India Inclusion Summit

The India Inclusion Summit (IIS) is the earliest of the initiatives started by the India Inclusion Foundation. The first IIS was held on 3 December 2012 in Bangalore (now Bengaluru). Beginning as a community-driven platform to create awareness about disability, it blossomed into an annual, entirely volunteer-driven extravaganza held every November in Bengaluru. The spirit of IIS is captured in its catchphrase “Everyone is Good at Something” and in its credo “No egos, no logos.” Its founder V.R. Ferose, speaking about the Inclusive India Dream at IIS 2014, described IIS as “an event that is built, owned, executed, driven by the community.” IIS brings together thought leaders and unsung heroes from the field of disability and inclusion to deliberate, discuss, and drive change in our society. It has grown into a movement involving corporate and government entities, NGOs, schools, and volunteers. More than 10,000 people have physically attended the event which has an online viewership of over 15 million. All sessions are fully accessible and FREE for its participants

India Inclusion Summit
Founded2012
FounderFerose VR
PurposeDisability Awareness
HeadquartersBengaluru,India
WebsiteIndia Inclusion Summit

Origin

V.R. Ferose, Senior Vice President SAP and Head of the SAP Engineering Academy, conceived IIS at a turning point in his life. When his son Vivaan was diagnosed with autism at 18 months, he fell into depression. It was his mentor, the Magsaysay award winner Kiran Bedi, who enabled him to find his purpose, telling him, “You are lucky; the purpose found you.” He realized that if, instead of trying to change Vivaan, he endeavored (in his wife Deepali’s words) to “change the world for Vivaan”, it could change the lives of countless other people with disabilities. Veteran journalist and author Arun Shourie, the father of a disabled son, was another inspirational figure. Shourie suggested that Ferose strive to change society’s mindset about disability, and this sparked off the idea of an event that celebrates differences – an idea that would culminate in the India Inclusion Summit.

Mission

To make India inclusive in alignment with the 2030 agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with the following goals: • Create awareness on the need for disability inclusion in mainstream society • Provide a platform for unsung heroes • Support projects that lead to education, employment, and livelihoods for persons with disabilities (PWD) • Partner with corporates to support people with disabilities and drive inclusivity • Share innovations and success stories about PWD • Catalyse the journey of young entrepreneurs and artists who are in the disability space.


List of Speakers


2012

2013
  • Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (in a video recorded message)
  • Justice Santosh Hegde
  • Ustad Faiyaz Khan and Sarfaraaz
  • Aditya Venkatesh
  • Major D.P. Singh
  • Thorkil Sonne
  • Javed Abidi
  • Anantha Krishnan
  • Malavika Iyer
  • Malathi Holla
  • Devdutt Pattanaik
  • Ugesh Sarcar, INK Salon
  • Vilas Nayak
  • Dr Virender Sangwan, INK Salon
  • Dr Kiran Bedi
  • Dipesh Sutariya
  • Rajan Brothers
  • Seema Kohli
  • Anita Nair
  • Virender Singh (Goonga Pehelwan)
  • Nirali Karthik

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019
  • Bickram Ghosh
  • Mohan Sundaram
  • Rariyang Pura
  • Asha Sreedhar
  • Sriram Raghavan
  • Prathap Ram
  • Vibha Krishnamurthy
  • M. Chandrasekaran
  • Jo Chopra McGowan
  • Shalabh Mittal
  • Nandita Das

2020 (Online edition)
  • Vint Cerf
  • Rishad Premji
  • Jim Sinocchi
  • Nadine Vogel
  • Justin Jesudas
  • Sujatha Srinivasan
  • Shekhar Kapur
  • Viswanathan Anand
  • Megha Chakraborty
  • Sparsh Shah
  • Pranav Bakshi
  • Sonu Sood
  • Rob Bernstein
  • Prithvi Sekhar
  • Pavitra Chalam
  • Neeraj George
  • Doug Roland
  • Dan Habib
  • Vilas Nayak
  • Anu
  • Manasi Joshi
  • Kailash Satyarthi
  • Ira Singhal
  • Gitanjali Sarangan
  • Ellen Petry Leanse
  • Neha Kirpal
  • Shekhar Seshadri

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