A Techno-Commercial professional with over 30 years of experience across diverse geographies and multiple industry sectors (Education, Compute, Aviation, Travel, Hospitality).Mayank Dhingra leads the Education Business Vertical for the Worldwide Commercial Organization at HP Inc. His role is to provide strategic direction and thought leadership to the Education business line and, he works with National Education Ministries to support country level education policy and to evangelize HP’s education proposition.Mayank has spearheaded the development of HP’s EdTech solutions for digital classrooms, Capacity Building Programs for Educators and Policymakers, and Future Skilling curricula for students. He is the architect and global owner of HP’s education portfolio stack consisting of the following programs – HP IDEA, HP Cambridge EdTech Fellowship, HP Classeasy, HP Futures, HP Gaming Garage, HP Innovation Garage, HP READ, HP School Improvement Coach, World Education Medals and HP EdTech Incubator.He was previously with GEMS Education where he headed the Commercial line for a network of 50 Schools in MENASA region. In addition, he sat on the board of two schools.Prior to GEMS he was with the Emirates Group for nearly 15 years in two stints and his last role was Head of Global Technology Partnerships where he led a portfolio of over 450 vendor relations and portfolio managed large scale collaboration projects with tech partners. His preceding role was Head of Customer Experience for dnata (Emirates Group) where he set up the line and managed the business technology, product, pricing and customer service functions across the network.Mayank is a sought-after keynote speaker, author and moderator on EdTech subjects. He has spoken at prominent international conferences, including GITEX, COP28, G7 Summit, World Youth Forum, UNHCR Global Refugee Forum etc, and his articles have appeared in leading publications. He has also been an active mentor for several talent management pools.Mayank is a certified Yoga teacher as well and the founder of a non-profit entity – Yogasmriti; which combines individual and community wellbeing. All proceeds from the initiative are directed to charitable causes supporting children in need. Mayank’s philanthropic work has been recognised at regional and international forums.