Theme: Unleash

To say that "Unleash" is a multifarious abstraction would be an understatement. We can strive to elucidate it with innumerable viewpoints. The only certain aspect is the fact that it takes something substantial for someone to be able to unleash. It may be through inspiration or by the cognizance relayed from new acquaintances with different paradigms, that people get the positive outburst to ultimately unleash themselves; set their perceptions free from their cage of fear to finally express themselves. What leads a person to unleash is very hard to gauge but it definitely breaks their barriers of fear and suppression. Do you want to try on a new pair of glasses and see the world differently? Then attend TEDxPESITBSC! Together, let us attempt to gain a profound insight as to why we hide our true spirit and what it takes to actually unleash all chains and be ourselves, through three differently themed mesmerising sessions.

PESIT-Bangalore South Campus
PES College Road
Hosur Road Campus(1km from Electronic City)
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560100
India

Umesh

Adopted Son of Saalumarada Thimmakka.

Aneesh Vidyashankar

Mr. Aneesh Vidyashankar is a violin player who gave his first violin solo concert when he was just eight. Since then, he has given solo violin concerts at Chowdiah Memorial Hall., The Bangalore Club., Bangalore Gayana Samaja., The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Indian Institute of World Culture, and many more places. Vidyashankar has won several prizes in competitions held by various sabhas like The Gayana Samaja and Academy of Music, and the first prize at Prestigious national level Classical Music CompetitionInstrumental Violin 2009 held by Prasara Bharti Broadcasting Corporation (AIR). His album, ‘Pure Expressions’ has been released by Kosmic and Sangeeta Music Recording Companies. An eight week episode ‘Divine Melodies’, an exclusive programme by Mr. Vidyashankar, was aired on Sri Sankara TV channel.

Dr Dayaprasad Kulkarni

Medical Doctor and Public Health Specialist

Dr Dayaprasad G Kulkarni is a medical doctor, public health specialist, entrepreneur, artist and development consultant; returned as a Fellow from the East West Centre, Hawaii, USA successfully completing the Asia Pacific Leadership Program and founded DoctorsForSeva Arogya Foundation - a voluntary platform for doctors to provide free healthcare services to the underserved. He is a medical graduate working for the last ten years at the community level with vulnerable populations like commercial sex workers, transgender, migrant labourers, street children, etc. in the field of HIV/AIDS and sexual health. He has worked extensively in Tsunami affected areas of Tamil Nadu, in hard to reach conflict areas such as central Africa, Chattisgarh, Manipur, Tibet, Cambodia, and during several other natural and man made disaster responses.

Geeta Menon

Geeta Menon co founder Sree Jagruti Samiti. She has been involved with issues of women,especially the most vulnerable, unorganized sector of women,  for over 3 decades. In the course of this work, they have built up the Domestic workers union. With working with the child domestic workers,on rescue and rehabilitation, they worked with the adult domestic workers,as well as the migrant, live in workers.

George John

George has a breadth of 20+ years of experience in IT, Manufacturing and Quality. He joined Cisco in May 2008 from Dell in Bangalore, where he worked for more than four years in the areas of IT and Quality. He educates youngsters about money management and financial stability.

Harsha Chaturvedi

As the founder of Vantage Agora (VA), Harsha has been focused in bring operational excellence to VA, its customers, and the world. Harsha has developed a patent pending 'Operational Excellence through Social Networks: Club VA'.

HV Kumar

HV Kumar is an avid traveller who has travelled every nook and corner of India by Road in the past three decades. He has driven over 12 lakh kilometers, taking the roads not taken, exploring unknown terrains be it from Kanyakumari to Turtuk or Kibithu to Koteshwar. He has built a 20000 people strong Facebook forum named - HiVayKing Club. The HiVayKing Club is a unique concept in existence with a motto “When you travel, we travel with you” providing Live assistance and help for travelers on Indian Highways. He says, there is no substitute for human knowledge, human intervention, goodwill & eagerness to help those in need. Using the strength of the collective experience - that is the direction in which this Forum moves He is also a Chartered Accountant, Corporate Lawyer and has been a Consultant to the UN.

Malathi Holla

In the world of POLIOMITICS, Arjuna Award and Padmashree award winner, and 5 times Para Olympian Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla is a remarkable woman. She is a Champion of Champions, a born Athlete, professionally a Bank Manager and a social activist. She is an achiever in all fronts with a limitless capacity to excel in whatever she is engaged in. With over 389 Gold, 27 Silver and 7 Bronze won in various tournaments at State/National/International medals at Asian, World masters and Open Athletic Championships in different parts of the world, she has an amazing “never say die” and an overwhelming spirit that defies the limits of human endeavor.

Nisha Thompson

Ms. Nisha Thompson is a Data Activist who is also the Director of DataMeet. DataMeet is an NGO founded in Bangalore and comprises of Data Science and Open Data enthusiasts who talk about data, open data, and civic issues. Members of the community organize Open Data Camps and workshops every once in a while. Ms. Thompson has a background in online community organisation. She has worked for the Sunlight Foundation in Washington DC, with online communities to use US government data to hold elected officials accountable. After moving to Bangalore in 2010, she worked on an Open Government Data report for the Centre for Internet and Society and was the Project Manager of the Data Project for Arghyam, a Trust that funds water and sanitation projects around the country. The Data Project aimed to collect and open up water and related data, so that citizens and practitioners can use it to improve and keep track of projects and progress in the water sector.

Ramasamy Selvaraju

Mr. Ramaswamy Selvaraju is the the Executive Chef at Vivanta by Taj in Bangalore. The chef started his culinary journey almost 25 years ago with the Taj Group itself. Chef Selvaraju was bestowed with the title of ‘Best Chef in the Five Star’ category by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, at the National Tourism Awards 20122013. He has won the International Black Box Culinary Award Australia for preplated fine dining, twice, along with a host of other accolades. Another interesting thing to be noted is that he has cooked for His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton and a host of international heads of state and celebrities.

Saalumarada Thimakka

Saalumarada Thimmakka,​ an environmentalist, is one of the well-known personalities of Karnataka. She has earned recognition due to her untiring efforts in planting and tending to 284 banyan trees along the highway covering a distance of four kilometers. Her persistent work has earned her several national and international awards. She has been honored with the prestigious National Citizen’s Award of India for her selfless works in the field of environment. She also has a U.S. environmental organization called Thimmakka’s Resources for Environmental Education named after her.

Simon Paul Iyer

Simon Paul had to leave school when he was just nine years old due to a learning disability, and faced hardships thence. He began his life at work as an office boy. But these hard times did not bring him down- eventually he started participating in racing contests individually. He is one of the only Indians to have driven cars that few Indians have. Simon's never say die attitude and his passion for cars have empowered him to overcome situations, which would otherwise inhibit him from growing.