Details Announced For The Coalition
21 March 2017
The Coalition was started in 2014 as a creative enterprise boot camp, a way for individuals to navigate the business side of creativity. In its third year, the festival has grown to bring together the country’s vast creative community - fuelling the next wave of creative ventures within India.
Speakers announced so far include comedy group All India Bakchod (AIB); comedian-actor Mallika Dua; comedian Zakir Khan; founder of KWAN entertainment, Anirban Blah; founder of Freecharge, Kunal Shah; and the co-founder of Wishberry, Anshulika Dubey. Many more are still to be announced.
***Updated: Tuesday 28 March**
Internationally renowned names such as Hosi Simon, global general manager of Vice, and Harsha Bhogle, renowned sports presenter, have been added to the bill. Pooja Jauhari, the CEO of Glitch, will also be speaking at the event. Sarah Chawla - co-founder of Wild City, Magnetic Fields Festival and Border Movement - will be discussing how to make a world class property and Trisha Bora, the commissioning editor of Juggernaut Books, will be speaking on what’s coming soon from young India.
In the past, The Coalition has hosted speakers and panellists such as Nucleya, Raghu Dixit, Ankur Tewari and Arvind Kejriwal.
This year’s festival takes place from 31 March to 1 April at the Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in Bandra, Mumbai. Tickets for the event are available here. Check out The Coalition’s website for further details and watch the after movie from 2016’s edition here.