Concluding remarks by Shri Sudhakar Varanasi
Channel: HigherLifeInstitute
Date: 2018-09-15

Shri Sudhakar Varanasi, social entrepreneur and advocate of human spirit, gave the concluding remarks, emphasizing on mutual respect, harmony and compassionate outlook.

Biography of the speaker:
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Sudhakar Varanasi had his education at IIT, Kharagpur (B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. 1969-74) and obtained a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  After 17 years at IISc, he moved to the corporate world and joined the IT wave in India in 1991. 
He was a founding director of Tiger Software.  He started and led EMRI (Emergency Management Research Institute) in the initial stages in 2005, which pioneered large scale deployment of emergency services for the first time in India. 
He currently mentors many individuals and organisations and challenges them to take on large social causes using innovation, technology and spirit of entrepreneurship.  His fields of interest are: entrepreneurship, leadership and development, education and healthcare. 

Sri Varanasi is not a stranger to the IIWC. He has organized classical music programs and participated in them at the IIWC

On 10th of June in 2017 he delivered an inspiring lecture from this platform on “Inspired Living Through Service.”