Theme: Ripples

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Silver Jubilee Auditorium, NITK Surathkal
NITK
Srinivasanagar
Surathkal, Karnataka, 575025
India

Ashok Rao

Freelancer

Dr.Rao holds a BE, ME & Ph.D all in EE from Mysore University (1982), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1985) and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1991) respectively. He specializes in Digital Signal Processing area and is known to be one of the leading figures in this area in India. In addition he teaches Image Processing, Multimedia, Linear Algebra, Renewable Energy, BioMetrics and ICT.

Binoy John

Cofounder, Tvara

He is the Iron Man of the trio Nanomads. This trio participated in the one of the hardest rallies, the Mongol rally on a Tata Nano! He is also the cofounder of Tvara, an automobile customization company.

Rajeswari Vaidyanathan

Co Founder DanceSport India

A successful banker with 12 years of experience now pursuing her passion for dance. A vision to take Latin and Ballroom dance in India to the next level.

Robin Chaurasiya

Founder, Kranti

She is the founder of the NGO Kranti, a school for daughters of sex workers in Mumbai’s Kamathipura area. She was shortlisted as one of the top-10 finalists for global teaching prize- A nobel prize for teaching.

Sammilan Shetty

Founder, Butterfly Park, Belvai

Sammilan Shetty an MBA(Tourism) graduate, is a full time butterfly conservationist and an amateur wildlife photographer. Born on May 23, 1985 in a village named Belvai in Mangalore. He did his schooling at Rotary English Medium School, Moodabidri and then studied at Sri Bhuvanendra College, Karkala. Born and brought up in a village like Belvai, this had a great influence in his life . Having spent most of his free time during childhood days roaming in the paddy fields and secondary forests near his home, observing birds, searching for their nests, catching fishes in streams and rivers, he enjoyed almost all living creature that he came across, whether an arthropod or a mollusc or an annelid. His special interest for butterflies grew when he was allotted a project on “Study of local butterflies” by his Zoology teacher Prof. Ashok C H, during his graduation at Alva’s College Moodbidri. Since then he has been keenly observing these winged beauties and dedi

Shantala Hegde

Assistant Professor (Neuropsychology), Department of Clinical Psyhchology, NIMHANS

She is an assistant professor at NIMHANS Bangalore. Among her various impactful work, the most noteworthy being her award as a science fellow in ‘Exploring minds through music’ in 2016 from the Shepherd School of music, Rice university, Texas, USA.

Sriram Ramaswamy

Director, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy is the Fellow of Royal Society(FRS), Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad, and a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is widely known for formulating the hydrodynamic equations governing the alignment, flow, mechanics and statistical properties of suspensions of self-propelled creatures, on scales from a cell to the ocean.

Tim Poston

Chief Scientist, Sankhya Sutra Labs Private Limited

Timothy "Tim" Poston (born 19 June 1945 in St Albans, Hertfordshire) is an English mathematician best known for his work on catastrophe theory. His 1972 Ph.D at the University of Warwick was directed by Christopher Zeeman on "Fuzzy Geometry". Tim specializes in geometry, graphics, algorithm design, human-computer interaction, medical imaging, patent writing and singularity theory.[4] His books on catastrophe theory and on differential geometry and relativity are still in print after a third of a century.