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Theme: Question Everything

This event occurred on
August 31, 2019
New Delhi, Delhi
India

Aren't we the seekers of order and wisdom, trying to unify everything we have chiseled so far from the ores of knowledge? Or are we the creatures of chaos, always dangling on the edges ever so slightly away from tipping over, trying to fathom the purpose of our existence?

Perhaps what lies ahead in our future, is a question rather obscure than what lies beyond our imagination. This uncharted territory of so-called audacity embedded in our genes since the dawn of our civilization as it leads us towards the unprecedented domains of our realm. Even so, subduing us to be skeptical, to be something more than just mere mortal beings.

Auspicious as it may sound, thus far though we have reached and yet we seek the boundaries of the ever-expanding universe. The tenacity between human perseverance and the everlasting hunger for more is the intangible perception of our limbic brain we have clung onto so far to unravel the answers to the unknown.

So why should we stop asking about who we are and where we stand when these questions themselves possess the very elixir to the immortality of the human species. Why stop now then, let's Question Everything.

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology
Sector 22, Rohini
New Delhi, Delhi, 110086
India
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Ashim Bery

Ashim Bery is a percussionist based in New Delhi. He has been practicing and learning the Tabla for the last 17 years. In 2015, he began working on a solo project as a tongue drummer and handpan artist. Through his work, he tries to fuse music with works of fellow musicians, artists, theatre professionals, writers, and poets. Each composition of his has a personal story to tell and likes to incorporate storytelling as a medium within the music.

Mriganka Saxena

Mriganka Saxena is an Architect and Urban Designer with over 17 years of experience. She has done her M.Sc. in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. Her leadership and contributions in projects, especially the Yamuna River Project, as well as policies, have transformed city transport and created sustainable habitats. It has rejuvenated water bodies and drains, which, in turn, has helped turn around the lives of many families.

Nitesh Kumar Jangir

Nitesh Kumar Jangir is an electronics engineer with focus on embedded system design. Being the co-founder at Coeo Labs also an active inventor, 6 patents were filed and granted by him in the field of medical devices and artificial intelligence. He is the creator of Saans - a breathing support device to tackle avoidable deaths of premature babies from respiratory distress syndrome due to a lack of immediate access to complex medical equipment. Due to his hard and innovative work, he marked a place for himself in Forbes 30 under 30, 2019 (India and Asia).

Paromita (Romi) Roy

Paromita Roy is a reputed architect for contemporary buildings. She was an Urban Designer working in Shanghai but left her lucrative job to have a career dedicated solely to public service. She is also the Deputy General Manager of IRSDC which is the nodal agency for railway station development in India. At the Home Minister office located in Delhi, she is designated as the knowledge partner working with Amit Shah.

Praveen Sharma

Praveen Sharma is an intrapreneur by choice, a motivational speaker, business coach, consultant, active public speaker, a writer and also specializes in strategic partnership and hacking business growth for organization. He is trying to break the stigma around mental health with his initiative better us. Better us is a platform to promote the discussion on mental health and related subjects.

Rachel Cunningham

Rachel Cunningham is a world traveler and works as a superyacht chef. Owing to her profession, she visits places all over the world and shares all her experiences on her blog. She has been to 115 countries to date and has been traveling the world for 15 years. Over her years of travel, she has witnessed the sunrise over Machu Picchu, learned to cook with a famous South Korean Monk from Netflix, taught children in Nepal, rode camels in Egypt and danced at a carnival in Trinidad, among many other amazing adventures at exotic locations.

Satyam Mishra

Satyam Mishra hails from Bhagalpur in Bihar and holds an engineering degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology. He believes that teachers are vectors of education and proper education for girls is a topic very close to him. He was invited to teach refugee children in Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School in Lebanon in 2017. He is a former Teach for India fellow and national consultant for Mathematics.

Tavpritesh Sethi

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology. He has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on the development and deployment of machine-learning-based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions.

Organizing team

Aman
Kumar

New Delhi, India
Organizer

Anisha
Jain

Co-organizer
  • Mahika Bhatnagar
    Operations
  • Shivay Lamba
    Team member