Award for Teachers, and the Endeavour Award instituted by the Australian Government.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Prashasti Rastogi is the Director, German Book Office (GBO), New Delhi which is a joint venture of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Besides promoting German books and the activities of the Frankfurt Book Fair, GBO New Delhi serves as a contact point between the book industry in South Asia, Germany as well as the international book and media industries. Prashasti started her career in the IT industry and after which she discovered her affinity to German language. She has been in the international affairs sector, primarily Indo-German sphere for over eight years. She holds a bachelor?s degree in IT (University of Delhi) with an MBA from FMS (University of Delhi) and an advanced certification in German language.