Kiruba Shankar
Kiruba Shankar is co-founder of F5ive Technologies and founder CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com. Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India’s Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups, WikiCamp, an unconference focusing on the power of wikis, PodWorks, India’s only event on audio and video blogging. He also regularly organizes MobileMondays and BarCamps.
Kiruba is currently authoring a book titled ‘UnConferences: Because The Audience is More Intelligent Than the Speaker’, a global community authored book project that he has initiated.
Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at Anna University, Madras Ad Club, SRM University and Asian College of Journalism. He is a key member in Creative Commons India.
He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called ‘The Kiruba Show’ where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog www.Kiruba.com as one of India’s top blogs.
Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons. His recent passion is Ultimate Frisbee.
