Mahamahopadhyaya Bhadreshdas Swami is an ordained Swami of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha and currently serves as the Head of the BAPS Research Institute, New Delhi. He is the author of Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya, an original and comprehensive Sanskrit commentary of the Prasthānatrayī that establishes the Akshar-Purushottam Darshan as an independent philosophical school of Hinduism. He holds a Ph.D. in Sanskrit, and has been honoured with D.Litt from Kalidas Sanskrit University as well as D.Sc. and D.Litt from IIT, Kharagpur.

V. I. Lakshmanan, O.C., Ph.D. is co-founder of Process Research ORTECH, a leading-edge sustainable technology company. He has 50 patents and 150 scientific publications/books to his credit. His honours include Officer of the Order of Canada, Honorary Doctor of Laws from University of Guelph and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from the Government of India. He is the current Chair of the Sringeri Vidya Bharathi Foundation, Toronto, as well as past Chair of Canada India Foundation.

S. Kalyanasundaram spent nearly 25 years implementing, and marketing leading-edge technologies for digital telecommunication networks at Nortel Networks and 8 years as Executive Director of Canada India Foundation.