TEDxNITW

Speakers

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• Alfaz Anzar

  Alfaz Anzar is a second-year engineering student at NIT Warangal with interests spanning geopolitics, technology, and its impact on human behavior. Growing up in the UAE, his multicultural upbringing exposed him to how accidents of geography, timing, and opportunity can fundamentally alter life paths. He's passionate about public speaking, debating and examining the big questions that sit at the intersection of probability, ethics, and personal agency.

• Krishna Tejaswi

  Krishna Tejasvi is a playback singer and independent artist, best known as the lead vocalist of Jammers , the most followed Telugu band online. With over 40 film songs to his credit,including tracks from Lucky Bhaskar and Idly Kottu, he has established himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary Telugu music. A graduate of CBIT, Krishna began his career as an IT professional before choosing to pursue music full-time — a decision that transformed passion into profession. He started learning Carnati cmusic at the age of eight and later trained extensively in light music, building a strong classical foundation that shapes his versatile vocal style. Krishna began performing on reality television shows at just 12 years old, marking the start of a lifelong journey in music. As the frontman of Jammers for the past eight years,he has toured extensively across India, the USA, and Australia, with upcoming tours in the UK,Dubai, and Europe. He has also been instrumental in conceptualizing unique live experiences such as QuietSet and Jamming Truly, redefining the modern Telugu concert space

• Laxmi Prasanna

  Laxmi Prasanna is an engineer turned entrepreneur, Emotional Intelligence Coach, and Founder & CEO of Emotional Investopedia, a platform working at the intersection of emotional intelligence, mental fitness, and decision-making in the AI era. With over 15 years of corporate experience, she now helps students and professionals build clarity, resilience, self-awareness, and confident decision-making in high-pressure environments through coaching, workshops, and speaking engagements.

• Siddhant R Vairagar

  Dr. Siddhant is a practicing Heart surgeon and the founder of TellMe, a preventive mental wellness platform built around anonymous peer listening sessions — emotional first aid before a crisis becomes a catastrophe. After losing a close friend and colleague to suicide during surgical training, he became obsessed with a question medicine had never taught him: what do you actually say when someone you love is struggling? Over three years, his team at TellMe has taken thousands of calls. His work sits at the intersection of cardiac surgery, mental wellness, and the art of human listening. He speaks on mental health, medical education, curiosity, and the inner life of doctors — to audiences ranging from engineering students to cardiac surgery residents.

• Sonal Gupta

  RECW (now NITW) batch of ECE'93 Commissioned in the Indian Army (Corps of Signals) in 1994 A Fauji family with 3 generations in the Indian Army Was a part of 2 war like situations - Op Kargil & Op Parakram (while in the Indian Army) Started Corporate career in 2004...worked at Bharti, IBM & Oracle & others. Jumped on to the Entrepreneural bandwagon in 2013 & since then have been a serial Entrepreneur.

• Vidhi Jha

  Vidhi Jha is a first-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student with a deep interest in how the human psyche shapes behavior across time. Growing up immersed in social media, she developed a unique perspective on how digital spaces influence the way people form emotional connections. Her curiosity lies in understanding why we feel deeply connected to people we’ve never met, and whether these patterns are truly new, or simply modern versions of something much older.