Bala Kishore

Bala (https://balakishore.in) is an IT industry veteran with 25+ years of experience, currently working as Vice Present - Transformation at Searce Technologies (https://www.searce.com), a AI/ML, Cloud & RPA led business transformation company. While Bala has been busy 'doing' many things as a part of his work, he is also very interested in the 'being' part as an experienced meditation practitioner. His desire to share the 'being' insights with the larger IT community made him found SPIR-IT Summit Wellness Conference (https://www.spiritsummit.org) and Spirituality in IT Retreats (https://bkitwing.org/sit). He has been practising Raja Yoga Meditation, as taught by Brahma Kumaris (https://www.brahmakumaris.org), for the past quarter century.

Bala has done his Masters in Computer Science & Engineering from NIT Warangal and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) as accredited by International Coach Federation (ICF) since 2013. Bala was one of the 12 I.T. professionals, chosen from all over India for ‘Advanced Management Program for Young Indian IT Managers’ in 2001, by the British Government as a part of their Chevening Scholarship program. He completed Diploma in Vedic Sciences in 2019 and is currently pursuing PhD in Ayurveda from School of Vedic Sciences, MIT-ADT University, Pune.

Bala is also a Digital Wellness Coach, spending his free time in educating masses about ill-effects of Digital Over-use (https://bkitwing.org/digital-wellness).

More details about him and many interesting talks he gave can be found at : https://balakishore.in