Brian D'Costa has over 20 years of experience in the Media & Entertainment space with a steady background in launching and building TV channels. In his role at Gubbare, he is responsible for planning and steering the comprehensive strategy for the channel with an emphasis on Content, Planning, Programming, Analysis, and Research.

His forte weaves diverse competencies in content development and syndication to strategy planning and partnerships. Before joining the network, he worked with leading media networks like UTV, Zee, and Sony Entertainment across roles and portfolios.

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Manoj brings incredible experience, leadership and an enviable track record of building and growing creative businesses and diverse teams in the media and animation industry all over the world. He is responsible for developing Power kids’ overall strategy, executing upon the plan, managing the team, liaising with partners and other stakeholders and delivering attractive financial results.

Manoj has more than 25 years of expertise in kids' entertainment spanning the entire value chain including the development, commissioning, creation, acquisition and monetization of IP both via broadcast and OTT channels.

Previously, Manoj has worked as the Chief Operating Officer of DQE group. He also has experience as the Head of IP Development/Commissioning, Co-Production and Content Acquisition at Al Jazeera children’s channel which covered 22 nations in the Middle East.

Manoj A Menon is an Emmy Award Nominated Designer with 20+ years of experience in animation, theme park design, visual development/concept art, graphic novel, gaming and AR/VR experience. He is currently working with Mikros Animation (Feature Division) as the Creative Director of Bengaluru Studio. In his new role, Manoj handles end to end of all creative aspects and client communication for feature and long format episodic production, working with world renowned animation production houses and networks.

Some of his past projects include working with EA sports, Ubisoft, Walt Disney Television, Wild Canary Studios, DreamWorks TV, Nickelodeon and Amazon to name a few.

Manoj’s passion lies in creating worlds and designing characters that tell compelling stories.

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Tarandeep Singh Sekhon is the Marketing Director at KidZania India, a global indoor theme park that inspires, educates, and empowers kids. With over 18 years' experience in marketing, Tarandeep has developed expertise in a wide spectrum of tasks especially in the entertainment industry. He holds a MBA Degree in Retail Management and Marketing from The ITM Business School where he was rewarded with the Dean's Award for Top honors in Academic Excellence. He also holds a PG Certification in Digital Marketing & Communication from MICA.

Vani is a creator, creative producer and a director. She founded Dancing Atoms, a home for creators to develop animation and live action content. Dancing Atoms works with a team of writers, art directors and talented creatives, based in Mumbai, London and Los Angeles. She has been the Head of Creative Management for DreamWorks Animation in Shanghai and as the Executive Director of Rhythm & Hues Asia (a multiple Academy Award-winning Animation and VFX studio).

For 10 years, she was the president of ASIFA India and Women in Animation India. She is currently based out of LA and is working on preschool and Animated feature film content. She offers her consultancy services to creatives and investors. Her goal is to collaborate - create - celebrate content. She is walking closer to fulfilling her fathers Animation Dreams.

Tim Westcott leads research on TV and video programming and channel distribution at Omdia, the London-headquartered TMT research company. His areas of focus include investments in programming by channels and online video platforms, availability of linear channels and on-demand services, and sports and movie rights. Tim joined Omdia’s predecessor company Screen Digest in 2004, and before that, worked at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg, France, and in a variety of journalism roles.

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Tim Westcott leads research on TV and video programming and channel distribution at Omdia, the London-headquartered TMT research company. His areas of focus include investments in programming by channels and online video platforms, availability of linear channels and on-demand services, and sports and movie rights. Tim joined Omdia’s predecessor company Screen Digest in 2004, and before that, worked at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg, France, and in a variety of journalism roles.

Part of Indian Television Group Anil Wanvari, is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Indiantelevision.com group. He has spent more than 37 years in the media industry and is considered India's foremost analyst, consultant and catalyst for the media sector. It achieves this through its various B2B and B2C portals: indiantelevision.com (for the cable, satellite, OTT, production, advertising, marketing, media industries), tellychakkar.com (TV show and actor news for TV fans), AnimationXpress.com (for the VFX, comics, gaming, and animation segments) and radionandmusic.com (for the FM radio, digital music and music industry). He is also a well known Television/Digital Producer known for producing The Indian Telly Awards for the last 16 years and oodles of digital content. It engages with industry by organizing thought leadership forums under its various verticals: Video and Broadband Summit, RadioConnex Awards, News Television Awards ,BrandVid, The Content Hub, Kids Animation & More, etc.

