InvokED 4.0

Towards Catalysing A Movement for Education Equity in India

InvokED 4.0, India’s largest education leadership summit, brought together 100+ experts and 1000+ participants to drive systemic change in public education. The fourth edition of this global dialogue focused on strengthening education leadership as the key to improving 1 million public schools and transforming learning for 127 million children

As a platform that unites Samaaj (communities, civil society organisations, and social entrepreneurs), Sarkaar (government officials and policymakers), Bazaar (industry experts), and Sanchaar (media), InvokED 4.0 fostered deep conversations and collaborations. Over two days, through engaging formats like Leadership Spotlights, Brain Dates, the Experience Zone, Dialogue Corners and Human Library, InvokED 4.0 broke barriers between participants, built trust, sparked new partnerships, and catalysed collective action to build a movement for sustainable, systemic change in education.

Tech Track

The Tech Track at InvokED 4.0 celebrated the power of technology to transform lives—where open-source solutions drive innovation, empower communities, and create lasting impact. The space sparked collaboration, inspired ideas, and drove meaningful change using technology among the participants.

Tech Track also became the ground for celebrating innovations tackling real-world education equity issues as part of the Innovation 4 Education Equity Hackathon. Out of 60 teams that submitted ideas as open-source solutions that truly matter, we had three winning solutions- Siksha Sathi (an AI teaching assistant for professional development), EngageED and Parent Sync (solutions to invest parents in child’s growth and development).

InvokED 3.0

At its third edition, we built the momentum for the people’s movement for education equity –Shikshāgraha. Over two days, along with 750+ participants and 70+ speakers, we identified ways to catalyse different elements of movement building. And defined the next steps to shape this movement together, so that all our children can dream, learn and succeed. InvokED 3.0 introduced new possibilities for enhancing knowledge and networking with unique brainstorming spaces.

InvokED 2.0

The second edition of InvokED highlighted the need for coming together, collaboration and co-creation to outpace the growth of problems with sustainable solutions. With 50+ organisations and 200+ participants collaboratively committed to ensure education equity for 250 million children in India with fair opportunities to learn, grow & thrive.

InvokED 1.0

The first ever InvokED spotlighted the much-deprioritised Leadership in Education. It brought over 20+ speakers playing the roles of education leaders, practitioners, academicians, market players, teachers and students. The space invoked conversations around the role of leadership in navigating change or driving student outcomes, learning from the strategies that have worked across the globe and exploring opportunities through diverse voices from the ecosystem.

Previous Speakers

Aaradhana Dalmia

Trustee at Dalmia Charitable Trust Chairperson at YFLO Delhi

Amita Kaushik

Co-founder and Director, EduWeave Foundation

Arun Pai

Trustee, India Rising Trust

Arun Ram

Resident Editor (Chennai), Times Of India

Bindu Thirumalai

Assistant Professor, TISS Mumbai

Chetan Kapoor

CEO, Tech Mahindra Foundation

Dr. Pramod Varma

Hasina Kharbhih

Founder and Chairperson, Impulse NGO Network

Shri Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar

Royal House, Mysore
Member of Parliament, Mysore

Jessica Mayberry

Founding Director, Video Volunteers

Justin Jesudas

Leadership and Product Development, THRYV

Kavita Tatwadi

Impact Measurement Specialist

Manmohan Singh

CEO, Aspirational Bharat Collaborative, Kaivalya Education Foundation

Maria Zapata

ASPIRe Executive Director and Globalizer Co-founder, Ashoka

Prakash Verma

Director, Nirvana Films

Priya Ajmera

Chief Evangelist, Centre for Exponential Change (C4EC)

Prakash Belawadi

Actor & Director

Purvi Shah

Senior Director, Storyweaver

Rucha Pande

Chief Operating Officer, Mantra4Change

Pratibha Narayanan

Director Programs and Impact, Involve Learning Solutions Foundation

Ramasastry Ambarish

Chairman, Board of Governors, MYRA School of Business

Sanjay Purohit

CEO & Chief Curator, Centre for Exponential Change

Shri. Sanjay Kumar

Secretary, DoSEL, Ministry of Education

Smt. Shashikala K B

Senior Assistant Director, DSERT Karnataka

Smt. Anita Karwal

Former Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, Govt of India

Shruti Shibulal

Executive Vice Chair, Tamara Leisure Experiences

Shankar Maruwada

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, EkStep Foundation

Sneha Iype

Producer, Nirvana Films

Sunayana Chatrapathy

Chief Executive Officer, Makkala Jagriti

Shri. Anurag Kundu

Member, Punjab Development Commission

Shaheen Mistri

CEO, Teach For India

Upendra Rabindran

Director – Talent Development, Piramal Foundation

Vishal Talreja

Co-Founder, Dream a Dream

Abhijit Biswas

Co-founder, Bharat Dekho

Alex Beard

Senior Director, Global Learning Lab, Teach For All

Amuleek Singh Bijral

Founder & CEO, Chai Point

Anand Gopakumar

CEO & Co-founder, The Apprentice Project (TAP)

Anand Rajan

Mission Leader & Founder, Apurva.AI

Aniket Doegar

Co-founder & CEO, Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions

Ansar A

Manager, Design and Development, Dream a Dream

Anshu Gupta

Founder – Goonj & Gram Swabhimaan

Archana Kannan Iyer

Chief Operating Officer, Indus Action

Asha Thomas

Trustee, The Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives

Ashcharya Prabhu

Lead, Leader’s Lab Network, Centre for Exponential Change (C4EC)

