Theme: The Vitals

The concepts of culture, identity, character, technology and medicine are some of the cores of our society and a well lived life. To include them as 'The Vitals' in our TEDx event makes poetic sense. Humanity's love for ideas worth sharing is a fundamental instinct and a nucleus around which other details of life revolve!

JLNA Auditorium
AIIMS
New Delhi, Delhi, 110029
India

Ankit Kawatra

Ankit Kawatra is the founder of Feeding India, a not-for-profit social enterprise which aims to connect two major social problems today: Hunger and Food waste as solutions for each other. Empowered by a novel idea that positively impacts the environment, economy and society as a whole, he is sure to inspire and infect us with his vision for a 'Hunger Free India'!

Diksha Bijlani

A renowned name in Spoken Word Poetry at 20, Diksha co-founded a slam poetry collective called Slip of Tongue at 19. She studies Psychology at Delhi University and strives to use spoken word poetry as a tool for social change.

Dr. Balram Bhargava

Padma Shri Dr Balram Bhargava, is globally recognized as one of the foremost leaders in biomedical innovation, public health, medical education and research. He is a Professor of Cardiology at AIIMS, New Delhi and serves as the Executive Director for School of International Biodesign.

Dr. Tav Pritesh Sethi

A fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is using the cutting edge data science technologies to smash boundaries between medicine and computer science! He engages with the brightest doctors and techies to dream the future of medicine together. He often talks about “the music of Big-data” and how it is shaping next-generation medicine.

Karan Singh Magic

Karan Singh Magic is widely recognised as India's leading psychological illusionist, fusing sub-conscious suggestion, hypnosis and misdirection to create a unique brand of magic, involving mind reading.

Rishabh Seen

Rishabh Seen is one of the foremost young Indian classical sitar players and the first ever sitar player to bridge Indian and Metal music. His highly acclaimed sitar covers of metal bands like Animals like Leaders and Meshugah have been sensational and have gone viral, both on social and conventional media.

Rohit Khandelwal

Hailing from Hyderabad, Rohit khandelwal set his mark at the Mr. India 2015 competition where he emerged as the winner. He then went made India proud by winning the Mr. World 2016 pageant. A living symbol of struggle and success, he is now looking to pursue a career in Bollywood and modelling.

Shreya Singhal

Coming from a family of lawyers and jurists, it could be said law flows in Shreya Singhal's blood. Little did she know what awaited her, when she filed a petition in 2012 challenging the controversial and frequently misused Section 66A. She was all of 21 years then, but her courage and thoughts had the dynamism of the youth and wisdom of the mature. No wonder this one-woman army triumphed over the mighty Indian state when the Supreme Court quashed Section 66A in March 2015.

Sumer Sethi

A radiologist by education, Dr. Sumer Sethi spends most of his time coaching students about competitive examinations.

Yogendra Yadav

Shri Yogendra Yadav has been India's leading psephologist and is the pioneer of comparative politics in India. An academician par excellence, he shall share his ideas, he is also the founder of 'Swaraj Abhiyan', a platform for alternative and clean politics.