Deepak Choudhary

Founder & Director at WOW Awards

Speaker

Deepak Choudhary is synonymous to the Indian events eco-system. His journey began in 2002 where Deepak founded Premier Event Mgt school, EMDI. The journey never stopped. As a serial entrepreneur he further joined hands with Roshan Abbas to create EMDI Encompass Institute of Radio Mgt, and followed it up with India’s first sports management school, IISM with cricketer Nilesh Kulkarni. In 2007, he co-founded EVENTFAQS, India's first B2B publication for the experiential industry. Eventfaqs today runs Wow Awards Asia (India & Dubai) amongst other IPs & publications namely India event IP conclave, Congregations India, experiential CMO awards, ET panache A List’s etc. In 2009 he divested his stake in the education business to Greycells Edu Ltd and went on to exit the business after serving as the MD of the listed company for three years.

After a brief stint dabbling in the F&B Industry with investment with Fat cat cafe in 2013 he established Event Capital, live Event Intellectual Property rights company with Laqshya Media Group. Deepak, with Laqshya Media group co-founded Laqshya Live exp among top 5 event agencies in India. Deepak has exited Laqshya media group and event Capital to start a new venture in IPs in India.

Deepak, dabbled in education business again with co-founding Whistling woods international School of Event Management in partnership with Subhash Ghai.

Deepak after successfully creating the IP & festival business in India also produced shows like Rahat Fateh ali khan, Prateek Kuhad, Vir Das & Zakir Khan amongst many under XPRNC, a company started with Roshan Abbas

Deepak also co-authored ‘Staged’ – the first-ever book on the Indian live event

Deepak is now in the process to consolidate his festival and concert business worldwide under a brand EVA Live, to be announced on 2nd April 2023.