Ashraf Patel

Co-founder, Pravah & ComMutiny – The Youth Collective

Bachi Allamsetty

CEO, CTO & Co-Founder, NavaDhiti

Carolyne Faith Wanyonyi

CHW Engagement Manager, Community Health Impact Coalition

Celina de Sola

Co-founder & President, Glasswing International

Dayoung Lee

Partner, Dalberg

Debbie Rogers

CEO at Reach Digital Health

Dr Santhosh Mathew

India Country Lead, Public Policy and Finance, Gates Foundation

Dr Subramanian Rangan

Professor, Strategy and Management, INSEAD

Dr. François Bonnici

Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Dr. H B Chandrashekhar

Senior Lecturer, DIET, Bengaluru Urban South

Dr. Harish Hande

CEO, SELCO Foundation

Dr. Krithi K. Karanth

Chief Executive Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies

Dr. Mara Airoldi

Co-Director of the GO Lab, BSG, University of Oxford

Dr. Preetha Bhakta

Director, Programme Development, Magic Bus

Dzameer Dzulifli

Former Consultant, Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia

Geetha Manjunath

Founder, CEO & CTO, NIRAMAI Health Analytix

His Highness Yaduveer Wadiyar

King of Mysore, Karnataka

James Parker

Principal Project Manager, Proforest, Ghana

Jayshree Oberoi

Senior Director, The Akanksha Foundation

Kameshwari Jandhyala

Independent Consultant & Researcher, Gender & Education

Kanika Sinha

Convener, ComMutiny- The Youth Collective

Kavitha N

Cluster Resource Person, Chandapura, Anekal, Bengaluru Urban South, Bengaluru

Kumari Shibulal

Founder & Chairperson, The Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives

Madhuchandra R

COO, Centre for Open Societal Systems

Malti Devi

Chief, Narauli Village Council, Bihar

Medha Krishnan

Co-Founder and CEO, Tan90

Mirai Chatterjee

Director of Social Security, SEWA

Monal Jayaram

Co-founder & Director, SoESC, Piramal School of Leadership, Piramal Foundation

Neeru Mulhotra

Programme Operations Lead, Pravah

Nikhil Nadiger

Host, theStaffRoom (a podcast)

Nita Aggarwal

Associate Director Programs, Asia, Co-Impact

Nur Fatima Shaikh

Student, Grade 9, K.C. Thackeray- Vidya Niketan English Medium School

Parth Lawate

Co-founder & CEO, Tekdi Technologies

Polina Nezdiikovska

Lead – Community Development, Centre for Exponential Change (C4EC)

Ramabhadran Sundaram

Director, National Alumni Impact, Teach For India

Ravi Rangan S

Co-Founder and CEO ThinkTac

Rekha Balakrishnan

Lead Editor – HerStory and SocialStory, YourStory Media

Reshma Anand

Regional Director, Ford Foundation

Reshma Piramal

Head of operations, SEE Learning India

Ritesh Agarwal

Vice President, Educational Initiatives

Rucha Pande

Founder, CoLab

Sailee Rane

Strategy Lead, Ecosystem Messaging, Rainmatter Foundation

Samar Bajaj

Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation India, LLP

Sangita Baban Bangar

Administrative Officer, Education Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra

Sanjay Tambwekar

Former CTO, QwikCilver

Shailiza Mayal

Senior Manager, Samagra | Transforming Governance

Shalini Kapoor

Chief Technologist APJ, Amazon Web Services

Shantamma Appasahebagouda Patil

Student, Grade 9, The Samhita Academy

Shanti Raghavan

Founder, EnAble India

Shri Akash S, IAS

Additional Commisioner, DoSE, Kalaburgi, Karnataka

Shri Krishnamohan Akepati

Secretary of MJPAPBCWREIS, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

Shri Manoj Kaushik

Head, Education Technology Wing, SCERT, Haryana

Shri Muzammil Khan, IAS

Collector and District Magistrate, Khammam, Telangana

Shri Prateek Jain, IAS

Collector & District Magistrate, Vikarabad District, Telangana

Shri Rajwant Singh

District Resource Coordinator, Patiala, Punjab

Shri Sanjay Kumar

Secretary, DoSEL, Ministry of Education, Government of India

Shri Shekhar Singh, IAS

Municipal Commissioner, Pimpri Chinchwad, Maharashtra

Simranjit Singh

Program Manager, Sanjhi Sikhiya

Sindhu S

Senior Lead – Programs, Mantra4Change

Rahul Chowdhary test

Business Development

Smt Manjari Jaruhar, IPS

Author, Former IPS

Smt Sandhya Rani, IPoS (Retd)

Former Secretary, Department of School Edudation, Andhra Pradesh

Sooinn Lee

Co-founder & CEO, Enuma Inc.

Sriram Bharatam

Founder & Chief Mentor, Kuza Biashara Limited

Subir Shukla

Former Educational Quality Improvement Advisor, GoI & Principal Coordinator, Group Ignus

Suchetha Bhat

CEO, Dream a Dream

Sudha Varghese

Padma Shri Awardee Founder, Nari Gunjan

Sujith Nair

CEO & Co-Founder, FIDE Genesis Co-author & Steward, Beckn Protocol

Surabhi Yelsangikar

Co-Founder, Tvarita Arts Collective India

Swarnima Pandit

Manager, Strategy & Growth, The Apprentice Project (TAP)

Tasso Azevedo

Co-founder, MapBiomas

Urmila Kumari

Co-founder, Jyoti Mahila Samakhya

Visveswara Gupta

Director – Partnerships & Platform Adoption, Aastrika Foundation

Aashish Shrivastava

Co-Founder, Shiksharth

Dr. Elijah Bach