Theme: Naandi a new beginning

The theme for TEDxYouth@AmbitusHyderabad this year is rightly chosen to be Naandi which in Sanskrit means a new beginning. The pandemic times has been one of resilience and reflection for one and all compelling people to start afresh.We believe that its' time for us to face our adversities and cope with them, learn to sustainably care for our beautiful planet and for the life on it, bringing about a change in our perspective towards equality of genders and being mindful to work on the power of positivism. The excitement among all is high to deliver their best and march towards a new beginning.

Ambitus World School
Medchal highway ,Near Bachupally
Bowrampet
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500046
India

Anand Sivakumaran

Story teller, screenwriter, an author, a director

Anand Sivakumaran has been a storyteller ever since he can remember. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, Anand dons many hats, including those of a screenwriter, an author, a director, coach as well as a showrunner. His credits include Films like Kalyug and Nazar and TV shows like The Buddy Project, Sadda Haq, Miley Jab Hum Tum, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin etc. Anand’s first book ‘Natasha Mehra Must Die’ came out in 2019. Anand also does spontaneous storytelling for LIVE audiences, using their words, he tells them stories, making them the protagonists. He also has a storytelling podcast – The Croc’s Tales. He also trains business leaders and managers in Storytelling for Growing Business and Communication for Action.

Confluence of waves Jugalbandi

Dance Drama

The dance drama is a combination of mime, classical dance, song, and modern dance that is used to depict the conditions of women all over the world. This would lead to a traditional dance style that demonstrates the many roles women can play, including those of mother, carer, teacher, and fierce mother who will put an end to all evil. This is known as a Shakti Swaroop. The following song portrays how things are changing and how women are starting to take on significant roles—it's a new beginning for women. The performance is a modern dance piece with women dressed as astronauts, scientists, soldiers, and other female characters. When women, men, girls, and boys have equal rights, opportunities, and control over their own lives and the growth of society as a whole, gender equality is accomplished. It is an issue of justice.

Deepika Ahuja

Guest Speaker, Author & Happiness Coach

Deepika is an author and a happiness coach. She has authored two books “Demystifying happiness” and “my Act of Heart” and both books have garnered a lot of appreciation from the readers. My act of heart was chosen as Best Children’s book at the Asian Literary Festival. She has been selected for the award “Iconic women creating a better world for all”. Her name got listed as “51 Most Fabulous Global Happiness Leaders” by World HRD congress. She was also a recipient of award for “Mental Health” from Lions Club, named as 99 Achievers of India and India - 100 Under 40 by Fox Story. She believes that happiness is a skill that can be developed through practice and made a way of life, irrespective of what life deals us.

Dr. Krish` Bhargav

Guest Speaker, CEO, Optimistic Kingpin

Dr Krish bhargav a PhD holder in the field of Datascience from Geneva University. He has founded many companies to mention a few: Contessa Consultants( UK) - Datascience consulting JaiHoBharat Media (India) – A Global News Media Company Browsejobs (India) – A Train and deploy Consulting company He has been a thriver for technology and has been in this field for over 20 years now. Leading teams and delivering products & services to many large scales organisations which include Facebook Google HSBC Deutsche Bank CBRE Merck Holland and Barrett JP Morgan And many, many more. He has just won the Industry Leaders awards for most trusted IT consulting firm in India and Global Achievers awards for the Most promising Leader of the year for 2022.

Dr. Praachi Rathod

Guest Speaker, Chief Medical Officer

Dr Praacchi Rathod Mbbs. DEM currently working as a chief Medical officer in Osmania general hospital and a consultant medical officer in India's first transgender clinic (mitr clinic) Narayanaguda Hyderabad. She identifies as a trans women and Out-n-Proud working for the community for the last 5 years. She has attended as a moderator in National LGBTQIA+ conference and also moderated national psychiatric conference in 2022. With lots of hurdles and struggles she was posted as a medical officer in government sector, the first trans women in to take up this prestigious role in Telangana. She also filed a cases regarding implementing horizontal reservations for trans genders in Telangana state and providing employment and empowerment for LGBTQIA+ community. She aims to look after the people of her community along with their health needs in order to to create a non-discrimination health services at Osmania general hospital.

Harsha Umeshchandra Karnati

Student Speaker Food Connoisseur

Harsha Karnati an 8th grader is a nature lover who loves to keep himself surrounded with animals. He spends time watching movies and cooking or playing around. He finds music to be calming and sometimes pens down his own lyrics. Above all , he loves being crazy and doing the things which gives him inner satisfaction. He is an ardent food lover.

