Theme: Chiselling today and crafting tomorrow

TEDxIITHyderabad is an annual programme aimed at educating, inspiring and connecting great minds. Ours is a information seeking age and we are constantly bombarded by it. TEDx is a platform where open-minded, spirited people are brought together to share novel ideas to provoke innovations and ideas that matter. The TEDxIITHyderabad event will be a day long feature where the speakers go live and the TED Talks Videos will be presented, with the goal of realizing and promoting remarkable thinking. At TEDxIITHyderabad, we believe it is important to invest in areas where the local community finds its relevance. Consequently, TEDxIITHyderabad is an effort to bring together and showcase the bright minds from the local scene- we are continuously in awe of how much Hyderabad has to offer in terms of the quality of ideas and number of people ready to share their stories with the world.

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hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
India

Anuj Gurwara

Jayesh Ranjan

Mr. Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1992 batch and working in the state of Telangana. He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from Delhi University, a degree in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Masters in Public Management from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Jayesh Ranjan is the Secretary, Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department , Government of Telangana, Commissioner of Industries and Managing Director of the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC). His responsibilities include identifying industrial development opportunities in the state, attracting investments, and providing the required infrastructure support to the industrial units.

Rajesh Narasimhan

Rajesh Narasimhan is a part Hindi feature film writer, part marketing guy and full time motorcyclist. Over the last 14 years he has worked across advertising agencies like Ogilvy & Mather, a youth television channel like MTV and one of India's biggest movie studios, Yash Raj Films. Rajesh's love for riding has has always been reciprocated and helped him find stories. He believes that the road is the ultimate classroom in life.

Vennela Krishna

Vennela Krishna is a student of law at NALSAR University, Hyderabad. She found her love for teaching at a young age, and took up a job as a trainer for law aspirants when she was in her first year of law school. A year later, she founded a start-up that brought together bright students who made it to the best colleges in the country to mentor and guide junior aspirants of law. Her vision behind the start-up was to eliminate teacher-student hierarchies and to guide the younger generation of students as friends who have been there, and done that. She leads the team that comprises of numerous students from various parts of the country, and the team is motivated to disrupt traditional structures of education.