Rupa Dash is a media entrepreneur and futurist based in Los Angeles driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation, education, and creativity. Dash is the Partner of Dash Global Media, a consulting company that explores the complexity of the emergent future and the shifting dichotomy between innovation and evolution to prepare start-up companies for the global reset in Asia and Central Africa. Dash has a passion for philanthropy, she is also the Co-Founder & CEO of the World Woman Foundation, Dash leading the global initiative of mentoring one million women by 2030. Recently Dash launched World Woman Hour, the largest digital micro-storytelling platform in partnership with WPP and Facebook Watch with a massive reach of 42.7 million digital footprints, featured of NYSE Opening Bell Ceremony and UN Women. Dash is the first Indian American managing director of the world’s largest women’s entrepreneurship network recognized by the White House. Dash has worked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India’s prominent investor meeting: Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit and collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development to bring useful resources to the most underdeveloped states in India. Dash was the first woman to receive the UN’s International Telecom Union Award for her work to bring mobile entertainment content to Indian farmers across villages. Dash received the Women Making Difference Award from Los Angeles Business Journal in 2018. She is actively involved with UN Women, Harvard Business School, Davos Forum, and Hollywood Film Festival, advocating for gender equality in film and entertainment. Dash has worked with leading media companies like Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Dash studied entrepreneurship at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves on the boards of the International Indian Film Market, Arkansas Cinema Society, and Board of Trustees of the Russian Women’s Federation in Moscow.