Er. Vijay R Kulkarni is a renowned concrete technologist, author, editor, trainer, mentor, policy matter expert, and the Founder-Director of Low Carbon Construct Forum. He has more than four decades of experience in various spheres of civil engineering – bridge design, concrete roads, ready-mixed concrete, green concrete, high-performance concrete (HPC), R&D in concrete, health monitoring of structures, and technical dissemination and writing. Participation in a joint R&D project on HPC and the quality audit of the first concrete expressway in India were some of the important highlights of his early career. After a long stint with a cement major, he was the Principal Consultant to Ready Mixed Concrete Manufacturers' Association and contributed to the development and implementation of Quality Scheme for RMC in India. He was the President of the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) during 2009-11 and is currently the Co-Chair of ICI's Technical Board. He is also the Chair of the GreenPro Concrete Certification carried out by the CII's Green Business Centre. He was actively involved in the training of young engineers under 'Concrete Technologist India' programme jointly held with NRMCA-USA and the main trainer for Indian engineers appearing for examinations held by ICT, UK. He was the past Editor of the Indian Concrete Journal, convener of the technical committees of national and international events, and author of technical manuals and handbooks and 70 technical papers. Er. Kulkarni is currently engaged in the awareness-building exercise on the urgent need to reduce carbon footprints from buildings and construction through the medium of Low Carbon Construct Forum.

Dr Vinay Nikam completed his MTech from IIT Roorkee and PhD from IIT Bombay and possesses expertise in areas involving conservation of rivers and lakes and in urban flood mitigation. He started his career with ACC's R&D centre and later joined Thane Municipal Corporation. He was involved in the preparation of conservation plan of Thane Creek and Ulhas River Estuary. At IITB, he conducted real-time flood forecast for Mithi River in Mumbai and flood risk mapping of various wards of Mumbai. During the past decade, Dr Nikam has done flood risk assessment studies of 100-plus projects , catchment area study of 125-plus projects and designed storm-water drains of 500-plus projects. He also designed rainwater harvesting for 150-plus projects, and plumbing and STP for 50-plus projects. He is a member of the expert committee formed by MCGM to study the effects of climate change on rainfall and urban drainage systems. He has to his credit 5 papers published in refereed journals and 22 conference papers. His present focus is to study impact of climate change on flooding and design the mitigation measures.

Srirang Sondur is a partner at Midas Techfin Consultants LLP. He is a M.Sc (Hons) Physics and B.E. (Hons) Civil from BITS, Pilani. He has had extensive experience in the Building Material Industry having worked in companies involved in Admixtures, Ready Mixed Concrete and Aggregates. He worked with MBT where he looked after Sales of Admixtures to major projects which required him to interact and work with some of the big construction names in India and the globe. After his stint with MBT he joined the Ready Mixed Concrete business of Prism Johnson Ltd. in 1999 and was responsible for the profitability and operations of the Ready Mixed Concrete business. In the course of his job responsibility he also handled the Aggregate business where he was responsible for the operations of the Aggregate Division. His stint at RMC India division of Prism Johnson Ltd. gave him an exposure to the entire gamut of activities right from sales, production and plant design, materials technology, quality control, fleet management and health safety and environment as President of Commercial Concrete of Prism Johnson Ltd. for a long time. He has also been involved in setting up Growth plans and Strategy for RMC and value added products business.