Role of ‘Digital’ in Making Youth Job Ready: Digital Skills Continuum

Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi works with National Skills Development Corporation heading the Digital Skills, Innovation, Industry Partnerships & CSR engagements in building the policy & framework for Skilling motion in India.

Mr. Chetan Kapoor is an accomplished development professional, with a deep understanding and experience in the Education and Skill Development sectors. He joined the Tech Mahindra Foundation in October 2016 and has conceptualized the Foundation"s flagship Skill Development program (SMART), which is now one among the largest CSR-led urban skill development programs in India.

Ms. Joyeeta Das, Lead education and skilling initiatives at CSR, IBM India Pvt Ltd, is a corporate citizenship professional with a unique experience of over 20 years of working with Government and Non -Governmental organisations, multilateral funding agencies and corporates. Her foucs has been on primarily improving the quality of education in both K-12 and Higher Education leading large scale public private partnerships. She is deeply passionate about improving individual lives and whole communities of practice through education and nurturing talent through focused and innovative collaborations with experts in nonprofits, school and university systems and industry partners.

Anjalli Ravi Kumar works with consumer brands to help them identify social causes aligned with their "purpose" or long term business strategy. As a Brand Purpose consultant with Unilever she"s worked with Fair & Lovely (now Glow & Lovely) Clinic Plus and Ayush. She set up the Glow & Lovely Careers, a platform that has helped 1 million women in Asia discover online career guidance and courses for which Anjalli was recognized as Unilever Global Hero. Previously, Anjalli has worked as a social sustainability and impact consultant with KPMG and Dalberg and spent the early years with Naandi Foundation raising funds for education, organic farming and safe water programmes. Anjalli holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from FMS, Delhi.

Manisha Singh has 14 years of diverse professional experience in the CSR, Social enterprises, strategy consulting in the development sector. At Schneider Electric, she heads CSR for South Asia, wherein the focus is on improving the lives of people through Energy Access and skilling in space of energy.

Manisha Patil has masters from Tata institute of Social Sciences (TISS) with13 plus years of professional experience. Worked in reputed companies like Hindustan Unilever Limited and Amazon, wherein she have worked on brand social mission, corporate Branding and sustainablity initiatives.


India CSR Summit & Exhibition is South Asia’s largest CSR, SDGs and social impact forum. The Summit brings together business leaders, board directors, CSR foundations, impact investors, philanthropists, innovators, government agencies, the UN bodies and non-profits leaders to explore synergies and co-create solutions.

Built on the context of mandatory CSR provisions in India, the Summit, in the last 6 years, has truly become the convergence of social impact leaders from across the country. The event has already witnessed participation of over 490 exhibitors, almost 6700 organizations and 11500 professionals. The recent summit on September in 2019 was a benchmark event in terms of the scale, participation and knowledge sharing with 500+corporate heads, 100+ exhibitors and 2000+ delegates from 1900+ organizations coming in one platform to attend 30+ panel sessions on various thematic areas, 10+ masterclasses specially curated for corporate and non-profits, along with keynote talks, product demos and networking sessions.