Rahul Samuel - Technical Support Specialist - Middle East, Africa, India at Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.

Rahul Samuel is an award-winning live sound engineer with a global work experience of over 13 years. Based out of Dubai, Rahul is a Technical Support Specialist with Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc.

Ravisankar Nadiyam - Waves Regional Sales Manager

Ravisankar started his audio career two decades back as the Pro Tools product specialist with the then Indian distributor of Digidesign. He, then, joined Digidesign as the Southeast Asia Product Specialist and subsequently moved to the Avid Emerging Markets office in Dubai as the Audio Sales Manager for retail, studio and live segments, managing Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Middle East, Turkey and the Indian Sub-continent. As the Region Sales Manager with Waves Audio, he runs the channel business in the Indian sub-continent, South Korea, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

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Praveen Muralidhar - FOH for Neha Kakkar and Jonita Gandhi

Originally from Bangalore and currently living in Mumbai, Live Sound engineer Praveen Muralidhar is presently the FOH for Neha kakkar (Indian singer) and Jonita Gandhi (Indian-born-Canadian singer).Formerly he has a rich experience as an Audio Engineer at Sahara India Comm Corp Ltd and with Sandeep Chowta ( Indian music director who primarily works in Bollywood and Telugu cinema)

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Supratik Subramanian - FOH for MADBOY/MINK and The Fanculos

Live Sound Engineer Supratik Subramanian has a rich experience of eight years in live sound mixing and a high level of proficiency in Waves Tracks live, Studio One ver 3, Logic Pro. He is currently the FOH/Monitors Engineer for many bands including Red Seems Right(Alternative Rock act from Mumbai), MADBOY/MINK(India's leading Electro Cabaret - Disco - Funk duo), The Fanculos(5-piece ska and reggae band).He has been part of the live sound team for festivals such as NH7 , VH1 SUPERSONICS ,THE LOST PARTY , BIG69 , CONTROL ALT DELETE. He also manages the Rental Division of Bajaao Music Pvt. Ltd.

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Gautham Pattani - Dante Certified Instructor, Audio Academy

Gautham is a Studio engineer and a Dante Certified Trainer. He is also an Audio engineering instructor in music recording and film post production at Audio Academy since four years.

Sushma Gaikwad - Co-Founder and Director of Ice Global

Sushma is an entrepreneur, a communication specialist, Motivational Speaker, a breakthrough therapist, and is a Dale Carnegie certified trainer and NLP Master Practitioner. A recipient of the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award conferred by the reputed Bharat Nirman Foundation, she is the co-founder of Ice Global that is positioned as one of the premium experiential communication agencies. With a vision to make a difference and help people unleash their true potential, Sushma has founded a division that facilitates Learning and Development. Today, as a ‘Breakthrough’ specialist, she works towards enhancing attitude and skills, through the use of experiential and neuro-linguistic techniques. As a Leadership Coach she has worked with industry leaders, CEO’s and senior management. Sushma is also the erstwhile General Secretary of EEMA and has been actively working on the single window clearance with the government of Maharashtra to drive industry compliance and has been at the helm of a variety of initiatives to enhance knowledge and drive quality in the media and entertainment industry.

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Milind Raorane - Electro-Acoustic Design Consultant, Owner Soundframe Consulting

An Electro-Acoustic Design Consultant, with a B.E. Electronics along with formal education in Sound Recording & Engineering, Milind’s expertise lies in understanding the behavior of Loudspeakers and Rooms together and specializing in bringing unison between them. He has been working in the field of Loudspeaker & Architectural Acoustics, Noise study, Noise Mapping and Audio system tuning & calibration since almost two decades. His Work profile spans from designing Acoustic & Audio for small studios, sports arenas, airport terminals, small and large auditoriums, premium nightclubs, custom luxury home cinemas, cinema preview theaters, TV studio shoot floors, Acoustics for Office complex, Luxury Hotels and Industrial applications. A believer of continuous learning and sharing the knowledge, Milind has also been a visiting faculty to DSRE course conducted by Mumbai University and Sound Recording course conducted by SOUND IDEAZ Academy.

