Balaji Ganapathy is a globally respected social impact leader, strategist, and board advisor building organizations, teams, and leaders who serve society and the planet with humility and a pioneering spirit.

As former Chief Social Responsibility Officer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the $30B technology services firm, he built one of the world's largest corporate social impact portfolios, leading a 200-member team and empowering 30+ million people across 55 countries, investing $650M in marginalized communities.

With singular focus on 'prosperity at the last mile,' he led groundbreaking social innovations in K-12 education, employment, entrepreneurship, economic inclusion, health, water, sustainability, climate action, and impact investing. A tech-savvy systems thinker, he set new standards for digital inclusion, measurable impact at scale, and long-term sustainability through grassroots ownership.

His paradigm 'Purpose is the new Tech' unlocks the value-quad: business growth, employee purpose, community impact, and shareholder returns. Under his leadership, TCS witnessed 30x revenue growth, 20 million volunteer hours, 188 shared value partnerships, and $21.3 billion brand value.

A Charles H. Moore 'Charlie Award' winner, his board service includes the World Economic Forum, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. His public engagements span the United Nations, White House, Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, and SXSW.

Carol Cone is internationally recognized for all aspects of her work in purpose. She pioneered the movement now known as social purpose in the 80s, recognizing the power of bringing society inside business and brands for significant social and business impact.

Since then, she has driven constant evolution in the strategy and practice of purpose, with a relentless passion for breakthrough, enduring results. Carol created the first research related to social purpose, the Cone/Roper Report, and dozens since. She has led the industry with thought leadership to advance purpose as core business strategy.

She is credited with forming multiple social movements around issues including breast cancer, heart disease prevention, early childhood education, walking, and social purpose. At Sustainable Brands 2019, she was named one of the world's seven leading purpose pioneers.

Carol Cone ON PURPOSE is her return to her entrepreneurial roots and life's passion: to educate, inspire, and accelerate purpose programs and impacts for organizations, nonprofits, and individuals around the world. For more than 30 years, she has created built-to-last programs that deeply engage employees, infuse new meaning into storied brands, forge new partnerships, and deliver enduring business and societal impact.

Carol adamantly believes that today, companies and brands must stand for something beyond the bottom line.

Chris Noble is a serial entrepreneur with more than 17 years of experience running high-tech startups, building a career around identifying, championing, and executing new ideas. He lived the full Silicon Valley experience, going from five guys in a garage to IPO, and just about everything in between.

As a Matchfire Partner and CEO, Chris helped run over 1,200 campaigns that raised more than $500M for charity by bringing together brands, celebrities, and nonprofits. Now leading corporate partnerships at CARE.org, his team works to help more than 90 million people in 100 countries every year, turning corporate resources into real community impact.

His path wasn't exactly linear. After running political campaigns, he discovered a love for building teams but needed a different arena. That led to 20+ years in tech startups, where he learned how to take ideas from the back of a napkin and make them real. Along the way, he raised serious capital ($17M for one venture), built companies from scratch (sold some, crashed some), and eventually found his sweet spot: using business as a force for good.

At CARE, Chris focuses on fighting global poverty by investing in women and girls, because they're the architects of sustainable change. He shares these experiences at venues like SXSW, TEDx, and Blogworld. He takes the work of creating positive change seriously, himself, not so much.

Lavanya Chary is a Senior Product Leader specializing in enterprise AI and revenue platforms, with 20+ years translating technical possibility into measurable business outcomes across Google, MetLife, VMware/Broadcom, and Omnissa.

Coming from a developer background, she thinks in systems and tradeoffs, but stays focused on what matters: products that solve real problems and create tangible value. At Omnissa, she led the migration of 1,500+ users to a unified Salesforce platform, unlocking $177M in pipeline within 5 months. Her Gen AI and Agentforce automations boosted rep productivity by 40%, winning over resistant sales leaders.

Her expertise spans AI/ML products, revenue platforms, and workflow automation. She starts with the problem, not the technology, identifying business challenges that represent defensible ROI opportunities. She believes in establishing governance before scaling, building with production in mind from day one, and using human-in-the-loop where confidence is low.

Lavanya builds AI-driven products hands-on to validate what actually works before applying learnings to enterprise strategy. Her portfolio includes predictive analytics, agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and computer vision projects. When measuring what matters, she prioritizes business metrics over technical metrics, unit economics over feature count, and outcomes that compound at scale.

That's where she adds the most value: building organizational capability that translates technical leverage into sustainable competitive advantage.

Audrey Sylvia is a passionate and high-performing purpose maven bringing more than 20 years of creative leadership with both companies and nonprofits.

She specializes in purpose, cause marketing, nonprofit communications, corporate partnership development, strategic planning, brand awareness, beneficiary and storyteller engagement, and movement-building.

Most recently, Audrey led the American Lung Association on development and launch of its organization-wide, multifaceted campaigns LUNG FORCE and Saved By The Scan. Both campaigns drove significant gains in awareness, fundraising, and real behavior change, demonstrating her ability to translate strategy into measurable impact both nationally and across a federated affiliate network.

Casey Sherman is a social and environmental impact strategist blending grassroots activism and high-level strategy expertise to drive innovation, collaboration, and shared progress against social and environmental goals.

Following the 2018 shooting at her high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Casey assumed the role of Lead Student Coordinator for March for Our Lives in Parkland, galvanizing over 30,000 people and helping launch one of the world's largest gun violence prevention movements. She then co-founded Empower the People, a national nonprofit focused on civic education serving up to 50,000 students per semester across all 50 states.

Casey's foundation in authentic engagement now informs her work as a Senior Associate at Carol Cone On Purpose, where she helps companies and nonprofits turn purpose-driven strategies into meaningful action. Over four years at one of the world's pioneering social impact consultancies, she has worked across industries tackling critical global challenges, from climate resilience and sustainable infrastructure to rural education gaps and health system resilience.

A 2023 Duke University Public Policy graduate, Casey has been recognized as a Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award recipient and We Are Family Foundation Global Teen Leader. Her work has garnered coverage from CNN, CBS, New York Times, and Associated Press.

She continues speaking on youth engagement, corporate social responsibility, and authentic purpose-driven business strategy at prominent conferences including Page.