TEDxGWH School Bannerghatta

Speakers

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• Harshit Agrawal

  Artist and Creative Tech

  Harshit Agrawal is an Indian technologist, India's first AI artist, and an MIT Media Lab and IIT Guwahati graduate with over 12 years of experience in AI and creative expression. He is Google Arts and Culture's first artist resident in India and has held residencies globally, alongside contributing to Adobe's Gen AI charter and authoring various publications and patents. He achieved major milestones by holding India's first solo AI art exhibition in 2021, being the only Indian artist among seven at the first global AI art exhibition in 2018, and curating India's first AI NFT exhibition. His accolades include the 2023 Sanatan Sangeet Puraskar for Digital Art and three Lumen Prize nominations, with permanent works featured in Germany's HNF museum and global venues like the Tate Modern. Furthermore, he has delivered four TEDx talks, conducted workshops at premier institutions like IIT Bombay and NID, and received coverage in international media outlets such as the BBC and New York Times.

• Manohar Swaminathan

  Expert in education and AI, former Professor of IISc and current researcher at Microsoft Research.

  Manohar Swaminathan has spent his life asking how technology can serve those who need it most. While a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, he co-invented the Simputer, aimed to take the benefits of IT to the marginalized. He co-founded Strand Life Sciences that is now a leader in personalized genomic medicine. He co-founded an early Edtech company to transform engineering education in India with the Joy of Engineering, Design, and innovation program. A Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, he co-created Ludic design for Accessibility, a new methodology for thinking about assistive technology solutions. He is the founding co-convener of the Center for Accessibility in the Global South at the IIIT Bangalore. Today, as AI upends how we learn and work, he leads Project Ekalaiva, a bold effort to reimagine Indian education for this new era. His question is one that touches every student: in a world being rewritten by AI, how do we learn to thrive?

• Niranjan Bharadwaj

  Student at Greenwood High International School

  I’m a high school student with a strong interest in business, finance, entrepreneurship, and technology. I enjoy learning how businesses work, exploring new ideas, and turning those ideas into practical projects. I’m currently studying ISC Commerce and actively looking for opportunities to gain real-world experience through projects, entrepreneurship, and independent learning. Outside of academics, I’m interested in technology, music, and exploring new ways to learn, create, and build.

• Piyush Agrawal

  Founder, Cricbuzz.com | IIT BHU | Angel Investor & Advisor

  Piyush Agrawal began his career on a conventional path — IIT BHU, Infosys, and a technology career in the US. In 2004, he co-founded Cricbuzz.com and spent the next 21 years building it into India’s leading digital cricket platform, reaching over 160 million monthly unique visitors at its peak. Today, Piyush invests in and advises early-stage founders, drawing on two decades of experience building a consumer digital business from the ground up.

• Pragati Athreya

  Student pianist

  I am a Grade 12 science student at Greenwood High School. I love playing the piano, and I have been taking classes and performing at recitals since 2021. My other hobbies include doing ballet, sketching, and learning random tidbits of information.

• Priyadarshi Siddharth

  Educator and Filmmaker

  Co-founder at DreamVid Creatives and Ex-VP at BYJU'S. A pioneer of visual learning, he built the creative DNA for educational videos for BYJU'S The Learning App and Disney-BYJU'S Early Learn App. As the Creative Head at BYJU'S, he co-architected 30,000+ hours of immersive video content reaching 150 million learners across 120+ countries. His training documentary films have been telecast on DD National, the Indian national television network. His venture DreamVid Creatives now builds the AI engines for video course creation at scale for universities.

• Sudeepti Purohit

  High school student

  I’m a Humanities student with an interest in questions that rarely have simple answers. I’m drawn to philosophy, politics, economics, and law, particularly where they overlap and challenge the way we understand people, power, and society. Philosophy, above all, appeals to me because it teaches me to question the obvious, sit comfortably with uncertainty, and look at the same idea from more than one angle. I’m still figuring out where my interests will take me, and I quite like that. For me, learning is less about collecting answers and more about asking better questions, seeking new experiences, and constantly reconsidering what I think I know.

• Varun M. Manjunath

  Student

  I’m a high school student interested in understanding people and the often-unnoticed factors that shape the way we think, communicate, and connect. My interests span psychology, entrepreneurship, technology, and science, particularly where they intersect with everyday life. I enjoy questioning things we often take for granted and exploring the ideas behind ordinary human interactions. For me, learning is less about finding quick answers and more about asking better questions and seeing familiar ideas from a different perspective.