Theme: Actions Bring Change

TEDxIIMKashipur is an independently organised event under the aegis of TED. It provides a common platform for visionaries, pioneers, innovators and change-makers to inspire and be inspired. This serves as a fountain of ideas which have the power to change the world. With this thought in mind, the first TEDxIIMKashipur event was organized on 9th November 2014.

Speakers for the event were as follows:

1. Arun Krishnamurthy (Environmentalist): Conservation through revival of lakes.

2. Vimlendu Jha (Founder & CEO, Swechcha): Creating livelihood through green business.

3. E Sarathbabu (CEO, Food King Catering Services): Real-life slumdog millionaire.

4. Manu Neelakandhan (Founder, Ideaculture): Creative economy - Designing the dream era.

5. Shreya Pareek (Development journalist): Inspiring change through positive stories.

6. Abhishek Asthana (Twitter phenomenon @Gabbarsingh): Tweeting to change the world.

7. Tenith Adithyaa (Teenage scientist & inventor): Banana leaf technology.

8. Kamlesh Masalawala (World’s first laughter trainer): Laughter is the best medicine.

9. Reena Kaushal Dharmsktu (First Indian woman to ski to the South Pole): Skiing to the South Pole.

The phenomenal success of the event and enthusiasm from the audience has opened the path once again to share ideas and act on them. Come November 7, 2015, IIM Kashipur will bring forward the second edition of TEDxIIMKashipur to push forward everyone towards their goals, aspirations and passion.

IIM Kashipur Auditorium
IIM Kashipur
Bazpur Road, Kashipur
Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, 244713
India

Azhar Iqubal

Azhar Iqubal is the Co-founder and CEO of Inshorts Medialabs Pvt. Ltd. His Noida based start-up owns the popular content aggregator app inshorts (formerly news aggregator NewsinShorts). He with his partners started News in Shorts as a Facebook page in April 2013. After getting enough traction there, they got selected for the 4th batch of TLabs. They launched the beta version in July 2013 and launched the final app on 4th September 2013. The aggregation of news stories into a crisp 60-word skeleton to fit into the device in your pockets made the mobile app a hit. At one point of time the app became the highest rated news app across playstore around the globe. His company is dedicated to create disruption in news space by providing clutter free and immensely fast news curation manually. The app crossed the million download landmark in first quarter of 2015 and is planning to cross 5 million mark by the end of 2015.

Ben Varghese

Ben Varghese and gaming in India have become synonyms because of the efforts, hard work, dedication and contribution of Ben Varghese towards gaming in India. Ben Varghese aka r4iD, is a professional gamer and a former captain of Team ATE. He is one of the biggest gamers all over India. He started his career in the year 2004. He has played counter strike 1.6 for more than 10 years. His team ATE was the unbeatable team of India till the end of 2010. They were the only team who were paid and dominated for six consecutive years. The team got spilt in the year 2012.

Jacob Mathew

Mr.

Jacob Mathew is CEO of Industree Foundation and Industree Skills Transform Pvt Ltd. He is a design entrepreneur having co-founded Tessaract Design and then merging it to form Idiom Design, arguably India’s first design consultancy designed to handle projects of scale. He has also co-founded Dovetail Furniture and Spring Health, an affordable safe drinking water company in rural India. He works at the intersection of design, business, sustainability, capital and impact, to help create impact enterprises as Design Principal at the Impact Edge incubator at Srishti Institute of Art Design & Technology. He is also the Vice President of CARE-Concern for Aids Research and Education, an NGO working primarily in Salem District in Tamil Nadu which has an unusually high rate of infection. Jacob is a design pioneer in the organized retail sector where he has worked with Big Bazaar, Central, Brand Factory, Aadhaar, Ezone and Hometown.

Kishor Bali

Mr.

