Dr. Dhananjay Bhole,co-ordinator and founder of Advanced Technology Blind Students Learning Centre, University of Pune. The first visually challenged student in Asia who has done B.Sc in Botany and is post graduated in Bioinformatics. He has a intense knowledge of accessible and assistive technology development for people with visual disabilities. Also, has initiated several salient projects for welfare of education of visually challenged at the centre. Besides this, he has earned "Vocational excellence award 2010" by rotary club of Pune for exceptional abilities despite being visually challenged. We are glad Dr.Dhananjay Bhole will illuminate us with his intellectual speech in Alfaaz'16.