Ms Shambhavi

Guest Speaker, Life Coach

Ms. Shambhavi took on a mantel to heal lives and she successfully managed to carry the baton till date. She healed over one lakh lives and bestowed them with smiles. She made her appearance in over 9 countries. She has been a multi award celebrity tarot reader. Apart from tarot, she consults in other modalities namely, Life Coach, Colour Therapy, Vaastu, Numerology Consultation, Handwriting Analysis and Signature Analysis and many more. She has been extensively featured on Google, recognized by go daddy for a good website and featured in Bombay Times, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Femina many spiritual magazines, interviewed for over 50 plus online interviews and most searched on Google. She also authored a book named 'Aura and Colours and me', while two other books are in the process. She was awarded the 100 iconic woman award 2022, and the debut best author award 2022. Apart from that she has been bestowed with over 25 plus awards and recognition.

Naresh Adapa

Semi-classical dancer, classical dance trainer

Naresh Adapa has exceptional knowledge in choreography and has an outstanding ability to perform and train students in promoting artistic activities in classical and semi-classical dance. He is a recipient of Telugu Bharat Award and a winner of the State Level best dancer award. In 2022 he won the national youth GEM achiever award and was also runner-up at an international dance event.

Poornamidham Dance drama

Jugalbandi

Jugalbandi is the main attraction of the Kathak recital. It depicts a duel between the dancer and the tabla musician. Jugalbandi literally means "entwined twins," but it also alludes to amicable competition. The fact that the two soloists are on equal footing distinguishes jugalbandi. A jugalbandi performance may only be considered authentic if neither musician is the single soloist nor the sole accompaniment. Both musicians serve as prominent players in jugalbandi, and the two performers engage in friendly rivalry. On various instruments, the students deliver a musical performance combining Indian and Western influences. Six students will present on an Indian KeyBoard, Western KeyBoard, Violin, Guitar, Rhythm pads (Tabla flavor), and western drums.

Snehitha Chadalavada

Student Speaker Multiverse Intellect

Snehitha is the kind of person who indulges herself in creativity and finds joy in spending quality time with herself. She is passionate about dancing, singing and sketching specifically. One thing that many do not know about her is that her expressive nature can help her be an actor herself. She considers herself quite indolent when it comes to studies; however, the moment she sets her mind to it, reaching her goal is within no time. With her stubborn nature and delinquency, she faced obstacles along her journey but never gave up and strive for a positive solution

Srikanth Reddy

Guest Speaker,Founder &CEO

Srikanth, a critical thinker, problem solver holds a doctoral degree and Double masters from Universidad Padova, Italy and Universidad politécnica de Madrid. He has been in the mobility industry for 8 years working on some biggest projects in Europe like Chipi from world wide mobility. His experience and expertise also include the areas of IoT, Big data, and Project Management. He is currently building India's first multimodal EV shared mobility platform.

Sruthi Pavani Vadali

Student Speaker, Intrepid Warrior

Sruthi is a very passionate person towards all her hobbies.A hardworking martial arts practitioner along with a qualified black belt. As hardworking as she is,Sruthi is also a top student is academics in her class. Sruthi is an all-rounder with abilities in every corner. All the way from being a Taekwondo member to a classical vocal singer, Sruthi is multi-talented in all aspects from a young age.Sruthi indulges in playing the violin ever since 3rd grade. Violin has always interested her from a young age onwards. Now, she has moved on to become a violin player in school and other events. Her personality also describes why she enjoys teaching children. She is open to tutor any person who needs help in any subject. She has moved from Connecticut, in the Northeast part of America to India in 6th grade and has proven herself and her talents. Currently she is a gold medalist of Sports for All events in Hyderabad in the Taekwondo event. She continues to aim higher and make her school proud

Yellinedi SriMridini

Student Speaker, Neuter Reformer

Srimridini Yellinedi is a creative and an intellectual human being. She was born on 4th January, 2010. She is fond of music, dance and performing arts. Public speaking is one of her talents she believes in. She always wants to bring out a change in the world around her. She strongly believes that ‘acceptance is within yourself, not by the society.’ And that’s what has inspired her to talk on this platform with utmost passion. She is also into Bharatanatyam- an Indian traditional dance since last 8 years. Above all, she loves her family as they support her through thick and thin and also her dear friends. Lastly, she always wants to be fun and an optimistic human being.