Priyanka Chopra Jonas is a multi-faceted talent, and one of the most recognized personalities in the world.

She is the recipient of numerous awards as an actor and producer, with more than sixty international and Hollywood films to her credit, and in February 2021 became a New York Times Best Selling Author with her memoir “Unfinished.” Most recently, she starred in the Netflix features We Can Be Heroes, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Academy Award Nominated The White Tiger, which she also executive produced. Chopra Jonas starred in and co-produced The Sky is Pink, an independent foreign language film that premiered as an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, and is currently developing an untitled buddy comedy with Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor for Universal, which she will co-produce and star in. Priyanka is also in production for the Russo Brother’s Citadel; The Matrix 4; and recently completed filming for Where Does My Heart Beat Now with Sony Pictures. Under her production banner Purple Pebble Pictures, Chopra Jonas is partnered with Amazon Studios on a First Look TV deal, where she will develop a slate of global content for the streamer. Purple Pebble Pictures is also partnered with ViacomCBS to create original content focused on diversity and inclusion for its entertainment and youth channels.

Chopra Jonas made history as the first Indian-born actor to lead an American network TV series when she starred in the ABC dramatic series Quantico, winning two People’s Choice awards for her work. The Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, was conferred on her in 2016. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine’s “Time 100” issue, in which she was named one of the “Most Influential People” in the world, and has been recognised as one of Forbes “Most Powerful Women.”

Chopra Jonas is a global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and recipient of the prestigious Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award. She is also a Global Citizen Ambassador and is involved in a number of efforts to protect children’s rights and to promote the education of girls around the world. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Nick, and Diana, Gino, and Panda, their three dogs.

Nita Ambani is an educationist, philanthropist, businesswoman and a noted proponent of sports. Nita is the Founder Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, which has impacted the lives of over seven million people. She provides leadership to 14 schools and is the Founder Chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, India’s No. 1 International School. She heads the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, a state-of-the-art multi-speciality hospital in Mumbai.

Nita is the architect of Mumbai Indians, which won the IPL trophy in 2013 and 2015 and the Champions League T20 trophy in 2011 and 2013. She is the Founder Chairperson of Football Sports Development Limited that launched the ISL, revolutionising football in India. In August 2016, she was elected as a Member of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first Indian woman to join this prestigious body.

Nita is committed to promoting India’s art, culture and heritage. Reliance Foundation sponsored the ‘Gates of the Lord’ exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and partnered with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to showcase the works of Nasreen Mohamedi.

She is on the Boards of Reliance Industries Ltd and East India Hotels. Forbes lists her amongst the 50 most powerful businesswomen in Asia.

Links: www.reliancefoundation.org

Ajay Bijli’s passion for movies led him to set up India’s first multiplex in 1997. Today, PVR is the largest and the most premium film exhibition company in India. Since its inception, the brand has redefined the way entertainment is consumed in the country. PVR currently operates a cinema circuit comprising 630 screens at 135 properties in 52 cities (19 states and UTs), serving 76 million patrons annually. While the total screen tally of the company stands at 630; PVR offers an array of formats with premium screen category, which stands at 36 screens of Gold Class, 07 of IMAX, 08 of 4DX, 04 of PXL and 04 of Playhouse across the country.

Born in 1974 to prolific Indian film writer and poet, Javed Akhtar and writer-director, Honey Irani, Farhan grew up in an environment where creativity and originality of thought were encouraged. Farhan teamed up with Ritesh Sidhwani in 1999, forming their company Excel Entertainment. Debuting with Dil Chahta Hai (2001), a film that would affect a generation of filmmakers to come, Farhan was lauded for his honest, path-breaking writing and extracting mature performances from the cast. He was bestowed the prestigious National Award for Best Hindi Feature Film and Filmfare awards for Best Feature Film - Critics Choice and Best Screenplay.'.

Seven years later in 2008, he debuted as an actor/singer in Rock On!! The film won him a second National Award for Best Hindi Feature Film and a Filmfare award for Best Debut Performance. In 2011, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara released to popular and critical acclaim, winning him three Filmfare awards for Best Film, Best Actor in a supporting role and Best Dialogue.'.

Now, more than a decade since his debut and in the wake of his performance in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, which won him the Filmfare award for Best Actor, he is looked upon as a multi-talented leader of a new sensibility that has taken hold of the popular conscience of Indian Film. In 2012, he co-founded MARD (Men Against Rape and Discrimination), an initiative that raises awareness about gender-related issues among the youth of India. For his sustained efforts, he was made the first male Regional UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia in 2014. He is the lead singer of the band, FarhanLive and co-founder of FarOut Media, an Indie artiste rights management company. /p>

He is also co-owner of the Mumbai Tennis Masters franchise in the Vijay Amritraj founded Champions Tennis League. He has two daughters and lives in Mumbai, India.

Isha Ambani is part of the executive leadership teams at Reliance Retail, Reliance Jio, Reliance Foundation, and Dhirubhai Ambani International School.

She played a pivotal role in conceptualising and launching Jio in India in 2016. A game-changer in the Indian telecom and digital landscape, Jio is the world’s largest mobile data network.

Isha leads the online and offline business for Reliance Retail which is India's largest retailer by revenue, profits, reach and scale with presence in grocery, consumer electronics and fashion retail. Under her leadership Reliance Retail has attained the distinction of being the fastest-growing retailer in the world in 2019 and being the only Indian retailer in the list of global top 100 retailers.

