Dr. Sarat Addanki has a distinguished career of 32+ years starting with Software Quality Engineering to establishing social enterprise, Ayurway in Sunol, California today. As early as 2008, Dr. Addanki began applying AI and Machine Learning to enterprise quality engineering. Beyond technology, Dr. Addanki’s personal journey has shaped a strong social mission. The loss of his mother to cancer sparked a deep commitment to integrative medicine, leading him to pursue education in Ayurveda, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Medicine. He subsequently founded the SMRATA Foundation, through which, he has supported hundreds of rural girls in pursuing education at IITs, IIMs, and other premier institutions, while improving the lives of 200,000+ families through programs spanning education, healthcare, nutrition, clean water, and livelihoods. At MNJ Cancer Hospital, he personally funded and implemented transformative sanitation and security initiatives for two years, elevating operations and patient experience to standards comparable with private institutions.

Through this dual legacy of enterprise innovation and community impact, Dr. Sarat Addanki demonstrates how technical excellence and empathy can combine to create meaningful, durable changes across industries and society.

Chairman and Spiritual Founder of Yoga Bharati, is a Professor of yoga philosophy at Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation (SVYASA), Bangalore, India. Trained by esteemed yogic figures like Prof Satyanarayana Sastry, he has practiced yoga since childhood. Raghuram pioneered yoga therapy in a German neurological clinic and initiated programs in hospitals across Italy, Turkey, and China. His global influence extends through Asia, Europe, and America, where he conducts discourses and stress reduction programs rooted in yoga principles.

Ashwini Surpur, BS (CS), MA (Sanskrit), ERYT-500, CIAYT, is the Executive Director of Yoga Bharati and a Senior Yoga Therapist. With 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer at Oracle, she transitioned to full-time volunteering at Yoga Bharati in 2010. Specializing in yoga therapy, particularly for cancer and terminally ill patients, she's a sought-after yoga teacher, faculty, and speaker on yoga and Hindu philosophy and contributes articles to various publications. Passionate about literature and philosophy, she holds an MA in Sanskrit and enjoys writing poems and articles in her free time.

Manjul Mishra is a NAMA board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (CAP, SCUHS 2024), a yoga therapist, and the founder of AyuNidhi Yoga & Ayurveda in Encinitas, California. Rooted in a family Ayurvedic tradition and shaped by a 28-year engineering career, she brings a distinctive systems-thinking lens to holistic healing. A Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500, Yoga Bharati & Soul of Yoga, Encinitas) and a certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher, she is also the author of The Power Within (2025) - a memoir of transformation through Ayurveda and yoga. She works with clients in-person and virtually, helping them restore balance through individualized Ayurvedic care. 

Mamatha Shekar, Ph.D., is a molecular geneticist with over three decades of experience in genomics and precision medicine. Her father’s cancer journey and her own health experiences inspired her focus on Food as Medicine and preventive health.

In her second act. As founder of Maadhev, she brings unique food, body care and cosmetics at the intersection of science and traditional wisdom together while supporting farmers and artisans.

Vaidya Scientist Namyata Pathak, BAMS, MD (Ayu), VSF was trained in both Ayurveda and modern medicine in India to offer sustainable health transformations in complex chronic diseases for over two decades. She has integrative clinical research experience with Parkinson's Disease, Metabolic Syndrome, and Women's Health issues—menopausal and pubertal transitions. She is the Adjunct Director of Clinical Research at Kasturba Health Society-Medical Research Center, India.

In the US, she teaches Ayurvedic Medicine (AM) at leading schools and is a Board Member of the Ayurvedic Accreditation Commission. She serves seekers of health and well-being at Ayu.Care, a HIPPA-compliant digital and physical clinic in Bay Area, California, as an Integrative Ayurveda specialist.

She loves connecting with life in its wholesome wilderness, reading, learning, sharing, biking, self-contemplating, being in nature, while raising her two young daughters in a brave new world.