Speakers

TED has always been known for its speakers from different streams of knowledge, giving the attendees the ultimate feel of the conference.

Khurshed Batliwala
Director, World Alliance for Youth Empowerment

Life Mentor, Director for World Alliance for Youth Empowerment (WAYE), instrumental in developing the famous YES!+ Workshop of the Art Of Living Foundation.
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Website : bawandinesh.name

Yograj Borkar
Musician, Lead of Shanti Fusion Band

Musician, Group Leader of Shanti Fusion Band which explores musical boundaries of the world by fusing Indian Classical Music with Indian Folk, Western & Oriental Classical Styles.
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Website : shantifusion.com

Dr. Vijay Chandru
Chairman and CEO Strand Life Sciences
Founder, ABLE (Association of Biotech Led Enterprises)

Technologist, Chairman and CEO of Strand Life Sciences, specializes in applying decision sciences and systems modeling to drug discovery research.
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Website : strandls.com

Achyut Godbole
Technocrat

Technocrat, Managing Director of Softexcel Consultancy Services, ex-CEO of L&T Infotech, excellence in multiple fields like Music, Economics, Science, Literature, Computers and Information Technology.
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Website : achyutgodbole.com

Suhas Gopinath
Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO, and Chairman of Globals Inc

Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO, and Chairman of Globals Inc, an IT multinational company; popularly known as world’s 2nd youngest CEO.
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Website : globalsinc.com/index.php/en/suhas-profile

Arvind Gupta
Toymaker and Tinkerer turned Scientist

Scientist turned Toymaker, Popularization of science amongst Children, toymaker from trashes, developer of science popularization centre at IUCAA.
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Website : arvindguptatoys.com

Prahlad Kakkar
Ad film director, Founder- Director for Genesis Film Production

Ad film director, Founder- Director for Genesis Film Production, co-founded Reefwatch Marine Conservation, an NGO involved in Marine conservation.
Website : reefwatchindia.org

Bernett Orlando
Rubik’s Cube Whiz kid

Rubik’s Cube Whiz kid, Indian National Champion holding 17 Indian national records and 3 Asian records in Rubik's Cube puzzle solving championship.
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Website : benacademy.com/bernettscorner.htm

Himanshu Parikh
The Brain behind Slum Networking

Architect, Conceptualized ‘Slum Networking’, which changed lives of people living in slums, won the United Nations World Habitat Award for Urban Development and Aga Khan Award for architecture.
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Website : nird.ap.nic.in/clic/slum_network.html

Amar Kumar Sen
HandShadowGraphy Artist

HandShadowGraphy artist, composer, singer, actor, magician, multitalented personality.
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Website : amarsen.com

Pragnya Alekal
Infrastructure Development Consultant

Infrastructure development consultant with a focus on water, sanitation and energy issues in developing countries, heading the Global Development initiative for the X PRIZE Foundation, a competition for philanthropists.
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Website : tworque.blogspot.com

Kshitiz Anand
User Experience Designer and Research Consultant

Design Consultant, Photographer; Founder of Deskala.com, designing for social cause; founder of Click Me, Pick Me, Educate Me, for underprivileged children.
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Website : kshitizanand.com

Rakesh Anugula
Founder, Nirmaan

Founder of Nirmaan, a social organization which focused on providing education and livelihood opportunities to the rural unprivileged in villages, Founder of National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, for promoting social entrepreneurship amongst students.
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Website : rakeshanugula.blogspot.com

Harshavardhan Bhat
Founder, The Talk Experiment

Founder, The Talk Experiment, which focuses on conducting workshops on worldview, leadership and self discovery to students in Bangalore.
Website : thetalkexperiment.blogspot.com

Siva Cotipalli
Co-founder and CEO, dhanaX

Co-founder and CEO of dhanaX, an India-based social lending network for the poor, nominee of the MTV-Youth Icon Awards 2008.
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Website : dhanax.com

Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Director, MIT Media Lab, Computing Culture Group

Director of MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group as well as the MIT Centre for Future Civic Media, conceptualized many entertainment methodologies intertwined with technology.
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Website : web.media.mit.edu/~csik

Karn Malhotra
Studio Head, Exit Design

Studio Head, Exit Design, Propagator of the idea of Graphic Designing through infusion of creativity and listening to the design language of clients.
Website : exitdesign.in

Jessica Mayberry
Founder and Executive Director of Video Volunteers

Founder of Video Volunteers, an organization in India working to create a sustainable global "community media network" for the one billion people in villages, living on less than two dollars a day
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Website : videovolunteers.org

Jasmeen Patheja
Founder, Blank Noise

Founder of Blank Noise, a nation-wide, volunteer-led community arts collective triggering public debate on the issue of street sexual harassment.
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Website : blog.blanknoise.org

Shivaram Narayanan
Origami Artist

Origami Artist, child prodigy, author of Fold In Fold Out, explores the countless possibilities of expression by Origami.
Website : origami-shiv.blogspot.com

Fredrick Noronha
Journalist, Co-founder of BytesForAll

Journalist, co-founder of BytesForAll, a South Asian initiative to focus on how information technology and the internet can help in taking up social development issues.
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Website : fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

Amruta Patil
Editor, Mindfields

Writer, Graphic Novelist, artist, co-editor of Mindfields Magazine, a journal about ideas and alternative education.
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Website : amrutapatil.com

Yatin Sethi
Design Researcher

Design Researcher, with a focus on technology and social media for social change, as an Atlas Corps 2008 Fellow provided strategic guidance on digital-media in Washington DC to manage projects.
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Website : yatinsethi.blogspot.com

Vivek da Silva
Social Activist, Director of Paul Noonan Formation Centre

Social Activist, Director of Paul Noonan Formation Centre, Tamale; Teacher, Educationalist, involved in making people to realize their potential as instruments of social development.
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Website : cbtamale.blogspot.com

Pavan Soni
Innovation Evangelist, Wipro Technologies

Innovation Evangelist, Wipro Technologies; conceptualized WiCamp, an informal ‘unconference’ bar camp which has helped people from different fields to come together and share their thoughts, experiences and perspectives on Innovation and Creativity.
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Website : pavansoni.net

Jijo Ulahannan
Physicist

Physicist specializing in nanophotonic systems, nonlinear dynamics and quantum optics.
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Website : clearview.in

Nikhil Velpanur
Founder and CEO of Strange Labs

Entrepreneur, Innovator, Social activist, writer, Founder of Strange Brew and Letshead.to, a marketplace for food and drink experiences.
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Website : velpanur.com

Aparna Wilder
Film Maker, Co-founder of Global Rickshaw

Co-founder of Global Rickshaw, an organization producing short films for non-profit organizations and socially responsible businesses.
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Website : globalrickshaw.com