Milind is the Founder and CEO of 88 Pictures, the animation studio behind the success of Trollhunters Trilogy created by Guillermo Del Toro for Dreamworks and Netflix. In a short span of four years, 88 Pictures have created a niche for being part of some of the best animation work from India including the likes of Fast n Furious Tv Show, Scoob, Tom n Jerry, Spirit to name a few.

Before starting 88 Pictures, Milind was one of the core members instrumental for building the India unit of Dreamworks(DDU) and China unit of Dreamworks(ODW). In his robust body of work, Milind has been a part of many Oscar nominated movies such as Kung Fu Panda, How to Train your Dragon, Madagascar and many more.

Manish Kumar is the Head of Animation at 88 Pictures, he is responsible for getting the best animation out of 88 Pictures and develop a world class team of the finest animators the industry has ever seen. It is his unwavering endeavor to keep pushing the quality envelope for the animators by developing their innate acting skills, body mechanics and nuances of finest animation performance!. He worked on most of the successful franchises of DreamWorks like Shrek, Madagascar, Dragons, KFP, etc.

When Manish is not directing the animators, he is busy thinking and finding ways to get better himself and direct the animators better.

Ashish Kulkarni embarked on his journey in the field of arts and media in 1995, and is the founder of Punnaryug Artvision. Ashish is also the Chairman of the AVGC forum at FICCI and MCCIA, and has been persistently engaged with AVGC policy makers in India at central and state levels.

In the last two decades, Ashish's push for state level policies inclusive of AVGC skill development and creation has allowed for their successful implementation under IT ITES policies or independent AVGC policies in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, AP, Telangana, Goa, MP, Chattisgarh, West Bengal and Kerala. Moreover, states like UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat are actively considering the formation of AVGC policies to promote creative skill development and job creation.

Aashish has worked as a Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator on numerous projects. His animated short films Saraswati, Common Story, Travel to Moon and Channel V Shorts were screened at festivals around the world and won awards including UNICEF Short Film Award at Bangkok and Channel V Best Promo Award at Singapore. His work has also been awarded at ANIFEST, FICCI, BAF and others.

Before co-founding Paperboat Design Studios in 2011, Aashish worked at various creative positions in organizations such as Jadooworks, Anirights, Hurix Systems, Tata Elxsi and UTV Motion Pictures.

He directed Bandbudh Aur Budbak (Zee TV), one of the most popular TV series in India in recent times. He was the Creative Producer of numerous episodes of Pakdam Pakdai (Nickelodeon) and Sab Jholmaal Hai (Sony Yay). He is the Creative Director and Exec. Producer of Fukrey Boyzz(Discovery Kids).

Aashish has worked as a Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator on numerous projects. His animated short films Saraswati, Common Story, Travel to Moon and Channel V Shorts were screened at festivals around the world and won awards including UNICEF Short Film Award at Bangkok and Channel V Best Promo Award at Singapore. His work has also been awarded at ANIFEST, FICCI, BAF and others.

Before co-founding Paperboat Design Studios in 2011, Aashish worked at various creative positions in organizations such as Jadooworks, Anirights, Hurix Systems, Tata Elxsi and UTV Motion Pictures.

He directed Bandbudh Aur Budbak (Zee TV), one of the most popular TV series in India in recent times. He was the Creative Producer of numerous episodes of Pakdam Pakdai (Nickelodeon) and Sab Jholmaal Hai (Sony Yay). He is the Creative Director and Exec. Producer of Fukrey Boyzz(Discovery Kids).

Aashish has worked as a Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator on numerous projects. His animated short films Saraswati, Common Story, Travel to Moon and Channel V Shorts were screened at festivals around the world and won awards including UNICEF Short Film Award at Bangkok and Channel V Best Promo Award at Singapore. His work has also been awarded at ANIFEST, FICCI, BAF and others.

Before co-founding Paperboat Design Studios in 2011, Aashish worked at various creative positions in organizations such as Jadooworks, Anirights, Hurix Systems, Tata Elxsi and UTV Motion Pictures.

He directed Bandbudh Aur Budbak (Zee TV), one of the most popular TV series in India in recent times. He was the Creative Producer of numerous episodes of Pakdam Pakdai (Nickelodeon) and Sab Jholmaal Hai (Sony Yay). He is the Creative Director and Exec. Producer of Fukrey Boyzz(Discovery Kids).

Aashish has worked as a Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator on numerous projects. His animated short films Saraswati, Common Story, Travel to Moon and Channel V Shorts were screened at festivals around the world and won awards including UNICEF Short Film Award at Bangkok and Channel V Best Promo Award at Singapore. His work has also been awarded at ANIFEST, FICCI, BAF and others.

