films Titanic and Avatar; visual data scientist Alexander Tsiaras; French designer Philippe Starck; and Indian activist Sunitha Krishnan, who works in the areas of anti-human trafficking, psychiatric rehabilitation and social policy.INK 2011: American film, opera and theatre director Julie Taymor; and Indian innovator Arunachalam Muruganantham, who designed, tested and implemented a sanitary napkin making machine for rural India.INK 2012: Cartoonist Matt Groening, who created the longest-running television comedy, The Simpsons; and Grammy Award winning graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.INK 2013: Deep ocean explorer David Gallo; tech pioneer and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito; and business executive Nikesh Arora, who is now president and CEO of Softbank.INK 2014: Mountaineer Arunima Sinha, the first female amputee to scale Mount Everest; and Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who has won both Academy and Emmy awards for documentary films.INK Asia 2015: Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist; and Swiss magician Marco Tempest, known for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer graphics in his illusions.INK 2015''': Roboticist and surgeon Catherine Mohr; award-winning Indian actor Irrfan Khan; CEO of Epibone Nina Tandon; and American actor and director Josh Radnor, who portrayed Ted Mosby in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. INK is a platform for innovation at the intersection of science, technology, community and culture. In a 2015 interview, Lakshmi stated: "We need to look at the new India with new eyes and focus on bringing digital access to everyone and cater to the needs of the youth in a whole new way. We need to give them a platform to shine and we need to listen to them more". Beyond live events, INK also serves as a community and has programs such as INK Fellows, an initiative started in 2010, which identifies young change-makers from different fields and provides them the support necessary to leverage their impact across the world. To date, 133 Fellows have been part of the program. INK states that it is "independent of TED, but values a continued warm relationship with the New York based TED organization". Conferences curated and hosted/co-hosted by Lakshmi Pratury SingularityU India Summit in association with INK: 26-27 Feb 2016, Mumbai, India INK Conference 2015: "Disrupt", 16-18 Oct, Mumbai, India INK Asia 2015: "Designing the Future", 21 August, Singapore INK Conference 2014: "Beyond Boundaries", 31 Oct – 2 Nov, Mumbai, India INK Conference 2013: "All that Matters", 25-27 Oct,