Theme: Turn The Page

Words result from thoughts and thoughts fuel ideas that can transform worlds.
We at TEDxSGGSCC recognize the inestimable worth of ideas and call upon everybody who strives to deviate from conformity, and take the road travelled by only a select few.
TEDxSGGSCC conforms to the high standards of TED community by holding an event that is attended by the best of businessmen, educators, activists, bureaucrats, doctors, lawyers, students and everybody else who believes in spreading ideas worth sharing.

Sahibzada Ajit Singh Auditorium, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College Of Commerce
Opposite TV Tower, Pitampura, New Delhi
Delhi 110034
Delhi, Delhi, 110034
India

Akshay Nayar

Video Producer

Writing plays and skits since junior school, the idea of creating something has always excited our next speaker, Akshay Nayar. He has the right skills to cater to the fast consumer base of India. In an age where a consumer is exposed to all kinds of content from all over the world, creating content and putting out fresh ideas is a challenge he revels in. Akshay has served under Rakesh Omprakash Mehra as an assistant director. He is currently a creative video producer with ScoopWhoop Media Pvt. Ltd.

Avijit Arya

Social Media Influencer

A digital and social media Influencer, he is the founder of Internet Moguls. Started 10 years ago with a team of 4, he bootstrapped his way to make a team of 220 serving the world's top clients like Mariott, Amway etc. Avi is ranked top 100 digital icons of the region and INFLUENCIVE named Avi Arya top 25 Global influencers in his space. He has also co-authored a popular book with his two kids called Bedtime Stories for Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs.

Dr. Shiv Prasad Kosta

Space Scientist

Their ability to surpass every hardship, come what may, and come gloriously out of it and that's exactly how we describe our speaker Dr. Shiv Prasad Kosta! Born in 1931, he was struggling with poverty his entire childhood and sold 'Beedi' in order to feed his family and himself. Education also was not something that came to him easily as there were not enough teachers to teach in the government school that he used to go. However, this man still managed to launch India's FIRST SATELLITE in 1975 and worked very closely with Late Dr. APJ Kalam. Today, Dr. Kosta, who is in his late 80s, still manages to break boundaries with inventions that are only spoken about in either Hollywood Fantasy movies or Indian Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. He has been nominated as among the TOP 100 ENGINEERS in the world by Cambridge and he can make the character Cyborg from The Justice League a reality.

Gaurav Sangtani

Founder President, Jigyasa Foudation

A writer, speaker, teacher, poet and a, Vice President for an International Investment Bank; Gaurav Sangtani has a multifaceted personality. Founder President of Jigyasa Foundation: a non-profit organization dedicated to education, he is passionate about teaching about technology and leadership. He is also a teacher by hobby having taken lectures at various institutes. He is also interested in tech disruption and its impact on business and society, he has been writing and speaking on this and on other leadership topics.

Janvi Anand

Musician

Based in Los Angeles, Janvi Anand is an Indian acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, and educator who has already performed extensively as a solo artist in India. She currently is working in the genre of Pop Rock in California and likes to talk about human relationships and vulnerabilities through her cross genre compositions. She has been actively involved with speaking about music business for independent artists and started teaching music in 2011.

Jyoti Pahadsingh

CoFounder greenBUG

Ms. Jyoti Pahadsingh is the mastermind behind the product greenBUG. Just by its unique innovative design, newspaper is upcycled to handle even kitchen wet waste quite competently. The greenBUG dustbin liner is not just a responsible product, but it is also produced responsibly.

Kanishk Priyadarshi

Actor and Anchor

Still in his twenties, but wise beyond his years. Meet Kanishk Priyadarshi, a graduate in Social Sciences and Humanities and a freelance actor and anchor from NCR. Curious, empathetic and persistent, Kanishk describes himself as being an actor all life. Kanishk first started acting during his second year of college through ‘Asmita Theatre’, a professional theatre group in NCR and performed in more than 800 street plays.

Poshak Dua

Scientific Mindreader

Poshak Dua mixes his skills of magic with modern science, psychology and storytelling. The result is a completely unique performance that entertains and makes you wonder.

Prachi Jha

CoFounder Daak

Associated with renowned organisations like Teach for India and Ashoka University, our next speaker has been in the field of education since 10 years. Prachi Jha runs her own science education NGO, Life Lab Foundation, in collaboration with global scientists, to inspire and empower budding scientists. Besides her professional commitments, she has deep love for language and literature and together with Onaiza Drabu, she co-founded Daak, a digital publication that revives lost, forgotten or unknown literature and artwork from South Asia. She likes to talk about stories from the subcontinent that have shaped our cultural ethos in big and small ways.

Prakhar Srivastava

Technology Enthusiast

Prakhar is a Machine learning engineer who fiddles with mathematics and code on a daily basis to create eccentric human intelligence softwares . A final year, engineering student who is making computers do all the difficult work.

Sonam C Chhabra

Actor and Host

Counting her 11th year as a Television Presenter and Live Host, Sonam C Chhabra hosts some of the most prestigious televised as well as live events in the experiential space across the globe. Her Bollywood debut movie ‘Kirket’ is going to release shortly. She has been awarded by EEMA, the apex body of live events as the Best Anchor India Silver for the past two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018.

The Crochets

Tabla and Guitar Duo

A Tabla and Guitar duo performing fusions with different rhythmic-melodic contracts, The Crochets comprise of Akshat Seth who hails from an Indian classical background and is the percussionist of the group and Udit Gupta, who is a Guitarist with foundation in Western Music. Both of the two are youth artists and having performed at different stages, the team, which began just as an examination has turned into a real gamete.

Urshita Saini

Birth Photographer

The first birth photographer of India and the co-founder of InLens photography, Urshita Saini has faced the toughest of challenges in her life when starting her career as a Birth Photographer. In India, childbirth has the biggest stigmas attached to it. Hence, nobody expected it to happen. Although she didn't plan for any catastrophic events that she might have to face in her journey, she still made it and shaped the future of a new industry in a progressive India.

Utkarsh Kumar Singh

Innovator

Raw data and information is available everywhere. Utkarsh Kumar Singh is here to talk about how to sift through the information, break the boundaries set by your own personal disciplines, creatively meander through interdisciplinary approaches to unravel the magic contained in the universe. To understand the structure of raw information, decoding it, and then reconstructing it into something new.