SPIT
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This event occurred on
February 8, 2018
Mumbai, Maharashtra
India

TEDxSPIT is here with an awe-inspiring line up of exemplary individuals with intriguing expertise in their respective fields.
Sounds intimidating? Well, it’s just a few big words leading to one-of-a-kind convention where you can share ideas and explore non-conventional spaces with like-minds.
From business pioneers to actors, from life mentors to CTOs, we have a palate of speakers sharing their insights and trying to unravel ideologies.

SP Jain Audiorium
Old DN Nagar, Munshi Nagar
Andheri West
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400058
India
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Manish Advani

A story teller, a song writer, recognised for positioning brands in the industry through CSR and Green initiatives. Heads Marketing and Public Relations for MSSG. Bears a work experience of over 2 decades on client engagements from organizations like Microsoft, Hindustan Unilever, Jaguar and Land Rover, etc. in various roles. An honourable recipient of Microsoft President Award and various others. A gold medalist from New Jersey Institute od Technology with Summa Cum Laude. Manish has completed brand building program from Stanford and One year program from Harvard.

Max Fernandes

Max Fernandes possess a knack for adapting to any role humanly possible which is highlighted by his past where he has played over 15 roles in eight organizations after which he finally found his adobe in theatre. One of his recent plays is "Ruby Moon" by The Peas and Carrots Theatre Company. He has also been a crucial TV actor for Sony, OML, Star and so on. With an objective of promotion of Theatre arts, he conducts theatre workshops at St. Xavier's Institute of Communication and St Paul's Institute as well. He's been an essential part of several schools for the same. Despite the enormous amount of praise, he has the definition of "Humble" engraves in his soul.

Mohsin Memon

Mohsin Memon is the founder and CEO of MEM corp immersive learning. Mohsin is a gamer and a game designer who has been playing and designing games all his life. He believes games have the ability to do more for humanity than we can imagine. He has worked closely with leaders of companies like Motorola, Wal-Mart, Delta Airlines, GroupM and many others to embed learning as a part of the organizations's culture

Nidhika Bahl

Nidhika holds the distinction of being the ALL Ladies League Maharashtra Chairperson for Coaching and of being the official Life Coach of Miss Diva Universe 2017 finalists, coaching the likes of Miss World 2017 Manushri Chillar. Considered to be one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of our time, having features in newspapers such as The Economic Times and Mumbai Mirror.

Rashi Mal

Rashi is a professionally trained actress, dancer and singer/songwriter. She started her acting career on stage and has studied method acting at the Jeff Goldberg Studio. She is currently shooting her first Hindi feature film and has also worked on an Indo French film which will release shortly. She has starred in several popular web series including 'Boygiri', 'A.I.S.H.A My Virtual Girlfriend', 'Time Out' and the mini-series 'Paanch' on Channel V. She's also making a name for herself in the music industry. She sang the song 'Buri Buri' for the film Dear Maya starring Manisha Koirala and also wrote the rap for it. She's a professionally trained dancer too and was a company member of choreographer Ashley Lobo's dance company, The Danceworx. All in all she is the textbook definition of a true artist.

Robin Chaurasia

Robin helped organize a successful campaign to change US armed forces policy after being forced to leave her position as an Air Force officer because of her sexuality. The experience inspired her to go into teaching and to found an NGO in India called Kranti. Robin has formalized a social justice curriculum at Kranti covering key issues that affect the girls' lives which they use to design and implement projects. In 2013, they convinced an MP to help them register sex workers to vote. They have led workshops for more than 100,000 people and delivered 11 TEDx talks around the world. They toured a play they wrote about the experiences across the USA, performing at the headquarters of Facebook and Google.

Swapan Rajdev

Swapan Rajdev is the Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder at Haptik, one of the world's largest chatbot platforms. He oversees the entire engineering function at Haptik which includes product development, scalability, and future vision from a technology and product perspective. Apart from this, Swapan's focus is on the culture at Haptik. He is consistently working on new and innovative ways to make it one of the best places to work at.

Vikas Gupta

Vikas Gupta, the second runner-up for Bigboss season 11, has gained quite the status as a T.V personality being a producer and creator. This reputation complemented by his past roles as Creative head for Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Television comprising of several top-grossing shows like Kyuki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. He is the pioneer of "The Lost Boy Productions" which is involved in the creation of famous shows like Kiasi Yeh Yaariya, Gumah, Yeh Hai Aashiqui and a lot more. He later headed the TV channel &TV. In addition to this, he went on to become the youngest person to head MTV in the world along with winning the "TV Personality of the year" at the Lions Gold Awards.

Organizing team

Nishant
Bakhrey

Organizer

Riya
Bakhtiani

Co-organizer
  • Arijit Ghosh
    Operations
  • Manas Shukla
    Operations