Youth@MayoCollege
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Theme: Ground up Innovation!

This event occurred on
February 21, 2016
5:30am - 5:30am IST
(UTC +5.5hrs)
AJMER, Rajasthan
India

TEDxYouth@MayoCollege. Feb 21, 2016.

We bring together some really sharp ground up innovation ideas. Disruptive, soulful, and downright fearless!

MAYO COLLEGE
SRINAGAR ROAD
AJMER, Rajasthan, 305008
India
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Speakers

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Ambrish Raghuvanshi

Angel Investor + Financial Advisor
Ambarish advises companies planning IPO’s and is an angel investor in a number of exciting new ventures. Ambrish was the Director Finance and CFO at Info Edge (India) Ltd which owns naukri, 99acres, jeevansathi and shiksha, apart from having invested in zomato, policybazaar, meritnation, etc.

Archana Sardhana

Base Jumper + Skydiver + Deep Sea Diver
Archana Sardana has made over 300 Skydives, 60 underwater dives and many BASE dives all over the world. She has pretty much conquered the sky and the depths of the ocean.

Ata Hasnain

Retd. Lieutenant General
Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM & BAR, the former Corps Commander of the Indian Army’s Srinagar based 15th Corps is also one of the most higly decorated officers who has experience of almost every turbulent spot where the Indian Army is deployed. He served in Sri Lanka, Punjab (during the militancy), North East India, Jammu & Kashmir and commanded his unit in the Siachen Glacier. He also served the United Nations in Rwanda and Mozambique. In 2010 he was assigned to Kashmir for the seventh time to lead the Army’s efforts to find peace. His achievements, through an innovative approach to sub conventional conflict. His leadership techniques famously titled — ‘Heart is My Weapon”, “Play Friend, Not God” and “Passion in the Heart & Fire in the Belly”, are considered new age mantras for the Army and other organizations.

Krishna McKenzie

Musician + Farmer
Krishna is a farmer, musician, educator and actor. He has been deeply inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese Zen Master and farmer. In 1996 he started Solitude Farm creating a dynamic community around local food, permaculture and natural farming. Krishna’s work can be termed ‘social agriculture’, an exploration of the relationship of local food to ecology, economy, culture and society. In 2006, Krishna founded the band Emergence which has gone on to perform at Glastonbury festival UK, Maximum India Festival Washington D.C and many venues including Blue Frog, Mumbai all over India. He started an annual eco music festival, Lively Up Your Earth (LUYE) at Solitude. People Food Music, 2015, is a part of Krishna’s vision – a grassroots movement bringing permaculture to rural India through Community, Food and Music.

Sanjna Kapoor

Actor
Sanjna Kapoor (born 1967) is an Indian theatre personality. She is the daughter of Shashi Kapoor and the late Jennifer Kendal. She ran the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai from 1993 to February 2012. She made her acting debut in the 1981 film 36 Chowringhee Lane which was produced by her father and starred her mother Jennifer Kendal in the lead. She played the younger version of the character her mother played. She later appeared in Utsav (1984), also produced by her father and played her first leading role in a Bollywood film titled Hero Hiralal (1988). She then appeared in Mira Nair's critically acclaimed film Salaam Bombay in 1988 but has since quit acting in films, shifting her focus to theatre in the 1990s. In 1991, Sanjana played the role of the Japanese wife in the theatre Production of Akira Kurosawa's immortalised film Rashomon based on the Broadway play by Fay and Michael Kanin. She also acted in A.K. Bir's Aranyaka (1994).

Shivani Wazir Pasrich

Compere + Actor + Dancer + Model
Compere, Actor, Dancer, Model…

Vishal Rao

Oncologist
Dr. Vishal Rao is a Bangalore based oncologist. He has trained in Oncology at one of the most prestigious cancer institutes of India, the Tata Memorial Hospital at Mumbai. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Otolaryngology in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA, a Consultant at the Institute of Public Health and a Director of the Cancer Prevention and Tobacco Control Project with W.H.O Tobacco Free Initiaves partners . The other positions held by Dr. Vishal Rao are: Member of the Union for International Cancer control (UICC) Globalink – Global Tobacco Control; a Member of National Executive Committee for the Foundation of Head and Neck Oncology (FHNO); Executive Board Member of the State Association for Otolaryngology – Head Neck Surgery, Karnataka and a Member of the Action Council against Tobacco (ACT) – India.

Organizing team

Siddharth
Shaw

New Delhi , India
Organizer

Rahul
Parekh

MUMBAI, India
Co-organizer