Theme: Beyond Boundaries

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxXLRI, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxXLRI event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized

Father Prabhu Hall (FPH)
XLRI
Circuit House Area (East)
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 831035
India

Ashdin Doctor

Habit Coach

Ashdin Doctor is the host of ‘The Habit Coach’ podcast and is a firm believer that awesome lives start with awesome habits. He is also the founder of ‘Awesome180’, a habit coaching programme. Currently a Director at Ormax Consultants Pvt. Ltd. as well as a trustee at the ‘Light of Life Trust’, Ashdin has started all of his passion projects getting inspiration from his own journey that started with burnout, depression, and ill health. Ashdin’s focus now is to guide people towards living that awesome life and inspire everyone to build a better version of themselves!

Christopher Doyle

Author

Christopher C Doyle is an Indian Author known to transport readers into a fascinating world filled with ancient secrets, legends, and mysteries blended with science. He has written many book series, including The Mahabharata Secret, The Pataala Prophecy, and A Secret Revealed. Many of his books became bestsellers across the world. He is an alumnus of St. Stephens College and IIM Calcutta and helps companies grow profitably and sustainably. He also lives his passion for music through his band called Mid-Life Crisis.

Madhusudhan Anand

Co-founder, Ambee

Madhusudan is the co-founder and CTO of Ambee, an AI startup providing postcode level, real-time air quality data. Residing in Bangalore, Madhusudan and his family faced the very real issue of air pollution and this quipped his interest as he started monitoring the air quality around his house and this is how Ambee was born in 2017. Being a 5-time National Award-winner in the startup ecosystem for building products on IoT, AI-ML, Internet, and Mobile, his love for technology and for learning is clearly evident in his everyday work!

Pablo Naranjo

Chef

Born in the city of Bogota, Colombia, Chef Pablo started working as a chef at the age of 18. In 2015, he came to Mumbai, where he opened the first Le15 Cafe and worked as an Executive Chef for 4 years. He has cooked with indigenous tribes, worked with Michelin-starred restaurants in France, has a Youtube channel of his own cooking experiences across Asia, and has also hosted Gourmet Goes Tribal on Nat Geo.

Raghav Arora

Entrepreneur

Raghav Arora is the co-founder and CTO of Statiq, India's largest EV charging station network. He is an engineer from VIT and has experience in training more than 2000 people in Artificial intelligence and Data Analytics using DAV Python. He was also the reckoning force behind building the IoT server in February 2020, thereby laying the foundation for Statiq.

Roshan Abbas

Media Professional

Roshan Abbas is an Indian award-winning media professional with over 25 years of experience in Film, TV, Radio, and Creative Arts— donning the hats of an actor, host, producer, event manager & theater director to name a few. Apart from being a celebrated media personality, he is also a co-founder of Kommune and helped conceptualize Spoken fest, Asia's largest word festival which brings together performers from across the world for storytelling through any medium.