Theme: IGNITE

IIFT Delhi Media Committee is hosting its marquee event i.e. TEDxIIFTDelhi 2016. The theme of our second edition of TEDxIIFTDelhi is -“Ignite” and is scheduled to be held on October 22, 2016.

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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
21B Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi, Delhi, 110016
India

Anand Sinha

Co Founder and Trustee of Robin Hood Army- An NGO

Anand Sinha is the Co Founder and Trustee of Robin Hood Army- An NGO that helps feed the less fortunate. RHA is active in 8 countries with over 10,000 volunteers. He has worked in Zomato as the National Sales Head (India) and D.E. Shaw and Co. as an associate. He enjoys reading and watching football in his free time. Anand Sinha, along with his companions, started a mission to serve food to the deprived and the homeless. The pioneers behind the Robin Hood Army, Anand and Neel, along with their friends wear green t-shirts and step down to the streets every Sunday night along with their team to distribute food to the destitute and poverty-stricken. The comic book hero, Robin Hood, had one motto – to loot the affluent and give them to the needy. Drawing inspiration from their much-admired hero, the Robin Hood Army decided to feed the hungry Indians with the help of the rich.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Social Entrepreneur

Mr. Muruganantham is a native of Coimbatore, India and was first introduced to the issues which menstruating women from the lower classes of the society face when he realized that his wife used old rags. He set out making pads of different materials and testing them first on his wife and then medical students. But when this proved ineffective because of their reluctance to give proper feedback, he went one step further. He made a rubber bladder, filled it with animal blood and tied to his hip in order to test them out himself. This left him ostracized by his entire community and even his own family. But he never stopped, once he realized that only 12% of women in India had access to proper menstrual hygiene products, as per an AC Nielsen study.

Chirag Gander and Sahil Vaidya

Founder, The Minimalist Studio

What brings these two enthusiastic young and vibrant entrepreneurs together is The Minimalist – a new-age, creative and one of India’s fastest growing design agencies. In the pre-final year of engineering at IIT Bombay, they co-founded The Minimalist as a simple Facebook page which garnered an organic reach of over 10 million, owing to the nature of its fresh, unique and witty content. Due to huge organic demand, it was launched as a design agency and has managed to garner over 120 clients in its first year of operations, including Coca Cola, Abbott, Newscorp, BNP Paribas, Marico and several other MNCs and high growth startups. With a team of over 30 creative minds, The Minimalist is taking the standards of design and communication in the country to the next level. They received the Kyoorius Red Elephant Award (India’s foremost design award for students) for their work in Typography.

Dr. Anurupa Roy

Strategy Consultant at Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India

Dr. Anurupa Roy is a Doctor by profession. She has also worked as a strategy consultant with the international team of leading MNCs and is currently working as consultant to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. She is the founder of www.whoamiorg.in, an NGO on higher education for the underprivileged. She is also a columnist with leading newspapers and magazines.

Manu Kumar Jain

Country Manager and India Head for Xiaomi

Manu Kumar Jain is the Country Manager and India Head for Xiaomi, which holds the Guinness Record for the “most number of products sold on a single online platform in 24 hours”. He has been responsible for putting the Chinese company in India’s top five-selling smartphone brands, in record time. He features prominently among Fortune India’s 40 under 40 (2015 & 2016) and Business Today’s India’s top executives under 40 (2015). Jain also features among GQ’s 50 most influential young Indians (2015) and Economic Times’s 40 under 40 (2016).

Sanjay Sethi

Co-founder and CEO of Shopclues.com

An alumnus of IIT BHU and IIT Delhi, Sanjay Sethi Sanjay served as the Global Product Head for Shipping & Logistics, Payments and Billing at eBay Inc. in Silicon Valley before co-founding India’s first and now the largest managed marketplace. A die-hard technology enthusiast, his firm aims to be the dominant player in bringing e-commerce to tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

Sreemoyee Piu Kundu

Bollywood Actress

Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is an Indian author, who is best credited with writing the bestselling novel Sita’s Curse, lauded as India’s first feminist erotica novel. Ms. Kundu is a postgraduate in History from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and was earlier a lifestyle editor and PR head. Currently, she is a full time novelist and a columnist. Based in Delhi, she has so far published three books entitled Faraway Music (2013), Sita’s Curse (2014) and You’ve Got the Wrong Girl (2016). She is a vocal propagator of feminist and other women-centric issues. In her books, she uses the garb of erotica, and is often lauded for bringing topics which are usually swept under the carpet, into public view.

Sreemoyee Piu Kundu

Indian Author

Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is an Indian author, who is best credited with writing the bestselling novel Sita’s Curse, lauded as India’s first feminist erotica novel. Ms. Kundu is a postgraduate in History from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and was earlier a lifestyle editor and PR head. Currently, she is a full time novelist and a columnist. Based in Delhi, she has so far published three books entitled Faraway Music (2013), Sita’s Curse (2014) and You’ve Got the Wrong Girl (2016). She is a vocal propagator of feminist and other women-centric issues. In her books, she uses the garb of erotica, and is often lauded for bringing topics which are usually swept under the carpet, into public view.