Theme: Inspire Innovate Acheive

With the theme as "INSPIRE INNOVATE ACHEIVE",we would look at bringing local talent to the TED platform to get them recognition and also look at spreading ideas with few big names .With the theme being so general,The speakers are approached on with a variety of fields kept in mind like SCI-TECH,WILDLIFE,EDUCATION,WRITER,EDUCATIONIST,VISIONARY,etc...

Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering
New Seminar Hall-CS Dept,Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering
JSS technical Campus,Manasagangotri Road
Mysore, 570006
India

Shadaj Godhkhindi

Shadaj Godhkhindi is the son of SARIKA PRAVIN and PRAVIN GODKHINDI, a reputed flautist of the country. Shadaj started playing flute at the age of 3 and gave his first public performance when he was just under 4 years. Apart from his father, his grandfather Pandit VENKATESH GODKHINDI, an eminent and a senior flautist of the country is training Shadaj with great love and affection. His ability in recognition of Swaras and various Taals and Ragas is astonishing. His brainwork in presentation of Ragas and Layakaari leaves music lovers spell bound.

Madhu Nataraj

Madhu is the founder Director and Choreographer of the Natya Stem Dance Kampni. She studied Kathak from her mother, internationally acclaimed Kathak dancer cum choreographer Guru Maya Rao.Presented by prestigious organizations, such as the Sangeet Natak Akademi, zonal centers of the Government of India, ICCR (as a performing member of the Natya institute of Kathak & Choreography), Madhu has performed at various cultural centres at National and International dance festivals around India, UK, UAE, Europe and USA.

Haris Imtiyaz Khan

India- Child prodigy artist Haris Imtiyaz Khan, now twelve years old, was able to draw a live portrait, using charcoal, since he was only ten – setting the world record for the Youngest live portrait artist.His work has been appreciated by great personalities like former Indian president A.P.J Kalam Sahab, Actor Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Priya Dutt, Suresh Kalmadi, Ram Gopal Verma, and many more.Haris was selected as the youngest artist in a competition in New York. This was an online competition in which artists from all over the world participated. Many of these artists were far more senior and experienced than Haris. News channel IBN 7 selected Haris as one amongst five youngest artists. He has also received an appreciation letter from former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

Dr. H. Sudarshan

Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan Reddy is a doctor, Indian social worker and tribal rights activist. He is well known for his contributions to the upliftment of the forest dwelling tribes like Soligas in the Chamarajnagar district of Karnataka. He is also a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Padma Shri.

Pavan Sondur and Prashant Kumar

Pavan Sondur & Prashant Kumar are the founders of Unbxd Search Cloud which is a search-as-a-service platform that provides internal site search and analytics to websites especially eCommerce sites.It is a technology company which has evolved a search engine for websites such as eCommerce sites to be more human - understand human mistakes, correct them, understand types of visitors and user habits and dynamically tweak search results with targeted ads which can result in extremely high visitor-customer conversions.

Anshu Gupta

Popularly known as the Clothing Man, Anshu Gupta founded GOONJ with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern. Anshu is creating a mass movement for recycling and reuse of tones of waste material by channelising it from the cities to the villages, as a resource for rural development. Anshu's organisation, GOONJ has won many prestigious awards including the most recent one CNN IBN Real Heros Award, India NGO of the Year Award, Changemakers Innovation Awards and Development Market Place Award from the World Bank.

Stalin K. Padma

Stalin K. is a documentary filmmaker, media trainer and human rights activist from Gujarat, India. Stalin has directed 15 documentaries and has won several international awards for his films. As an activist, he has been deeply involved in the relief efforts of the 2002 Gujarat riots, and of the Kutch earthquake of 2001, during which time he helped to create a community radio program that was instrumental in delivering information to the victims. Stalin was the Convener of the community radio Forum until 2009 and was one of the core group that drafted the legislation that made community radio legal in India. His film work on the issue of untouchability has helped bring international attention to Dalit issues, most notably his 1996 film Lesser Humans on manual scavenging, and his feature-length 2007 film India Untouched, winner of the Mumbai International Film Festival.He teaches communications, film and grassroots activism at a number of the most senior institutes in India and has lectured at Berkeley, Stanford and NYU, among other institutions.

Nitin Gupta

Nitin is a Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay famous for creating a Cult Play 'Love In December'.He founded Entertainment Engineers with a mission to make Stand Up Comedy respectable in India and to create a humor Renaissance in this country. Humor he says, ought to have an emotionality to it. He not only want people to laugh and think, we want them to LAUGH, THINK and FEEL at the same time. Nitin took to the Stage, College Festivals, Corporate Shows to promote his work. In the last 2 years he has performed 100 Live shows across IIT's, NIT's, IIM's, their Alumni Meets, Corporate Shows in IT Giants to Financial Conglomerates.He is widely considered as the most Original Orators and Stand Up Comic of Present times.

Shukla Bose

Shukla Bose is the founder and head of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation, a nonprofit that runs four extraordinary schools for poor children.Parikrma is transforming education so that these children can have equal access to the best opportunities. Parikrma manages the entire education cycle from kindergarten to college for each child. Bose left behind a corporate career in 1992 to found Parikrma with a small group of friends. The nonprofit holds itself to formal business goals and strict accountability, and has developed some clever fundraising and marketing campaigns. As Bose puts it, the goal of Parikrma is to help build a better India by tapping its greatest strength: the vitality and potential of its people.

Satyabhama Das Biju

Sathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world. In a series of investigations, Biju has discovered over a hundred of amphibian species, many of them from the Western Ghats region. He was the recipient of the 2008 Sabin Award for Amphibian conservation and research.Among his discoveries is the entirely new family of caecilians, a kind of legless amphibian. The species Polypedates bijui, discovered in 2011, was named after him. Biju's group also discovered the smallest frog in India, the 10mm-long Nyctibatrachus minimus.

Apoorva D. Patel

Apoorva D. Patel is a Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics at IISC Bangalore. He is notable for his work on quantum algorithm and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages .His major field of work has been the theory of quantum chromodynamics.He was also an Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy .His work for the discovery of an explanation of the structure of genetic languages explaining why living organisms use 4 nucleotide bases in DNA, and 20 amino acids in proteins was also note worthy.