Kishor Bali is a person of many talents. He is a poet, a stand-up comedian, a columnist, a lyricist, an actor and an author. He is popular among the Marathi speaking community all over the world. He has done his graduation in English literature and post-graduation in Marathi.He started performing at colleges when he was in 11th standard. In 2007, he participated in a regional Marathi show ‘Hasyasamarat’ and was top 10 among the 1200 participants. He was also a participant in ‘Sahitya Darbar’. He currently hosts a show called ‘Bhimrao Panchale Marathi Gazal’. He writes columns on social issues in Marathi newspapers like ‘Lokmat’, ‘Deshonnati’, ‘Sakal’, ‘Divyamarathi’ and ‘Punyanagari ‘. He writes Marathi songs for movies. He has also played a comic negative role in the Marathi movie ‘Shegawicha Gajanana”. He has authored four books which are ‘Pahatechya Pratikshet’, ‘Paklya’, ‘Majhya Balmitrano’ and ‘Aksharanchi Sur’. He has a television show called ‘Hasyabali dot com' on social issues.

Masha Nazeem

Miss

The most acclaimed inventor of India, Masha Nazeem started making science models at the tender age of 9. Masha was one among the 8 persons selected from India to visit Silicon valley USA to get entrepreneurship training at Google, Facebook & Autodesk. She started the 'Masha Innovation Center' at Nagercoil to develop inventiveness and creativity among school kids, free of cost. Four school students, so far, have won prestigious National Awards for innovations through this center under her motivation and guidance. Masha is currently pursuing M. tech. From SRM University Chennai. Masha has designed twelve devices so far, out of which two were tested by the Indian government - the 'Hitech train toilet' by the Indian Railways and the 'Flameless Seal Maker' in two polling stations by the Election Commission of India. The young prodigy has won 2 International awards, 5 National awards 2 President awards and 5 Southern India awards.

Ritu Arora

Dr.

Dr. Ritu Arora, an ardent Toastmaster, has been serving as a Soft Skills Trainer for the past 12 years and has trained more than 3000 people across domains, ranging from new recruits to Presidents and Vice-Presidents of Companies, Radio Jockeys, Actors, Doctors, Dentists, Software Engineers and students from diverse fields. She has also been writing for various websites and magazines. She has been awarded the Area Governor of the Year award for 2010-11 for her leadership in District 41 of Toastmasters International. She has also received the Distinguished Toastmaster Award from Toastmasters International 5 times over, ‘Excellence in Marketing’ award from her team as LGM and ‘Excellence in Education & Training’ award from her team as LGET in 2012-13, and 2013-14 respectively. Apart from this, she is the winner of international ‘Young Clinician Award’ for her work in the field of implants and the ‘Y.P. Goglani National Award’ for her research.

Sameer Mishra

Mr.

Sameer Mishra, an IIT Bombay graduate left his IT job and, in August 2013, cofounded EmotionalFulls to follow his passion for film making. He is co-founder of Silver Screen, motion picture club of IIT Bombay, and had made many short films there. His friend Sandeep Jha was also following a similar path and started the channel which now has more than 50000 subsribers. Despite the audience size related apprehensions, they went ahead with their idea and posted their first video 'Badaltey Zamaaney’ that depicted the life of a postman. The response from the audience was awarding and a plethora of soul touching short films has since been made by the EmotionalFulls team. Some of them are Khat, Kuchh Aapka, Woh Din: a tribute to the 90’s, Tune mujhe banaya: A tribute to women etc. The team is now coming up with a comedy channel called ‘Draamebaaz’. They also plan to venture into non-fiction films.

Shubham Dharmsktu

Mr.

Shubham Dharmsktu hails from the state of Uttarakhand and has a passion for adventure. He is popular for a new style of living called traveliving. He is known around the world for his cyclic expeditions through the Indian Subcontinent. He was a student of National institute of Design, Ahmedabad when he started his first journey. In the summer of 2014, he started his first adventure when he began his journey for the southernmost point of India, Kanyakumari. He, with only a couple of bags and a bicycle, started his 3200 km journey, crossing 6 states and 1 union territory. He reached Kanyakumari on the 58th day of the journey. Inspired by his achievement, 50 people followed him on a 70 km journey to the Gujarat bird sanctuary. The response from the people prompted him to start another journey. On 20th April 2015, he embarked on the Great Himalayan Cycle Trip from Arunachal Pradesh to Jammu Kashmir through Bhutan and Nepal.

T K Dutta

Dr. T. K. Datta is the Principal Scientist at National Dairy Research Institute, India and renowned veterinary bio-technologist.His research areas include Genomic control of oocyte & sperm fertilizing ability.