Theme: India @ a Crossroads

India is expected to be the fastest growing nation in the coming years. The journey to becoming a world superpower has indeed been arduous. Ideas changed and shaped the image of India for its citizens and will continue to do so for future generations. Along its journey from a spice trading giant to the hub of Technology - India has always relied on ideas.
With "India at a crossroads" being this year's theme, TEDxNSIT celebrates the importance of ideas in shaping our county's future. We provide a platform where intellectuals from different fields share their ideas that would catalyze India's vision of becoming a world superpower.

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Main Auditorium,NSIT
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Azad Hind Fauj Marg,Sector-3 Dwarka
New Delhi, Delhi, 110075
India

Abhay Pruthi

Founder, Reach

Abhay Pruthi is the founder of exquisite startups like "Lost Beat" and "Reach", where access to music files from other users can be requested. He has worked at prestigious companies like KPMG, Freescale Semiconductor, and Instamojo. Starting as an intern to being backed by more than eight international venture capitalists and angel investors, he would be sharing his entrepreneurial journey which started as a 19 year old engineering student.

Abi Aryan

Chief Business Development Officer at Coinsecure

Abi Aryan is the Chief Business Development Officer at Coinsecure - India's leading Bitcoin exchange. With a background in mathematics, statistics and computer science, she has been at the core of many futuristic companies. Working on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence have been one of the most defining moments in her life during her masters degree at London School of Economics as it went on to become her passion. She’s been deeply involved with the Big Data, Singularity and Artificial Intelligence circles in U.K. and has hosted several subject experts at her own conferences with Computability Intelligence Unconference and Future Tech Track in London.

Ishan Gupta

Vice President (Business ), Paytm / Founder, EduKart

Ishan Gupta is the founder of EduKart.com, the earliest pioneers of creating an education marketplace for servicing the ~$40Bn education market of India. A passionate education entrepreneur, angel investor and a speaker, he is also the author of “Make the Move - Demystifying Entrepreneurship." Ishan has earlier worked as a business leader at Paytm, India's largest mobile commerce company. In 2004, while pursuing engineering, he co-founded Appin Knowledge Solutions, an education services company in India. Apart from representing education entrepreneurs in a committee formed by the Government of India and featuring on Young Turks, CNBC for his work in the field of education and promoting entrepreneurship, Mr Gupta has spoken at various platforms like the Stanford University, London Business School, ISB, IITs on topics like Leadership and Entrepreneurship.

M. Balakrishnan

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian institute of Technology (Delhi)

Professor M. Balakrishnan currently works at Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi. This silver medalist from BITS Pilani has 23 journal and 84 refereed publications. He has worked tirelessly towards the establishment of a centre that is dedicated to development of technology solutions for the mobility and education of the visually impaired. He is part of ASSISTECH which is an inter-disciplinary group of faculty, research staff and students, which is engaged in using modern technology for finding affordable solutions for the visually impaired. The focus is on mobility and education which they consider are fundamental to enable any person to live independently and with dignity. SmartCane is the first product from the ASSISTECH group that has been launched as a product.

Ravi Mehrotra

Director, Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology

Prof. Ravi Mehrotra obtained his medical training at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune followed by M.D. (Pathology) from Moti Lal Nehru Mediceal College University of Allahabad and D.Phil from University of Allahabad. Moreover, he has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathology (UK). He did his postdoctoral training at various institutes including Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore and University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. His research interests are focused on the early diagnosis and screening of cancer. He sits on the editorial board of 10 international peer-reviewed medical journals and has published more than 100 papers in his areas of expertise. A winner of many prestigious awards including the prestigious Dr.P.N.Wahi and Dr. Lachman award in cancer prevention, he is also the past President of the Indian Academy of Cytologists. He is a strong believer in early diagnostic techniques in the field of cancer prevention.