TEDxGITAMUniversity

Speakers

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• Andrea Thumshirn

  Andrea Thumshirn was a national level hockey player in Germany. She came to India in 2009 and since then has been training rural Rajasthan kids in hockey. She is also sponsoring their education and teaching them English. In fact, she took five of her students all the way to Germany to train!

• Arpit Dhupar

  Arpit Dhupar is the Co-Founder of Chakr where they “Create Solution With Pollution”.He is a mechanical engineer by qualification and believes technology can be the biggest facilitator to overcome the challenges faced by the society.He is a member of WCG centre for social innovation where a team of dedicated engineers innovate for sustainable rural development.

• Dr B K Durga Prasad

  Known for being sensitive to the pulse of the audience and an uncanny ability to strike an instant rapport cutting across any divide, consultant radiologist and seasoned veena artiste Dr. Bhamidipati Kanaka Durga Prasad a.k.a BKD presented a concert rich in aesthetics and sprightly in tempo. The exposition of chosen pieces conformed to the contemporary idiom.

• Haleem Khan

  A dedicated student of this splendid art form, being drawn to its rich cultural legacy, whose performances are characterized by Classical Kuchipudi style and much more. One of those very few dancers who can take to the female dance form with equal grace and ease, especially when dancing as Satya bhama.

• Mohit Chawda

  Of all the parts in the design process, the final build has to be the most rewarding and nerve racking. It’s the point where we see all of the carefully considered and designed pieces come together and are either rewarded or set back. Will the execution measure up to our lofty aspirations and vision? It’s in this final phase where it all comes together. Mohit Chawda is one such person who designs bikes. From rejecting a MNC job and taking up my passion of building motorcycles as a full time career he is an inspiration to many.

• Pooja Pradeep

  Pooja is a 24-year old Educational Consultant who laid her bets on education to be the key for a sustainable change in today's world and chose to be a Teacher from being a Mechanical Engineer. She is the Founder of "Letters of Love" - a global initiative in collaboration with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) wherein with an ebullient team of 30 across 10 countries, they deliver handwritten postcards to ten thousands of Syrian, Iraqi and Yazidi refugee children across Turkey & Jordan. They also raise funds for the cause and create sensitisation modules for educators to adopt in their classrooms as well as for student chapters to implement across universities in order to spread awareness and spark empathy. Apart from this, she currently works as the Chapter Director of India for the Cambridge Social Venture, The History Project. When not indulging in any of the aforementioned, Pooja is a passionate dancer and an inspiring writer.

• Rohan Sabharwal

  Rohan is a celebrated Indian filmmaker and his documentaries have been nominated and showcased at events all around the globe.Currently, he is working as the co-founder of CraYon Impact, a social enterprise that uses performing arts to bring awareness to and combat stigma relating to disability, mental health and gender.

• Rohit Adya

  A Telecom Advisor and Board member at present, he has an incredible profile of working at the Reliance industries as President of Strategy and External Affairs Director at Vodafone. He is an inspiration to many in our generation for the unprecedented ideas he brought about in his field.

• Rwitwika Bhattacharya

  She is the founder of an NGO called Swaniti which aims at bridging the gap between the people and the electoral representatives. It does so by consulting MPs and MLAs about development in their respective constituencies.Prior to working on Swaniti’s foundation, she worked at the World Bank as an Associate in the Growth and Competitiveness area. Rwitwika herself is a graduate from Harvard in Political Sciences and Economics.

• Shirin Merchant

  She has been working as a canine trainer and behaviourist for the past 20 years. When she started off, it was primarily a male-dominated field; so she had to work hard to break the barriers and get the country to accept that women can be excellent dog trainers and are very capable at the job.Now, in her courses, there are more women who choose this profession than men and people accept them readily.