Theme: Transcending Synapses

TEDxGWHSchool was a TEDxYouth event hosted in the Greenwood High International School campus on March 12th, 2016 for 100 high schoolers attending schools across Bengaluru city.

Our theme, ‘Transcending Synapses’ is based on the idea that there's always a discord surrounding another people’s opinion, their ideas, their experiences and their culture. There is always a difference in perspectives, ethics and notions. We expect our speakers to explore how they've dealt with these differences in their domains -the differences they have shied away from, created, encountered, embraced and bridged.

Greenwood High International School
No.8-14, Chickkawadayarapura, Near Heggondahalli, Gunjur Post, Varthur Sarjapur Road
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560087
India

Dr Rajugopal Gubbi

Founder and Chief Mentor, Suvidya Foundation

Dr Rajugopal Gubbi is an alumnus of IIT Madras and has decades of experience in the IT industry. He is a well known expert in the field of wireless technology and holds 29 US patents. Engineering being his profession and education his passion, he decided to combine the two to empower rural government schools. Thus were born EdZilla Software Technologies, the social enterprise and Suvidya Foundation, its NGO arm. Currently the Suvidya Foundation is running a program called EducateZilla that provides a low-cost tablet based solution free of cost to rural government Kannada medium schools in Karnataka. Dr Gubbi hopes to expand this program to benefit children in every remote village in India.

Manoj Kabre

Founder of CANTrust

Meera K

Founder Trustee, Oorvani

Meera is a changemaker, deeply involved in community media, urban local governance and technology. She co-founded Citizen Matters, an award winning media outlet recognized as a pioneer of community journalism in Bangalore for investigating the many realities of Bengaluru, exposing inconvenient truths, and engaging citizen problem solvers, working for a better Bengaluru. She is the founder trustee at the Oorvani Foundation, a non-profit trust for a free and independent media. With a background in technology, having spent over a decade at Infosys, she is spiritedly volunteers in projects related to sustainable development, transport, lake rejuvenation and solid waste management.

Nelson Vadassery

Co-founder, Director of Engineering, Sea6 Energy

Nelson is passionate engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sea6 energy in 2010 along with other alumni of IIT Madras. He and his team are looking to make our oceans the energy farms of tomorrow. He is very passionate about anything to do with engineering and works on development of mechanized farming systems to enable mass cultivation of seaweed through automation and improved cultivation systems. His company, Sea6 energy is innovating new technology in order to carry out ocean agriculture and convert the resulting biomass to fuels and agricultural products in a sustainable manner.

Radhika Nathan

Author

In her own words, Radhika Nathan, author of the historical "The Mute Anklet", is a juggler, a meanderer and a rolling stone. Her interests are eclectic, from anthropology and history to science. A self-proclaimed believer in the power of well-written sentences, travel is something she enjoys and has been to more than a dozen countries- for the love of meeting new people and discovering new cultures. Radhika is driven by her fascination of human beings, intrigued by their archetypal & atypical behaviour and likes to use her writing as a means to think and re-examine a point of view or a preconceived notion. Radhika is also a firm believer in a spiritual and balanced approach to life that welcomes science.

Subrat Mohanty

Senior Business Executive and Rambler

Subrat Mohanty works in a leadership role at one of the largest private life insurers in India. As a child growing up in the India of 80s and 90s, he did everything that was expected of him. He studied engineering, did an MBA and landed a safe job. But along the way, he watched way too many trashy movies, read voraciously and indiscriminately, remembered word-for-word more ad jingles than necessary and visited every single Indian state. This gave him a vantage point to understand his generation and its idiosyncrasies. These days he spends his free time running long distances and reading between the lines.