Isha is actively involved in spearheading the work done by Reliance Foundation. An art enthusiast, she leads the art and culture initiatives undertaken by Reliance Foundation in India and internationally. She is passionate about education and anchors the Reliance Foundation’s work with children and women. She also leads the Diversity and Inclusion programme at RIL.

Isha graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a double major in Psychology and South Asian Studies and completed her MBA from Stanford University in 2018.

Kabir won the prestigious National Award (2006) for his first feature, Kabul Express which was shot entirely in Afghanistan. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2006 and was later screened at the London, Busan, Dubai, Singapore, Casablanca and Cairo Film Festivals. In Singapore, Kabir won the Best Director’s Award and the Purple Orchid trophy for Best Film. His second feature, New York (2009) was met with critical acclaim and box office success. It was the Opening Film at the Cairo International Film Festival 2009 and was also screened at the Busan International Film Festival 2009 and the Krakow Film Festival 2010, Poland. Since then he has made Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Phantom (2015), Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) and Tubelight (2017). Ek Tha Tiger and Bajrangi Bhaijaan are some of the biggest blockbusters in Indian cinema. Kabir won his second National Award (2015) for Bajrangi Bhaijaan. His documentary, The Forgotten Army won the Grand Jury award at Film South Asia 2000 and Two Assassinations and An Accident was given the Best National Film Award jointly with another film of his, Mechanics of Change at the Mumbai International Film Festival – 2002. He was also awarded the National Critics Award.

A major international documentary shot in Afghanistan, The Taliban Years and Beyond premiered at the Cork International Film Festival (2003) and was telecast on major networks across the world including the Discovery Channel. The Titanic Sinks in Kabul was selected at the prestigious 5th FICA Film Festival in Brazil, International Sasa Award 2003 – Italy, and the FIKE-2003 Evora Short Film Festival, Portugal. His photographs have won international photography awards at the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention in Switzerland in 1999 and the Nikon International Photo of the Year in 2003. Kabir Khan’s documentary/film assignments have taken him to over 70 countries.

For the last five years, till November 2019, Kaustubh was designated as Joint Secretary (JS) and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Chief Minister (CM) Shri. Devendra Fadnavis, Government of Maharashtra (GOM). In that role, he was driving Technology and Infrastructure in the state via various programs and special projects.

Kaustubh is an Engineer from Mumbai University. He also has a PGDM from SP Jain Institute of Management Studies and was on the Dean's Merit List. He also has a Public Policy degree from John. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer. He began his career as an assistant director to his mentor, writer-lyricist and director Gulzar on whose advice he subsequently studied film direction and scriptwriting at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII).

He established Dungarpur Films in 2001 under which banner he has produced and directed close to 1000 commercials and several documentaries and short films. Over the years, he has won innumerable awards for his work in advertising including five IDPA gold awards and three silver awards.

Shivendra has made a name for himself internationally as an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. In 2012, he made his first feature documentary Celluloid Man that won two National Awards and travelled to over fifty festivals around the world including Telluride, New York, Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Shanghai. His second documentary The Immortals (2015) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for Best Film at the Mumbai International Film Festival. His third documentary titled CzechMate – In Search of Jiri Menzel is a seven-hour epic that is an in-depth exploration of the Czechoslovakian New Wave that has won critical acclaim from cinephiles around the world. British Film Institute and Sight & Sound Magazine voted the film amongst the top 5 releases of 2020.

Shivendra is passionately committed to film preservation and restoration. In response to the colossal loss of India’s film heritage and recognising the urgent need to preserve it, he established Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to preserving and restoring India’s moving image heritage, in 2014. FHF is the only non-governmental organisation working in the field of film preservation in India. The foundation has a growing collection of films and film-related memorabilia, conducts world-class training workshops in film preservation, works on oral history projects and publishes books.

FHF has an advisory board that includes eminent members of the film industry. The foundation has built an international reputation for excellence and counts world-renowned filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan amongst its supporters. FHF has recently collaborated with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna on the restoration of G. Aravindan’s film Kummatty (1979). Shivendra had earlier collaborated with them on the restorations of Uday Shankar’s film Kalpana (1948) and the Sinhalese film Nidhanaya (1972).

Film Heritage Foundation is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and Shivendra was elected to the FIAF Executive Committee for the fourth consecutive term in 2021. He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna that includes amongst others Alexander Payne, Thelma Schoonmaker, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Becker and Kevin Brownlow. He is also a member of the Honorary Committee of the Nitrate Picture Show, George Eastman House’s Festival of Film Conservation.

VVishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, composer and producer. He has directed ten feature films, produced five and composed music for more than forty. His directorial work includes Makdee, The Blue Umbrella, Kaminey, 7 Khoon Maaf, Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola, Rangoon, Pataakha as well as the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare Trilogy - Maqbool, Omkara and Haider (adapted from Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, respectively). He has received seven National Awards for his feature films and the Kerala State Award for Best Music Direction for the film Carbon. Moreover, Makdee has won the Best Film award at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Omkara has received the Best Artistic Contribution in Cinema award at the Cairo International Film Festival, and Haider has won the People’s Choice award at Rome Film Festival.

In 2014, Vishal began his stage career by directing the opera A Flowering Tree by John Adams in the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris. He also composed music for the Broadway musical Monsoon Wedding (based on the feature film by Mira Nair). In 2018, Vishal published his first book of poems Nude, a collection of 50 poems written over the past two decades.