Tim Kobe is a design leader, Founder and CEO of Eight Inc. Eight Inc. employs leading designers and strategists working across 11 offices including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Istanbul, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Tim Kobe, who is known as ‘Apple’s best kept secret’, is the man behind the legendary brand’s first store designed in 2001 in New York. It was a simple and minimalistic glass box that blurred the boundaries between physical and digital space, and stirred the retail industry with its arrival.

TIm has ongoing consulting relationships with leaders in business and innovation at Apple, ANZ Bank, Citibank, Coach, Herman Miller, HP, Hyatt, Nissan, Nokia, Nike, and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

Deepak Ohri is visionary business leader and is the Chief Executive Officer of Lebua Hotels and Resorts, an international luxury hospitality company with a collection of 5-Star hotels and fine restaurants in Thailand, New Zealand and India.

He has been honored by numerous organizations; including being a three-time recipient of the ‘Most Enterprising Entrepreneur’ at the Hospitality Asia Platinum Awards, the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ from The Best in Asia and He has also earned an ‘Achievers and Leaders’ Award from the Indira Group of Institutes, received ‘Innovation in Hospitality’ Award from the Stars of the Industry Group, ‘The Extraordinaire’ Award from Brand Vision 2018 and The World’s Leading Personality received at the 26th annual World Travel Awards.

Ohri has twice been a featured speaker at the prestigious Forbes Global CEO Conference and Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit. He has also addressed many events ranging from the Lausanne and Real Estate Funds WTCC, the WTTC Summit and the India Conference, hosted by Harvard Business School, to the 14th Annual India Business Conference at Columbia Business School. 

Ohri also regularly connects with students and speaks at business schools worldwide; including Harvard Business School, London Business School and MIT Sloan which led to him being named Executive in Residence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chairman of the Executive Board at Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center at Florida International University. 

Jaideep Sahni is India’s leading screenwriter, songwriter and creative producer. He is the screenwriter of some of the most admired Hindi films of recent times like Chak De! India, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, Shuddh Desi Romance, Company, Bunty Aur Babli, and Khosla Ka Ghosla, which he also creative-produced.

He is also an award-winning lyricist, having written very popular songs for his own films as well as for other films like Andhadhun, Befikre, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Aja Nachle, Salaam Namaste, Bluffmaster, Johny Gaddaar, Company, and for artists like Euphoria and Shubha Mudgal.

He has been awarded the Filmfare, Screen, IIFA and Producers Guild awards multiple times, and was declared the ‘Indian Of The Year (Entertainment)’ in 2007 by CNN-News18, along with director Shimit Amin. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences included his Chak De! India screenplay their script Library. The title track song "Chak De! India" doubles as a sports anthem in India.

After graduating in Computer Science & Engineering, he worked in IT consulting and advertising before turning a full-time screenwriter, lyricist and creative producer.

Deepak Ohri is visionary business leader and is the Chief Executive Officer of Lebua Hotels and Resorts, an international luxury hospitality company with a collection of 5-Star hotels and fine restaurants in Thailand, New Zealand and India.

He has been honored by numerous organizations; including being a three-time recipient of the ‘Most Enterprising Entrepreneur’ at the Hospitality Asia Platinum Awards, the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ from The Best in Asia and He has also earned an ‘Achievers and Leaders’ Award from the Indira Group of Institutes, received ‘Innovation in Hospitality’ Award from the Stars of the Industry Group, ‘The Extraordinaire’ Award from Brand Vision 2018 and The World’s Leading Personality received at the 26th annual World Travel Awards.

Ohri has twice been a featured speaker at the prestigious Forbes Global CEO Conference and Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit. He has also addressed many events ranging from the Lausanne and Real Estate Funds WTCC, the WTTC Summit and the India Conference, hosted by Harvard Business School, to the 14th Annual India Business Conference at Columbia Business School. 

Ohri also regularly connects with students and speaks at business schools worldwide; including Harvard Business School, London Business School and MIT Sloan which led to him being named Executive in Residence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chairman of the Executive Board at Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center at Florida International University.