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Pramod Chandorkar - Director at Sound Ideaz Academy and Honorary Chairman, IRAA Awards

Pramod Chandorkar has been working as a Sound Engineer in the music industry from 1995 till date. He has worked on numerous mega-hit albums and films as a Chief Sound Engineer. He is one of the few audio engineers who have excelled in all branches of audio ranging from music recording, live sound, film sound design and studio design and audio education. Currently other than being the Founder & Director of Soundideaz Academy Pvt. Ltd. a premier institute conducting courses on Sound engineering, he also heads an impressive Audio post-production facility. He is also a FOH Mix engineer and the Head Technical Engineer for Sonu Nigam Live in concert and has been traveling the world for his tour for last 15 years. He has mixed live for several artists like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and has also received several awards.

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Michael Rozett – Senior Product Manager,
Repair & Edit Software, iZotope

Michael Rozett is a product manager and producer with more than 20 years of experience developing and launching products and programs for consumers, viewers, and listeners. A senior product manager at iZotope, Michael is responsible for the Repair & Edit products: RX, Insight, RX Loudness Control, and the RX Post Production Suite. Prior to that, he was a staff producer at Chedd-Angier-Lewis in Boston, and a writer/producer for the History Channel series Tougher In Alaska. He worked on television and film projects for Moore Huntley Productions, Moody Street Pictures and Northern Light Productions, and also produced at WGBH Radio. He received his MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and has a bachelor's degree in history from Vassar College.

Didier Weiss – Founder, Sound Wizard

Didier Weiss totals 38 years of experience in the field of professional sound engineering. In 1982 he graduated in Electronics, Computer systems and Physics at Belfort Institute of Technology, France. His passion for sound comes with a taint of versatility. Didier initially worked for a couple of years internationally as a maintenance engineer for pro-audio facilities before fully and confidently delving into studio recording and mixing in many major recording and mixing studios in Paris-France. On occasions he also toured nationally and internationally as a FOH sound engineer and has regularly lectured in acoustics, electro-acoustics systems, audio recording and P.A. applications in France. After he moved to India, he founded Sound Wizard, an India based company specialized in acoustics and electro-acoustics for musical environments. For more than 10 years now he is a dedicated user of EASE simulation software and was certified as a trainer by AFMG in Berlin in 2014.

Kapil Thirwani -
Partner, Munro Acoustics

Vijay Sabhlok -
CEO - Event Resource

Michael Kinzel -
Segment Manager Live performance venues & Entertainment installation at d&b audiotechnik

Vinayak Pulugurtha, Software Developer for Wireless Solution Sweden

Vinayak is a software developer for Wireless Solution Sweden. Through his knowledge of wireless technology, he's responsible for delivering a reliable product such like W-DMX^TM, and supporting customers making their installations rock solid

Jaykrishnan Nalinkumar

JK has worked in the music business for the last 14 years as a studio recording/mixing engineer and has won several awards and recognition. He also travels with many musicians as a Live FOH engineer. His decade long teaching experience in one of the most leading audio schools in the country achieved him the Dronacharya Award for teachers in Audio Education from IRAA in 2018.

Daman Sood,
Sound Engineer and Head of Department
Digital Film School

Daman Sood is an Indian Sound Recording Engineer who needs no introduction. He is best known for his work with musicians such as Jagjit Singh and Abida Parveen, as well as his prolific work as a Song Recordist for top notch banners for Bollywood film soundtracks, including Veer Zara, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayege, Machis, Gupt, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Devdas and Sarfarosh, to name a few. He also recorded music and sound for Rudali, Lekin, Kabhi Khushi Khabhi Gam, Vaastav and the TV serial Mirza Ghalib. His work on the public awareness commercial 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' won him a Technical Excellence Award from RAPA. He was also the first in India to use automation in music recordings in 1993. Mr. Daman Sood is currently Head of Department at Digital Film School.

Kapil Thirwani -
Partner, Munro Acoustics

Deepayan Ghosh – Product Specialist for Yamaha Professional Audio,
Yamaha Music India

Deepayan Ghosh, born in family of musicians, where Deepayan hit his teen years in the studio assisting his father as a recordist. Thus, his early musical education was on a harmonium training his ears to the sound of Indian instruments. Always curious to try out different techniques to achieve the best sound & build a career doing what he loves, he then moved to Mumbai in 2006. Deepayan's enrolled himself at an audio engineering school , his growing proficiency was noticed by many during his course, which later led to a job with Ansata, where he had the opportunity to be a part of the best like YRF, Futureworks, Sunny Super Sound, Vikrant Studios, Sony, ZEE TV studio installations. In 2016, Deepayan joined Yamaha Music India as a product specialist for Steinberg, a company that he grew up working on, he travels around conducting workshops & training for Yamaha.