Ronak
Jogeshwar
Educator
Keynote
Designpreneurship
Beginner Designers
Mid-level Designers
Design Leaders
About The Speaker
Ronak Jogeshwar started as a tinkerer and maker, building things from scraps before becoming the youngest of the founding team of Atal Inovation Mission at NITI Aayog, India’s apex Think Tank. He continued his exploration at Harvard and MIT, where he focused on studying education policy, innovation strategy, and systems thinking. He now works across industry, academia, and government to build inclusive, scalable innovation ecosystems. As an innovation strategist for multiple stakeholders, Ronak continues to embed human-centered design into systems that accelerate one’s socioeconomic mobility.
About The Talk/Workshop
Tales of Design
Through real-life tales, explore how human-centered & design-driven policymaking built a nation’s innovation ecosystem.
Ronak will attempt to share these learnings in an episodic storytelling approach with four key arcs:
🔹 Policy — Where are we on our current understanding of policy and design
🔹 Design — When does a design approach really help policy Leapfrogging and transformation
🔹 Systems — Why an iterative and integrated systems approach will help India rise from the Middle-Income Trap.
🔹 Disruption — Who are the ones to take ideas from doodles to a nationwide movement
Key Takeaways
Design as a Policy Discipline
Learning how Design Philosophy can solve Public Policy challenges using a case-study from the apex Think Tank of India in an episodic storytelling style.
Systems Thinking
Introducing System Thinking and System Dynamics as a tool to create a common vocabulary of human-centred design thinking between traditional Designers and policymakers.
Multidisciplinary Minds, Non-linear Lives
In an age of AI and accelerated change, defaulting to intentional creativity and meta-cognition is essential. Careers are no longer ladders; they’re trees.