Before co-founding Paperboat Design Studios in 2011, Aashish worked at various creative positions in organizations such as Jadooworks, Anirights, Hurix Systems, Tata Elxsi and UTV Motion Pictures.

He directed Bandbudh Aur Budbak (Zee TV), one of the most popular TV series in India in recent times. He was the Creative Producer of numerous episodes of Pakdam Pakdai (Nickelodeon) and Sab Jholmaal Hai (Sony Yay). He is the Creative Director and Exec. Producer of Fukrey Boyzz(Discovery Kids).

Pradipto Sengupta is a Los Angeles based, Indian Animation artist. He is currently a CFX supervisor at DreamWorks Animation Studio, California and serves as a board of managers for Visual Effects Society-LA section. Starting his career in 2007 as a character rigging artist with Big Animation and subsequently has worked as a lead character FX animator and developer over the years at studios in India, China and the US. His career highlights includes critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated How To Train Your Dragon 2, Boss Baby as well commercially successful movies such as Madagascar 3, Puss in Boots, Netflix’s Wish Dragon, Boss Baby 2 to name a few. Pradipto is an active VES and ASIFA member, and a pre-selection jury for Computer Animation Festival, Siggraph-Asia.

Rajat has been in the video game industry for 26 years and worked on marquee games like Resident Evil, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, SGS and many more. Always at the forefront of technology, he's currently busy building India ka Apna Metaverse, PartyNite which has hosted some of the marquee events in metaverse.

Rajat is one of those successful entrepreneurs who could take his gaming experience to the theme park industry and built some of the most popular theme parks across the world.

Featured in Variety's "100 Writers to Watch" (2015), Nayna is a former NYC analyst, a former DC policy writer, a former international aid director, and a former touring dancer.

Currently an Unlock Her Potential fellow, Nayna is an alumna of The Salon initiative (2021), Disney ABC TV Writers Program (2019) and the Sesame Street Writers Program (2018). She has written for Disney, ABC, Netflix, DreamWorks, Mattel and won a development deal with Sesame Street. Recent credits include ABC’s 'The Baker and The Beauty', Disney’s 'Encanto', and an upcoming Disney film. She is currently staffed as an Executive Story Editor on a Netflix, live-action, fantasy show. She has written on 7 animation shows.

Saswat Sahoo is the Director of Production Technology at 88 Pictures. He heads the teams of Technical Directors and Software Engineers dedicated to empowering the digital artists to unlock their creativity using the best tools and technologies. Saswat's favorite aspect of working in Animation is to explore the seemingly unlimited ways Art and Technology can interact with each other to produce magical creations.

Sourav was born in 1974 as a son of Rabindranath Mondal and Krishna Mondal from Howrah Dasnagar. He inherited the values of life from his parents and the joint family. Storybooks were/are another main part of his life. He started his career as a Programmer in 1996 and took Animation as breathing support from 2000. He dreamt of Ssoftoons and Animation as his career and formed Ssoftoons in 2001 with Hansa Dangaich from his garage. Ssoftoons launched the first Bengali Animation Serial in 2001. The growth story of Ssoftoons is also the story of Sourav Mondal. He founded the company with courage, passion, and experience as his investment. Sourav holds several diplomas in Computer Programming & Structured System Analysis and Business development from ICS, TULEC & IGNOU. He also worked as an independent programmer and a Senior System Analyst & Programmer before starting his animation venture.

'Passion for storytelling' these words are what defines Sourav. He created Ssoftoons with the motto: 'All will be entertained and will recall the values of life from their products' and he wants to create some footprint and framework which the future generations can follow. Under his able leadership Ssoftoons were awarded the following:

1. Best Animation Award from ATN Kolkata 2003.
2. Recognition from the West Bengal Cultural Department.
3. Multiple Awards from YouTube.

His hobbies include Football, Reading Story Books, Watching Movies, and Story Making. Being a Bengali and a true foodie he cannot resist any dishes of Mutton or Hilsa.

Krishnarao S Buddha is a Senior Category Head at Parle Products Pvt Ltd. With over 26 years of experience in the FMCG industry, he oversees Parle’s entire snacks, confectionery, cakes, and rusk portfolio. In his present capacity, Krishnarao is responsible for category building, leading effective teams while streamlining operations and marketing strategies with an objective of enhancing Parle’s market share and exceeding the brand’s revenue and profitability. With a keen interest in advertising, media management and building brand equity, he has been closely working across teams to constantly drive need-gap identification and spearhead new product launches for the legacy brand.