Theme: Simplistic Complexity

Following TED’s Mission statement “Ideas Worth Spreading”, the students of École Mondiale World School have organized TEDx events to reach out to the members of the ever-evolving education and youth community in Mumbai, These TEDx events can have great significance in empowering as well as contributing towards these distinctive communities. The combination of the IB mission statement, and that of TED, is one that will create many fruitful experiences for the attendees of the event, the organizer’s, and the speakers themselves.

The human brain is a complex machine, capable of creating brilliant things. Our brains have designed the greatest machines, but the irony is that the purpose of every complex machine is to somehow simplify life. The World is a complicated place, everything we create is complex, but our brains identify those as simple things that don’t quite surprise us. It’s like saying a watch just tells us the time, but the watch itself is a complex structure.

As humans, it is in our nature to study every detail of things and objects that appeal to us. Even the simplest, complicated things.

At this year’s TEDxEMWS we aim to explore such matters of simplistic complexity that have impacted global evolution.

Ecole Mondiale World School
Ecole Mondiale World School, Gulmohur Cross Road No. 9
J.V.P.D. Scheme, Juhu Gulmohar Road, MHADA Colony, Juhu
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400049
India

Ankit Shah

Ankit Shah attended the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Operations and Marketing at the Wharton School of Business. He is the creator of an innovative community organization, Tea With Strangers that is all about establishing a better understanding amongst people.

Arvind Ranganathan

Arvind Ranganathan is a 16 year old musician living in Mumbai. He not only plays a variety of instruments, but also composes a multitude of different genres of music, ranging from classical to rock to electronic, and has had his compositions professionally performed in New York and New Hampshire. He is also passionate about math and technology, and has won several international robotics competitions. He is looking forward to further education, and a future, in music and math.

Deepak Mali

Deepak Mali is a martial artist, parkour and free running athlete, fire stuntman, and Co-founder of Gurus Martial Arts institute. He is also a Extreme Martial Arts demo performer from Maharashtra, India. Extreme Martial Arts, which is fusion of martial arts, acrobatics and gymnastics. He was inspired by Tony Jaa in his teenage years and started his journey by training in his village mountain.

Deepak Ramola

Deepak Ramola is the founder and Artistic diretor of FUEL. He is a life skill educator in practice and in heart. His curosity to know about the lesson’s people learn has led him to advance the understanding of every lesson with maximum people and as often as possible.

Geet Oberoi

Dr. Geet Oberoi, with a Doctorate in learning disabilities has worked in the field of special education for over 20 years now. She is a trained special educator with a Masters in psychology. She founded Orkids, an organization which works in the areas of assessment, remediation, teacher training, research and advocacy of learning disabilities. In December 2009 she won the Guruvar Award for “Outstanding Indian Teacher of Children with special needs”. In September 2012 – Geet Oberoi is also the recipient of the Women Achiever Award 2012.

Guruditya Sinha

A 26 year old with a craze for video games and the latest gadgets, Guru has always been fascinated by space. Guru worked for the IT industry a year before he joined hands with the Indus team; it was the path he took to live his dream and fuel his passion. Guru has also been part of the SRMSAT project and has graduated from SRM University, Chennai in 2011. He works on designing the communication system for space missions, enabling spacecraft and rovers to communicate with earth.

Nandini Singh

Nandini Chatterjee Singh is a cognitive neuroscientist at the National Brain Research Centre. She studies human brain activity using functional neuroimaging while people are doing everyday tasks. Her research has shown that reading Hindi has different challenges as compared to English, that children with autism like music but not speech and different ragas elicit different emotions.

Natascha Chadha

Natascha Chadha is a journalist turned copywriter turned brand communication consultant. With her company, Brandbe, she helps companies define their mission, brand identity and values. She is also a mother, an improviser, and a professional storyteller. In 2006 she authored the book, "It Started with a Kiss: 20 Years of Mexx". She has an unexplained passion for wearing red noses and taking clown workshops around the world.

Ritesh Malik

Ritesh went to Delhi Public School and further went on to graduate from Govt. Theni Medical College. He did an internship in the summer of 2010 at The London School Of Economics & Political Sciences. Ritesh did a medical internship at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, and studied the Management of Technology & Innovation at the Harvard Business School.

Shalini Jatia

Shalini Jatia (1972) is a leading philanthropist with more than 15 years of experience in medical aid and pediatric oncology based in Mumbai, India. She has been awarded for her “Contributions to Society” by Honorable PM of India Shri Narendra Modi’s political organization, Friends of Namo; Shalini Jatia continues to provide her service to underprivileged children with cancer with an unwavering commitment.

Shveta Raina

Shveta Raina is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (HBS) where she was awarded 2nd year Honours and was also a recipient of the Horace Goldsmith Fellowship for Social Enterprise. She has founded Talerang. Prior to HBS, Shveta was on the start-up team of Teach For India as the Director of Recruitment, Marketing and Selection. Under her leadership, Teach For India launched a nationwide campaign and successfully brought in hundreds of young leaders to teach full-time in low-income schools in India.

Somnath Meher

Somnath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Witworks, a collaborative invention company that makes new products conceived/designed by real people, who form a part of its online community of inventors. Somnath, along with 2 other alumni of IIT Kharagpur, started Witworks with the aim of revolutionizing the way consumer product development is seen, and promote a culture of invention across the country. Somnath quit his job at Google and turned down a coveted MBA admit to start this venture.

Vikram Hazra

Vikram is a writer, philosopher, media producer, and social activist. Serving as Program Director for the International Art of Living Foundation for the past 18 years, he travels across the world, conducting workshops on personal excellence for corporates, and initiating community development and service projects that provide basic amenities like safe drinking water, health care and education to underprivileged communities.

Viresh Loni

With a single minded determination to change the benchmarks of the music industry, Viresh attributes his and his company's success to his passion for music. At the young age of 18, Viresh began his music journey as a guitarist and a small time music teacher while simultaneously completing his formal education in Chemical Engineering. With big dreams and a committed & focussed approach, Loni geared himself for achieving much greater goals at the very start by launching SoundMonk School of Music.

Zubin Sharma

Zubin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 in Political Economy and South Asia Studies Zubin Sharma, is the founder of Project Potential that is building active, independent communities in rural India who are working together to achieve their self-defined goals. This is done by identifying, training, and supporting local leaders, who we call Village Visionaries. Zubin imagines a world in which we focus on strengths, not weaknesses; on solutions, not problems; and on what's right with people, not what's wrong. Project Potential currently has 24 Village Visionaries helping their communities realize their potential across rural Bihar, and over 70 Village Visionaries working across Bihar, Jharkand, and West Bengal by the mid-2015.